WHAT IS THIS?? A CCN RELEASED IN A TIMELY FASHION?

This week: We salute the changing of the guard at DisInfo, Bad vibes in Isla-Town, Vlad the Impaler found!, Washington hippy news, Ouija boards now on the NHS, Get that vag in shape!, Soooo Normcore, Spotty Mars logic, and get your folk on with shirley Collins.

Personnel – Joe Nolan, Frater Isla, and Ken Eakins

Links

• Farewell, Matt Staggs – Link
• Bad Vibes in Texas Link
• Dracula is buried in Italy…apparently – Link
• Stoned State: Weed in Washington Link
• Diagnosis: Ouija Board LinkLink
• Vaginal fitness tracker – Link
• What’s a Normcore? Link
• Rover Spots Mars UFO? Link
• Shirley Collins Campaign - Link

In a time when states across America are reversing decades of legislation against marijuana, and during a week when the president himself has declared the herb to be no more harmful than alcohol (even less IMOHO), it’s important to look to the past for guidance in the present.

Busted four times including once for growing his own weed on his farm, McCartney even had to deal with travel restrictions in America because of his marijuana-related arrest record. His last bust broke 30 years ago. Wiki has the skinny…

In 1984, while on holiday in Barbados, authorities arrested McCartney for possession of marijuana and fined him $200. Upon his return to England, he stated: “cannabis is … less harmful than rum punch, whiskey, nicotine and glue, all of which are perfectly legal … I don’t think … I was doing anyone any harm whatsoever…People are smoking pot anyway and to make them criminals is wrong.”

See for yourself…

This week: The Beast cometh!, Weed Weekly, Wake up and smell the bacon, Joe’s infomercial, Beware the Build-A-Bear Group, Kim wants Google glass to look at porn because Kim is a massive perv, Icke-TV, Bradley Manning’s trial, Kim wants to join the Israeli army to perv over girls because Kim is a massive perv, and Lou Reed gets a new liver…for cash.

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Personnel – Joe Nolan, Kim Monaghan, and Ken Eakins

Linkypoos:

• The Mark of The Beast has Arrived! – Link

• Two excellent reasons to get stoned – Link

• Francis Bacon’s Triptych Turns 40 Link Link

• Tales of Hot Rod Horror 2 Link Link

• Bilderberg comes to the Uk, provides speakers corner for twats – Link, Link

• Awwwwwwww – Link

• David Icke is launching a TV channel … fuuuuuu- Link Link

• Bradley Manning’s Trial Begins Link

• Lots of reasons to join the army – Link

• Lou Reed Gets a New Liver Link

Interludes:

Arnie, The Lonely Island, and Zombi

The player (ya’ll)

Have you ever noticed that Oscar the Grouch looks like he’s made outta weed? Seriously. Of course, I don’t think this is intentional. Frank Oz probably had a run of the green shaggy stuff laying around and the rest is history.

Along with groovy music and the kind of social awareness that came of age during an era when battles for equality were being fought on the racial, sexual and gender fronts, Sesame Street was also influenced by the drug culture of its time. I don’t have any specific info about who was doing what when, but its likely that the dynamic, young artists who created that magical place sought inspiration – as most artists will – wherever they could find it.

Here are a few funny SS videos that teach kids about letters and numbers while simultaneously goofing on a the lingo of the drug buy…

Just for good measure, here is one of the better psychedelic/mystical scenes from the show:

Keep learning, kids! If you know of any other videos that fits this bill, please leave your links in the comments section!

Joe Nolan <3