What is “the Mescaline Show?”
5/11/78 from the Springfield Civic Center in Springfield, MA.
What’s so civic about centers anyway?
Don’t do that.
Why is 5/11/78 called the Mescaline Show?
Because the Dead took mescaline that night.
Really?
Probably. I mean, that’s the accepted story.
Is it true?
No idea. At this point, it may be an unprovable fact.
Oh.
But they were all totally on mescaline.
Why do you say this?
Just listen to ’em. They’re goofier than a sackful of Texans.
Are Texans known for being goofy?
Not normally. But when you bag them up, they engoofinate.
What is mescaline?
It is a drug that other people have taken.
Where does it come from?
It is made out of the desert.
What are mescaline’s effects?
Cliched dream sequences involving Native Americans, uncontrollable growling during Motown covers.
How is mescaline different than a Constellation-class starship?
In many critical ways. Size, for example. Warp capability, for another.
Are the youth of today experimenting with mescaline?
No.
Should they be?
Probably.
I feel like we got a lot accomplished here.
You shouldn’t.
Thirty some years ago, I loaned my friend my spare girlfriend took off for the earth day celebration in Philly and dropped mescaline mikrodots. Just as we get so we can’t stop smiling, I noticed the reds and blues in my mirror. So when I say “looks like we’re getting pulled over” everyone laughs, myself included. So I pull over, and the officer informed me that there was a stop sign behind that Ivy. Now when I pull out my wallet that is STUFFED with pictures I hand him my license and proceed to to show him the snap shots and tell him about every one. “…and this is the RV my girl traveled across the country in, in the badlands. I didn’t know her back then but isn’t that a great picture?” About 15 minutes in he’s laughing out loud and hands me back my license. He says “be careful with the stop signs” and “I haven’t laughed like that in ages” and “you guys have fun at earth day” so that’s what we did.
great story!
Engoofinate.
That is just beautiful word-makin’, is what that is.
<3
Are we still doing this?
Reg was there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al8mQpka2Y0
incidentally also voted best show to teach little kids to do Grateful Dead sing-a-longs while pretending to be their favorite animal