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AUSTIN - GOOD-BYE, DR. HOFMANN

As the word of Albert Hofmann's death slowly makes its way across the blog circuit, our hearts go out to the capital of the Lone Star Republic which has lost the patron scientist of its only observed holiday unrelated to secession, and our heads go "Jesus Christ, he was still alive?" Not that it's at all what he would have wanted (he hated Timothy Leary and the hippies for pilfering LSD from the Man), but in honor of the occasion here is part one of perhaps the closest approximation to actual tripping ever captured on video, Ryan Trecartin's "A Family Finds Entertainment."