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Just a Shot Away

Just a Shot Away

About Me

Hi! Firefly here. What follows in these blogs is a fictionalized version of my memoirs of the year between Woodstock and Kent State, as viewed by my friends. What follows, although based on real events, is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters in this novel and real persons, living or dead, is strictly coincidental. All material in these blogs is copyrighted 1991-1992 and 2007 by David J. Zabriskie. Nothing contained on these pages may be reproduced, reprinted, copied or otherwise diseminated without express written consent of the author. DISCLAIMER: The author takes no responsibility for and does not reccommend ANY of the experiments described herein... especially the one with the popcorn!

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10. Nameless Freaks and the Duck Walk

The next day was Friday and Doc returned to his room after lunch to find an old buddy of his, who shall forever remain Nameless, had arrived for an unannounced visit.  Doc had a lot of nomadic fr...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:06:00 GMT

9. Electric Dot Candy

Doc had a friend who worked at Sandoz Laboratories.  Sandoz was the only licensed manufacturer of LSD in the country, but once LSD became a controlled substance, they greatly curtailed and eventu...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:45:00 GMT

8. Doc

The best and most unique character to emerge from these nightly bonfires was Doc.  Doc was a story-teller par excellence.  Maybe his narrative threads didn't always tie together neatly at th...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:45:00 GMT

7. "Making Friends"

"Making Friends" is the title of a wonderful, ironic song by Muddy Waters which we began to play regularly.  Making friends was also an activity of prime importance at Highland College, for the s...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:18:00 GMT

6. Rock and Roll Hell

As already mentioned, we did most of our hanging out in Red's room.  Eventually, this came by force of habit, but in the beginning, there was a solid reason for it: most of our instruments and al...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:35:00 GMT

5. Rock and Roll Heaven

More important to this narrative than Kell's zoology experiments is the tale of two friends with whom I would share many adventures: Red the bass player and Jones the guitar wizard.  Red was one ...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:01:00 GMT

4. Kell's Menagerie

Eventually, it came to pass that Kell's Hungarian landlady caught him smoking an illegal Mexican substance.  She threw a righteous Hungarian fit.  Translated into American, her ultimatum was...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:43:00 GMT

3. Kell, the Art Major

One might infer from this account that, apart from avoiding the draft and the Vietnam war, the narrator and his cronies could not find much point in their undergraduate years other than the pursuit of...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:09:00 GMT

2. Life Among the Paranoids

Highland College was perversely and gloriously remote.  Not only was the main campus of State U. an hour's ride away on the inter-campus bus, the nearest town was over five miles away in the oppo...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:25:00 GMT

1. "I'm Ready"

I recall it as the last innocent time... even if everyone was guilty. None of us knew what we were walking into, really.  Certainly the university administration had no idea that instead of banis...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:02:00 GMT