The Grateful Dead is a family, a large, amorphous patriarchy. [Forewarned]
The first day of the spring semester, 1969, Gladstone Odduck stumbled into the College of San Mateo, on Coyote Point, and blew his mind, saved from an unfortunate suicide in the suburbs, in open shirt and in good shape to swim a 100-meter backstroke in almost a minute, sports coat and tennis shoes, a budding sumo wrestler. [text]