Modern medicine has taken all the fun out of doing drugs in baseball. Stories like how Darryl Strawberry used to refuse to slide for fear of breaking the coke vials in his pocket have slowly been replaced with clinical, drab tales of creams and clears. But not to worry! The folks at No Mas TV have crafted this incredible, animated, look back at the greatest drug induced athletic performance of all time, Dock Ellis’ acid-laced no-hitter.
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The New York Public Library recently discovered a treasure trove of video games in its archives created by psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary. Over 375 floppies (talk about flashbacks) containing a “dozen or so” games developed by the LSD-advocate in the ’80s — some are playable via emulation — are now on display in the library’s rare books and manuscripts division, according to The New York Times. The good doctor’s digital works had a self-help bend to them, advocating self-improvement by interactive means as opposed to pharmaceuticals, and apparently recreational drugs as well. If you fancy yourself a cyberpunk, Leary also had an in-progress project based on William Gibson’s Neuromancer, replete with writing by William S. Burroughs and a soundtrack by Devo. He had more than just prototypes, too: His Mind Mirror was commercially released in 1985 and sold 65,000 copies for publisher Electronic Arts. If you can’t make it to the NYPL, a version has been adapted to Facebook so you can glean your personality profile from your… profile.
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Via: Kotaku
Source: The New York TImes
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