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Take a Walk on the Outside: the Pretensions of Hip
Beware of books bearing cool covers. (anonymous, circa 12th century) It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. (Albert Einstein) Great...
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Pipe Dreams V
Coda (Adagio) One late afternoon in August of 1969, I went to Robert Moses State Park on Long Island and walked about a half mile west of the main beach. Tranquility was there to greet me. The waves...
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Pipe Dreams III and IV
Third Movement: It was the summer of 1969, the summer that Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. By that time the horrors of “reefer madness” I once held had faded. I smoked, on several other occasions since...
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Pipe Dreams I and II
It is only fitting that a column devoted to the sophisticated Canna-phile have a beginning of sorts, and the tale of the author’s transformation into a Hemp-Cat is a good a place to start. This was not...
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Colorado Rocky Mountain High . . . The Gold Rush Redux!
In the early pages of Big Weed, the author makes the following statement: My name is Christian Hageseth, and I sell marijuana for a living. Honest to goodness legal marijuana. As the quote suggests,...
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Wouldn’t it be Nice
As a lover of words, it pains me to witness the evaporation of the average American vocabulary to a level slightly above that of a precocious dolphin. Therefore, Stoned Column has as one of its...
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Elephant in the Room
In the early nineteenth century, a Russian author wrote a short story titled, The Inquisitive Man, where the protagonist goes to a museum and notices the many minutiae on exhibit but fails to notice...
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The Nature of Nature
If people think that nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy (Kurt Vonnegut) It is exactly a one joint trip from Boston to Belli Acres. The Acres, as it is fondly referred to, sits...
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Prologue to Roaches
The category, Roaches, will address, in an oblique fashion, how my experience with cannabis has affected my views on life and culture. Cannabis serves as, what is referred to in literary circles, a POV...
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night . . .
Often the meaning of a particular literary piece or work of art lies hidden until one is unexpectedly kicked in the arse. (Anonymous circa 12th Century) Some decades ago, after an arid summer and an...
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