Saturday, May 28, 2005
Sitting ducks: two men, three triple-aught rounds close in.
Leonard Cohen- One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Biz Markie and Big Daddy Kane- Freestyle Boxin'
Aphex Twin- Pikachu Mutha Fucka
Rodney O and Joe Cooley- Let's Have Some Fun
Not this pig's words for the most. James Ellroy and CS Lewis take up the slack.
The two blew up; glass and blood covered three more men inching along the wall. Rhetoricpig leaped, hit the ground, fired at three sets of legs pressed together; his free hand flailed, caught a revolver off a dead man's waistband.
Shrieks from the courtyard; running feet on gravel. Rhetoricpig dropped the shotgun, stumbled to the wall. Over to the men, tasting blood, point-blank head shots.
Thumps in the room; two rifles in grabbing range. Rhetoricpig yelled,"We got him!," heard answering woops, saw arms and legs coming out the window. He picked up the closest piece and let fly, full automatic: trapped targets, plaster chips exploding, dry wood igniting.
Over the bodies, into the room.
"If you can't find a partner use a wooden chair", Elvis as demonologist?
Coryphantha macromeris
Is a small cactus that grow in shapes similar to a brain mass of twisted convolutions (really?). It contains macromerine an analogue of mescaline and is still used as a ritual sacred hallucinogen. It was used in Europe as a cosmetic to dilate the pupils and make women appear more attractive to men. Its more potent use was in a flying ointment applied to a broom handle and put up the vagina and rectum to produce the classic picture of a witch flying on her broom.
I have to comment upon those 12-century ladies trippin' balls to beautify their pupils. Botox eat your heart out. And what's a 'flying ointment'?
Meanwhile, I have you to settle with. Most truly do I sign myself
Your increasingly ravenously affectionate uncle
Screwtape, I mean rhetoricpig
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nice foto, senor pig...
but this cactus is a mild hallucinogen that grows exclusively in the "new world" (mexico, US southwest) not europe.
i think you mean belladonna (Devil's Nightshade) which grows throughout europe, asia and north africa and indeed was used by medieval fashionistas as both narcotic and pupil dilator. it's hallucinogenic, toxic but also cure for nerve gas. historically associated with the devil and witches and wild sex. as for flying, well, i can't vouch for that.
i've grown the plant; the flower is spooky, nearly black and dangerous looking. here's a link to some pic's on the web (not mine):
http://www.homeoint.org/illustr/b/bell.htm
but this cactus is a mild hallucinogen that grows exclusively in the "new world" (mexico, US southwest) not europe.
i think you mean belladonna (Devil's Nightshade) which grows throughout europe, asia and north africa and indeed was used by medieval fashionistas as both narcotic and pupil dilator. it's hallucinogenic, toxic but also cure for nerve gas. historically associated with the devil and witches and wild sex. as for flying, well, i can't vouch for that.
i've grown the plant; the flower is spooky, nearly black and dangerous looking. here's a link to some pic's on the web (not mine):
http://www.homeoint.org/illustr/b/bell.htm
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Yea, that quote is pretty weak, and you're right about the Belladonna being the one used for pupils. I always thought I'd done that, but I guess what I dug up, ground, and brew for myself, eons ago, was Datura, a relative to both. Let's hear it for dehydration!
There is no real evidence that donana (Coryphantha macromeris) was even used as a ritualistic psychedelic by Shamans in Central America. THis is from another forum...
[b]Well, I did a lil more searching and came across this:
"Ritual Use: C. Macromeris is reportedly used as a traditional hallucinogen. K. Trout states that a bioassay experience "had been very mild and very strange, with many waves of intense nausea and extremely persistent after effects, such as distorted vision and a very weird feeling of unreality lasting for weeks after its use.""
Other findings:
"Considering that there is usually no more than 0.1 percent macromerine in Donana and that a gram or more of this alkaloid may be needed to produce a psychotropic effect, one would have to consume more than a kilo of the dried cactus or 20 pounds of the fresh plant. Clearly this is not possible for most humans. If one wishes to experiment with the hallucinogenic properties of Donana, is is necessary first to make an extraction of the mixed alkaloids."
And here is this gem:
"In 1993 Ott, in his voluminous Pharmacotheon, failed to cite himself as the source of information regarding aboriginal use of C. macromeris, instead citing the 1980 publication by Schultes & Hofmann. Such circular referencing lends doubt to the plant's traditional use as a ritual hallucinogen.
As C. macromeris' hallucinogenic reference follows the publication of its alkaloid composition in 1967 it seems likely that a brief period of counterculture experimentation, based upon chemical findings, including macromerine, a "phenethylamine derivative similar in structure to mescaline," lead to the current misunderstanding of the species' ethnobotany.
A more thorough examination of the literature surrounding C. macromeris is needed either to support or discount its past or present aboriginal use. To date it would appear that any reference to native use is unsubstantiated. Anderson clearly states in The Cactus Family (2001) section titled "Ceremonial and Religious Uses of Cacti" that "no indigenous group is known to use this species ceremonially," but he also states in the main section covering the botanical aspects of the plant that "the Tarahumara use Coryphantha macromeris ceremonially." It would seem likely that this latter quote is a simple mistake, but no doubt it may lead to further confusion."
So it seems that the use of this cactus psychoactively is bunk.
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[b]Well, I did a lil more searching and came across this:
"Ritual Use: C. Macromeris is reportedly used as a traditional hallucinogen. K. Trout states that a bioassay experience "had been very mild and very strange, with many waves of intense nausea and extremely persistent after effects, such as distorted vision and a very weird feeling of unreality lasting for weeks after its use.""
Other findings:
"Considering that there is usually no more than 0.1 percent macromerine in Donana and that a gram or more of this alkaloid may be needed to produce a psychotropic effect, one would have to consume more than a kilo of the dried cactus or 20 pounds of the fresh plant. Clearly this is not possible for most humans. If one wishes to experiment with the hallucinogenic properties of Donana, is is necessary first to make an extraction of the mixed alkaloids."
And here is this gem:
"In 1993 Ott, in his voluminous Pharmacotheon, failed to cite himself as the source of information regarding aboriginal use of C. macromeris, instead citing the 1980 publication by Schultes & Hofmann. Such circular referencing lends doubt to the plant's traditional use as a ritual hallucinogen.
As C. macromeris' hallucinogenic reference follows the publication of its alkaloid composition in 1967 it seems likely that a brief period of counterculture experimentation, based upon chemical findings, including macromerine, a "phenethylamine derivative similar in structure to mescaline," lead to the current misunderstanding of the species' ethnobotany.
A more thorough examination of the literature surrounding C. macromeris is needed either to support or discount its past or present aboriginal use. To date it would appear that any reference to native use is unsubstantiated. Anderson clearly states in The Cactus Family (2001) section titled "Ceremonial and Religious Uses of Cacti" that "no indigenous group is known to use this species ceremonially," but he also states in the main section covering the botanical aspects of the plant that "the Tarahumara use Coryphantha macromeris ceremonially." It would seem likely that this latter quote is a simple mistake, but no doubt it may lead to further confusion."
So it seems that the use of this cactus psychoactively is bunk.
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