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enough to kill a small horse

oneirodynia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:03:01 -0800

"I found these in a red photo album marked "Darlene" at a swap meet in Huntington Beach, California." The Cocaine Photos. Images from a more innocent time.

By: padraigin

padraigin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:11:02 -0800

Okay, who didn't have that girl as a babysitter when they were little?

By: humannaire

humannaire — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:11:41 -0800

[Note to self: Burn photos.]

By: moxiedoll

moxiedoll — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:12:37 -0800

and then they recorded a hit single.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:13:52 -0800

Immortal.

By: PostIronyIsNotaMyth

PostIronyIsNotaMyth — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:14:10 -0800

I DO COCAINE!!!!!!

By: Lillitatiana

Lillitatiana — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:14:17 -0800

they make snorting coke look so innocent...

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:15:06 -0800

Tag: "Delorean"?

By: ArgentCorvid

ArgentCorvid — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:18:07 -0800

Fiasco da Gama@ Tag: "Delorean"? This one.

By: PostIronyIsNotaMyth

PostIronyIsNotaMyth — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:18:09 -0800

Well there's a picture of a DeLorean in this photo and the inventor of the car, John DeLorean, was eventually arrested for some kind cocaine smuggling operation.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:18:09 -0800

Fiasco da Gama, see here and here.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:18:24 -0800

Snap!

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:19:59 -0800

sigh - i remember it very well - and then people figured out that with some 151 and baking soda they could make crack out of that coke and really get wired my problem was that i'd always want to do one more line until i started feeling strung out and sick - and that when people started smoking it, i got even sicker when i tried it thank god for that - you have no idea how thankful i am i watched people ruin their lives over that stuff, including the woman i lived with for 10 years i wonder how those guys made out

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:21:19 -0800

Thanks corvid, jimbob and postirony. First I was confused, now I think it's awesome. In a minute I'll want some more. Of the delorean, of course.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:22:34 -0800

i wonder how those guys made out I imagine we'll find out shortly. Such is the power of the interweebs.

By: davelog

davelog — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:25:17 -0800

I'd like to introduce exhibit 'A', your honor.

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:26:22 -0800

Nothing like a big fat line and a Hines Root Beer.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:26:52 -0800

It's a hell of a drug. For faux-arm-wrestling next to a delorean poster. ...hell of a drug...

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:28:04 -0800

Here's that DeLorean poster. It shows up on the wall in the record playing picture- I don't know if they were so cool they had two, or if this was an evening of redecoration and blow. Maybe both.

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:29:23 -0800

Oops, I'm an idiot. Jimbob beat me to it.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:30:51 -0800

OMG, my hair was just awful back then.

By: mullingitover

mullingitover — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:31:06 -0800

Ah, youthful indiscretion. At least they're fairly modest. Twenty years later, this album would be full of kids wearing phat pants, sniffing vapo-rub and sucking on binkies and dancing to anthem trance while rolled out of their skulls. Backrubs and light shows optional.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:34:02 -0800

These days if you want to see pictures of people taking drugs and acting cool you only have to go as far as facebook.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:40:03 -0800

I wonder where all their furniture went.

By: dontoine

dontoine — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:41:06 -0800

DeLorean poster? Duran Duran? That hair? That 'stache? The "mirror" and briefcase combo? Am I the only one who thought: too good to be real?

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:52:18 -0800

dontoine, good point. I'd say real, you can see it in their faces, people don't look like that these days, a look of "Let's party, dude! Rock!". There is something about faces that gives away the spirit of the time - like in WWII movies, the biggest problem with recent movies are the actors, they don't have the 1940s look, no amount of props can help.

By: ninjew

ninjew — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:00:30 -0800

The only thing missing is the bitchin' Camaro.

By: grubby

grubby — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:09:43 -0800

has nobody else noticed how fat those lines are?

By: Dr. Boom

Dr. Boom — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:18:52 -0800

I can't believe that no one so far has commented yet on how shitty it is to put compromising photos of strangers up on flikr. if someone were to find a photo of say 8 or 10 dudes crammed into a bathroom so as to maximize the effect of a shared flute-sized joint that some one may have rolled once for novelty's sake, and put it on flickr, I'd be unhappy. hypothetically. but that's just me.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:23:16 -0800

Seem like pikers, like those guys with the pristine comic book bongs and a lot of talk. Yeah, they've got a lot of coke trappings, but look how much ceremony there is -- lots of set up, sparkly-clean cutting glass, not a lot of vanished rails and not a lot of coke. More like: Buddy: "Hey John, you're way into cocaine, lets get some!" John: "Uh, yeah, let me, um, make some calls or something..." ... (hours pass) Everyone, over meager score: "YAY! WE HAS COCAINE! TAKE PICTURES OF IT SO WE'LL NEVER FORGET!" Bonus: That's some schwanky carpet...

