Pleasin' Geezin'

Pleasin' Geezin'





     This one is ripped from the playbook of one Bobcat Brian and is an open door to youthful attempts to be cool. In reality we already were pretty cool in the grand scheme of the Amerika of the late 60's and early 70's but never truly believed it. I had my rambunctious brother to guide me and I am afraid I led Greg and Bob onto some side roads that may not have been best for their overall well-being. That being said we had our boundaries and did not cross into life-threatening behaviors or actually illegal (outside of recreational drug taking) activiities. We did try out all types of drugs but mostly to see what they did to us. Also, for the most part we did not take said dope in quantities that were dangerous. Still, with the Times that were a changin' lots of  new and challenging developments were taking place in my gen gen gen-a-ration. Once Craig Felch bragged about some new strong pot-like chemical called "Angel Dust" and I demanded to try it asap. After feeling like a fifty pound boulder was dumped on my chest I kind of decided that the dust was not my thing. I also remember being at a party with Greg and Kevin where they were passing around a mason jar filled with Amyl Nitrite that caused heart palpitations that would send us to the ER today. After developing a horrendous headache I decided Amyl was also not my thing. But this post is not actually about  taking mysterious drugs which almost all the street drugs we took were but a case where a buddy was just trying to be up-to-date..man. The Bobcat had  taken a date to view the must-see movie of the time "Easy Rider." While Easy has not aged well it was exploring a world we found to be about as cool as the other side of the pillow. In the movie the cool cats Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda are delivering a load of white powder (cocaine) smuggled from Mexico to a mogul dude in LA played by Phil Spector in a long black limo. Phil has to test the product and cuts open the package and snorts a dollop off his handy coke spoon to determine quality. At this point in the movie the innocent girl queried Bobcat about the scene and in his desperation to be hip grabbed a couple of words he had heard and told his chick "uh...they're geezin' some hash" Hayo! Mister Cat confessed this attempt to his buddy Greg who just loved the big swing and a miss. Anytime we reached some confoundment about almost anything and were forced to ask what was happening Greg might pull out "Geezin' some hash." and get huge laughs from me and even Bobcat hisself.

  • Geeze: to inject a narcotic



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