- A local cop told me last week that agents recently seized a shipment of fentanyl pills that weighed in at several hundred pounds. Even though I take this with an eighth or so of salt...yeah, don't buy anything off the street, y'all. I also read an ER doc warning people there's something dealers are adding to fentanyl to prolong its effects that makes Narcan less effective, or completely ineffective. Again, not sure if that's true, but that would be pretty horrific if it is. I do know fentanyl is cheap as dirt, a little goes a LONG way, and as I understand it, it's a pretty ****** high unless it was administered by a medical professional in a controlled, prescribed dosage. In a medical setting it absolutely has legit uses, but it's so cheap it's replacing everything else on the street. Apparently the Taliban shut down a lot of opium production when they retook Afghanistan, and real heroin has gotten difficult to find.
Semi-related, one of my partners discovered the remnants of a meth cook in the woods on his property. In addition to the empty packages of Sudafed, empty case of Coke, and a dozen Reese's cups wrappers, he found one used condom, a used tampon, and a pile of human poop, all in a 4 foot radius. Meth: the Klassy Man's Drug of Choice!
A deponent also testified a couple weeks ago he's smoking an eighth of medical MJ A DAY for pain control. AN EIGHTH A DAY.
/NKYnarcos
- I couldn't have picked him out of a lineup before this weekend, but Wyndham Clark's reaction to winning the US Open is enough to make anyone a little verklempt. (Garbage NBC coverage notwithstanding.)
My favorite thing to do with NBC golf is to listen to the announcer who kinda sounds like Jim Nantz if you squint, and then imagine Nantz saying the things this guy says. For instance, "gnarly."
- Finished rewatching Sons of Anarchy this weekend. My memory was fortunately wrong - I was very frustrated with the direction of the last couple seasons when it aired, but it held together a helluva lot better than I thought. Gemma is still the biggest c-word who's ever been on television, though, including Cersei Lannister. And I don't know how Walton Goggins can sell Boyd Crowder and the amazing rack of Venus Van Damme, but here we are.
- Rainy Monday 5:
Ghost - Hanging Around
Pat Metheny - Ole & Gard
Donald Fagen - New Frontier
Nine Inch Nails - Ringfinger
The Cranberries - No Need to Argue