Hey ho hippyfans!

It’s a brand new month, but don’t worry, that means it’s still under warranty, so you can return it if you are not 100% satisfied!

I worked like a dog last month; that is if you know any doggies who put in something like 200 hours of nightshifting in around three weeks! My guess is; you don’t.

Unless, you work on the bomb squad. With a sniffer dog. And it’s been a very busy month for improvised devices.

And I bet you don’t do any of that either!

I spent last week as a semi-vegetable; one that required massive amounts of sleep and soft drugs. I can’t say I did much more than kill time all last week, now this week I have to bury it.

It’s not that I didn’t have anything to do, for in truth I had loads I could have done. I have other projects ongoing of a creative nature as well as one that is reaching fruition and will be shortly available in print. Because of my lack of activity, that’s now behind schedule.

I’ve also got this blog. Don’t tell me you couldn’t have done with a dose of the hippy last week?

You need a little hippy in your life everyday!

So I’ve got no excuses except I was tired. And I’m old and getting older, but I’ve more than covered that subject, so we’ll give it a miss today.

In terms of relaxation and recreation, I revisited an old friend, Mr. Piperazine.

I took some PEP Twisted over the weekend and I must say that they are very enjoyable. I think my unfortunate and completely self-inflicted OD on Purple Ohms put me off these particularly effective legal highs a bit, but now I’m back and ready to party.

More than that, I’m ready to sample some of the next generation!

There’s plenty of new pills on the market and my friends at EDIT seem to stock them all. They’ve added a few new ranges that I plan on trying soon; purely for research purposes, so I can come here and review them just for you!

You see, I’m still living that hippy life, so you don’t need to! Although you can if you want; I’m not stopping you. Your mortgage is!

A few of these new pills have caught my eye. The next one’s on my list to try are called Speedballs and they are unique in that they are a mix of BZP/TFMP blend plus and this is the interesting ingredient; kratom.

I’ve not tried Kratom before, so I am interested in what these pills will do. I also ordered some 15xKratom extract, which I will be sampling soon as well.

The pills that really look interesting are a range of caps called Funk Pills. Funk Pills come in wide variety, they are rumoured to be strong and effective. Initial reports so far have been very favourable. The two that I’m going to order next are Twisted (Psychedelic Funk) and the Big Grin, which you can check out for yourself if you really want to know about them. That’s why I spend all this extra time including all these extra-special hippylinks!

The last one that is on my list of fun things to do soon are from the original PEP people and they are called PEP X. They are supposed to be the strongest, most MDMA like pills available, but they are so new that there is very little feedback available, so I will have to judge for myself.

All of these pills are in their third or fourth generation. This means as they tinker with the ingredients and refine the ratios and such, they are becoming more effective with fewer side effects. Good news for everyone!

You might be surprised to find that most, if not all of these pills contain vitamins and other revitalising compounds to minimise the potential ill effects of the drugs in the mix.

If you want far more real-world information than I could ever provide you with myself, I would suggest you check out the Legal Highs forum on EDIT. There’s a wealth of info and experience available and it always pays to do your homework before playing around with any new substance or drug. It’s good to learn from other’s mistakes, so you don’t have to make them yourself.

I make a lot mistakes, so you don’t have to!

Here’s a hippy hint: Drink a reasonable amount of fluid when you take piperazines. They are a bit of a diuretic, which means you will piss a lot and that fluid needs to be replaced.

Here’s another hippy hint: Don’t choose booze as your fluid. Why? Because alcohol dehydrates you and so does piperazine, and the combination means you will end up with the nastiest hangover of your life the next day if you overindulge in liquor.

Now a little history: These pills became popular in New Zealand first, where the very sensible government promotes them as “harm minimalisation solutions” because they keep you away from street drugs. That’s no bad thing, because with street drugs you never know what you are going to get.

Or more frequently, not get as you won’t know until after you’ve spent you money and wasted a night waiting to come up on some pills you bought from some guy in some club, who told you they were super-duper strong E’s the best he ever had!

These are consistently made to the same standard, kind of like Big Mac’s. You can walk into any McDonalds, anywhere in the world and order a Big Mac and it will be exactly like any other Big Mac you’ve ever had. Brand consistency or some other marketing wank-speak.

Piperazine is an extract of pepper. Fuck knows what is in those pills you buy in a club! All the really cool kids have already figured out that these legal highs are better, cheaper and more dependable than street drugs. Isn’t it time you discovered them too?

