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Steve (Author)

The pen is mightier than the gun, but it’s not a bullet proof vest

About Me

Im an author. I like to write and have written three books, two of which are
  • "Can You Pass the Acid Test?:
  • A History of the Drug and Sex Counterculture and Its Censorship in the 20th Century," available at
  • Amazon.com,
  • and
  • "Memoirs Of A Drugged-up, Sex-crazed Yippie,"
  • also available at
  • Amazon.com.
  • , Memoirs takes the reader through the life of a 1970s counter-culture drug user. Mark Spies goes from casual pot smoking to habitual use of pharmaceutical narcotics and cocaine. Due to the changing sexual attitudes, Spies has several unconventional sexual encounters. The 1970s brought us the "Woodstock generation." There was a sense of idealism that developed at the beginning and died at the end of that decade. Many counter-culture books focus on the 1960s, yet there are plenty of events in the 1970s that deserve attention. Nixon's war in Vietnam and Cambodia dominated the news and affected America's youth. Nixon's war on drugs impacted the counter-culture life style. Then there was punk rock, disco, casual cocaine use and revolutions braking out around the world by 1979. It can be viewed at: It can be viewed at:
  • MY PERSONAL WEBSITE: steveottosbooks.tk
  • ottosbooks.tk
  • ,or
  • Otto's Drug Book Store
  • .Can You Pass the Acid Test? is more of a resourse book and will come in handy for those who want to argue about America's drug laws. It is heavily researched and has some amazing information in it. It is political and serious. So it's a completely different book, but I think many readers will want to get a copy. For one thing it exposes the racism of drug laws. It also shows how the narcotics population has remained nearly unchanged since the early 1900s. Some great arguments against our "war on drugs" can be found in this book.Steve Otto is a free-lance writer, living in Maize, KS. He is the author of War on Drugs/ War on People, published by Ide House, 1995, an expose of governmental corruption connected with the “war on drugs;” and Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie, Authorhouse, 2005, a fictional look at the 1970s counter-culture. Otto has published articles nationally, in Contemporary Marxism, Paraplegia News and Vocational Biographies. In Kansas he has written for The Andover Journal, The Mt. Hope Clarion, the travel section of The Wichita Eagle, Kansas Works, and the alternative culture magazine Plethora. He is the past editor and publisher of two newspapers The Wichita Public Voice and The South Hutchinson Post Dispatch. During the 1980s, Otto worked as a reporter for The Clinton Daily Democrat and The St. Clair, in Missouri... This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5

    My Interests

    Writing books and blogs, Punk Rock, good beer, good parties, philosophy.

    I'd like to meet:

    Anyone who is interested in my writing.

    Music:

    Rock and punk rock, Black 47, Die Toten Hosen, The Dead Kennedys, Patti Smith, The Bealtes, Pink Floyd, Rage Against The Machine, Christian Death, Leah Andreone, Barricada, Molotov, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa, Hot Tuna, Grace Slick, Tin Soldier Empire, Klark Kent, Spontan, Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band, Woody Guthrie, Victor Jara, Julián Conrado, Paul Robeson, John Lennon;

  • Working Class Hero
  • , (Song may take up to a minute to load),Sex Pistols;
  • God Save The Queen
  • ,David Peel & the Lower East Side... width="425" height="350" .. Atomic Swindlers.Optical Illusion If you stare long enough you willsee the face ofthe Atomic Swindlers lead Singer April

    Movies:

    The Magic Christian, Reds, Where the Buffalo Roam, Fear and Loathing In Los Vegas, Cecil B. Demented, Good Night and Good Luck, Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Matewan, The Shining, The Big Lebowski, Lord of War, Salvador, Trash, Bad, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.RELEVANT QUOTE: "People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone." - Andy Warhol

    Television:

