Bananas, 1967
Banananananananana I thought I’d win the spelling bee And get right to the top, But I started to spell ” banana, “ And I didn’t know when to stop. by William Rossa Cole Ann Arbor Sun, April, 1967 Read More …
Month: June 2017
Piping Down the Valleys Wild, 1789
Piping Down the Valleys Wild Piping down the valleys wild Piping songs of pleasant glee On a cloud I saw a child. And he laughing said to me. Pipe a song about a Lamb; So I piped with merry chear, Read More …
Roses of a Dream, 1908
“loving a haze of hasheesh for making the brain go wrong” -Damon Runyon Alfred ‘Damon Runyon’ ROSES OF A DREAM Many songwriters have woven there love of cannabis into their art. But before Guthrie and Dylan there was Damon Runyon. Read More …
Band on the Run, 1972
“You didn’t run, you didn’t hide And had you gone, you knew in time We’d meet again for I had told you Ooh, you were meant to be near me Ooh, and I want you to hear me Say we’ll Read More …
Civil War Smoke Break, 1863
Civil War Camp – Falmouth, Virginia 1863 by Timothy O’Sullivan
Sharing is Caring
“And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.” ― Read More …
The Gambler, 1987
“I handed him my bottle And he drank down my last swallow Then he bummed a cigarette And asked me for a light And the night got deathly quiet And his faced lost all expression He said, “If you’re gonna Read More …
Dewey’s Diary, 1890
Lyster Dewey at his dest in the Department of Agriculture with hemp on his desk, circa 1920. Dewey’s Diary A dirty diary was recently bought at a yard sale in New York, what was in them was lost Read More …
Shakespeare the Stoner, 17th century
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving Read More …
Watch the World Burn, 1961
“…some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.” -Alfred J. Pennyworth, from the Dark Knight Arson investigator Lt. Joseph Clark sets Read More …