Psychedelic Hoops: LSD, Mysticism, and the Los Angeles Lakers
by Luminous on Apr.26, 2009, under Media & Culture, Philosophy & Religion, Psychedelics
Do you identify as a mystic (Zen Buddhist, Vedantist Hindu, Gnostic Christian, Kabbalistic Jew, Islamic Sufi)? Does the Perennial Philosophy speak to you?
Are you an advocate for the responsible use of psychedelics to achieve creative solutions to problems and to reach “peak” zones or states?
Are you an advocate of consciousness evolution, cognitive development, and transcendence?
If so, now that the NBA playoffs are upon us, I hope you are rooting for The Los Angeles Lakers. Because, and you may not realize this, the Lakers stand for LSD, mysticism, and self-realization.
Let’s look at the LSD connection first. Even if you’re not into basketball, you probably know the name of the Laker’s head coach, since Phil Jackson, a.k.a. the “Zen Master” is the most famous coach in all of sports. Phil has the highest winning percentage of any coach in the history of the NBA (both in the regular season and in the playoffs). He has more playoff wins than any other coach in history and is tied (for the time being) with Red Auerbach for the most championships of any NBA coach, having won it all an incredible 9 times (out of 11 trips to the Finals)–6 with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls and 3 with Kobe Bryant and the L.A. Lakers. To further put Phil’s greatness in perspective, out of the last 18 years, Phil has won 50 % of the championships. And if not for injuries to Karl Malone and Andrew Bynum, Phil might have as many as eleven championships during those 18 years. All speculation aside, if the Lakers win this year (and they just might), Phil will have won MOST of the last 19 championships. That is truly astounding.
Phil admitted, in print, that an LSD-induced vision helped him to see basketball in a new way. While tripping, Phil envisioned a new brand of basketball where the players were more versatile and the positions more inter-changeable. Phil realized that, since players often have to switch on defense, you would want tall, strong guards, and active, skilled centers. On offense, too, it helps if your centers can pass and shoot and if your guards can post up and play with their backs to the basket.
Phil would later become the most famous advocate of Tex Winter’s Texas Triangle Offense for just these reasons. (Tex is a consulting coach for the Lakers.)
There is an LSD connection on the roster, too. Lakers Forward Luke Walton has a Grateful Dead tatoo, and he’s the son of UCLA legend and NBA standout Bill Walton, a long-time, vocal advocate of LSD use. You do the math.
And let us not forget the acid head watching the game from center court near the visitor’s bench, heckling the opposing players and working the refs during all important games (and most of the trivial ones, too). For if the Lakers have the most famous coach in all of sports, they certainly also have the most famous enthusiast. No team in all of sports has a marquis fan even remotely like Jack. Jack Nicholson has been sitting courtside at Lakers games for decades.
Jack is quite possibly the most beloved actor in the history of cinema. Even bad impersonations of Nicholson are instantly identifiable by their nasal tone, slowed rate of utterance, and flattened vowel sounds. Jack is so famous that people commonly refer to him by his first name alone.
How did Jack become so famous? Well, to begin with, he wrote a screenplay for a B movie that was directed by Roger Corman. Jacko’s script was called The Trip and it’s about…you guessed it…an LSD trip. The Trip put Jack on the map in Hollywood, but as a writer, not as an actor.
However, when Rip Torn was fired from Easy Rider, after getting in a heated argument with Dennis Hopper, Jack took his place and rose to stardom soon after. Easy Rider, which is flat out one of the best films ever made (it won the palm d’Or–the most prestigious award in all of film–at the 1969 Festival de Canne), is largely about drugs of course. The two protagonists pick up a hitch-hiking hippie who gives them 4 strong doses of LSD for their kindness. The protagonists end up eating the LSD in a cemetery in New Orleans with a couple of hookers. Their acid trip is one of the most avante-garde scenes in the history of American cinema.
But the movie that really made Jack famous was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Jack won his first of 3 oscars (Jack’s 3 acting oscars, including 2 for “Best Actor,” are most among male performers–only Katherine Hepburn has more). Cuckoo’s Nest was written by Jack’s friend, Ken Kesey.
