Category Archives: Drugs

The Second Coming Of Rockets Redglare

May 27, 2020 – 9:43 am

Rockets Redglare was a native New Yorker. His family was tough. He was born addicted to heroin. His childhood was no fairy tale and Rockets moved to the East Village to escape his past. He couldn’t outrun heroin and his habit became the thing of legends on the Punk Scene. Rockets could score anywhere and […]

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What Would Johnny Thunders Do?

April 1, 2020 – 11:54 am

What would Johnny Thunders do in these times? Sable Starr and a bag of Chinese Rocks. To hear CHINESE ROCKS by Johnny Thunders and Heartbreakers, please go this URL

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WHEN FAT MEN FLY by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 2

March 7, 2020 – 12:15 am

Two days before New Year’s Eve Sookie and Marie arrived at Wayne’s house. The two girls wore matching white leather jackets, mini-skirts, knee-high boots, and turtleneck sweater. They were excited about their first trip to the big city and Marie asked Wayne’s mom, “Do we look like sisters?” “Like Eva and Zsa-Zsa Gabor.” Wayne’s mom […]

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You Can’t Put Your Arm Around A Memory

October 25, 2019 – 7:02 pm

In May 1984 I ran into Johnny Thunders in Paris. He was playing at the Gibus club outside Republique. His manager was a German drug dealer. I owed Chris $200 for an 8-ball I had bought in 1982. It hadn’t been half-bad. “You have to pay me.” The German thought he was a tough guy. […]

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The Wall For The Entire Sackler Family

October 3, 2019 – 8:37 pm

One West Virginia pharmacy in a town with a population of 392 sold nine million oxycondin pills in two years and over the same period according to https://crooksandliars.com Big Pharma flooded the hillbilly state with over 780 million pills of varying strengths. The drug companies killed almost two thousand people, as the hospitals, social service, […]

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