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:33:26 -0800

I thought the best comment was "Dad?" And I kinda agree with Ogre: they're youthful amateurs. I want to see the followup photographs from a couple of years down the line...

By: loiseau

loiseau — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:40:57 -0800

Ironmouth: Nothing like a big fat line and a Hines Root Beer.
"Life Ain't Nothin' But Girls and Powder. And Root Beer." Brilliant.

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:48:13 -0800

Darlene looks like an amature with her hair like that.

By: agress

agress — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:48:48 -0800

Interesting how pretty much the whole time I had "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" by QOTSA playing in my head.

By: Tube

Tube — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:50:50 -0800

These photos are kind of like the very first sound recordings; at the time they were made no one thought that future technology would enable public playback and exposure.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:51:15 -0800

I can't believe that no one so far has commented yet on how shitty it is to put compromising photos of strangers up on flikr. At least a black bar over the eyes. Dr. Boom's right, this is a shitty thing to do to someone, what with the worldwideness of it all and such. They're probably all high-ranking members of their respective state Republican parties by now.

By: Poolio

Poolio — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:56:35 -0800

Cocaine: It's a hell of a flickr set.

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:57:22 -0800

Interesting how pretty much the whole time I had "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" by QOTSA playing in my head. Unfortunately, for me it was "Centerfold", by the J. Geils band. Ugh. Just popped into my head with the picture of the dude in his sweats putting on a record.

By: Tube

Tube — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:29:53 -0800

Before crack there was what we see here: "Coke Classic".

By: Item

Item — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:30:26 -0800

It's okay guys - I have a feeling they're just doing synth coke.

By: DecemberBoy

DecemberBoy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:07:30 -0800

This is the most epically coked-out photograph I've ever seen in my life. Look at that dude. "YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH We'resnortingcokewe'resnortingcokewe'resnortingcokewe'rehavingacokepartyit'sAWESOME!" On this night, many cigarettes were bummed and lifelong friendships were forged, until 3 hours later when no one wanted to talk to anyone. I never understood the attraction to coke. It just seemed like a dumb brain-bashing let's-get-fucked-up drug, like alcohol. I was more into mystical experiences and things that made me relaxed. I guess it attracts the type "A" personalities. Every time I did it, I just gave everyone my cigarettes and rambled about nothing.

By: DecemberBoy

DecemberBoy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:28:02 -0800

You know, on closer inspection, some of you appear to be right: they don't appear to actually be snorting the cocaine. It looks like they've got maybe a gram on that mirror, and they're just cutting it up into different lines. There's a couple pics where they're posed like they're snorting it, but they aren't actually snorting it. Posers. My two best friends in the late 90s were such fiends, the way they (mostly) quit was a moment of clarity after they hatched a scheme where they would get money to score for someone, buy the coke, then beat the living shit out of each other and leave visible marks so they could say they got jacked and keep it. Someone realized how retarded and coked-out this idea was, and that was cause to slow it down. Cocaine is a helluva drug.

By: joe lisboa

joe lisboa — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:55:50 -0800

Such is the powder of the interweebs. (fixed)

By: spaltavian

spaltavian — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:03:08 -0800

Those are monster lines.

By: PenDevil

PenDevil — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:43:24 -0800

There isn't much evidence that it's really cocaine. Or did super cynical mefites suddenly start believing everything they see in picture form?

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:18:37 -0800

There isn't much evidence that it's really cocaine. I guess if you weren't there, you wouldn't know. My own bet is that it was the first time they'd ever copped a piece that big -- straight off the kilo block, unchopped and uncut -- and they wanted to document the event. The early 80's were a very different time. Pre-crack, pre-Len Bias's death, the War on Drugs had been put on the back burner, pot was almost quasi-legal in many states, and everybody and his mother did a little cocaine. On preview: what Ogre said.

