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Thursday May 15 2008
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Continuing Vietnam Month (Jesus, How long will this Neverending Month Last?!?!) we have something pretty funny and also stupid. But wonderful too, in its own right.
"SURPRISE ON YOU!" "ULPS! YANKEE PIG SPIED US!" "KNIFE HIM ...UUKKKKK!" "SLICE ME UP? TRY BALONEY! YOUR OWN MACHINE GUN WILL KONK ONE OF YOU CONGS OUT COLD!"
"UKKKK!" (ukkkk?)
Yes, Ukkkkk! Presenting:
Where a boy, gifted with a magic cap battles the Vietcong, Hitler, Castro, and even the darkest deepest depths of deepest, darkest Africa.
Let's meet Tod!
What a damn nice kid
To wax any serious insight on this, Tod Holton represents an interesting end of era to both a style of comic book (the last drugstore comic to depict asians with bucktooth clumsiness and yellow skin) and also as a curious piece of pop culture aimed for establishment folks, or hippy haters. Published in 1967 by Lightning Comics (and for only two issues before folding) Tod Holton is very much a by-the-numbers attempt at recreating the patriotic 1940s success of Captain America and Shazam through the eyes of the Vietnam War. But that's where the comic gets warped and fun to read, because America in the 60s is very different than in World War II.
I should also say if you've never read any Tod Holton stories, you're in for a fun corndog treat! Finally a comic for the boy who wants nothing more than to battle the Vietcong as a full grown man trapped in the shit!
We'll also note this previous website posting of Tod Holton material, found here.
Offered here today, however - AND FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE ITS INITIAL PRINTING FORTY YEARS AGO - is every Tod Holton story ever produced. Over 75 pages of stories. See Tod turn grenades to fruit. See his enlisted uncle wrestle a boar! See Tod save a dictator from the inferred Cubans! Much more.
Yee, doggy! Click to read.
Apologies ahead of time for the John McCain comment below. But what a dipshit. We return with more Vietnam soon. RSS Feed for updates. The next one is definitely worth checking out for - Ethan
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VIETNAM-RELATED QUOTE OF THE MONTH:
"I HATED THE GOOKS. I WILL HATE THEM AS LONG AS I LIVE."
-- U.S. Senator John McCain
The quote might not surprise you, but the date will: February 2000 campaign bus, speaking on official record to reporters (full link)
See also:
John McCain's voting record against Martin Luther King Day
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Thursday May 8 2008
RAT-A-TAT-A-TAT-A-TAT!!!
sure sure sure
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Thursday May 1 2008
BANG! Spizzooo!! Grenade!!!
It's Vietnam Month here at EP.TC (See April 29th introduction below)
Yes, for the entire month of May it's Vietnam, Vietnam, Holy shit a sniper, Vietnam.
REALIST UPDATE #11
This month's main archive item:
Comic Book VIETNAM Escalation
a sharp as sticks evaluation of Dell's classic piece of Ejaculatory American Propaganda, JUNGLE WAR STORIES. (more later)
Also in this update,
- In the Hanoi Hilton -
- ONE NIGHT ONLY - TEN DRINK MINIMUM -
IT'S.. LENNY BRUCE!
Many many other things this month:
F.B.I. in the Cold War, A Wedding Night for a Pig, A Report From Algiers, and Press Distortions of the Free Speech Movement.
CLICK FOR THE REALIST ARCHIVE
new front page - continued best to mr k.
We'll have more Jungle War Stories for view in an upcoming post during this terrible month of Vietnam.
RSS to be alerted of more conflict, as posted - Thanks, Ethan
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Wednesday April 30 2008
Finally. Proof that eventually
that stuff will kill anybody.
Rest in Peace, Albert Hoffman, 102
(This is the opposite of my joke for when Rick James passed away, to wit: It just goes to show, no matter how healthy you live your life...)
Very sincerely though, Thank you Albert Hoffman.
One of the funnier postscripts I could ever write on this subject would be the one about how LSD completely cured me of an obsessive daily drinking habit.
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Tuesday April 29 2008
Wait! What's This?
"TUOI HOA NIEN
XUAT BAN
BATMAN
(BAT SONG)
CHUA DANG-DAU LAU!"
That Can Only Mean One Thing!
Batman And Robin! in War-Era Vietnamese!
And yes!, they do write "Bat Song"
This fantastic new item comes to us from Saigon, 1966. A truly one-of-a-kind sort of surviving Batman and Boy Wonder bootleg, and our first in a series of Vietnam-related posts. Vietnam-related posts? Yes, May will be VIETNAM MONTH here at EP.TC. Expect more Indochina Conflict on these pages over the next few weeks. We promise it won't get boring or redundant, sort of drag on forever, that sort of thing. No, we're entering into this one with a full exit strategy! We won't lie though, a little messy getting this all prepared for you. Anyone know how to get Agent Orange out of the carpet?
Anyway, VIETNAM POST #1
Presenting!
Batman in Vietnamese!
I'm also happy to report here that the sexual tension between Robin and The Big Guy reads just as clear in vietnamese as it does in any other language. No translation needed. Their love transcends.
A few more images to whet your bat whistle:
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Next: Comics With Problems - Thanks, Ethan
Postscript: we have to give a nod to PCL linkdump for arriving at the best title for this comic, appropriately and with good humor: Bat-Nam ---- Thanks also for the partial translations found in this appreciated BoingBoing thread.
