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Cool Group on Union Street Saturday began with an afternoon feast on Webster Place at Mark and Penny’s home. It was a post Bar Mitzvah party for their son Glenn. My buddy Ron and I drank, smoked pot and danced for several hours to a live band called Grape Jam.At some point, I left to go for a swim at [...]
In the fall of 1984, three months after turning 21, I started working at the midtown coffee shop, Miss Brooks, that was located on the corner of 56th Street and 6th Avenue. As with most New York City restaurant jobs, many of my co-workers were there only temporarily as they prepared for other careers. While I wanted to be a [...]
This excerpt from John O'Connor's new book, A Short, Strange Trip: An Untold Story of Magic Mushrooms, Madness, and a Search for the Meaning of Life in the Amazon (pub date April 14, 2026), explores the peripatetic ways of both the author and his subject, the late American mystic and "psychonaut," Terence Mckenna (1946-2000). McKenna, a countercultural figure in the 1970s who [...]
