Showing posts with label hashish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hashish. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2014

Russian Hemp Honored in Statues and Stories (Yet, Still Repressed)

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I've been informed that in between sheaves of wheat depicted on the Peoples Friendship Fountain in Moscow are sunflowers...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Cole Porter, Bruce Villanch, Elsa Maxwell, Betty Grable and Marijuana

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"Come and see my collection of Turkish hookahs." So states a female character in Cole Porter's play "Du Barry Was a Lad...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Gertrude Rings Her Bell

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UPDATE 10/15: Bell is included in the new book Tokin' Women: A 4000-Year Herstory. UPDATE 4/19 - Letters from Baghdad , ...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Maud Gonne: Mystic, Revolutionary, Hashish Taker

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UPDATE 10/15: Gonne is included in the new book Tokin' Women: A 4000-Year Herstory. Spotted in Downton Abbey Season 3, episode 4: Lad...
Monday, February 3, 2014

Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Jenny Reefer

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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Born on February 3, 1874 was the hostess with the mostest, art collector extraordinair...
Saturday, December 7, 2013

Iris Tree: Poet Adventuress

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Iris Tree photographed by Man Ray You preach to me of laws, you tie my limbs With rights and wrongs and arguments of good,...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

A High-Living Princess: Violette Murat

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UPDATE 10/15: Murat is included in the new book Tokin' Women: A 4000-Year Herstory . Princess Violette Murat, c. 1928-30 Photograp...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Through Resa's Eyes: Nietzsche, Wagner and Hashish

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Resa von Schirnhofer, fifth from left, the only female in her class.  “I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Marie Laurençin: Pot Party Painter

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UPDATE 10/15: Laurençin is included in the new book Tokin' Women: A 4000-Year Herstory.   Les Invités  (The Guests) 1908 ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Happy Birthday Isak Dinesen, a Modern Scheherazade

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Meryl Streep played her on film; Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe courted her; she flew in planes and hunte...