Have you ever fantasized about smoking a fatty in church? If you have, Captain Yar will tell you are not alone. If you live in California, you can now make this a reality without being a Rastafarian. The Liberty Temple II offers this exact service.
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I’m back. I had a chance to see things from the Colorado perspective for the past week or so and let me tell you, our friends out there know how to choogle. They also know about some funny, independent TV shows such as Trailer Park Boys’.
This show is about a three buddies who live in a trailer park and are just trying to get by. When I say trying to get by, I mean that they are trying to live a life of drunkeness, drug use, and sex all while trying to outwit the drunk, gay landlords of the trailer park. It sounds offbeat, but it grows on you. Check out this “trailer” below to get a whiff of what Trailer Park Boys’ has to offer:
I highly suggest Netflixing these DVDs, securing a good eighth of booze, and setting aside a few days to experience what life is like as a Canadian.
Unlike Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny and Diet Dr. Pepper, Punxsutawney Phil is real. He is a groundhog that lives in a tree stump but on every February 2nd of each year, he is yanked out of his stump like a homeless man yanking out his peener on a bus…with extreme force. If you didn’t already know, this morning in Gobbler’s Knob, PA (more on that name later), Mr. Phil saw his shadow this morning. So what does that mean for us? That winter will last another 6 weeks. Fuck you Phil.
Is it a shock to you all that Punxsutawney Phil isn’t the only animal that declares our winters longer or shorter. We live in America…weren’t we built off trying to be better than the last guy or in this case groundhogs? This certainly applies to weather forecasting rodents. Here is a list of some of the animals, including Phil, that are America’s most famous weatheranimals for a day.
Sir Walter Wally – Raleigh, North Carolina
Sir Walter Wally out of Raleigh was actually born in Easington Colliery, England. He saw no opportunity in England as a groundhog’s day groundhog because the weather is constantly shitty there and will never see his shadow. So he got his furry little ass on a plane to the states and wound up in Raleigh, NC. Why Raleigh? From what I hear UNC has a lot of hot chicks.
Robert Mitchum was an actor that came to prominence in the 1940’s and 50’s. He never became as famous as other actors of the era like Humphrey Bogart, Paul Newman or Jimmy Stewart. In his movies, Mitchum accomplished a certain quality other actors couldn’t quite nail, he was always supernaturally calm and relaxed, never raising his voice or getting excited. It took me awhile to figure out what exactly this quality in his acting was.
Mitchum was the ultimate outsider. Leaving home at 16, he road the rails across America, he even did time in a Georgia chain gang. Once he became an actor they had problems casting him in parts that would personify his loner attributes. In 1948 after his career started to take off, Mitchum was arrested for possession of marijuana. This became major Hollywood news, to other actors this would have shattered their career. For Mitchum, it only enhanced his image.
(Incredibly, this is an actual court room photograph from the marijuana trial, not from a movie)
Once I learned of his arrest, things were much clearer to me. He was high in most of the movies I liked him in. This turned out to be the “X” factor I had been unable to describe about his acting. Take the beginning of this scene from one of my favorite movies, 1947’s Out Of The Past, one year before his arrest (and yes that’s Kirk Douglas)
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TCM would like to thank Robert Mitchum for being both a trail blazer and a certified badass.
So, I was out shopping for the most ridiculous Christmas decorations when I came across pure gold.
…and rolled into a joint.
In a few years people will be able to get high by eating a tomato and other assorted garden vegetables. Garden vegetables are being spliced with THC so when dried and smoked, they’ll have the same impact as marijuana.
Scientists are also currently working on splicing oak and maple trees as well. Apparently even scientists need to find a way to mellow out.
As Thurgood said in Half Baked, “thanks scientist.”
Don’t believe me? Read the story and thank these scientists.
It was hard to narrow down which event to highlight in this entry. The fall of the Berlin Wall, Hitler’s suicide, the establishment of the Lingerie Football League? Older entries have already taught us about the invention of beer, the chair and the epic Hulk Hogan/Andre the Giant match up of Wrestle Mania 3. Well my friends, things are about to get weirder and more Flintheartian as we discuss Bob Dylan turning the Beatles onto weed.
Picture a world were marijuana had yet to break into the mainstream culture, but only on the fringes of society by those in the “know”. That world is 1964 America. A young scruffy Bob Dylan had grown out of America’s Beat literary movement of the late 1940’s and 50’s (spearheaded by luminaries like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg) which in turn grew partly out of the Jazz scene. These were all connected in some way by their counter culture use of recreational marijuana.
Dylan in 1964 was already a musical trail blazer in his own right and admired by important musicians of the era. While the Beatles were on tour in NYC he invited them to party with him. That night would start an important transformation of the Beatles that would change both their personal lifestyles as well as the scope of their artistry.
Dylan mishearing the line, “It’s such a feeling that my love, I can’t hide!” in the Beatles song, “I Want To Hold Your Hand” as “It’s such a feeling that my love, I get high!” duly offered John Lennon a joint to smoke. Lennon not wanting to go first proclaimed Ringo has his royal tester and handed it off to him. As none of them had done it before, Ringo didn’t know the “puff, puff, pass” methodology and he smoked the entire joint to himself. They all took to weed instantly and partied the rest of the night laughing uncontrollably. McCartney had written down the secret to life that night and when he woke up the piece of paper had “There are 7 levels” written on it.
By their next album/film, HELP! a few months later, Lennon had claimed they were smoking weed for breakfast. This change was more readily apparent on their 1965, Rubber Soul album. Easily the mellowest of all the albums they had recorded it also began to showcase their ever evolving outside of the box musical construction. This would only heighten their musical ideas to new peaks of excellence further into their career along with other assorted drugs. The musical landscape and pop culture might be drastically different had this meeting not taken place.
Here is a fictionalized account of this great moment in world history.
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I have been to Bob Marley’s house at Nine Mile in Jamaica which is where this video is taken. FYI, there is NO RELATION WHAT-SO-EVER to the movie 8 Mile starring that cockbag Eminem. I unfortunately was not lucky enough to get this tour guide, he was the tour ahead of us. I did get a quality guide however by the name of Fuzzy.
Good times were had indeed.
FYI, the rock is quite comfortable.
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