your confessions of your middle aged ecstasy

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was it ever revealed/hinted at who this was ?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,2763,521419,00.html

― piscesboy, Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

...'eater' that's meant to say at the end, obv.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Middle-aged ecstasy: urgent and key that this phrase does not encompass SUVs, NPR or Martha Stewart.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeez, when reading this, I feel like this person is right under my nose.

There is a similar dude teaching at the institution where I am employed. Not a "Calvinist", though. However, this piece reminded me very much of him, because he wrote a book promoting mj "c0nsi0usness" and claimed that he was merely speaking on behalf of the narrator of the book, when we all know it's really just him. He never said anything about xst@cy, tho, but he just might know the author of this piece.

This whole thing is like an academic blind item.

― Insider, Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

He's a bit over-the-top taken, I think. (If his goal is an apologia, in any sense, he should recall that really rapturous descriptions like that are precisely what make people thing drugs are this Big Dangerous Thing. My guess is that the average person would actually be quite surprised at how handle-able and non-headexploding ecstasy -- along with a lot of other drugs -- are.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(I mean, plenty of people out there are convinced that when you're even vaguely high you simply can't understand anything going on in the world around you, could start acting ridiculous, etc. And I think plenty of them think of ecstasy in that way that's been sparked by all of those mid-80s PCP urban legends -- you know, where the users are so wacked-out that they cook their babies in microwaves and stuff like that. I think they miss the point that yr more common drugs aren't even significantly more mind-altering than getting really, really drunk -- just mind-altering in more fascinating ways -- and I'm not sure how much writing like this does to dispel that impression. If you read loads of Leary, for instance, you could easily get the impression that dropping acid or eating shrooms would have actual realistic hallucinations having full conversations with you, as opposed to just the wallpaper getting a little kaleidoscopic and imagining much more interesting things than usual.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i suspect the acid was stronger then,though,since people made it cause they wanted others to have a laugh,rather than making money which leads to stuff being cut/people cutting corners,etc
i mean,dutch acid seems,from friends reactions,to be eight million times stronger than what we get here

― robin (robin), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd love to know who wrote that article as well

― robin (robin), Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

NA=OTM

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 2 May 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, and it's easy enough to find out who this guy is: Ronan, what's your dad's name? (haha)

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 2 May 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I know who wrote that article. His wife's name is Siri.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 2 May 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my!

hes older than 50 though i thought?

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 2 May 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

august strindberg ?
he's dead surely.

― piscesboy, Friday, 2 May 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

No, he's younger than you think Gareth. Him eh? Well well.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 2 May 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

does it actually matter who wrote the article?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 2 May 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably not, but everyone loves gossip.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 2 May 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

also, the article isn't really that exciting - a bit "Area Man Enjoys Taking Ecstasy".

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 2 May 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Local Monument still there"

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 2 May 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

well it only matters in that *au* au**** (is this right?) is a writer i think can be good sometimes, and for him to come across as a bit of a buffoon like this isnt so nice.

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 2 May 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

what's buffoony about him?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently the son in question is well-known as a former Twilo raver.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

aw, when I saw the thread title I thought this might be about me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 2 May 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh! Him! Yeah, I can see that.

(Personally I think he makes it sound awful: "My family was insane and fucked-up and I was apparently unable to do anything productive about it so eventually I took drugs that made me feel better?" That's not a good sell, buddy.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 2 May 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(I mean, what the hell, his list of things his son did is so ridiculous as to indicate shit-poor parenting slightly more so than just a difficult child. You don't just casually mention that your kid was excreting into a pentangle of Coke cans in his room.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 2 May 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I thought everyone did that.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 2 May 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think Siri's husband is such a good writer.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 8 May 2003 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven years pass...

tempted tbh but I can't take beats at all at all

will ye have a drugs lads

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 21:09 (ten years ago)

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