And now for the hippy disclaimer: Although these drugs are legal, they are still drugs and should be treated as such. They are not candy, even if PurpleOhms are grape flavoured.

Be sensible, be smart and treat them with respect. All it’s going to take to piss all over our party (again) is some stupid kid taking way too many of these legal pills and before you know it, a photo of the kid on life-support is in all the newspapers and the kid’s parent start some lame action group to get them banned!

Just say no to reckless abuse!

Always follow the instructions on the packaging and be responsible when you party. Don’t drive when you’re fucked up. Go someplace and dance your ass off instead!

Hey! There’s still time to win my bong! Click here for the details!

Hey hippyfans! How’s things?

Things are groovy here in my north London lair. I’ve had a few mellow days, sorting out a few things here and there. Life is good.

I’ve popped by just to mention that there’s a big change to my website, which you may have noticed.

I now have advertising.

The company I’ve chosen to adorn my blog is none-other than EveryoneDoesIt.Com, or EDIT as I often refer to them and as they do indeed refer to themselves.

EDIT is by far the best web retailer there is for all things legal and drug related. I’ve been shopping with them personally for nearly three years and I can only praise the quality of their service and goods. I wish all the websites I shopped with were as together as EDIT.

But what exactly do they sell?

Pipes, bongs, bubblers, seeds, a wide variety of legal highs, spares, blunt wrappers, grinders, rolling papers, rolling machines, rolling trays, rolling stations and of course, my new favourites, RooR glassware. If it is legal, fun and related to getting high, my friends at EDIT stock it.

So if you are going to shop with EDIT, why not do it through me? All you have to do is click on any of the links on this page and let EDIT do the rest. I promise you they are every bit as good as I say they are. And I should know, I’m probably one of their best customers!

And if you do shop with EDIT, send me an email and let me know what you bought and how it all worked out for you!

One of you is really going to win my bong, but you can’t win it, if you don’t enter. Click here for all the details. It really could be *you*

Hey fuckers. I’m having one of those hippydays that make life worth living already!

I’ve been awake since 5am, lucky me. I went to bed around 11pm, so that’s 6 hours of quality sleep. Ok, it’s not enough.

I’ve already watched the latest episode of the Sopranos, which is a pretty neat trick here in north London, considering it’s getting it’s first run in America on HBO right now. Why do I have to wait for Channel Four to get their act together? I’ll watch it again when they show it anyway, so everyone wins!

I’m digging it already and they’re only up to episode two. Rock on.

I’ve also been out to the superdupermarket and it was a good trip. I was there and back in 45 minutes and didn’t forget a single item. Yipppeee to that!

I’ve also read all my usual newspaper sites and other assorted webpages, checked all my email accounts and responded to the more pressing ones. I’ve also done some web shopping, placing an order with Amazon and EDIT.

Besides a few small, inconsequential items, the two main things I purchased from EDIT are the following:

A RooR diffuser (for my Little Sista 5.0 Ice Master)

…and

SPICE!

The diffuser was planned all along, but to order one, I had to measure the downpipe that was shipped with the Little Sista, because each bong is unique and the lengths can vary. Hey ho!

Spice, appears to be a herbal smoking mixture that is suppose to smell and taste good as well as get you high! Sounds good to me; and apparently it also mixes very well with weed, so I could be on to a winner. It also costs the same as skunk, so I’m hoping the reviews I’ve seen means it lives up to the hype. I’ll find out tomorrow.

I always try to stay up to date and on the cutting edge of legal highs! Watch out for my personal review of Spice, coming soon!
God, is this a dull-ass posting or what? I went shopping, I bought this, I wanked my cock down to a bloody stump!

OK, I made up that last one, just to see if you were paying attention. You are. Good.

See, here’s the thing. As “the biggest internet celebrity you’ve never heard of….but not for long”, I’m constantly checking my hitcounter to see if my online stardom has arrived.

So far, it hasn’t.

That doesn’t stop me from checking, though. As “a messiah for the new millennium”, I know I need to get my words out to the masses in a big old way; and I know my time will come; and soon!

In the meantime, I am charting a rather steady increase in traffic to my site. There’s loads of new hippyfans joining you old timers every day. I can even see how many of you fuckers are bookmarking me and grabbing the syndication feeds and it warms this hippy’s heart to no end!

