# hippies go to far in cali **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 8, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hippies-go-to-far-in-cali/195363 "2008-02-08T13:39:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 107
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hippies-go-to-far-in-cali/195363/107 "2008-02-19T07:37:48Z")
> [@who uses Adobe Pshop or Indesign or Illustrator?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-uses-adobe-pshop-or-indesign-or-illustrator/34996/7): > > michael savage is sayin what everyone should have said 20 years ago. he’s not mean, he’s pissed this country is goin into the shiter and he’s at the handle… San fransisco… other than a fag hippie motherfucker, i think any of us would be pissed if we lived there. he loves cars, he always talks about them, drag racing in new york… etc… he’s a cool dude in my book. he’s not scared of no special interest groups. Michael Savage is a cunthair away from being certifiable. also, read this: > Michael Savage was born Michael Alan Weiner to a Jewish family with Russian origins living in the Bronx.[3][1] As a child, he worked. He described his childhood as difficult, due to his father’s “gruff and profane” personality.[1] His father died of a heart attack in his fifties. > After graduating from Jamaica High School[4], Savage attended Queens College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in education and sociology. After college Savage taught high school for several years in New York City. His first marriage to Carol Ely in 1964 ended in divorce, and he remarried after meeting his current wife Janet in 1967. His first wife says that she became pregnant twice and aborted both pregnancies.[1] During this time, Savage also worked for famous psychedelic drug advocate Timothy Leary as keeper of the stone gatehouse on Leary’s Millbrook estate. Leary hired him to the post because Savage did not use LSD himself.[1] Savage then earned two master’s degrees in ethnobotany and anthropology from the University of Hawaii. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley, in nutritional ethnomedicine. His thesis was titled Nutritional Ethnomedicine in Fiji. Savage spent many years researching botany in the South Pacific and has a background in alternative medicine. While in the South Pacific, he became fascinated with the 19th-century sailor Charles Savage, who was believed to be the man that first brought firearms to Fiji.[5] > Savage and his second wife have two children, a daughter and a son; his son, Russell, is the founder of the company that produces the Rockstar energy drink, where Janet serves as chief financial officer.[1] > Shift in philosophy > In the early 1970s, Savage had more liberal views. Savage, then Michael Weiner, introduced himself to certain writers in the North Beach area of San Francisco.[6] He befriended and traveled with Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Stephen Schwartz, also an acquaintance of Savage from this time, reported that Savage possessed a photograph of himself and Ginsberg swimming naked in Hawaii and used the photograph as sort of a “calling card.”[1][6] Savage maintained a correspondence with Ginsberg consisting of 10 letters and a trio of postcards across four years, which is maintained with Ginsberg’s papers at Stanford University.[7][1] One letter asked for Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti to come do a poetry reading, so others could “hear and see and know why I adore your public image.”[3] One postcard mentions his desire to photograph Ginsberg in a provocative way, though Savage states that this correspondence is actually a forgery created by gay detractors.[1] Another acquaintance of Savage from this time was poet and author Neeli Cherkovski, who says that Weiner dreamed of becoming a stand-up comic in the mold of Lenny Bruce.[1] On his radio show, Savage confirmed this desire but contrasted this with his desire, as a child, to become a cowboy. Let’ see here. A russian Jew named Weiner from San Fran that went to BERKLEY, hung out with Timothy Leary, used pictures of him and another naked man as his calling card, has doctorates in HERBAL MEDICINE, and has written such books as: _Plant a Tree_, _Healing Children Naturally_, and _Herbs That Heal: Prescription for Herbal Healing_. He IS A FUCKING HIPPIE!!! :bowrofl: and an idiot. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hippies-go-to-far-in-cali/195363)._