Oh shit THAT Soma. Yeah the plumbing aspect is kinda blowing my mind, do you go into the ground or is it an indoor thing? And do you amend over or under the felt? I need to look up a diagram or something

Oh HELL yeah. Need to read up on those but sounds like really cool tech. I did not expect this at the time but the thing I miss most about my old place in Oregon was the soil I did, like more than the weed that I grew in it. Currently figuring out how to get back west and get back to it

Still blows my mind, I figured 50 years to get here

Telling you shit you already know! Sorry, it’s just nice to talk solventless with folks who know what’s up lol

Was in Portland for the original Han Solo Burger wave and holy smokes lol that was some flower. Hashburger clone (also a Tyler d selection) is pretty easy to get and that’s my personal favorite of the bunch, more interesting flavor, faster, and heads you can air dry. Does decent outdoors too afaik

Fair, been there, just cringe when I see flower going into the press now, especially a stain that I know dumps lol

You gotta start washing hash / pressing that, you’ll never go back. Better yields too ironically, even with the flower -> hash reduction, I think the plant material pucks eat a lot just comparing notes

Same, number 12 is a persistent come down thought loop for me (to the point I reflexively roll my eyes at the idea now).

He was so close to “fft for smells” which I think might actually be a novel thought

Also I keep laughing at “fft but for sound” buddy they got that it’s called a fft

Seen this take a few times and I’m not totally sold but y’all are starting to win me over

450-550 is always the answer, above 550 you get into the Cancer Zone (benzene rings) and below that it just doesn’t hit

I could see this doing numbers on lot

Think Reynolds has a book on this,
(Rip It Up And Start Again), generation ecstasy is about much more localized stuff but makes me think he could speak to the concepts at least. Don’t read his Dead takes though they are so bad

Would it even be good if word got out? Vineland is kind of about that too, how what’s special is possible only cause people at large haven’t realized it’s worth caring about yet. Which you can say about a lot of Pynchon’s work. To the point where it feels like half the guy’s output is For Me. God.

but the only people who recognize it as that are the freaks who can see themselves in the work. I love and hate this cause on the one hand it’s great to see there’s a spot for us in the canon. But no one even realizes that’s what’s happening. But maybe that’s for the best?

Is any of that faker than the MDMA fueled alternative clown college cult in SE PDX in the 10s? And the characters settle into these larger than life personas but that’s just how you operate in the scene there. So you end up with this completely naturalistic picture of a very weird important place

It perfectly captures the tendencies of the subjects to mythologize their own lives (and how drugs and mysticism help with that) but those parts are clearly signposted and then the rest is weird in a very normal-for-freaks way. But like the punk kids, the heavy mob guys, the very off model ninjitsu…