Kesey of course was one of the original LSD advocates. His psychedelic beginnings are most interesting. While in graduate school as a creative writing student at Stanford University, Kesey had volunteered to take part in a CIA experiment called MK-ULTRA at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital. The CIA was trying to find an ideal mind control mechanism (the CIA would later conclude that the best mind control mechanism was television). As a participant in the study, Kesey was given an array of psychedelics: LSD, psyllocybin, mescaline, and even DMT. While the experiment proved a failure for the CIA (because psychedelics make the idea of authority ridiculous and even hilarious, they are not great mind control drugs), the experiments were very fruitful for Kesey, who quite liked expanding his mind with chemicals and continued using LSD and other entheogens illicitly long after MK-ULTRA had concluded. Kesey and his acid-eating cronies became famous as the “Merry Pranksters” and their antics were documented in Tom Wolfe’s classic The Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test. The “acid tests” were simple. If you had a good time and “turned on” after drinking the dosed cool-aid, you were alright; you were hip. But if you freaked out and panicked, then you were wound too tight; you were a square.
My point in mentioning The Trip, Easy Rider and Cuckoos Nest, which were Jack’s three most important early projects, and all of which relate to acid in one way or another, is that connecting Jack Nicholson to LSD is about as difficult as connecting Kevin Bacon to other movie stars (like Jack for instance….let’s see…A few Good Men…. I got it in one!)
I can’t prove that Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss has taken acid, but he earned his PhD in CHEMISTRY when he was only 24, just as the psychedelic sixties were about to explode. Again, you do the math.
But the Lakers don’t just stand for acid. They stand for Eastern religion and mysticism.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, long-time Lakers center and current centers coach, is a Muslim.
Phil Jackson self-identifies as a Zen Buddhist.
Phil was the first coach in major sports to have his players meditate and do hatha yoga. He also has them do positive visualizations. The results are hard to argue with, given that Phil’s record is unparalleled in history.
But beyond acid and Eastern spirituality, the Lakers stand for self-realization, cognitive development, and transcendence.
Owner Dr. Jerry Buss is a master strategist. A self-made man, Buss started off with a $1000 real estate investment and steadily parlayed his dividends into millions.
Buss’ strategic mind manifests not only in basketball and real estate, but in tournament poker. Buss has previously come in 2nd and 3rd in the World Series of Poker, no small feat by any means.
Kareem, too, is a genius.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar was arguably the most dominant basketball player ever. Kareem was always in motion. He always kept you one step behind. If you favored toward his right, he’d beat you with his left, He kept you fighting for position so that when he went up for a shot, you had no chance of measuring it or accurately timing a block because you were still trying to stand your ground when he took to the air. And even if you did measure or time his shot–and you couldn’t but if you did–it didn’t matter because his infamous 
sky-hook was indefensible. Even Wilt Chamberlain couldn’t block the skyhook and Kareem could hit his silky smooth signature shot out to twelve feet. Kareem scored an incredible 38,387 points during his tenure in the NBA; that’s more points scored than by any other player in history. Kareem also won three rings in college with legendary coach John Wooden at UCLA, winning an astounding 88 games and losing only twice. Even Kareem’s high school team once won 71 straight games.
A standout scholar at UCLA, Kareem was highly regarded as an essayist by his English and History professors. Kareem is, like Phil Jackson, a published author, having written an impressive scholarly history of the 761st Tank Batallion in WWII, called Brothers in Arms.
Kareem’s stardom extended beyond the Hollywood hardwood to the silver screen. He appeared in Fletch with Chevy Chase and also in Stephen King’s apocalyptic mini-series, The Stand. However, Kareem is most famous for his classic roles in the comedy Airplane! and as the antagonist in the epic Bruce Lee film, Game of Death.
To return to the Eastern Philosophy/Spirituality thread, Kareem is a devout muslim as his name quite obviously implies. But what you may not know is that he’s also an expert in Shaolin Kung Fu. He learned Kung Fu at UCLA in order to keep his arms and legs strong. Not only do the Lakers have the only Buddhist head coach in major sports, they have the only muslim coach in the NBA in Kareem, their center’s coach and mentor to Pau Gasol and young Andrew Bynum.
Lastly, a word or two needs to be said about Kobe Bryant. Kobe is not a Sufi or a Mahayana Buddhist as far as I know (although he practices concentration and insight meditation). But With Jackson as his coach and with a chemist who came of age in the sixties as his owner, anything’s possible. And I can’t connect Kobe to acid, although one wonders when he sinks 62 consecutive free throws (he had a separate streak of 50) or goes apeshit and hits an NBA record 12 three pointers in a single game!
(There is, after all, a basis for such theorizing in sport’s history. You will recall that Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while tripping on Acid in 1970.)
