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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
