Owsley the Bear

• Owsley the Bear
  Posted by SlimPickens on 13 Jul, 2007 10:16
• Part of a San Francisco Chronicle article on the Bear:
  
  The name Owsley became a noun that appears in the Oxford dictionary as English street slang for good acid. It is the most famous brand name in LSD history. Probably the first private individual to manufacture the psychedelic, "Owsley" is a folk hero of the counterculture, celebrated in songs by the Grateful Dead and Steely Dan.
  
  For more than 20 years, Stanley -- at 72, still known as the Bear -- has been living with his wife, Sheila, off the grid, in the outback of Queensland, Australia, where he makes small gold and enamel sculptures and keeps in touch with the world through the Internet.
  
  As a planned two-week visit to the Bay Area stretched to three, four and then five weeks, Bear agreed to give The Chronicle an interview because a friend asked him. He has rarely consented to speak to the press about his life, his work or his unconventional thinking on matters such as the coming ice age or his all-meat diet.
  
  http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/12/MNGK0QV7HS1.DTL
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• #1 Reply
  Posted by FreeSpirit on 13 Jul, 2007 10:33
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  Bear, whose grandfather was a Kentucky governor and U.S. senator, grew up in Los Angeles and Arlington, Va. He was thrown out of military school in the eighth grade for being drunk and dropped out of school altogether at 18. He managed to get accepted to the University of Virginia, where he spent a year studying engineering. By 1956, he was in the Air Force, specializing in electronics and radar.
  
  Later, Bear studied ballet, acting and Russian, worked in jet propulsion labs as well as radio and television, and then entered UC Berkeley in 1963, but lasted less than a year.
  
  Then he discovered acid.

  
  rotfl
  
  his website is awesome
  http://www.thebear.org/
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• #2 Reply
  Posted by kindm's on 13 Jul, 2007 11:29
• Was anyone else here the "Test Pilot" for your group of friends ?
  
  The guy had no chemical background and did what he did by trial and error. A true American if you ask me.
  
  I salute you Mr. Owsley
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• #3 Reply
  Posted by skalnbyc on 13 Jul, 2007 14:37
• Quote from: SlimPickens;152193

  
  http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/12/MNGK0QV7HS1.DTL

  
  I read that article the other day.
  
  Slim, what are you doing on one of my local news websites?
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• #4 Reply
  Posted by SlimPickens on 13 Jul, 2007 14:42
• Quote from: alexanderzurflu;152237

  Quote from: SlimPickens;152193

  
  http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/12/MNGK0QV7HS1.DTL

  
  I read that article the other day.
  
  Slim, what are you doing on one of my local news websites?

  
  Checking the Police Blotter for your name.
  
  Local Man Arrested for Impersonating Wham!
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• #5 Reply
  Posted by skalnbyc on 13 Jul, 2007 14:53
• Quote from: SlimPickens;152239

  Quote from: alexanderzurflu;152237

  
  Slim, what are you doing on one of my local news websites?

  
  Checking the Police Blotter for your name.
  
  Local Man Arrested for Impersonating Wham!

  
  Guilty again today!
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• #6 Reply
  Posted by jocelyn on 13 Jul, 2007 15:45
• Meh. The only bear that interests me is Knut.
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• #7 Reply
  Posted by FreeSpirit on 13 Jul, 2007 17:33
• Quote from: SlimPickens;152239

  Quote from: alexanderzurflu;152237

  Quote from: SlimPickens;152193

  
  http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/12/MNGK0QV7HS1.DTL

  
  I read that article the other day.
  
  Slim, what are you doing on one of my local news websites?

  
  Checking the Police Blotter for your name.
  Local Man Arrested for Impersonating Wham!

  
  rotflrotflrotfl Ha!!!
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