My Acid Trip with Groucho

[zengrifter]

This article is a hoot! zg

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The Psychedelic Shakespeare Solution
Presents

My Acid Trip with Groucho

See the Sacred Word and Win $100
by Paul Krassner


(article originally appeared in High Times Magazine, Feb 1981
reprinted here with kind permission from Paul Krassner)

" Always stay in your own movie."-Ken Kesey

If you take the name of a certain former vice president, Spiro Agnew, and scramble the letters around, you can rearrange it to spell out Grow A Penis. Such appropriateness can give your boundaries of coincidence permanent stretch marks. After all, when Sen. Charles Goodell came out against the war in Vietnam, it was Agnew who called him "the Christine Jorgensen (the first famous transsexual) of the Republican Party "- thus equating military might with the mere presence of a cock.

Years ago, when Mike Wallace interviewed me for "60 Minutes" and asked about the difference between the underground press and the mainstream media, I told him about the above anagram and said, "The difference is that I could print that in The Realist, but it'll be edited out of this program."

My prediction was accurate, so naturally I took an immediate vow never to appear on any TV show again unstoned. Which in turn explains why eating magic mushrooms was practically a prerequisite for my being interviewed by Tom Snyder.

...more - http://www.sirbacon.org/4membersonly/groucho.htm

[ScottH]

Wow, that's an old article...

[zengrifter]

Ya, a classic. I first read it in the print High Times off the rack. zg