It’s not that I’m unpopular, or unknown, I prefer to see it as still remaining underground; so if you’ve made it here, well done you!

I love you hippyfans, I really do. That’s why I want to give you my old bong. For the hippy loveth you all so much that he doth giveth you his old acrylic old! Dig it fuckers!

So to my hippyfans, both old and new, thank you for visiting my page.

You’re part of the internet elite, a small, extremely intelligent and sexy subgroup of internet users who have the good taste, common sense and quite frankly, the overwhelming cool required to fully appreciate whatever it is I do here.

What is it I do here, again? Oh yeah, my special brand of drivel!

You are by far the best group of fans on the internet and though your numbers may be few (and growing rapidly), you all more than make up for it with your style, wit and joie de vivre!

So whether you are a first time visitor or a long time hippyfan, welcome to my wild, weird and wacky world!

“I’ll make you laugh, I’ll make you think, I’ll make you wish you were a hippy too!” Or something like that.

Go on fuckers, one of you can really win my bong! Click here to find out how right now!

Yo.

Yes, I’m back.

Two days in a row! It’s like all your xmas’s have come at once and Santa Claus is really Jesus and he’s taking you to heaven to live with god for eternity and have nothing but oral sex all the time. Yee-fucking-haw!

Sad bastard that I am, I was dipping into my hippyarchive for a trip down memory lane. I wish it was a real trip, but the government man took away my beloved magic mushrooms last summer, so now I ain’t got nothing psychedelic to savour and enjoy in the privacy of my north London lair.

I know I harp on about this shroom ban, but I do for good reason! I really dug the little fuckers and I miss them very much!

Way back when shrooms were legal and the postman was my dealer and he didn’t even know it; I used to indulge in this little pastime once every week or so. It was good for me.

When shrooms were legal, they were cheap, easy to get, consistently potent and if used with intelligence and knowledge, very safe. Safer than booze any day of the week, but don’t get me started on the legal drugs!

Yes, some people can go crazy if they abuse shrooms without the required information and smarts. But some people go crazy anyway.

Scooobity bee boop!

How many people get beat up, robbed, killed, pregnant, infected, you name it, because of a particularly heavy night in the pub?

Really! Don’t get me fucking started!

When you put it into that context, the ban on shrooms seems even more ridiculous!

The reason I’m feeling so nostalgic about my former favourite legal substance is two fold; firstly my 2nd anniversary of blogging is quickly approaching.

Fuck! Two years of spouting absolute rubbish online and being ignored by the mainstream press, even though I am the one true genius of the 21st century!

Save the celebrations for another day. How about the day? Ok.

And secondly, I was reading some of my early entries and damn if I didn’t wax lyrical endlessly about my total enjoyment of magic mushrooms.

I miss my funny fungus! The mushroom god doesn’t visit me anymore! I’m a man without a religion! Shouldn’t the European Court of Human Rights be defending my right to worship in the manner of my own choosing?

Nothing else available comes even close to the amazingly pleasant pleasure of being monged to the gills on some fresh, potent shroomies! It was like a religion to me.

Well, put it this way, it made me feel closer than ever to actually having any faith in anything in the entire known and unknown universe.

And they took it all away from me, just because they felt like it! The fucking cunts!

Grrrrrrr!

Gimme back my fresh and legal shrooms or I am going to hold my breath until I turn blue! Gimme! Gimmmeeeee!

Gimmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeee! Now! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

I’ll level with you…

I don’t actually have a topic today. I’m just here because I have some time right now.

Does that make you feel neglected?

I’m sorry about that, but I’m in the middle of a rather long and gruelling run of work. Sometimes life is like that, but come next month, my bank account will be laughing and isn’t that the main thing?

It’s the usual situation, I’ve spotted all sorts of interesting things to comment on; you know, give it the old skewed hippyspin.

But time has been a precious commodity this week, especially free time and its not over yet. I’ve still got more work at the end of the week; I’m only off for 2 glorious nights and I’m going to make the most of them.

I’m not sure how just yet, but this hippy is quite resourceful.

So here I sit, in front of this blank computer screen, with nothing but a blinking cursor and the words above this sentence, staring back at me.

Hardly my strongest start!

Perhaps this lack of direction is a godsend in disguise. A distinct lack of direction has certainly served me well throughout my life, so it should work for a blog entry too.

Let’s jam, let’s riff, and let’s just see wherever the fuck my stream of consciousness takes us. I expect we’ll end up someplace interesting.

