Dead in a car crash at 76. My kids are old enough to learn the awful truth: there would have been no Grateful Dead, no Ken Kesey and no Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool Aid Acid Test and, probably, no dad as my children know him without Owsley Stanley and his magic wares. Ah well, time marches on.
UPDATE: I do like this part; after fleeing to Australia to avoid the coming Ice Age,
His relationship to Earth’s life forms included following a purely carnivorous diet. Carbohydrates and vegetables were killers, he said. He blamed a recent heart attack on poisonous broccoli his mother had fed him as a child.