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Mystic mushrooms spawn magic event!

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
~~ William Blake

“But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.”
~~ Aldous Huxley, “The Doors of Perception”

“Abandoning his body by the gate of dreams, the Spirit beholds in awaking his senses sleeping. Then he takes his own light and returns to his home, this Spirit of golden radiance, the wandering swan everlasting.
Leaving his nest below in charge of the breath of life, the immortals Spirit soars afar from his nest. He moves in all regions whereever he loves, this Spirit of golden radiance, the wandering swan everlasting.
And in the region of dreams, wandering above and below, the Spirit makes for himself innumerable subtle creations. Sometimes he seems to regjoice in the love of fairy beauties, sometimes he laughs or beholds awe-inspiring terrible visions.
People see his field of pleasure; but he can never be seen.
~~The Upanishads

We chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there
But can you still recall
The time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
~~Jim Morrison and The Doors, “Break On Through (To The Other Side)”

And perhaps fitting to all this is word that the Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Syd Barrett - has died. Diehard Pink Floyd fans still insist that the band was never the same without Syd. Now what do we do with our advance tickets for the reunion tour?

Our dearest ODD-fan Satori has been tugging at our petticoats the past week or more. Seems ol’ Sat has a couple nominees for the ODD On Deck circle.

Satori’s first suggestion is Jerry Lewis and who are we to disagree? Perhaps we could set the tag team of Jerry Lewis as interviewed by Larry King. The second nomination Satori launched is the New Jersey government. Loveable and timely that Satori.

Considering the competition we found ourselves hard pressed (or slow boiled perhaps) to get our chin up here. Sadly we discovered today that we were a bit tardy as regards placing the the CIA Bin Laden unit On Deck. George pulled the rug on us (and the rest of the country) there.

We did get an ODD-alert that Rudy Ray Moore, aka Dolemite, aka Petey Wheatstraw, the Devil’s Son-in Law, has been hospitalized in Inglewood, Calif.

And that leaves us as the loser in this round of ODD-tag. Satori captures the coveted ODD-thong Grand Prize with a 2 to 1 victory. Congratulations!

Sherman, set the Way-Back machine for yesterday. Remember Enron? And Kenneth Lay’s reported death? We discovered at SFGate.com an interesting discussion that includes this piece:

“The document that convicts you of a crime is signed by a judge after a sentencing hearing. We never got to that stage,” says Kirby Behre, a partner with the law firm Paul Hastings. “The bottom line — the judge never entered an order establishing the conviction or the sentence. That’s going to be the basis for a strong argument that he (Ken Lay) was never really — quote — convicted on this matter.”

And many just-plain-folks are saying “Show Me The DNA!”

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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Enron scandal centerpiece Ken Lay has died in Aspen Colorado according to CBS4 in Denver. The current hypothesis is that a massive heart attack nabbed him. CBS4 indicates that an autopsy will be performed later today in Grand Junction Colorado. Recall that Lay and fellow Enron bigwig Jeffery Skelling were convicted of fraud May 25 of this year. Lay was due to be sentenced this coming October. Exit stage left.

Much as Mr. Lay we found another story of someone who left the planet just shy of the finish line, albeit, Jose Garmendia was actually competing and not cheating.

Reaching wildly this morn we’ve found a way to work in the death of Robbie ‘Rocket’ Watts of the Cosmic Psychos. We like this one for two reasons - first any band named “Cosmic Psychos” just tickles us pink and second (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) we discovered that Robbie Watts joined the Psychos in 1990 for a Butch Vig-produced album ‘Blokes You Can Trust.’

‘Nuff said.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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