Here’s a hysterical animation about Major League Baseball player Dock Ellis and his infamous 1970 no-hitter game against the San Diego Padres while under the influence of LSD.

In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter. In the past few years weve heard all too much about performance enhancing drugs from greenies to tetrahydrogestrinone, and not enough about performance inhibiting drugs. If our evaluation of the records of athletes like Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Marion Jones, and Barry Bonds needs to be revised downwards with an asterisk, we submit that that Dock Ellis record deserves a giant exclamation point. Of the 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, we can only guess how many were aided by steroids, but we can say without question that only one was ever thrown on acid.

 
(via Nerdcore)

Is that a Kippenberger Painting?

One of the best open secrets in baseball history.

Damn that’s cool.

I once made Love to a woman for 8 hours straight.
We were both on LSD at the time. LSD, despite horror stories, can be a life enhancing experience.
Although I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone.

and i thought i was the only one that managed to screw for 8 wonderful hours while lit! GoodDoctorBad, i am in complete agreement with you on all counts.. its not for everyone but it sure was mind opening..

i like your posts Tara.  somewhat obscure, somewhat vintage, somewhat trendy.  good digging/taste

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I’m pretty sure the greatest achievement by a tripping individual would be the discovery of the double helix DNA strand. It was world changing, while a no hitter is merely fuckin awesome. Really, really fuckin awesome.

I think its pretty awful when a person’s life is so screwed that they feel they have to escape to illegal drugs. I mean, really. Doesn’t anyone have anything better to do than laying around and having hallucinations? Is reality that terrible for people that they have to exchange it for something false?

I’ve never done drugs and never will.  It just breaks my heart to hear about people who are irrevocably damaged by such things. Not everyone is, and many people claim to get ‘better’ from depression and other maladies, but I think that anyone can overcome anything without the help of any drugs. I don’t want to hurt my family or set a bad example to anyone.

“But now, LORD, what do I look for? My hope is in You.”
Psalm 39:7

LSD, after a few days, looses potency. If you take it one morning, then the next, it really wouldn’t be that intense. Especially if you do it often. It literally stops producing most symptoms. Unless you become psychotic, and then, well, you present symptoms while sober.

However, something interesting does happen after a day or two of taking it. Toward the tail end (before it stops working altogether)- the mind becomes hyper focused. Attention becomes infinite, distractions, non existent. The phenomenon is quite evident in music, when heavy drug users play instruments like savants, when they should be drooling, laughing or crying upon the floor.

Abstract reasoning and focus become so advanced, that people can preform tasks that their ego (now departed) would otherwise thwart. Near the end of the film, he mentions the pressure of playing professionally. This particular issue, was temporarily lifted from his shoulders, and he was able to pitch as best as he could, without interference from internal devices. He was undergoing a peak experience, in his field of expertise. 

Toward A Psychology of Being, Dragons of Eden, Bocca’s Brain, and various psychology journals support the argument above, if anyone is interested in the science of matter.

Amity,

Your assertion that a given person’s life being screwed is the (only?) motive for them to “escape” to illegal drugs, along with the rest of that paragraph, is patently presumptuous. Please.

I hear your point but there are many other dimensions of measure than the plane of “screwed” and while each of us has our place between it’s +/- poles, it’s absurd to consolidate the entire subject into terms of black and white, then lobby for the no-brainer option. This subject is best-weighed in a vast gray-scale.

I don’t claim to know all the motives but there are surely too many to list in an online comment section, and most of them have to do with looking forward AND upward, exploring, experimenting, and doing so with friends, on a fantastic quest (!!) not wasting away in despair, as you’ve harped.

Some of my most profound religious values and beliefs (yes I’m a Christian and yes I believe in God) were either founded or bolstered by insights gained whilst on under the influence of LSD and other mind-expanding chemicals. Likewise for fond memories with friends.  These experiences are what you make of them, like ingredients in a kitchen.

Probably not every user has spirituality as a spur motive, but I’d submit to you that each and every LSD user becomes more spiritual by the end of the experience, like it or not. I’d even say LSD might bring more people into church after-the-fact than contrarian/judgemental online comments such as the one you posted. I agree with others; it’s certainly NOT for everyone, but those with enough will power and mind control will not have major/lasting issues.

You’ve revealed a myopic perspective about this drug, the people who use it, their reasons, and the experiences they’re having while on it.

My advice is to go pick on a genuinely *bad* drug like crank or alcohol, whose addicts suffer incalculably, and on message boards where your black/white-limited thought architecture and incidental usage of English will not cobble up a matter that deserves some more black & white thinking.

Making a fuss about LSD, in the way you have, is noble, but misguided, at best.

Kind regards.

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Amity says:

I think its pretty awful when a person’s life is so screwed that they feel they have to escape to illegal drugs. I mean, really. Doesn’t anyone have anything better to do than laying around and having hallucinations? Is reality that terrible for people that they have to exchange it for something false?

I’ve never done drugs and never will.  It just breaks my heart to hear about people who are irrevocably damaged by such things. Not everyone is, and many people claim to get ‘better’ from depression and other maladies, but I think that anyone can overcome anything without the help of any drugs. I don’t want to hurt my family or set a bad example to anyone.

“But now, LORD, what do I look for? My hope is in You.”
Psalm 39:7