People argue, but there has never been a perimeter player as talented as Kobe in the history of the game. No one has ever been as transcendent at putting the ball in the basket from anywhere (and everywhere) on the court. Say what you want about Michael Jordan, MJ never had to play against (”illegal”) zone defenses and quadruple teams! And he still never scored anywhere near 81 freaking points in a game.
My friends Jay and Alexis and I once saw, in person, Kobe score 62 points in only 3 quarters of an NBA game! That’s simply unheard of. No one else has ever scored 62 points in a whole game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. (This year Kobe also set a new record at Madison Suare Garden in NYC with 61 points) and Kobe scored his 62 in 3 against a Dallas Mavericks team that was the best in the NBA that year. The Mavs had the best record in the league that year, went to the Finals, and got jobbed by the refs who were told by commissioner David Stern to hand the series to the Miami Heat on a silver platter as reported by whistle blower (double entendre fully intended) Tim Donaghy. Can you wrap your head around that? 62 in 3 against the Western Conference Champs (and the League MVP, Nowitski)?
I tell you that everyone in the building was in awe. Defenders would be frozen in astonishment, watching as though they, too, were merely fans in attendance. Even Mavs fans, at a certain point, began chanting “Kobe” (like the Russians chanting “Rocky” in Part IV), hoping and knowing that each shot was going in, because they too were witnessing a miracle and becoming a part of history.
The player assigned to guard Kobe that night, more than embarrassed or shamed, was also awed. Following the game, he asked Kobe for his shoes. Kobe happily took off his sneakers and signed them. Can you imagine: a professional athlete who makes millions of dollars a year asking another player, who had just bested him, for his autographed sweaty sneakers? Rather than being humiliated, Kobe’s rival just wanted to be able to give his own son a piece of memorabilia signed by Kobe. That’s amazing.
Talk to anyone who has seen a game like Kobe’s 81 against the Raptors or 62 in 3 against Dallas and they will all tell you that witnessing such greatness is almost spiritual; it’s trans-personal, transcendent, numinous.
Take it to the bank, no perimeter player will ever score 81 again. And if someone does, it will be Kobe himself.
NBA stats analyst John Hollinger says that the three most impressive basketball games ever played by a single player are, in descending order, 1.) Kobe’s 62 through 3; 2.) Kobe’s 81 against (triple and quadruple teams in) Toronto; and 3.) Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 point game in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Hollinger has taken into account each game’s pace, the number of possessions, and so forth. In Chamberlain’s day, there was no zone D, there was a much faster pace, and there were many more baskets scored at both ends of the court. And don’t forget that Chamberlain was HUGE and was playing two feet from the basket, not launching 32-footers like Kobe and leaping over people 7 inches taller than himself to dunk on them. Keep in mind Hollinger is an admitted San Antonio Spurs fan and no Kobe-lover. He’s just a mathematician who calls it like he calculates it.
Love or hate Kobe, he is the most transcendent scorer in the game’s history, Kareem is #2, Wilt Chamberlain is #3 and Michael Jordan, sorry, is #4. But either way, is it merely coincidence that both Bryant and Jordan are meditators, yoga practitioners, and students of acid-head Jackson–The Zen Master?
Again, maybe you don’t really care about basketball. Or maybe you root for some ordinary team that, like almost all sports teams everywhere, stands for……I don’t know…sitting on couches, gorging yourself on beer and potato chips…or the military industrial complex….or just sad, boring, overweight white people in bland mid-western towns passionate and angry because they have nothing else in their lives to cheer for. Go ahead and root for mediocrity. I can respect that.
But me, I’m rooting for LSD. I’m rooting for meditation and mysticism. I’m rooting for transcendence. I’m rooting for self-realization. I’m rooting for greatness. I’m rooting for the L.A. Lakers.
This post is respectfully dedicated to Sgt. Jay Soccoccio, to the vivacious Vivian Garcia, to Joey “The Toad” Genitti, to Ed Lee, to Lil Abner and Joel Navar, to Michael Sopko, to Geoff Robertson, to Dr. Syd Gris of Opulent Temple, and to Alexis Forni who has purple and gold in her veins even in India. Go Lakers!!!
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"Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end." ~Virginia Woolf
April 27th, 2009 on 5:41 pm
Great piece, I could feel the pulse of passion and the breath of greatness as the words leaped off my screen and injected themselves into the flux capacitor of my mind! The Lakers, like LSD, are for those bold enough to overcome their fears and grasp the reins of eternity. The Championship Jihad is in full effect!!!
