RIP Paul Krassner

[bruto]

Not a commonly known character nowadays, Paul Krassner was credited by some as being the founding father of Yippies, a satirist and publisher of a sometimes amusing little underground paper called The Realist. Often good for a laugh, he tended to be irreverent about just about everything including himself.

Somewhere (I'm away from home so can't find it anyway) I still have a little clipping from The Realist from around 1966, in which it's noted that the Russians had just sent a rocket to the surface of the moon, where it had inserted a rod into the surface. Krassner noted that he'd heard many times the suggestion that someone take a flying **** at the moon, but this was the first time he'd seen it done.

 

[Sherman Bay]

Very sorry to hear this. Who can forget the Wally Wood Illegal Poster?

I had a complete set of The Realist stored in my parent's basement. A collector's treasure, to be sure. Unfortunately, when my fundamentalist uncle assisted my mom in moving, he ran across this Filthy Pile of The Devil's Handiwork, and destroyed it. No doubt he will be rewarded in Heaven for his godly deeds.