Happy Pot Day, Potheads
Hey, it’s April 20th, or “4/20.” So you know what that means. That’s right, Hitler’s birthday and the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon spill and the Columbine massacre and the first pitch thrown at Fenway Park in Boston and also at Wrigley Field in Chicago and the sadly shuttered Tiger’s Stadium in Detroit. And also of Billie Holiday recording “Strange Fruit.” And the Bay of Pigs fiasco and of Russia’s mistaken downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 902. And lots of other crazy stuff, most of which is entirely coincidental. Also, of course, it’s Pot Day. So I’m sure all you potheads are so stoned right now that you’ve already forgotten most of this paragraph. In that case, watch this video of The Lox rappers Jadakiss and Styles P debating the merits of their preferred strains of pot. It’s kind of slow, of course, but so are you, and I think you might find it enjoyable. I do. It’s a lot like Michael Tucker and Julie Kavner in Radio Days. (“Wait a minute, are you telling me that you think the Atlantic is a greater ocean than the Pacific?!”) And at the end, you get to listen to Styles P’s great song, “Good Times.”