April 27th, 2009 on 10:35 pm
Wow! Such an enthusiastic and inspiring article. Someday we should go “on tour” with the Lakers for a season, just follow them from city to city as if they were the Grateful Dead. We can camp in the parking lots of stadiums and sell Laker trinkets, be the first people in the stadium and the last to leave…I hope they make it to the finals cause I will be back in Cali just in time to whip up a batch of purple and gold frosted cupcakes…Keeping my eyes out for bootlegged Lakers gear on the streets of Mumbai. Go Lakers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 17th, 2009 on 1:59 pm
There may be a history of the people involved in the Lakers that were involved in LSD, but if you were on LSD in the arena, watching the current egocentric players on the Lakers, all their freak monster zombie fans, you might want to get the hell out of there. I like Luke, as far as attitude and spirit. Sasha Vuyabitch, most of the other players, are just disconnected from reality. It’s a materialistic spiritually dead society in LA sports. I mean I hate to be bashing on anybody as that’s just an unpleasant thing to do, but you’re connecting dots fanatically and there is no current Kobe-era psychedelic spirit utopia going on. Phil Jackson was special, and he got turned on, so did Bill. But the LA Fakers are just lucky to have a couple of people in the organization that don’t have death faces. Wait, no. What I meant to say was WOoOoOoO LaAAaKKKeerRRRSsss!!!
May 18th, 2009 on 12:46 pm
I hate to admit it, but it’s possible that you might be right.
That last series with the Butt-Rockets really had me very frustrated. I agree that lately there has been no psychedelic spirit. At this moment, it looks as though the Butt Nuggets could win the West. Very uninspired play from the Lake Show.
P.S. I have no special hatred for Houston or Denver. I call all opposing teams the “Butt____s” as in the Butt-Nuggets, the Butt-Pistons, the Butt-Heat, the Butt Thunder, the Butt-Magic, the Butt-Spurs, the Butt-Warriors, the Butt-Mavericks…etc
As in, “I was feeling some Butt Heat when I defecated. My Butt Nuggets looked a little off, too, and my Butt Thunder was smelling even worse than usual. So I went to see a prestigious proctologist, one of the so-called Butt Kings.The guy was supposed to be a real genius–a Butt Wizard, if you will. I was hoping he could work some of his Butt Magic on me. The doctor said I had Butt Spurs. While most doctors operate on this condition using electical scalpals called Butt Clippers, my doc was a real Butt Maverick. He preferred to use a set of lasers he called the Butt Blazers, which are less likely to leave you with Butt Knicks. I take my health very seriously. I don’t want to give the impression that I am Butt Cavalier. But after my doctor explained the procedure, I knew the Butt Blazers were the way to go. I’m not going to lie to you. The procedure stung bad. It felt like I had a bunch of Butt Hornets all up in there. But I am a Butt Warrior. I hung in there like a champ. But with the Butt Spurs, you have to stay vigilant. I and my doctor are going to have to watch my conditon like Butt Hawks.”
May 30th, 2009 on 5:22 pm
“Hey, Phil Jackson is a smart guy.” - I Heart Huckabees
May 31st, 2009 on 1:31 am
Haha. True that. Phil is the smartest. I love how David O. Russell is such a blatant Lakers fan. “I got Shaquille. O’Neal.” I dig his movies…Three Kings and Huckabees especially. Flirting With Disaster is cool, too. I’ve only seen Spanking the Monkey once and I don’t know what to think yet.
As I’m sure you know, Alexis, Joe, and I went to see Lily Tomlin and David O. Russell speak at the Armand Hammer (who would name their kid after baking soda???) museum at UCLA. Russell was kind of a dick (surprise, surprise). Joe asked Tomlin and Russell if they had been heavily influenced by psychedelics. Russell ate a lolly-pop, tried to avoid the question, and attempted to make some incoherent point about Bob Thurman (chair of Buddhist Studies at Columbia U in NYC) disapproving of Tim Leary. I guess Bob Thurman thinks Leary really screwed things up by telling everyone to “tune in, turn on, and drop out.” Interestingly–and Russell didn’t mention this and may not know this–Tim Leary was once married to Nena von Schlebrügge, a German-Swedish model (she’s now a psychotherapist) who later married…you guessed it…Bob Thurman. Their oldest daughter is movie actress Uma Thurman. So it makes sense that Bob Thurman would talk shit about his wife’s ex -husband!
