Autobiography

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Suzanne

30 Dec 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Suzanne lookalike Because of our growing local fame I was sleeping with many girls at the time, most ‘one-night stands’, at a rate of about one a week. There was one I was particularly interested in, Suzanne, the Swedish girl with a cute accent wh...

Kim

29 Dec 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Skipping ahead twelve years, John Seebach, a life-long friend and my son Will in 1989. John Seebach, though he was my favorite new friend, was not one of our most frequent visitors as he had a job as a projectionist at a small Berkeley cinema four...

Mary Beth

27 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Mary Beth Over the next two months we had four or five more large, late night parties, ending when the speed ran low. I remember one was so large that we had three bands playing at the same time, one in the living room, one on the roof deck behind...

How one laundry load changed my life

26 Dec 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

    ibizabohogirl.com Her name was ‘Low River’. She wasn’t an Indian but a thorough hippy. She’d been a stewardess for many years but now with three kids she was a mom. She was about ten years older than me, in a long robe with bead jewelry, a lovel...

The parties begin

25 Dec 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  My first new party friend, Low River. So now into the fourth week of December it was just Bones and I sitting upon mountains of pure, clean speed and living above the Starry Plough. We hadn’t made any other friends yet but we’re spending a few hou...

Kindness exponentially returned

24 Dec 2022 6 minute read 1 comment Diomedes

    Meeting Mary: In the first week of my new friendship with Bones there occurred another chance meeting that would radically alter our futures. Within a few hours of meeting me Bones knew that I was a deep and enthusiastic student of history and l...

Bones

23 Dec 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

Since I don't think very many people in North America are outside right now, I'll post two articles instead of one.   A good crowd at the 'Plough' I think it was that very first day that Phil introduced me to Rick W., or ‘Bones’ as everyone called h...

The jewel of the West

23 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Telegraph Avenue in its glory days Berkeley, a tiny island in the stream, the brightest jewel in the crown that is California, the Mecca of the West for the intellectual few, Berkeley, my home. What a colorful contrast it is to all the cities and...

Deirdre dilemmas

22 Dec 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  magic mushrooms When I was living in Berkeley a few months later, surrounded with a new set of friends, I was given a nickname I never liked, but people called me ‘random Rob’, probably because of all the strange things I would quote out of books...

Little white pills

21 Dec 2022 6 minute read 1 comment Diomedes

  About ten days before we were to leave, with a dozen of these oblong-shaped things, one afternoon, sitting in the library, I decided to try a whole one.  I didn’t realize it then, but that experiment would radically alter my life, almost like a lo...