jot zine

 I've noticed several more mushrooms popping up in the Haight these days. Perhaps you have seen them too?

 No one has to say it out loud, but I'm going to say it anyway: 2020 is a crazy year.  When the library closed in March, many of my co-workers and I found ourselves working at the SF-Marin Food Bank. And like that old Dickens novel says, It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

jot no.5 December 2019 A gallery of magic mushrooms found in San Francisco's Upper and Lower Haight neighborhoods with a brief cultural history of 'shrooms. Photos for this issue were taken between January 2017-October 2019. I've been planning this one out for a long time. But I didn't get any research done for the text until September 2019. That's when I decided to focus on the history of the "magic mushroom" - which is the mushroom that gets the most representation around here. Here's a list of books that I used for this zine: Curriculum of the Soul "The Mushroom" by Albert Glover Magic Mushroom Cultivation by Steven H. Pollock Magic Mushrooms: The Holy Children by Ross Heaven Mushroom Magick by Arik Roper Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the San Francisco Bay Region by Robert T. and Dorothy B. Orr Mushrooms of San Francisco: A Walk on Land's End by Roger Bland Mushrooms, Psychedelic Fungi by Peter E. Furst The San Fra