From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   ### - haha was just in the process of 'joyfully' reordering the next   
   prescription today, when their whole portal started going wonky and then   
   crashed altogether LOL ! :D   
      
   the 'problem' from before having not yet apparently been upgraded to work   
   correctly, although she did say it would take a couple of months...   
   nevertheless, it required yet another phone call to them to correct this   
   continuing issue, the very nice lady i spoke to not only manually making   
   the order for me over the phone, but also explained that the whole portal   
   was down and giving them problems, their phone lines jammed with similar   
   calls for manual assistance, which if it's been going-on for the last   
   month or more must be a nightmare for them!   
      
   she soon sorted old slider out anyway and are working hard for their   
   money! sorting me out in about only 7 minutes total, although how exactly   
   they're coping with several thousand scripts per month i don't know...   
      
   meanwhile then, whew, alarm over and jack herer + candy store is on the   
   way, more pineapple god and a new one too, cool...   
      
   jack herer being the only mystery here, chances being that what was great   
   30 years ago might not be quite so great by todays standards? e.g., can   
   remember skunk-1 arriving and everyone being curious about it, this   
   followed by skunk-2 or super-skunk, which really WAS the business, man   
   that WAS different! and powerful? can remember poor old postman-john lying   
   on the floor shivering in full whitey/panic-mode for instance haha (not   
   funny really) AND it had the power to send you on an excursion to-boot!   
   (full military strength heh), super skunk, that was really very good! it   
   being a few years more before jack herer then won the cannabis cup,   
   everyone agreeing it was the best ever, something really special, which   
   it'd HAVE to be to beat that super-skunk! jeeze, the first time for moi   
   being in an amsterdam cafe after having a breakfast and scoring some of it   
    from the dude downstairs, and which looked a bit fluffy or lite to me, but   
   assured me it was fine...   
      
   my concerns completely vanishing when only 20 minutes later i was   
   literally forced to leave that comfortable cafe with the lovely ladies   
   serving behind the counter, and staggered out into the street into what   
   looked like another world altogether lol, fuck me, the going was   
   difficult? could hardly walk straight was sooo stoned, it not just being   
   high that's the problem so much as all the inputs crowding-into your   
   perception you're not used to processing! shit like the almost tangible   
   vibes coming-off of the people around you, most of then completely unaware   
   of it but some of them very aware of it! (which can get a bit scary heh as   
   they're obviously better at it, possibly because they're in that mode all   
   the time... that's the feeling anyway) the sensation of being only a   
   visitor being both disconcerting and comforting at the same time!   
      
   gonna give old-jack every chance though and thus try to be straight at the   
   time (straight-er at any rate haha) so fingers crossed huh ;)   
      
   the name 'jack' always making me think of Kerouac, whose writing was   
   definitely influenced/affected by, coz oh man how he lived, burning his   
   candle at both ends he accordingly burned very brightly and died younger   
   than he should, his exacting journey not being unlike rimbaud's:   
   relentless, and performed with ultimate energy (or amphetamines in jack's   
   case heh) to bursting point, very successfully sharing his vision via his   
   writing before splitting the scene, you did good jack, cheers for the   
   effort...   
      
   he was the real deal alright ;)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)