Here’s something you won’t know until I tell you: Between this paragraph and the previous one, nearly 3 hours have passed. Tricky, eh?

Mrs. H woke up and I stopped writing to hang out with her as today is her day off. At least it should have been, but she got called into her office this afternoon unexpectedly. It was an overtime bonanza for a short day, so she said “yes”.

So what did I do for the three hours beside hang out with my missus?

I took drugs!

I’ve had a couple of spliffs, a dope cake and I took a herbal pill.

Right now, it’s Wednesday afternoon at 1pm, which I think is the perfect time to get off your face. Well, it’s as good as any when you’ve only got 60 hours off!

The dope is some sort of commercial grade skunk and it’s most acceptable, if not particularly a gourmet strain and I’ve got loads of spliffs rolled and ready to go.

I baked the dopecakes last week, using a simple store-bought Victoria sponge mix, some muffin cases and some yummy vanilla icing. Oh and don’t forget the dope; 2 grams of the aforementioned skunk and ½ a gram of my homemade hash, carefully scraped from the bottom chamber of my grinder.

Besides tasting great, they came out extremely strong, but I expected that when I prepared them. I based the amount of dope on ending up with 24 individual cakes, but ended up with only 12, so they were twice as potent as I had planned. I wanted a single dose to be 2 cakes, but these motherfuckers monged you royally with just one!

I haven’t cooked with cannabis in years, mainly because you need to use a reasonable amount of weed to make them effective and that makes it pricey. It was a nice treat.

Eating cannabis gives you a much different high than smoking. It comes on slowly, and is harder to describe. The feeling is relaxed, carefree and chilled, from head to toe. It lasts a long time as well.

I ate 1 cake around 30 minutes ago and I’m just starting to feel its effects. In another 30 minutes or so, the feelings will be more intense and some people that eating dope can be quite trippy. That’s never been the case with me, but everyone is different.

The other substance I took is a legal one, called NXT PHASE EXPLODING HAPPINESS (Purple) and I think it comes from Holland. I didn’t recognise many of the ingredients and was too lazy to Google them, I thought fuck it; they look cool.

Nintey minutes after swallowing one, the effects are very pleasant, relaxing but up. I’m guessing they are a piperazine blend, BZP, TMPP or something like that, but I’m not sure.

The brand, NXT PHASE have a whole line of legal highs which might be worth exploring further. So far, I’m digging these, but I think I’ll just stick to the one pill for now.

My last experience with any like this was around my birthday, when I took way too many PURPLE OHMS. Since then I’ve read some trip reports, which said 2-3 pills, produced a very strong trip. I took six. Oooops. Don’t try that at home, fuckers!

I know I have them a bit of a bad review when I last wrote about them, which is why I’m offering this little update. I doubled the dose, which is a very silly and stupid thing to do. It’s hardly surprising that I had a bad time with them, now that I am aware of this.

That doesn’t mean I’m going to try them again, but it is the reason why I haven’t played around with any legal pills in over a month.

The other reason I’m mentioning this is because at the moment, the number one search term that’s bringing people to my blog is “PURPLE OHMS”. For all of you out there in internet land, here’s my previous post on the subject, which will save you from DIGGING IT OUT YOURSELF.

Ok, now it’s getting harder to concentrate on what I’m writing and my typing is turning to shit as well.

That means it’s time for me to wrap this up and post it while I still can. Thanks for putting up with me. Bye fuckers!

I’m digging my new blog very much!

Ain’t it shiny? Don’t you just want to lick it?

If you do, I’ll charge you extra. This media whore don’t come cheap!

I especially like my new banner. Actually it’s my first and only banner. Ok, so I’m not a banner expert. I still dig it anyway!

My younger brother designed it based on my rather loose specifications. He did the whole site actually and could do yours too, for a modest, yet affordable fee. Contact me for details.

The new site uses something called Word Press, which seems like one powerful motherfucker of a system. I don’t think I even know half of what it does yet. It’s a brand new world for me!

I spent most of Thursday monged out of my skull on those Purple Ohms and to be honest, I can’t say I enjoyed it. The experience has put me off piperazines and LSA, which is a natural precursor of LSD.

For starters, I maxed out the dose, because my experience with these herbal highs is such that to get anywhere, you need to take as much as they recommend possible. Maybe that wasn’t wise, but fuck it, it was my birthday and the package promised “a shroom like experience.” Bullshit!

