Quote from: tekla on November 07, 2008, 09:40:38 AM

Baba Rum Raisin I never met, though I did read some of his stuff.  All hippies were required to I think.

Lemme guess, "Be Here Now" or "The Only Dance There Is"?

Nikki

With the people I knew it was more like Be There When?

O, those were the days, eh? Goddess! I am so glad they're gone. I'd be totally disabled or dead if they weren't!!

Nikki

Quote from: Nichole on November 07, 2008, 09:36:48 AM
Rebis,

How well did you know Dr. Tim Leary and  Baba Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert)?

I agree with the idea tekla expressed. And that the research should be conducted by scientists not by the CIA, again.
Nichole

I would prefer that the research be done by ME!     

I did a lot of research once, but we called it Dead Tour.  I have the notes somewhere.  Oh, I'm reading them now and they just don't make sense.  Maybe if I get a little high....

Quote from: Nichole on November 07, 2008, 10:45:52 AM
O, those were the days, eh? Goddess! I am so glad they're gone. I'd be totally disabled or dead if they weren't!!

Nikki

What, you can remember what you did back then??!! 

Yes, I'm fortunate to have survived them as well.... 

Z

Quote from: tekla on November 07, 2008, 08:38:42 AM
Last time I checked the North tried to legalize marriage, which is how all this started, in SF, and you have to try to get busted for pot.  Get a card, and smoke away.

I DO have a card, and I certainly do smoke. Never had a problem with anyone in Northern California on that front... and yet, in Los Angeles, I was arrested and jailed for possession of my own, LEGAL, medical bud.

LA sux.  Really, its robocop land, and always has been. 

Gotta have the robo-cops to keep the restless minions as quiet as possible and make sure that the moguls and their courts don't get any dirt on themselves.

N~

Yeah, but its a historical deal too, back the the 'flying squads' of the 1930s, through the Ed Parker years in the 60s.

Wow, LA had cops in planes in the 1930s! And here I thought that was just a prop in Bladerunner!! 

No, I think they used sports cars, or coupes.  And it wasn't them who did the flying, it was the other guys.  And it was largely down.  Mullholland Falls was a real deal as far as that little trip went.

O. Nice movie, I suppose, but kinda dark, no?

Nikki

Great film, I love the "NO! I'm from Jersey" line as he hits the guy in the face with the phone.

But its a real deal that the flying squads would take the East Coast Mob boys, and union organizers, and - well, they had a little list - up to this place on Mullholland and give 'em a little push.

I am presuming the cops weren't giving them memberships in the PUSH Jesse Jackson is/was associated with, eh?

Nikki

Quote from: tekla on November 07, 2008, 08:53:58 AM
Now, if only they'd support medical LSD.

You must be trippin to even think that.

Totally off topic, but yeah, there is some hope for medical LSD, though likely in the confines of a psych ward.  It's being tested as a chemical alternative to elctroconvulsive therapy in cases of severe depression (heh, it always cheered me up).  I think I'd rather have a tab of acid than a jolt!

Do they still make Jolt, Claire? I thought that had gone the way of the Edsel? Too much caffeine, wasn't it?

No, there was a major slope between Mulholland as it curves around and around climbing the mountian, its about a 45 degree slope, mostly rocks and after a tumble down it, lots of wise guys were on the next plane or train back to Jersey.

if they were wise, they wouldn't have been caught.

This whole thread seems to have taken several left turns...

They say that if you remember the sixties, you didn't live in the sixties...

-Sandy