Tag: marijuana
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Memoir: The hard card (1982)
I am 20 years and eleven months old, alone in an empty dorm the Thursday of Spring break. I have no girlfriend, nowhere to go, no interest in driving home (no home at all, just a room in mom’s condo), and no tolerance for extended periods of regular consciousness. I consider myself worldly and “with…
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Memoir: A summer job (1981)
So much great culture was happening for me in 1981. My high points: Starting Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)–this book challenged my powers of attention and my notions of what a novel could do. I took a year to finish it. Seeing My Dinner With André–a film that both of my parents (divorced) enjoyed with me. Great…
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Memoir: a stomach-churning event (1976)
But kids who did “drugs”? I was not them. My preferred stupifiant was respectable. Wasn’t it advertised endlessly with catchy jingles? And didn’t the most popular shows drinking on TV?
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Memoir: Rest in peace, Brenda. You never gave yourself away (1978)
Those lyrics described the way you lived your life–with bold individuality, yet also compassion–revolutionary subversion alongside radical acceptance.
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Memoir: Eclipse (1973)
Then he picked up a pair of chunky Koss headphones. “And you really should prepare your head for these phones!”