    Star Trek: The Next Generation;The Evening News (NOT Fox);NOVA.RELEVANT QUOTE:"I am gross and perverted,Im obsessed n deranged,I have existed for years,But very little had changed,I am the tool of the government,And industry too,For I am destined to rule,And regulate you,I may be vile and pernicious,But you cant look away,I make you think Im delicious,With the stuff that I say,I am the best you can get,Have you guessed me yet?, I am the slime oozin out,From your TV set."- Frank Zappa

    Books:

  • War on Drugs or War on People?, by Steve Otto
  • .Fear And Loathing In Los Vegas, and Better Than Sex, (With his famous obit: "Read it and weep, for we have lost our Satan. Richard Nixon has gone home to hell."), by Hunter S. Thompson; anything by Mao Zedong;Epicurus; On the Nature of the Universe, by Titus Lucretius Carus; Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu; The 21 Lessons of Merlyn, Douglas Monroe; Thomas Jefferson; Charles Bukowsky; Antonio Gramsci; Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; Left Wing Communism an Infantile Disorder, by V.I. Lenin; Pol Pot Plans the Future, by David Chandler, Ben Kiernan, Chanthou Boua; What's the Matter with Kansas?, by Thomas Frank; Being And Nothingness, by Jean-Paul Sartre; Story of O, by Pauline Reage; Dracula, by Bram Stoker; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, Christopher Largen.

    Heroes:

    Janet Talavera, Salvador Allende, John Lennon, Hunter S. Thompson, Jiang Qing.

    My Blog

    Drugs, music and the emergence of the counter culture

    Excerpts from "Can You Pass the Acid Test?: A History of the Drug and Sex Counterculture and Its Censorship in the 20th Century":         By 1968, against the back drop of the Vie...
    Posted by Steve (Author) on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:22:00 PST

    KS Rep. Todd Tiahrt mentioned in my new book

    The Fight Over Needle Exchange Programs to Prevent AIDSAll of this raises health questions, as to the use of used and dirtyneedles. By 1990 there were an estimated 250,000 intravenous drug users. My b...
    Posted by Steve (Author) on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:35:00 PST

    Now available on the internet and many of the big chains

    My book is now available at Amazon.com and through Barnes & Noble. The book can be ordered at www,Barnesandnoble.com The cover and summery are at the blog below. Be sure and see them. The book ca...
    Posted by Steve (Author) on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:09:00 PST

    New book cover chosen

    My cover has arrived and I have approved it. That means my new non-fiction book should hit the shelves with in the next few weeks. When it finally comes out, I will provide more information on the boo...
    Posted by Steve (Author) on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:20:00 PST

    When you want a real fuckup you've got Myspace

    My music for this blog stopped so I just put in this You tube device. Myspace sucks.     ...
    Posted by Steve (Author) on Mon, 21 May 2007 09:51:00 PST

    To Jerry Falwell  Good riddance!

    Here's my tribute: ...
    Posted by Steve (Author) on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:16:00 PST

    Update on "Can You Pass The Acid Test?"

    I have proofed my galleys and my book is now headed to the cover department. It may turn out to be different from the cover I've been using. That was just a tentative cover.Soon he'll have a new book ...
    Posted by Steve (Author) on Mon, 14 May 2007 03:23:00 PST

    New book moving along

    My galleys have been proofed and my book has been sent to the cover department so "Can You Pass The Acid Test" will be out very soon. I'm anxious to see the book and start book signings and the usual ...
    Posted by Steve (Author) on Tue, 08 May 2007 09:59:00 PST

    A friend in need

    From Salamander:For those of you familiar with Myspace, you realize mistakes of others are paid for by you. So someone has hacked into my account and I can't leave messages of anykind, on your site,...
    Posted by Steve (Author) on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:06:00 PST

    Kurt Vonnegut

    Like Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut was an inspiration to me. He was one of the big ones, speaking out against war in the 1960s and writing riveting tales that kept a whole generation interested. N...
    Posted by Steve (Author) on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:42:00 PST