Josh Dixon of Cultso has collected a bunch of pieces of art by Bryan Lewis Saunders. One of Saunders’s projects is taking a drug and drawing a self-portrait under its effects. He has taken some really nasty drugs and been hospitalized as a direct result of this project.
The picture accompanying this post was drawn while he was under the influence of cocaine. Click it to view the rest.
San Francisco Giants’ Melky Cabrera launched fake website in ruse, report says
ESPN.com and the AP:
San Francisco Giants star outfielder Melky Cabrera mounted a campaign to avoid his 50-game suspension that included a fake website featuring a fictitious product in an effort that was quickly uncovered by MLB investigators, the New York Daily News has reported.
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“There was a product they said caused this positive,” the source told the Daily News. “Baseball figured out the ruse pretty quickly.”
Why would you try this? Why would you even think this would work?
How man who helped snare ‘Merchant of Death’ arms dealer was highest paid informant in history
Crazy story from the Associated Press:
Carlos Sagastume, 40, earned more than $9 million over 15 years by risking his life to convince drug dealers and a weapons merchant that he was a criminal.
Collecting evidence against Viktor Bout was another major achievement in a remarkable career for Mr Sagastume.
He posed as a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, also known as FARC, to coax Bout to travel from Russia to Thailand in 2008 to arrange to send weapons to Colombian rebels to fight Americans.
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Guatemalan-born Mr Sagastume began transporting drugs after he finished a five-year stint in Guatemala’s Army, where he specialised in gathering intelligence.
Speaking through an interpreter at Bout’s trial he said that after he was kidnapped by federal police in Mexico and a $60,000 ransom was paid to free him, he contacted the DEA in Guatemala, looking for a new line of work.
Fiction is great, but it doesn’t have anything on real life.
Gunmen dump 35 bodies on busy street in Mexicos
Fucked up news out of Mexico from E. Eduardo Castillo of the AP:
Masked gunmen blocked traffic on a busy avenue in a Gulf of Mexico coastal city Tuesday and dumped the bodies of 35 slaying victims as horrified motorists watched, authorities said.
Veracruz state Attorney General Reynaldo Escobar Perez said the bodies were left piled in two trucks and on the ground of an underpass near a shopping mall in the city of Boca del Rio.
Police had identified seven of the victims so far and all had criminal records for murder, drug dealing, kidnapping and extortion and were linked to organized crime, Escobar said. He didn’t say to what group the victims belonged to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo
Don’t turn up the lights just yet. Let Bill Withers and his band finish ringing in the new year — nineteen seventy soul — with this live number, “Ain’t No Sunshine”. What an encore.
(How fantastic are the members of his band by the way? Just look at their clothes and the overall seating arrangement — it’s not possible to be more relaxed. Especially the drummer, the one and only James Gadson.)
Ellis, D.
Despite taking the Pirates to a national championship, Doc Ellis will always be remembered for pitching a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres on June 12, 1970. Why is this no-hitter different from all others? Well, it might be the only no-no pitched under the effects of a performance inhibiting drug.
No Mas and artist James Blagden presents the animated story of Doc Ellis & The LSD No-No.
Wonderfully quirky animation of the story of Dock Ellis’s no-hitter thrown while on LSD, using Ellis’s own radio narration and some Stax Records goodness as the audio.
And it doesn’t even include the best part of the story, as quoted on Wikipedia:
I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate.