Happy Mondays

Lady, a Cocker Spaniel, was spending a suspicious amount of time down by the backyard pond. "Lady would wander the area, disoriented and withdrawn, soporific and glassy-eyed," Laura Mirsch, Lady's owner, told NPR. Then there was that one night when Lady wouldn't come back. Eventually, she staggered back from the cattails and opened her mouth like she was going to throw up. She didn't throw up. Instead, recalls Mirsch, "out popped this disgusting toad." The toad was Bufo alvarius, a Colorado River toad whose skin contains two different tryptamines—the same psychoactive found in "magic mushrooms"—and licking Bufo produces heady hallucinations.

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Helmut Lang
New York, December 8, 2011
By Nicole Phelps

Nicole and Michael Colovos tend to find inspiration for their Helmut Lang collections from little-known artists or obscure works, but their starting point for pre-fall just might be their strangest yet. "We have all these pictures of spiderwebs made by spiders on drugs," Michael explained. The LSD spider apparently spins really intricate webs, while the pot spider's creations have big holes in them. The caffeine spider's is the most erratic, and that's the one they settled on for their latest outing. It turned up as a tone-on-tone design on skinny jeans and as a burnout motif on a delicate, featherweight sweater.