The Week and the Strong in Review (August 27)
Its official…it is now getting darker before it will get light again. The drooping Summer Sun is spending less time with us, knocking some sense into that Sensimillan eco-alarm clock, in turn, causing the green sinewy thighs of Pot plants everywhere, to produce sweet, sweaty, moisture-dripping buds. In another month or so, the Indicas, those donkey-dongs of cannon-like flower tops will be ready for harvest. Then some weeks after that get your hand saws out because it’s now time to bring in your later blooming Sativas.
Starting around Mid-Rocktober, NorCal is gonna stink…like an Oakland Mega-Weed-warehouse during a power outage.
We’re the Haight, Where’s the Love?
Tomorrow, June 13th, 2010 is the world famous Haight/Ashbury Street Fair. This will be thirty-third time that the freakiest street in America is allow to be…itself.
From roughly 12 noon to 5pm, upwards of some seventy thousand people will take in the freak festival that we call the Haight. Parents with kids lounging in baby bjorns sucking on bottles of baby-chai formula will mix with Gogol Bordello crowd sucking on joints while the bands play on. Hippie chicks in twirling peasant dresses will cradle wicker baskets full of magic potions. Costumes will be worn but it is hard to tell the straights from the freaks, so never assume who is a costume wearer and who is just a Haight St. freak. For one day, it is safe for everyone to come to the Haight.
“Haute Stoner” Cuisine a Hit in New York Times
I found this story while perusing the ever-great Fark today, a wonderful three-page piece in the NYT about the influence of cannabis in the hearts and minds of many of America’s great chefs, as well as their patrons. It is a great article hinting at the increasing normalcy of our beloved herb in the general … Read more
