1 Fake! AC can't even name a favorite album or concert date. Really seems like she's trying to connect to something she really has no idea about. Even so, the dead were the world's worst excuse for a band. Had she said she was a Nick Cave groupie, well...

2 She knows! That's a JOKE (hint:secondhand smoke from burning "unknown" substances at Dead concerts and it's effects on memory). She's posted pictures of herself at G-D concerts(including a 1990 concert in Germany) on her website before. She's even talked about it at length in the past.

3 No way Pete. She named her favorite songs, and they are by and large the Dead's best songs, although not the ones that a non-fan would have chosen (they aren't the most popular). The fact that she knows how horrible the 'space' thing is to those of us not on acid is the clincher. She's a dead head. Dead-head conservatives are not all that uncommon. We just don't take a lot of acid, so we don't stick out as much

4 I'm pretty soft-core myself, though I do own a Stoney the Bear doll, and I am wearing a GD T-shirt (I use 'em as sleepwear).

5 Hah! I haven't purposefuilly listened to the Dead in probably a year. Ever since your post, I have listened to nothing but. Row, Jimmy. Row. Man, that song makes me pine for the days of high school. And weed. Weird that we outgrew one, and not the other

6 Can a person even get decent acid these days? I suppose that's a dumb question for me since I've never had the opportunity to try it, and wouldn't know good from bad. Not that after my "fungal" experience I'd be terribly inclined to try it in the first place.

7 Well, the advantage of LSD over shrooms—as I understand it—is that with acid one can control the dosage a bit better, and of course that's important with something as intense as tripping. I've never done shrooms, but my rules with acid were: 1) only when you're in a good mood; 2) have someone around who isn't doing it—to order food, interface with the outside world, handle medical emergencies, etc. I had nothing but pleasant experiences, and I've got zero desire to ever do it again.

8 one can control the dosage a bit better jiminy christmas did you hit the nail on the head! It was fascinating and quite incredible, but I never want to go there again.