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Kumara Republic

Tue, 13 Sept 2011 14:20:41 +1200

Humans are very hypocritical creatures and don’t really like exploring or acknowledging the darker aspects of themselves. When someone, like Robert Crumb, comes along and holds up a mirror to those darker aspects and that hypocrisy, then people tend to react badly.

In particular, Breivik’s delusional crusade brought out the…

Rich Lock

Tue, 13 Sept 2011 13:38:39 +1200

Humans are very hypocritical creatures and don't really like exploring or acknowledging the darker aspects of themselves. When someone, like Robert Crumb, comes along and holds up a mirror to those darker aspects and that hypocrisy, then people tend to react badly.

The 'screws' sold hundreds of thousands of copies…

Kumara Republic

Tue, 13 Sept 2011 13:30:43 +1200

The Crumb incident, like Shut Up And Sing, illustrates the hypocrisy of the anti-PC brigade. Such hypocrisy also emerged in the Spews of the World privacy invasion scandal, and more malevolently, during the fallout over Anders Breivik.

Joe Wylie

Tue, 13 Sept 2011 12:24:21 +1200

Robert Hughes on Crumb:
We can never see things with the x-ray vision of Superman or the deductive brilliance of Dick Tracy, but we can sure as hell remember what it was like being stomped on by authorities, whether parents, cops or some terrifying ogress of a nun, as little…

Sean Murgatroyd

Tue, 13 Sept 2011 12:01:48 +1200

The Crumb affair made me angry, as a lover of his work. I know he helped me accept the vast swathes of my character that don't line up with the expectations handed down from my upbringing. There's a fearless self-honesty he communicates that isn't present in those who campaign for…

FletcherB

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:00:10 +1200

What does it say about me that, I saw the title sequence of the video and read it's name three times before realizing it wasnt "Cheap Slut Serenaders"?

I'm hoping the answer is that it's just a sign I read most posts here at PA and I'm up with the…

Jackie Clark

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:35:56 +1200

I loved Running the Books. Great book, I thought, and combined with something I saw recently that was talking about the dearth of books in prison, I think I should donate all our unwanted books to either of Mt Eden's stone fortresses or the Wiri womens' prison.

Danielle

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:25:50 +1200

Yeah, that Crumb documentary is... something.

Come December, I’m probably going to start howling “fuck me, Santa” at unfortunate moments – thanks for nothing, Terry.

That movie makes me want to beat the crap out of inanimate portions of nativity scenes. Cathartic!

Also:

you might not be encouraging your children…

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:32:59 +1200

Oh, that would be nice but no. :) At the moment, my paid book pimpage is happening in the pages of the Listener — which, in a odd coincidence, I have to deliver two reviews by morning tea time tomorrow.

Anne M

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:47:59 +1200

Just requested that my local library buy "Running the Books". I hope you're getting a % from increased NZ-based sales?

kiwicmc

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:34:07 +1200

After retirement from school teaching my father taught up at Paremoremo. He loved it mostly but he has some fairly hair raising stories from the time that the Black Power declared a "Education is Staunch" year and their subsequent motivational techniques...

andin

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:25:03 +1200

I do have my doubts my Crumb was in serious risk of being assassinated by enraged tabloid-reading Sydney-siders

Of course he wasnt. And the aging Rev Fred Nile et al would now be fulminating from their mobility scooters anyway. Kind of looks... silly. But it did occasion the eloquent blog…

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:03:34 +1200

For anyone who wants to know more about Robert Crumb, may I recommend searching out a copy of the 1994 documentary ’Crumb’.

I will heartily endorse that recommendation – it has recently been spiffed up and re-released by Criterion along with Terry Zwigoff’s little-seen first film Louie Bluie. (There a…

Rich Lock

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:44:02 +1200

For anyone who wants to know more about Robert Crumb, may I recommend searching out a copy of the 1994 documentary 'Crumb'.

I can understand why he wasn't that enthusiastic about walking into a Murdoch tabloid moral panic.

Especially if you've spent a decent chunk of your life dealing with…

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:35:37 +1200

I do have my doubts my Crumb was in serious risk of being assassinated by enraged tabloid-reading Sydney-siders, and his reputation is based on (to put it politely) there being no such thing as over-sharing his self-loathing and sexual neurosis. But, on the gripping hand, I can understand why he…

andin

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:56:11 +1200

One can see in this example how skilled media professionals with low standards of integrity are able to mould and manipulate public opinion, popular beliefs and, ultimately, the direction of politics. The majority of the population in most places is not alert to this kind of deceptive manipulation. They are…

Public Address

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:56:11 +1200

Discussion from blog post.