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kept pushing me to the next level; there was no way I could continue reading it and remain the same.” --George Carlin “Paul Krassner--confidant of Lenny Bruce, co-founder of the Yippies, defiler of Disney characters, publisher of The Realist, and investigative satirist extraordinaire. As soon as we decided
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onate blood because he had ingested acid. In the eighties, there are those who are afraid to get a blood transfusion because of AIDS. In the sixties, Lenny Bruce got arrested for saying “cocksucker” on stage. In the eighties, Meryl Streep got an Academy Award for saying it in Sophie's Choice. Now, almost the e
ion. Who could ever have dreamed that chess players might get in trouble for using ginkgo biloba as a performance enhancer? HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015301 Tim Leary, Ram Dass, and Me In 1964, | assigned Robert Anton Wilson to write a front-cover article in The Realist, which he titled “Timothy Leary and His Psyc
legations against the club, and the current charge involved neither violence nor drunken behavior. The only charge pressed by the city prosecutor was Lenny Bruce's allegedly obscene performance. Nobody’ s prurience was aroused, but that made no difference. After all, there wasn’ t any law against blasphemy. “Ch
s journalism.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015369 My Acid Trip With Groucho Marx LSD was influencing music, painting, spirituality, and even the stock market. Tim Leary once let me listen in on a call from a Wall Street broker thanking him for turning him onto acid because it gave him the courage to sell short. Leary
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