Synchrodipity

Dr. X posts this from the hot tub in his 30-room bullet-riddled mansion:

"Weird. Just sitting here, I was wondering to myself - is there a history somewhere of the Miami drug trade?

"Yes, yes there is. A new documentary, 'Cocaine Cowboys' is coming out, well, right now. (A big pdf of another good article is here.)

"The thing about Scarface and Miami Vice is - they really weren't exaggerating. Miami was fucking crazy. This Calvin Trillin piece celebrates Edna Buchanan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who documented much of the madness for The Miami Herald. I read Buchanan's first book many years ago, and it is a masterpiece.

"The SFStation piece about 'Cocaine Cowboys' says: 'Jon Pernell Roberts who provides a plethora of interviews throughout Cocaine Cowboys reveals just how lucrative the cocaine trade was with accounts of burying large bags of money in his backyard because there was nowhere else to put it...'

"Makes you wonder how much is still out there, buried in backyards by guys getting on their last flight to Medellin."