The speedier, piperazine, BZP, or TMMP aspects of it were as described previously, a bit speedy, slightly euphoric and pleasant enough, so I think what disagreed with me was the LSA containing Argryria Nervosa. I could be wrong.

Basically, it lasted for hours and the trippiness wasn’t pleasant, it was that anxious, restless sort of feeling that you get from acid cut with too much speed. I didn’t really enjoy it at all.

When Mrs. H got home from work, I had to have a nap, or at least lie in the dark for a couple of hours. She was not impressed to say the least.

I wouldn’t classify it as a “bad trip” but definitely an unpleasant experience that I do not plan on repeating. I get the feeling that a lot of these new herbal highs are just a mix of any old legal substance that makes you feel something and not a well-balanced mix of ingredients that yield a fantastic time.

Perhaps these new legal highs are still in their infancy and the real artisans of the industry haven’t created anything ideal yet. At least they are trying.

This little episode has made me realise just how good magic mushrooms were and what a tragedy it is that the British government took them away from us for no good reason other than to be seen to be legislating morality.

My beloved shrooms were safe, reliable and fun. You knew exactly what you were getting and if you were dosage aware, just how strong your trip would be. They were gentle on the system, with a gradual come up, comfortable peak and relaxed come-down. They were all natural, unprocessed and cheap. Up until last July, you could buy them from a choice of reputable retailers, online or on the high street.

I miss shrooms quite a bit and nothing that’s come along since even comes close. I’m sure if I put my mind to it, I could track some down now, but I don’t want to. They’re “Class A” and I’d rather not mess with that.

No, what I would like is for this government to do a U-turn. What I’d like to see is some European Court overturn the law! What I’d like is for shrooms to come back, fresh, legal and available to grown-up, responsible hippies like me!

But I live in the real world and that’s just not going to happen, is it?

Instead, people are going to keep looking for that next big thing. And you know what, that next big thing might be far worse than shrooms and it wouldn’t have come on the market if shrooms were still available!

According to a recent report I saw on SKY NEWS, in this country alone, the legal high market is in the region of 10 million pounds per year! That’s a shitload of money; it’s a massive market and I predict it will expand in the coming years in ways none of us can imagine!

And yes, I’ll be here to test drive these new substances for you! Maybe I’ll find one even better than shrooms!

Somehow I doubt that too!

Hello and welcome to my brand new, all singing, all dancing, shiny new blog!

Dig it, fuckers!

I’m the northlondonhippy, the “biggest internet celebrity you’ve never heard of”, but not for much longer!

The relaunch of my blog is just the first step in my world wide web domination! I’ve got big plan to take over the world and your life.

Just leave everything to the hippy and all will be very cool!

I’m not new to blogging, far from it. I’ve been at this for nearly 2 years and over 400 posts. So what?

So I ain’t no fucking amateur, you get me? I know a thing or two about blogging.

I also know a lot about sex, drugs, rock & roll and life, but more on that later.

My OLD BLOG is no more. I’ve stopped writing there and from today onwards, all of my new posts will go onto this brand spanking new page, designed and administered by my younger brother.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Blogger for providing me a host and home for nearly 2 years. It’s not that I don’t love Blogger, because of course, I do, but we’ve grown apart recently.

We’ve gone in different directions, we’re just not the same blogger and host/interface we used to be. We’re parting as friends, we’ll stay in touch and my archive will always be on Blogger as a reminder of days gone by.

If my clever younger brother has his way, my archive will also be imported into this blog. Groovy! You can get down with the old hippy and brush up on your hippy history!

You see, I’m the hippy you all adore…
Because I am a complete media whore!
Read a bit of my blog and you’ll play into my hands
Because I’ll convert you all into hippyfans!

You see, I’m living that hippy life so you don’t have to! Imagine all the money I save you on drugs and whores! I’m doing you a real favour here!

That’s true you know, in everything I do, I’m doing it just for you!

This hippy is all about truth and I’ll never lie to you. Some of the truths I’ll share won’t be pretty, about myself, about our world, about everything!

Here’s a truth for you: Today is my birthday! No shit, fuckers! I hold nothing back!

So it is somewhat appropriate that my hippy rebirth is happening on the same day as my 43rd birthday.

Yep, I’m forty-fucking-three years old! And I bet you thought you stumbled upon some teenager’s blog. Well, think again, fuckers!

