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A few years ago, my friend Sara gave me this big Ziploc that was full to the brim with lighters, which a pothead like me can never have enough of. There was also a ceramic cigarette snuffer in the bag. In case you’re not familiar, you place these tchotchkes in the middle of your ashtray. They’re made of porcelain, ceramic, or resin, and have a hole in the center that you put your cigarette or joint inside of when you want to extinguish it without snubbing it out for good.I chainsmoke. Marlboro 27s or Amsterdam Shag during the day, non-stop spliffs after sundown (I’m a vampire stoner). It’s a nasty habit, but smoking alleviates my OCD symptoms and prevents me from, like, counting in my head or doing other magical thinking rigmaroles. Before my cigarette snuffers, I would rip through smokes and waste a good 50% of each. Now, I can take a couple drags or have a lil cheeky toke and then put the bastard out. This has probably saved me ounces and ounces of weed over the years. A couple times a year, I’ll buy a new pack of snuffers on eBay — like this clown one, or these translucent skull guys. They make smoking a more efficient and less ashy process. Plus, I use these Santa Fe incense (the Hickory-scented ones) which fit neatly on the snuffers, and help cover the smell of smoke.
Sep 8, 2022
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Ever since I quit nicotine I don't deprive myself of a cigarette when I feel like I really need it. So it hits different, because when my emotional state is low all it takes is a cig break to feel like I'm confronting whatever it is that's weighing me down. This system is fool-proof. Sometimes I think I'm low enough for a cigarette then decide I'm not quite sad enough. So when I do smoke it's because I'm crying & absolutely losing it. Because my smoke breaks are spontaneous, I can't quite plan for them, leading to unfinished packs & a plethora of lighters. Funny enough, each lighter coincides with whatever was making me feel awful that day making it a journal of sorts for my feelings. My fav is the "take me with you" lighter because well.. I really related to that when I bought it. There's also something really protagonist-y about walking into a gas station, eyes puffy & tears streaming down your face & asking for a pack of camel menthols ... oh & a swag lighter.
Sep 19, 2024
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🚬started buying my own cigs at the start of last year to get through a rough patch. it was me and my marlboro golds against the world back then. was too broke to afford to buy them super regularly so i'd have to ration over weeks. and luckily (not really) my friends also started smoking around the same time so i could bum off them if need be. i've been quitting since i properly started and i haven't bought a pack in a while now. moved onto strictly social smoking but i go out often enough it makes this a tad redundant. i don't desperately fiend for it as much, i could hardly finish the last one i had but god does a drunk cig feel good af.
also as someone who does biomed, your reminder and mine that smoking is really bad for you btw!!! we really need to invent smoking that isn't a health hazard.
also as someone who does biomed, your reminder and mine that smoking is really bad for you btw!!! we really need to invent smoking that isn't a health hazard.
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⏳�This may sound like some stoner shit, but bear with me here. People like to talk about “constructs,” whether gender or the indica/sativa binary. Yes, sure, that’s all accurate. But to me, TIME is the biggest construct of them all. Lots of people in New York sometimes get wrapped up in “hustle culture,” blocking out our calendars with hour-by-hour tasks, and late capitalism/globalization/etc. We tend to forget time is an abstract thing we’ve all embraced. It may be a dimension, but its societal function is still made up! Time rules my brain and my OCD stuff is deeply entrenched in things pertaining to seconds, minutes, hours. So it’s a huge relief to remind myself that this organizing principle of human life can be bent and molded. My buddy Dan and I have this ongoing project that documents instances of traditional EST time being warped. Years back, he worked at a salmon cannery in Alaska. He claims that one day he went into his boss’s office and saw either a 60- or 100-hour clock because the workers would have something like 60 hours on the clock, 40 hours off. It supposedly had a psychological effect that made shifts feel shorter, or prevented employees from losing their marbles and killing the foreman with one of those big serrated knives they use to gut fish. Over the years, we’ve found lots of instances of time being messed with, from this Wikipedia page on calendar reform ideas, this odd clock, and this 28-hour watch, to Val Kilmer flat-out saying he doesn’t subscribe to the idea of time. I also think about this drug delivery service I once copped from in Mexico. You have to plan your day around making an order because the dealer is “not true to time,” as my connect warned. But that makes sense, since it’s considered a “polychronic” country and dealers don’t operate within a 9-5 work structure. Anyway, there are definitely like-minded time benders out there.Finally, I would be remiss not to mention the Norwegian “Island of No Time,” which declared itself a “time-free zone” because Sommarøy doesn’t have sundown for something like three-month stretches. The townspeople said they wanted to opt out of the global clock because locals “cut the lawn at 4AM” anyway. The whole thing was mostly a publicity stunt to attract more tourism, but one day I intend to visit the Island of No Time and make some sort of project about all this stuff I’m describing. I will prove that time flies when you’re having fun!!!
Sep 8, 2022
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🔊I prefer to work while listening to music, but I get distracted if there are too many lyrics. As a result, I listen to a lot of electronic music, and SoundCloud (and sometimes Mixcloud) is the best platform to hear a DJ set. I made a few mixes during the pandemic, which you can listen to here. I’m not great at physically mixing records — CDJs are easy enough, but beatmatching on wax is a truly difficult craft I respect! — so I often sample a movie quote or YouTube deep cut to transition between tunes. If you want to hear real DJs, below is a collection of sets, mixes, and a couple radio shows I’ve been hitting as of late. Vibe-wise, they lean towards 303s, Drexciya-era electro, early UK dubstep/bass, and film score gems — in other words, downright slappers left and right.
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🍄One of my best friends, Julia, lives in Berlin. She used to send me a selfie on Sunday evenings after she had returned home from a Berghain bender and taken a shower. Her pupils would always be gigantic, but she’d look so fresh, clean, and downright happy after washing away the sins from The Big House. Over the years, I took a note from her playbook, and would always make it a part of the party process to take a shower after a night consuming drugs and shuffling the feet on a sticky dance floor. That said, this is a tricky line to walk that can easily lead to a broken neck or bad trip. And no one wants their bloated corpse to be discovered in a cramped Brooklyn bathroom with the water still running (RIP Brittany Murphy). So I have a few tips for ensuring that your drug shower will be a rejuvenating success, regardless of what substance(s) you’re on:
Sep 8, 2022