(You may have noticed at this point that I like to make weird connections between psychedelics, cinema, the Lakers, and Eastern religion). In any instance, Russell’s ramblings had nothing to do with Joe’s question. Tomlin, however, recounted a fun story about being on mushrooms. Lily Tomlin is a badass. I have a quote by her on my altar/puja table. It says, “We’re all in this together. By ourselves.” Very Zen.
But back to the Purple and Gold…
O me of little faith. I was really shaken up by the Lakers poor play against the Butt Rockets. I guess I panicked a bit, picking the Cavs to win it all and the Butt Nuggets to win the West 13 days ago. I underestimated Phil, Kobe and crew after the McGrady-less and Yao-less Butt Rockets took them to seven. It looks like I over-estimated the Cavs after they steamrolled over the first two teams 8-0 with each of those 8 victories by a double-digit margin (an NBA record).
I guess I over-estimated Mike Brown and Lebron. There aint no acid in Cleveland!
Kudos to Ron Jeremy for getting the Butt Magic to the finals. You gotta love the Van Gundy brothers.
I once heard Jeff Van Gundy yell the following to Mark Jackson while calling a game:
“I was about to COME down your throat!”
They didn’t edit it out or anything.
I think Jeff meant to say, “I was about to JUMP down your throat.”
The two expressions, regrettably, are far from synonymous.
I was REALLY disappointed when I tried to find clips of this on you-tube and elsewhere. Am I the only guy in America who thought it was hilarious that Jeff Van Gundy passionately screamed “I was about to come down your throat” to another man on network television???
Anyway, Andrew Bynum better step up.
I’d like to see D.J. Mbenga get some minutes, too.
And I want to see Phil Jackson play Hack-a-Howard at the end of close games.
If anyone knows what a liability a poor free throw-shooting big man can be, it should be Phil.
Dwight Howard is a liability offensively at the end of games. Stan Van Gundy knows this, but he can’t bench Superman for the last minute of tight games because Howard would be pissed.
Exploit that shit, Phil.
The Butt Magic are going down!!!
Go Lakers!!!
June 14th, 2009 on 11:22 am
The Zen Master has done it, again! TEN Rings. Phil stands alone. That racist bastard Auerbach is having a worse day in Hell than usual.
One of the weak points of the above article, as I see it looking back, is that I failed to mention anything about Jerry West–”the logo.” I think I thought that given West’s very clean-cut, All-American persona, that he had no place in an article about psychedelics and Eastern Philosophy. Yet in an article that was also about transcendence, West should have been first on the list.
I read this on ESPN today.
You might have heard what West had to say about LeBron having surpassed Kobe as an individual force. I think (and thought) they may have been intended as motivation for Kobe by his old mentor.
Here’s what West had to say about Kobe today:
“This is a unique player.
“Any time you start talking about who the best is, you’re always going to have controversy. But Kobe is upper, upper echelon. I’m not talking about the top 10 [of all time]. This franchise has had a lot of good players. Absolutely the greatest leader I’ve ever seen would be Magic Johnson, and he was also the greatest teammate, but as far as skill Kobe is No. 1 on the list.
“When you’re that great, sometimes people don’t want to give you the credit. But when Kobe walks away from this game, he’s going to leave huge footprints, just as Michael Jordan did.
“This is a once-every-25-years player. Appreciate him while he’s here.”
June 25th, 2009 on 1:53 pm
What up man!! I live and die with the Lakers. I was lucky enough to be at game 2 of the finals this year and it was most definitely a transcendent experience. Some people look to huge evangelical halls for the mass experienced spiritual revival. I look to the Lakers, live music and dancing for that. Right on with the Lakers post!
July 8th, 2009 on 1:06 pm
Dude…I am going to miss Trevor Ariza (Go Bruins!) but the Ron Artest acquisition puts L.A. over the top! Ron-Ron can do all of the things trevor did (defend well, hit wide-open shots, etc.) plus a ton more. Ron-Ron is the same height as Trevor, about as quick, but MUCH bigger. Ron can defend all 5 positions and can play all 5 positions on offense as well. Don’t think he can play Center? Well, he is as big as Ben Wallace and tried to fight Ben Wallace! Don’t think he can run the point? Well he has..for Chicago and for Sacramento. In Chicago, he even ran the point IN THE TRIANGLE OFFENSE!!! This is a great addition! And no one defends LeBron better than Artest. Trevor has had trouble with LeBron going back to High School. I sincerely hope Phil decides to play Ron at the point guard spot and I also hope he lets Lamar Odom get more minutes at the point (with Kobe or Ron picking up the lead guard on D).