My arrested adolescence continues unabated. I’m the Id to everyone else’s Super-ego! I’m the great corruptor and prince of all things fun! I say and do all the things you wish you could!

And I get away with it!

Would you like to know how I’m going to spend my birthday today? Of course you would!

Well, I’m off from work today. I’m actually off quite a bit, probably more than I’m actually working. I work shifts, mainly overnight and that helps me to live my wild and wacky lifestyle.

It’s nearly 10am on a Thursday; I’m not even dressed. I’m smoking a juicy, skunky spliff and it’s not my first this morning. In around an hour, I’m going to start taking PURPLE OHMS, which are one of a new class of legal highs, based on natural ingredients. After that, I hope to be off my face for the remainder of the day.

This, my first blog entry in my brand new blog, will be the only productive thing I accomplish all goddamn day! And not only am I not ashamed of this, I’m actually quite proud!

I work damn hard and damn often, I also put a lot of time into outside projects that I’m writing!

You see, my view is simple; you can’t be labelled a failure if you’re still trying! Though I’m a middle-aged nobody, I haven’t given up on doing something really cool with my life.

I’ve already done lots of cool things; my career so far has been peppered with coolness. If I told you what I did for a living, you would think it was cool, but it’s not cool enough!

I’ve got books inside me, feature films, tv series, you name it. Just gimme some money and I’ll show you what this hippy can do!

In the mean time, I’ll just keep quietly plugging along. For a confirmed drug addict, I work far more than you would expect. I’m wasted, but I’m no waster!

Today’s my birthday, I’m entitled to be unapologetically self-indulgent!

Even the UK government is down with the hippy today and are providing me with a little birthday gift!

The home secretary, Charles Clark is to announce that after reviewing the situation, cannabis (this hippy’s favourite substance) is to remain a “Class C” drug! This is good news! Read it RIGHT HERE!

But not great news, no; great news would be that it was legal! In my dreams! Maybe yours too!

So happy birthday to me! Welcome to my new blog! Dig it, fuckers!

It’s Monday morning, and I could have used a bit more sleep really, especially considering the day I have ahead of me today. I’m not unrested, but I could have benefitted from sleeping later. I went to bed at about 2am last night, set my alarm for noon, but woke up at 8am. Don’t know why, well maybe I do.

The Israelis killed Sheik Yassin with a missile. He was the spiritual leader of Hamas. He was in jail for many years, but released a few years ago when the peace process in the mideast appeared to be moving forward. His death today is going to have a very serious effect on the stability of the region. Expect major retaliation and revenge against Israeli for this, they’re saying Ariel Sharon personally approved the operation. I’m not going to argue whether they were right to assasinate him or not, it really doesn’t matter. Now that he is dead, there’s going to to be a whole new level of shit there. I’m watching live coverage of a huge his funeral in Gaza right now - showing tens of thousands of very angry people. It’s not going to take long before it all kicks off.

I spent the day off my face on magic mushrooms yesterday. I’ve mentioned them before as it is a fairly recent hobby of mine. If you check my very first blog entry, there are several links to sites you may wish to visit for more information. They have been used by people for thousands of years and have a very strong effect.

I’ve taken acid a couple of times and I have to say I much prefer magic mushrooms. They are natural, easier on your system and there is no real comedown. From what I have read, you would need to consume your own weight in shrooms for them to be toxic, so physically they are fairly safe, as long as you know what you are taking.

I’ve never picked them in the wild and wouldn’t know how to spot them anyway. All the shrooms I have had were farmed, either in Holland or here in the UK. You can order them on the net, many headshops sell them, the markets in Camden and Portobello road also have stalls which sell them.

I purchased a grow kit a few weeks ago to produce my own. It’s amazingly simply, you just take the lid off the take-away style container, put it someplace slightly warm and spray it with water twice a day. The shrooms grow very quickly, I’m nearly finished with my third flush in as many weeks.

In their fresh and natural state, the mushrooms are 100% legal, the companies who sell them had this point clariifed by the Home Office in writing. They become a class “A” substance when you intentionally dry them, so its best to keep them fresh.

They are also more potent when they are fresh, though you have to consume a fair bit to get the really wild effects. I took a reasonably large dose on Sunday, but at this point I am quite experienced and know what to expect.

I always make sure I am in a safe, secure place when I trip on shrooms, physically and mentally. Evything that needs doing around the house gets done before I start. I’ve recently discovered that it is more enjoyable to trip during daylight hours, as the natural light makes things look better, so I ingested the shrooms at about 2pm.

