Quaaludes (Drugs: The Straight Facts)

What an unfortunate nickname this car earned given Honda’s long pedigree in making truly exciting sports cars, both both before and after the gen1 Prelude. Honda took the longer wheelbase platform of the yet-to-be released the gen2 Civic sedan and wagon, messed around a bit (way too little) with the suspension pieces and settings, threw in the Accord’s 1750 cc CVCC four and transmission, and wrapped... Drove it a few more times now and then until I graduated and went off the college, but that memorable night waking the dead in sis’ brand new maroon Quaalude will always be…. memorable. And in its boring way, the Prelude was an important milestone for the evolution of that car and Honda overall. In her Quaalude’s case, it was one fall night, on the winding, hilly “road course” in the Forest Lawn Cemetery north of town. DOHC, 16 valves and V-TEC were still a Quaalude-induced dream away. The Prelude was a highly pragmatic move on Honda’s part to expand into the then large and lucrative sporty coupe market. For those that might ask why snoozers like this end up on CC, I did commit to covering every Honda car chronologically, instead of the usual randomness. Given that it coincides with Detroit’s low point, valley, flat desert of generally poor build quality, Honda was the calming sedative that plenty of folks were happily swilling after one too many poisonous Vegas or Skyhawks. But Honda’s first shot at a FWD sports coupe missed the mark, at least with the enthusiasts who were hoping for more. She loved it. it was one of THE “chick cars” to have at the time if you were in high school. Not really bad or truly ugly, and actually a perfectly typical Honda, in most ways, but it just didn’t exactly click. Truly exciting sporty cars were never meant to have a “sane measurement” applied anyway.

This hallucinogen, which was first used by ancient Mazatecs in Mexico, can be chewed, drank as tea or smoked, which is the preferred method of salvia users, said the store manager of a local Fullerton smoke shop who requested not to be named. Nushin Alavi, 21, a psychology major, knows four peers who have smoked salvia, some of whom smoked only once because of their bad experience with it. “They were curious as to how it felt—the effect of it,” said Alavi. In recent years, salvia, or Salvia divinorum, has gained recognition and raised curiosity among prospective users. Despite the gradual increase in curiosity of salvia, smoke shops like Twilight Zone Smoke and Gift Shop do not have a constant demand for it because of its strength, according to the store manager. Spencer Beshoff, 20, a business major, said he experimented with salvia in high school because he was curious and because it would not appear in the random drug tests administered by his school. Botzheim said the reason Beshoff’s high school did not look for salvia use is because authorities were not as knowledgeable about it as they are today, and it’s not illegal. Although salvia remains legal in California and no federal law prohibits its sale or use, 22 other U. S. states have made it illegal, Botzheim said. “It’s usually a one-time drug, because when they smoke it, they’ll never try it again because the intense euphoria it gives, so it’s usually a one-timer,” said the store manager. Botzheim also said there have not been any instances where CSUF’s University Police arrested student salvia users.

I know, in an ideal world we’d have all the players we wanted to sell sold by now and all the players we wanted to buy bought, but the reality is it doesn’t work like that. I look at the players we’re linked to now and I think they’re reflective of the state of our squad, that in times past we wouldn’t have even considered players like them. Yesterday was the longest day of the year and it really felt like the longest day of the year too. These days though, I don’t know how that player is who could make me fall off my chair and make me wonder if part of his brain had stopped working. Last night we were undone in the final minute as a last minute, flukey winner crept in at the back post against a team who, while decent enough, had a big, lumpen mouthpiece playing for them. And then we’d have bought … em … purchased … uhm … splashed out on … er … and acquired … yeah … see, there’s the problem for me. It strikes me that whoever we buy will be a disappointment. It kind of implies I have supernatural powers, able to detect people’s moods from their auras, or something, but reading around the various Facers and Twitbooks and emails I get, there’s definitely a growing feeling that we’re not doing anything... Personally speaking I am distinctly underwhelmed with the names of the players we’ve been linked with so far this summer. United won the league this season using players many Arsenal fans would scoff at. O’Shea, Fletcher etc, but they do their job and do it effectively. The girl doing the news and sport said ‘You’re an Arsenal fan, right. I think it’s because footballers in general underwhelm me these days.

Not only am I reading Stephen Davis' SHOCKINGLY RAD Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga for the very first time (at the behest/demand of the dissipated-yet-charming Alex Balk), but my initial Led Zeppelin knowledge base was as follows: they... I'm just saying that if Stephen Davis had written a book about Graham Nash sticking a dead shark into Joni Mitchell at a picnic in Laurel Canyon, I would have been better equipped to take it on. BUT HERE WE ARE, you're stuck with me, and I did go... ) I also called my dad, noted audiophile and retired-druggie, to ask HIS thoughts on Led Zeppelin, which were as follows: "Oh, women really, really love that stuff. My very first reaction to the book, other than, oh, this should be super entertaining for all of us , arose from Davis's luuuuurid account of the wilder rumors that started to circulate after the band's 1969 tour of America, most particularly: ".... But, you know, you buy enough castles with moats, you're gonna need to make some serious bank. I mean, I guess if you're the West Memphis Three, you're all, "yeah, that's what we've been saying," but that's Satanic paranoia for you. Davis describes this as the most "sinister" of the various legends surrounding Led Zeppelin, which is perhaps true from an etymological point of view, but, really. (I mean, if you're a woman, and you look kind of trashy, probably the members of Led Zeppelin. (That's not really fair, it sounds like they managed to really gouge the American tour promoters by the early 1970s.