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This week we are publishing Part II of “Titan,” an excerpt from Baye McNeils’ new memoir, You Couldn’t Tell Me Shit! Coming of Age in the County of Kings, 1980-1985 about growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Baye’s book, a serialized memoir, is available on his Substack. Part I was published on this site June 7th. CINCERE On the way [...]
I began using cannabis regularly in 1968, when I was about 14 years old, and since then have had innumerable encounters with dealers. The ones I will write about here are the dealers with whom I had long-term relationships. With cannabis becoming legal in so many places, there’s not much future left in the business for individuals who operated on [...]
There were very few places to score any weed in the suburbs of Chappaqua, NY, in the winter of 1986. Feeling itchy and bored during my Christmas break from the School of Visual Arts, I hopped into my orange 1974 VW Super Bug on a mission to get ‘baked’ with some school buddies. My main herb connection was Jimmy, an [...]
I was on an evening Metro North train home from the Adirondacks. Catherine and I were taking turns sucking Merlot out of a plastic nozzle attached to a plastic sack. We were each lying down long ways across a row of seats, facing each other, passing the bag back and forth, lifting our heads only to drink. We had, in [...]
