Be Realistic and Stick it to The Man
Well, I thought I’d blogged this here when it began a few months ago, but obviously that must have been a particularly mundane dream. One Ethan Persoff is scanning and hosting complete issues of The Realist, Paul Krassner’s seminal journal of American counterculture that began in the 50s and rolled into the following century gathering infamous contributors like an enormous filthy snowball made of drugs and swears.
At the moment there are 12 full issues from the 1960s in place. Timothy Leary! Abbie Hoffman! Norman Mailer! Lenny Bruce! Woody Allen! The Diggers! The Black Panthers! They’re there talking trash in this groovy and historically valuable vault of anti-establishment bile and spite. Also, see Mickey Mouse shooting up in the legendary Disneyland Memorial Orgy and learn the disgusting truth about Lyndon Johnson’s last act as Vice President.
If you grow up reading the wrong kind of books you often see The Realist quoted or referenced, so it’s a long-overdue and fascinating treat to see the original issues made available to all.
Link: The Realist Archive Project
More about The Realist on Wikipedia