This Tuesday. April 29th, 2008 saw the passing of the “father” of LSD, Albert Hofmann, aged 102.
The Swiss chemist created lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of an ergot fungus found on rye and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel, Switzerland. His discovery of it’s potent halucinogenic effects was made after [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Having trouble getting you Pay Pal Donate Button to validate properly? I have read a few people having such problems after doing a search to try to fix my own.
Not one of the sources offered any advice that worked for me, or the article was written too long ago to be relevant any longer.
Please check [...]
(Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip)
a manga series by Ashinano Hitoshi.
An Awesome manga commonly reffered to as YKK series. It was such an inspiration for me. I can not begin to describe it. I hadn’t particularly analyzed how it lodged itself so firmly in my heart, I just accepted it there, and it always gives me a [...]
A now international day of awareness, protest and freedom for marijuana users! A time for marijuana users to gather publicly in a show of civil disobedience toward draconian laws that persecute an extremely useful plant and the people that use it.
If you are one of the uninformed, uneducated, or already indoctrinated into the anti-marijuana camp, [...]
Hello? Yes! My youthful instincts have proven right on some occassions?!
I was a fangirl of Savage Sword of Conan when I was young. Conan is of course the most famous creation of author Robert E. Howard with stories written in the 1930s. Savage Sword (1974–1995) was Marvel Comics large format, black and white rendition of Howard’s [...]
Germ
by Robert Liparulo
Synopses & Review
Publisher Comments:
The list of 10,000 names was created for maximum devastation. Business leaders, housewives, politicians, celebrities, janitors, children. None of them is aware of what is about to happen — but all will be part of the most frightening brand of warfare the world has ever known.The germ — an advanced [...]
It is a common practice through most of the world to do a “Spring Cleaning”.
The origins of spring cleaning probably date back to the Norouz, the Persian new year, which falls on the first day of spring. Iranians still continue the practice of “khooneh takouni” which literally means “shaking the house” just before the new year. [...]
This is not my first attempt at a blog. I suspect it won’t be my last.
Yet it is a first, this being a Wordpress Blog that is hosted on my site, not just an auto pilot Blogger account. Nothing wrong with those this just seems more impressive (to me) because of the “mineness” of it. [...]