As I hate the taste, I threw the shrooms into my blender with some juice and turned it into smoothie. It tasted absolutely foul, but I managed to gulp it down quickly. Then I sat down and smoked a spliff.

People can sometimes feel a bit of nausea when they eat shrooms, but this passes quickly and a joint at this stage helps minimize this feeling. Within about 15 minutes, I could feel them begin to kick in. Like any drug experience, it is a bit hard to describe, but I will try.

At first, it is almost a bit speedy, like you just had ten cups of espresso. You start to feel happy, almost euphoric, something definitely changes in your brain. Within about 30 minutes, the visual effects begin. It starts with perceiving light differently, you may notice a sudden increase in brightness on the edges of your vision, as if someone was shining a torch at you. Colours increase in brightness and intesity, your vision becomes sharper and more crisp. At this point, you might also notice things moving or breathing slightly. Patterns begin to emerge in the textures of fabric, my cat’s fur breathes as well.

Now, what’s happening in your brain is that the drug is making your neural synapses fire a bit quicker, meaning your brain is receiving more information than is really there, its almost a state of hyper-reality. Your mind can race, flitting from one topic to another. I find myself trying to not think, and just experience what’s going on around me.

Music takes on a distinctly different quality, sounding crisper, fuller with more seperation between the individual tracks. You may experience sound as a physical sensation. It it really a lovely feeling.

Once I am peaking, I like to lose myself in music video channels. When you discover a new song or video while under the influence of shrooms, it can amazing, yesterday was no exception. I heard several songs for the first time, which really impressed me.

The first was from a band I’ve never heard of before, called Rasmus. The song, entitled “In The Shadows” is a hard-edged, rock-pop song and very catchy. The video is an expensive, well directed piece, and is sure to grab your attention. I don’t know anything about the band, but keep an eye out, I expect it to sell well.

The next one I discovered is the latest single from N.E.R.D, called “She Wants to Move” and it blew my mind. I’ve read about N.E.R.D before, but never really paid attention. This song rocks! It’s got a great fusion of beats, funny, nasty lyrics and some wicked guitar. I am down with these guys, I could do business with them! I’m downloading, I mean purchasing this one from my local high street retailer today!

The third song that grabbed me is the latest offering from Outkast. I’ve had the Speakerbox/The Love Below for sometime, and I have been hooked on Dre3000’s disc. “Hey Ya” is as close to perfection as a single gets. I hadn’t really given Big Boi’s side that much time, but I heard “The Way You Move” properly and was blown away. The horns are very retro, 70s, Earth, Wind and Fire style and it is a very smooth slick sound. It’s another winnder. Those Outkast guys are very talented, they first caught my attention with Stankonia a couple of years ago. It deserves all the acclaim its received.

The other general observation I came away with yesterday after watching several straight hours of music videos is that they want everyone to be a cool black guy, pimp daddy. Every video seems to be showing me that all the cool black guys have all the fun. This is hard to explain, but if you watch, a common theme emerges from all these videos. They say, “I’m a cool black guy, I’m rich, I know how to dance, I know how to party. All the sexy, hotties want to get down with me. If you pay attention, I can show you how, just like this. Break it down!” Watch a bit, you will see what I mean.

Anyway, that was my day on Sunday, totally monged off my face on strong magic mushrooms. Its not for everyone, but I surely do like it!

Believe it or not, I have a job interview today. A real one, for some freelance work with a very large corporation. I’m trying not to be nervous, but the fact is, this is the first real interview I’ve had since I left my last job. Yikes!

It’s going to be informal, I am meeting the guy for a coffee this afternoon. I’ve been in touch with him for nearly six months, waiting for an opening. Finally, last week, he told me there was the chance of loads of work with him. I am very encouraged by this, but not counting my chickens just yet.

I still don’t know when the job might start, what the hours will be, how many days a month I will get, and how much it will pay. Its a senior position, so the money should be decent and the hours shouldn’t be too bad. I’m hoping that it will be full-time or fairly close to that, as I really need some money.

I’m going to have to wrap this up now, I’ve to go try on my suit and see if it still fits. This hippy doesn’t dress-up very often and its a very long time since I’ve worn it. If it doesn’t fit, I’m going to have to make a quick run up to the high street and hope to find something in my size.

Stay cool, stay groovy, ride the vibe.