We could start Artest, Bryant, Odom, Gasol, and Bynum. I think this is the most talented Lakers team EVER. Yes, I realize what I just said and I will say it again. THIS IS THE MOST TALENTED LAKERS TEAM EVER!!!
GO LAKERS!!!
January 22nd, 2010 on 6:48 pm
“I was feeling some Butt Heat when I defecated. My Butt Nuggets looked a little off, too, and my Butt Thunder was smelling even worse than usual. So I went to see a prestigious proctologist, one of the so-called Butt Kings.The guy was supposed to be a real genius–a Butt Wizard, if you will. I was hoping he could work some of his Butt Magic on me. The doctor said I had Butt Spurs. While most doctors operate on this condition using electical scalpals called Butt Clippers, my doc was a real Butt Maverick. He preferred to use a set of lasers he called the Butt Blazers, which are less likely to leave you with Butt Knicks. I take my health very seriously. I don’t want to give the impression that I am Butt Cavalier. But after my doctor explained the procedure, I knew the Butt Blazers were the way to go. I’m not going to lie to you. The procedure stung bad. It felt like I had a bunch of Butt Hornets all up in there. But I am a Butt Warrior. I hung in there like a champ. But with the Butt Spurs, you have to stay vigilant. I and my doctor are going to have to watch my conditon like Butt Hawks.”
I just have to say that that’s freakin’ hilarious. Can’t believe no one else commented on this. For my money, that’s better writing than the blog itself LMAO!
March 22nd, 2010 on 2:48 pm
Michael Jordan on Kobe Bryant:
“There are very few Kobe Bryants out there. LeBron hasn’t won yet. Dwyane Wade had Shaq [O'Neal] sitting next to him and he had Pat Riley coaching him.” Jordan says Kobe is still king of the hill. Booya!
March 26th, 2010 on 12:55 pm
An ESPN article connecting Phil Jackson and Jerry Garcia: http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/columns/story?id=5008560
June 8th, 2010 on 3:29 pm
I’m a fan of the “other side”, the paranormal, conspiracy theories, and so much more. But I’m not a fan of that idiot kobe. I was a Lakers’ fan inthe 80’s when they had class. The this twit shows up and they turn hollywood (where if the Earth needed an enema-is where it should be inserted). So anyway… good article, except for the kobe overload…;)
June 9th, 2010 on 12:26 am
Uh.. Ken Kesey was NOT friends with Jack Nicholson, and [thought] that he was a horrible choice to play R.P. Macmurphy
June 16th, 2010 on 12:10 pm
Go LAKERZ!!! GAME 7!
June 16th, 2010 on 1:32 pm
Uh-Oh. I approved your comment. I’m sure now that I’ve granted you metaphysical access you’ll be able to melt my hard-drive or evaporate my processor or something.
Glad you’re following the Finals. The Lakers are your kind of team for sure and are worthy of your support.
Hope school is going well…even if it does result in you becoming some sort of James Bond villain who replaces the earth’s atmosphere with Salvinorin-A vapor.
June 25th, 2010 on 1:05 am
Man, only an acid freak would write such an article. The only relevant point seems to be that Phil considered a new offense while high on acid. Everything else just seems trivial to me, the connections to acid weak, like Luke and the Grateful Dead tattoo, which to me seems a mild coincidence and completely logical when considering big Bill Walton was quite the hippie-Dead-Head himself. . . And despite contrary belief amongst some people, not all Dead-Heads are Acid Heads. . . And the Jack Nicholson thing: so he wrote a movie about acid (its pretty bad by the way,) and he was in Cuckoo’s Nest, a movie based on a book that was no doubt written under the influence of many drugs, acid included. . . And Jack happens to be a Laker fan, so the fuck what?
Perhaps I missed the joke.
Perhaps I’m being too critical.
Its definitely too late though. Quite late.
August 27th, 2010 on 9:46 pm
Perhaps. =)
Does ANY other team have even one player from an acid-head family that you know of or can prove?
Does ANY other team have a noteworthy fan who is also a noteworthy tripper?
Is any other team owned by a genius chemist?
Nope. Only the team coached by the admitted tripper has a deadhead player, a tripper fan sitting front and center, OR (LET ALONE AND!!!!) a genius chemist of an owner.
Is it early enough that you get it now??? =P
And to Langdon, it is true that Kesey was initially quite disapproving of Nicholson (Kesey had wanted to play MacMurphy himself, mind you) and griped “The novel has made HIM (Nicholson) more famous than me” or something along those lines. But they did, eventually, become buddies.