By: These Premises Are Alarmed

These Premises Are Alarmed — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:17:30 -0800

So wait, is this a lot or a little cocaine? These pictures make me sad, because they're contemporaries of my brother, who died last year after long periods of substance abuse. Although he probably hated Duran Duran. And, it reminds me of my complex, inconsistent feelings about them drugs - I don't really think they should be illegal, or, at least, know the 'war on drugs' is a crock. But, seeing 'young' people, glorying in and glorifying it makes me so sad. Like the novelty mirror. My brother wasn't even much into coke, he was mostly a boozer. And this is probably Nancy Reagan wiring in my head. I love 'found' photos, however. And good photography should make you feel something, even if it's sadness.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:24:17 -0800

It's sad on so many levels. Bad hair, bad fashion, no furniture, dumbest drug ever...

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:26:21 -0800

I wonder what the Fotomat clerk thought of these .... oh, wait, wait, maybe they could develop them because one of them worked at Fotomat.

By: tfmm

tfmm — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:26:51 -0800

I'm assuming one of the participants also had some sort of connection with a photo developing lab. Otherwise, these photos would be at the bottom of a file box in a police station basement right now.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:28:04 -0800

That girl reminds me of Ann Margaret. Also, the tight jeans, oy!

By: tfmm

tfmm — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:31:53 -0800

R. Mutt: Jinx, Snort me some Coke!

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:59:54 -0800

dumbest drug ever... Sure coke is dumb but come on, kids are injecting cat laxatives these days and stuff made out of drain-o, but doing a couple bumps is the dumbest ever?

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:00:50 -0800

I don't know what it says about me that after looking at those photos, I desperately, desperately want some root beer.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:01:28 -0800

I'm assuming one of the participants also had some sort of connection with a photo developing lab. Otherwise, these photos would be at the bottom of a file box in a police station basement right now. Or, and this may be shocking to some people, the photo-mat in the Winn Dixie parking lot may have been operated by a couple of stoners.

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:54:03 -0800

i wonder how those guys made out I think the words "swap meet" in the original post provide a valuable clue.

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:11:40 -0800

God, I hate that shit.

By: Gungho

Gungho — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:12:07 -0800

The photo-mat guy wouldn't have looked twice at these because it is clearly not porn. The really sad part is these people thought they were 'cool'. All they did was conform 90% to the norms of the times. Members only jacket? Check, Mini Mullet? Check. Duran Duran poster? Check. Coke? Check. Furniture? Furniture?

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:22:29 -0800

These remind me of the friends I left behind around 1990 when I started working for a living. I remember running into them a couple years later. "Dude... I just quit my last job... I'm gonna go work at Sunglass Hut. The pay is better and I can make money on the side selling Oakleys under the table." I wonder where they are now. I don't miss them.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:56:57 -0800

dumbest drug ever... Weaselshit coffee is dumber. Because it's weaselshit.

By: Dr-Baa

Dr-Baa — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:01:25 -0800

I'm surprised that no one has figured out who these people are yet. The current clues are: Huntington Beach Darlene Hires and/or Deloreans Come on Internet Super Sleuths, show your stuff!

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:20:06 -0800

OMG DAD?!

By: grubi

grubi — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:42:04 -0800

My guess is this all took place in 1983. NOW YOU.

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:00:15 -0800

They're probably all high-ranking members of their respective state Republican parties by now. We can only hope. And yes, that's a lot of coke, and those are "monster lines" and I have no doubt whatsoever that they're actually snorting it. Also agreeing with everyone who mentioned what a horrible drug it is. Ugh.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:09:07 -0800

OMG DAD?! I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU

By: MikeMc

MikeMc — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:20:58 -0800

Not a stick of furniture in the place but they have the essentials: blow, Floyd and root beer. Classic.

By: The Bellman

The Bellman — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:30:18 -0800

I'm assuming one of the participants also had some sort of connection with a photo developing lab. Otherwise, these photos would be at the bottom of a file box in a police station basement right now. Spoken like someone who has forgotten that, in the pre-PATRIOT 80s, we still had a tiny bit of privacy; everyone hadn't been fucking brainwashed by their government into an OMG TERRORIST WHO WILL THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! mentality; and the Fotomat clerk had not yet become an agent of Big Brother. I hated the Reagan era as much as the next bleeding-heart liberal, but if he had been caught in a scheme to wiretap the the entire country without any judicial oversight at all, you can bet he would have been out on his ass, not negotiating telecom immunity and flipping the electorate (and "Democratically controlled" congress) the collective Bird.

