Great God Pan

Brother Mike from the East suggests all readers check out the current cover story in the OC Weekly called Lords of Acid. It's the tale of Laguna Beach in the late '60s when seekers gathered at Mystic Arts bookstore (across the street from Taco Bell) to meditate and/or sample potent "Orange Sunshine" LSD which got brewed up in the canyon. It was all fun and games until lead guru Timothy Leary got popped for grass by some overzealous cops and the heads turned to harder drugs. The community's quest to "purchase an island where Leary and the rest of the Brotherhood could establish a utopian society founded on Leary's religious teachings" reads straight out of Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1909 novel, Comrades, except for the acid part, anyway.