Thinking about how none of the planners (except like one, who they rolled their eyes at) of that “levitate the Pentagon” protest in the 60s thought they might actually levitate it, the point – this sort of thing was Abbie Hoffman’s specialty – was to signal to both sides that this was not actually going to be conducted as a violent assault, while taking none of the morale or ideological hit of stepping back from a pose of total hostility

One of the many side stories that influenced my life is that Abbie Hoffman committed suicide like 9 miles away from me in 1989 when I was alive, in the late 90s when I first read about this my dad said yeah, he knew the medical examiner who’d done the autopsy

But the stuff I read was like he was despairing over the failure of his whole life’s project (and also that he was bipolar, which makes sense)

Which sounded ridiculous to me, I was even reading about him in the first place cause by that time we were celebrating him and Alexander Shulgin and Hunter S. Thompson and Timothy Leary as our forefathers. He should’ve waited to realize he won!

Anyway I mostly rented The Big Chill about it