By: damn dirty ape

damn dirty ape — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:09:04 -0800

i wonder how those guys made out Dont worry, Im sure they'll find themselves either unemployed or simply hated by small-minded people thanks to the jerk who decided to post such pictures to the public internet. I guess at the end of the day its still a snitch and entertain ourselves to death society. Heaven forbid someone take privacy seriously and do a simple blur on their faces.

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:19:16 -0800

Although he probably hated Duran Duran. Yes, but pretending you liked Duran Duran probably got you laid. Besides, after the uncensored version of the "Girls on Film" video started airing on cable channels, the opinion of a lot of boys about Duran Duran changed from "Fags!" to "Whoa, these dudes sleep with models, and they put hot naked chicks in their videos."

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:23:24 -0800

i wonder how those guys made out With that much coke, they probably made out for hours, and felt like gods for having such stamina.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:24:31 -0800

So wait, is this a lot or a little cocaine? More than a sixteenth, but less than an eight-ball? I think the briefcase signifies it's their tentative first steps into dealing. They're hoping that in six months time, that'll be one of those aluminium Haliburtons, filled with either hundred dollar bills or a couple of kilos. God, I hate that shit. Oh, I don't know. There's something curiously reassuring about spending large sums of money in order to feel unhappy, anxious and depressed. Can you get any more money out of the ATM? I'll gladly pay you Tuesday...

By: baphomet

baphomet — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:46:52 -0800

Dont worry, Im sure they'll find themselves either unemployed or simply hated by small-minded people thanks to the jerk who decided to post such pictures to the public internet. I guess at the end of the day its still a snitch and entertain ourselves to death society. Heaven forbid someone take privacy seriously and do a simple blur on their faces. "Buy the ticket, take the ride." -Hunter S. Thompson It doesn't just apply to the consequences of taking drugs, but also the consequences of allowing yourself to be photographed taking drugs or doing anything else illegal.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:47:01 -0800

I think the briefcase signifies it's their tentative first steps into dealing. They're hoping that in six months time, that'll be one of those aluminium Haliburtons, filled with either hundred dollar bills or a couple of kilos. It's a cassette tape case.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:02:08 -0800

Spoken like someone who has forgotten that, in the pre-PATRIOT 80s, we still had a tiny bit of privacy; everyone hadn't been fucking brainwashed by their government into an OMG TERRORIST WHO WILL THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! mentality... Spoken like someone who has forgotten that, in the pre-Nixon era, government wiretapping and invasion of privacy by bigotted thugs like J. Edgar Hoover was par for the course.

By: jscott

jscott — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:25:58 -0800

This made my day.

By: TheWhiteSkull

TheWhiteSkull — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:57:52 -0800

I'm guessing that's actually coke, but I'm also guessing they're really excited about their first time. As other posters have pointed out, it looks a little too set up. I mean, they're cutting lines on a mirror that says "cocaine" using the coca-cola logo font! You used to be able to win those from the ring toss booths at the county fair (along with the fancy roach...I mean hair clips with feathers on them). Come to think of it, these guys could have been running the ring toss booth at the county fair.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:55:54 -0800

I have a co-worker who I was shooting the shit with over lunch one day, and he turned to me and, in one of the best non-sequiturs ever said to me with complete sincerity, "I really miss cocaine. My house was never so clean as it was when I was coked up and bored." I was in complete awe at his ability to so neatly throw a shoe into the gears that were my thought process.

By: gene_machine

gene_machine — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:33:34 -0800

STOP SNITCHIN

By: Mental Wimp

Mental Wimp — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:34:31 -0800

Spoken like someone who has forgotten that, in the pre-Nixon era, government wiretapping and invasion of privacy by bigotted thugs like J. Edgar Hoover was par for the course. Yes, but when Nixon got caught, he was impeached.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:38:51 -0800

By: glycolized

glycolized — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:59:57 -0800

It's a cassette tape case. That just made it even better.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:02:04 -0800

Um, Nixon wasn't impeached, he resigned. Second, J. Edgar Hoover enjoyed free reign over the FBI for some 30 odd years until he died, but even Hoover was an improvement over beating confessions out of suspects and lynching people. Um, that stuff didn't stop once Hoover came into power. The FBI was in addition to whatever law enforcement was already in play.

