hmmm... the sinister connection between jack kerouac and knick pattywhack revealed at last.
p.s. click on this link to hear jacky-boy (as opposed to knacky-boy) read a great poem about charlie parker, the great jazz musician...
"chaaawwwley pahhhker looked like buddha..."
http://www.kilbot.net/writing/charlieparker.php
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It made me think of this again...
Thus prisoners, soldiers, seamen and struggling musicians were among its users. A jazz musician who played regularly with the legendary saxophonist Charlie Parker (known as 'Bird') recalled that: 'Bird introduced this nutmeg to the guys. It was a cheap and legal high. You can take it in milk or Coca-Cola. The grocer across the street came over to the club owner and said, "I know you do all this baking because I sell from eight to ten nutmegs a day." And the owner came back and looked at the bandstand and there was a whole pile of nutmeg boxes.'' In 1946, before his conversion to Islam, Malcolm X used nutmeg whilst in jail when his supplies of marijuana ran out. In his autobiography he wrote: 'I first got high in Charlestown [prison] on nutmeg. My cellmate was among at least a hundred nutmeg men who, for money or cigarettes, bought from kitchen worker inmates penny matchboxes full of stolen nutmeg. I grabbed a box as though it were a pound of heavy drugs. Stirred into a glass of cold water, a penny matchbox full of nutmeg had the kick of three or four reefers.' When the authorities became aware of such uses of nutmeg it was removed from many prison kitchens.
...even though I really don't dig the whole nutmeg thing. It's interesting.
Great link. Thanks for sharring - perfect for waking up a little late.
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