Tag Archives: Robert Crumb

to pity the poor lawyer

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Dave

Even back then as a pre-teen, I didn’t need a Hubble telescope to confirm they were pretty sexy. It was before fitness classes, personal trainers and yoga. It was the 1970′s and women were a little roundier and sexier; kind … Continue reading →

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quiet desperation of prosaic convenience

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Dave

Is it possible to reconcile the classic/romantic divide. To purge the psychological into a product of reason? Can it be avoided that aesthetic purity depends somewhat on the decadent? Well, the concept of soulmates can be pitched out so that … Continue reading →

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science of fictions of zimzum

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Dave

Something on gnosticism and in particular, the use of gnosticism by Franz Kafka. Like anything else, there are various strands of thought on the subject, often mutually exclusive and arriving at different conclusions. A wonderful description of Kafka and how … Continue reading →

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master of the underground

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) I’ve never met nor have had the opportunity to work with Crumb, though I have friends who know him (and have even vacationed at his home in the South … Continue reading →

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nouveau psychedelic

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) The much-admired and widely-collected “nouveau-psychedelic” poster artist Steven Cerio is—I’m happy to say—a very old, dear friend and colleague of mine going back more than twenty years. Cerio became … Continue reading →

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blue ribbon tank: hand fishing the ecstatic trance

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dave

The search for genuine American weirdness. To look for manifest destiny under all the rocks, roadside billboards and backwoods of the cultural bi-ways. The new series of Will Ferrell ads for Old Milwaukee is a case in point of combing … Continue reading →

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those deceptive distinctions

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Dave

So, is Christopher Hitchens correct in asserting  than women are simply not as funny as men. Or is he falling into the gender trap and reinforcing the differences. Or are writers like Cynthia Fuchs Epstein hitting closer to home when … Continue reading →

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pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Dave

Two gnostics go head to head. Harold Bloom on Robert Crumb’s Genesis was a classic review. America’s greatest underground comic artist from the 60′s and a literary genius in Bloom from the depths of Ivy League academia. They are both … Continue reading →

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what if there was no back then

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dave

Not impressed. Deeply dissatisfied. But not surprised at this confrontation with the passive-aggressive; the yearning to be like him, then the abject tragedy arising when the initiative is undertaken. Harold Bloom was just the man to review  Robert Crumb’s The … Continue reading →

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mixed blessings

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Dave

The emancipation of selfishness. The fecund faculties of myth making. Harold Bloom created a furor with his article on Mormonism, but for the most part it was  misinterpreted, or rather interpreted in a literal sense. Bloom understood the fantastical and … Continue reading →

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