By: Countess Elena

Countess Elena — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:51:58 -0800

You used to be able to win those from the ring toss booths at the county fair . . . I now remember being a puzzled young girl at the fair, wondering who liked mirrors with Playboy bunnies, metal band logos, women's pictures and Elvis's face in them. You couldn't really see yourself in them, but you couldn't see the whole picture either, not unless you were right up close! Still, a lot of people must like those mirrors, I thought, but why don't I ever see one hanging up in anyone's house? And it was not until today that I remembered this, and knew.

By: RedEmma

RedEmma — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:06:59 -0800

okay, here's the story: shirtless guy has been kicked out of his parents' house, and this is his first apartment. this explains why there's no furniture, but what he could throw into the backseat of his car in a few minutes seems to be thrown around--the only things worth grabbing were his tapes and a few albums. one of the other two--the girl or Freddie Mercury--has come over with coke in hand to help him celebrate/cheer him up. then they have an orgy. weirdly, long haired dude looks exactly like my first boyfriend, Mike. and he used to put the song Cocaine on his stereo system so loudly that i could hear it across the lake in my bedroom. i believe i was supposed to find it a sexy sort of communication. at twelve. if it is him, he died by crashing his car headlong into an ambulance in the fog. i suspect however, it is not him. Duran Duran fan he was not.

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:06:27 -0800

Red Emma, I decided that stoner mustache dude, "Mark", and new wave-wannabe Orange County guy, "Theo", just got the place together (Mark getting kicked out of his parent's house totally works with this). That's the only explanation for the Duran Duran poster, which Theo hung up right after Mark got all coke cranky during the argument over where to hang the DeLorean poster, put on his sweats, and started playing records. There's no way that a guy who has a framed The Wall t-shirt would own a Duran Duran poster at the same time.

By: Sloop John B

Sloop John B — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:58:09 -0800

I now remember being a puzzled young girl at the fair, wondering who liked mirrors with Playboy bunnies, metal band logos, women's pictures and Elvis's face in them. You couldn't really see yourself in them, but you couldn't see the whole picture either, not unless you were right up close! Still, a lot of people must like those mirrors, I thought, but why don't I ever see one hanging up in anyone's house? Heh. Kinda like those glass tubes with the tissue-paper flowers that they used to sell at gas stations. I always wondered, "what kind of shitty gift is that? Whose girlfriend would be happy to get that instead of, oh I don't know, real fucking flowers?" Apparently, stores quit selling these a few years back after a couple undercover cops walked into a ghetto convenience store and asked the clerk, point-blank, "So where can I find the crack pipes?" to which they were promptly shown the "flower tubes." The clerk was arrested on the spot. In any case, RE photos - there's no doubt in my mind that they're doing real cocaine. At that time in history, there would have been no reason to fake it. And yes, it does look like they have a crap-ton of coke. Look at the baggie that the dude's holding up. It's at least an eight-ball. And eight-ball among 3 people is a TON of cocaine. Like, enough to keep them wired for at least 8 hours. That explains the gigantic lines - although we really have no evidence that they took those lines all at once. (in fact, I think one of the pictures shows a half-snorted line) And as far as cocaine as a drug? To each their own. It's certainly not a great drug. You're not going to have any philosophical revelations on it. It's not going to make your life better. And to people with the wrong kind of personality, it can be crazy addictive. But I'm hesitant to call any drug "evil" or "bad." For every person who tried coke and became an addict, I'm sure you can point to at least 100 others who had a few lines at a party (or maybe even had their own little party, like the people in these pictures), and then turned out fine. I've known lots of people who shouldn't drink, but do it anyway. In fact, I've known MANY more alcoholics than I've known dedicated cokeheads.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:32:48 -0800

We got a little crazy at a part last night and decided to recreate the photos.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:13:37 -0800

AZ, I love you and I love the internet. Cheers.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:18:40 -0800

The guy who posted the originals just discovered our recreations. That's pretty satisfying.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:43:05 -0800

And now it's on BoingBoing where they are busy debating the legality of it all...

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:01:09 -0800

And now she has marked the photos 'private' since I guess she got scared by (armchair and real) lawyers talking smack on her Flickr page and on BoingBoing. Too bad. Wish I would have grabbed them.

By: Locative

Locative — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:33:15 -0800

Heh. Kinda like those glass tubes with the tissue-paper flowers that they used to sell at gas stations. I always wondered, "what kind of shitty gift is that? Whose girlfriend would be happy to get that instead of, oh I don't know, real fucking flowers?" My boyfriend unironically bought me one of those not too long ago. I told him about the crack pipe thing and he was shocked. I think he only got it for me because he was in a gas station and he knows I like small things.