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Marketer interested in crypto, tech, and sports

Okay I got a good story for you guys today. I am gonna tell you about the first and last time I ever took LSD... 🧵

It was in 2002 and I had just dropped out of college to go to art school so I was living in Richmond, VA getting my degree in photography & filmmaking. But I also ran a pretty popular website at that time called, no surprise, drivenbyboredom.com. I had started it the year before and it was a blog before blog was really a word. I had all sorts of random projects on there but it mostly existed to feature my photograph and writing. Nearly 25 years later it still does...

During that time (honestly for most of my life) I was getting into a lot of wild shit and taking a lot of bad photos of it. But mostly people were into the stories about that wild shit. My stories about doing drugs were my most popular. I was such a big Hunter Thompson fan as most dudes in their early 20s are, and while I didn't take drugs (or even drink) casually I would often experiment, try and push it to the limit and write about it. My first freelance job ever was writing for an extremely popular website that will remain nameless back in 2001. 

I honestly thought I had a chance to be a full time writer/blogger back then. Like look at this chart. I don't know if you can appreciate how big 20k daily viewers was back then less than six months after I started my site.

All of this vintage bragging is just to bring up the fact that I had fans. Not like fans I have now where people follow me on social media and occasionally buy shit from me, but like serious hardcore fans.  
One of those fans was a Canadian girl who told me I was her favorite writer. (She's actually a very well known celebrity photographer now and I once house sat for her in LA and I checked her mail and she had a package from Weird Al!)
Anyway, this girl offered to send me acid and for some insane reason I decided I would take it. I actually still have the envelope she sent me it in because I am a weird hoarder.