A Royal Pipe Collection, 1745

“To-morrow the grim battle smoke will curl; To-day, in spite of it, we’ll feast, my girl! While waiting glory, pleasure we will take, Nor care the future’s gloomy seal to break! Come-guard my tinder-box and take my pipe, And, if Read More …

Hemp is King of Cotton, 1861

Zouave with flag, c.1861 Civil War Postal Cover (printed picture on envelopes for decoration)   “Jeff Davis boasts that “cotton’s king,” Upon his throne so rotten- But he’ll soon find, amid his swing, That Hemp is king of cotton.”   Read More …

Forever Blowing Bubbles, 1920’s

“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.” – Marcus Aurelius Nathan Redwood, Carried Away, 2008   Forever Blowing Bubbles This tune always reminds me of smoking your Read More …

Gratefully After Dark: Hugh and the Bear, 1969

“Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.” – Owsley Stanley Hugh Hefner and Barbi Benton with bunnies 1969   Gratefully After Dark: Hugh and Read More …

Psycho Active Art

“These chemical cocktails [embedded in the paintings] can no longer reach the brain through the bloodstream and must take a different route to altering perception. In my work, they travel to the brain through the eyes.” —Fred Tomaselli Super Plant Read More …