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Thursday April 10 2008
a few days late posting this extremely good news on the front page
DING DING DING DING DING
We have an announcement
CATEGORY: BEST COPY/WRITING
ANNOUNCEMENT: April 8, 2008 - The Realist Archive Project, our ongoing project to digitally republish Paul Krassner's entire run of The Realist (www.ep.tc/realist) has been awarded an "Official Honoree" for the 2008 Webby Awards. Category is for Best Copy/Writing (link) Other Honorees in this category include The Huffington Post, New York Observer, CNN, Nerve, Refinery 29, Drexel University's The Smart Set, Time, About.com, and Truthdig. Finalists for the award (link) include The New York Times, Slate, Wired, and The Design Observer.
Quite a good feeling to be included in this fine and extremely competitive list.
VISIT THE REALIST ARCHIVE PROJECT
Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. The 12th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 states.
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Monday April 7 2008
NEW ITEM ADDED TO THE ARCHIVE:
Presenting an out-of-print classic. Gershon Legman's 1967 knife wielding, raving attempt at a 60s buzz killer, "The Fake Revolt"
THE FAKE REVOLT
by Gershon Legman
"The New Revolt nowadays consists of a bunch of inarticulate long-haired adolescents, without leadership and without a program, trying to mouth prepared goon-bait such as "existential" and "psychedelic," being shoved on them by psychological pushers that nobody can arrest. If that's your kids and you don't like it, just be thankful they aren't members of the same Fake Revolt one layer down: the motorcycle fags and hoodlums who peddle their bodies to homosexuals in public toilets for money to buy Nazi insignia, but who are scared of girls unless there are enough other hoodlums present to gang-bang them or pull out their front teeth with pliers, and throw them to their death from apartment-house roofs. The dirty girls available for this type of work do not require description -- either before or after. They are somebody's daughter, too, and were brought up on the "media," and hassled into frothing in their panties publicly over well-publicized pelvic crooners and other pop-culch offal. If you haven't had a little LSD dropout in your home, just wander up and down your local Freak-Out Bar area, not forgetting a side-trip to the "S. & M." (sado-masochistic) or "Sadie-Maisie" homosexual bars, such as those on New York's fashionable East Side, for the meaner types of homosexual gangsters -- also on motorcycles -- and businessmen-delinquents on their off hours, soft-shod rich boys, and art director types, who like to show what a super-cultured Elite they really are, by chewing dirty socks and beating each other to death. Pot, anyone?"
Now available here - the complete text - the first time it has been available in over forty years
WHERE WE ASK: Did Legman really feel this way? ... Or is this --like so much of Legman's magnificent output-- potentially an elaborate tug at our leg?
Filthy Joke connoisseur, editor of NEUROTICA, sex historian and self-professed inventor of both the mechanical dildo and the phrase 'Make Love, Not War', Gershon Legman is one of our most treasured academic perverts. No photo exists online of Legman, so we hired a model.
Gershon Legman (not shown above, but did you even notice? - leading up to our point) is probably the most unknown person most deserving of wider recognition. In fact, I'm guessing you've never heard of him. (Lucky you, if so! Go get the Horn Book or Rationale of the Dirty Joke!) Regardless of his obscurity, however -- because of the work he did, and the impact it made, even without credit -- Legman remains a towering and permanent influence on the history of counterculture, free press, pornography, obscenity, confrontational humor, unconventional sex, and even, yes, origami! (think we're joking?) The film THE ARISTOCRATS largely culls from his work as an archivist of dirty jokes (including proper anthropology of the Aristocrat joke itself) - Legman himself was a real deal pre-beat bohemian, whose NEUROTICA magazine is notable as Allen Ginsberg's first publisher, also an early outlet for Marshall McCluhan, and the first magazine to print and mail the word 'fuck.' So it is somewhat surprising to read THE FAKE REVOLT and find this bitter rejection of a freethinking society Legman seemed to be working for years to create. Instead, we are presented with a rejection of the entire generation altogether as one bad phony batch of assholes and sluts. Another excerpt:
...the hip or beat scene largely consists of roving gangs of freaky kids on tea, milling about wearing LOOK AT ME signs in public, and hoping to get the cops or local vigilante strong-arm squads to beat up on them ... in the end, a hippie or beatnik is a frantically self-advertising coward and parasite ... As is well known, the female of the species is strictly a cosmetic mess and unappetizing dog, who ostentatiously rejects in this way both her sexual role and the possibility of attracting any sexual normal males. This is also perhaps intended to protect her from the prostitution into which she would otherwise be forced by her gypsy mendicancy and shamelss gold-digging. In any case, the make-out and shack-up chick is already a prostitute, selling herself for a pad on the floor and a stack of drugs, under the pretext of sacred or LSD "hospitality." And advertising in the classified columns of the far-outnik press, when finally hooked on heroin: "Keep me high, and I'll ball you forever."
Thus, one sees these disorganized kids, pitifully gotten up like schizophrenic freaks and weirdos, surging like lemmings by the hundreds and thousands towards the presumed intellectual centers of the east and west coasts ... joyfully totting up the newest drugs ... These are the self-advertised "flower-people" or neo-Thoreaux, who somehow never want to flee the city but insist on living in all its filth and stink on stolen groceries, dressed however like monkish hermits in beads and sandals, and enacting their "quietist" civil disobedience on the principal downtown shopping and entertainment boulevards in transvestist clothing, for the stated purpose of stopping the war in China. Who's bullshitting whom?
PRANK OR SINCERE?
So really, is this a scam? We're not sure. Is it entertaining? Absolutely. It's also a continuaton of a screeding sociopathic habit of Legman's. In the 50s Legman produced a complaint entitled LOVE AND DEATH, which indicted the murder mystery and comic book for their push of sadism over love making. Original copies of LOVE AND DEATH were printed with a red cover, using a water soluable ink - so that outraged readers' perspiration would bleed onto the cover as they gripped the object in disgust (or fetishtistic offended delight, as Legman suggests), producing red hands!
But ignoring this ink stunt, it's still difficult to tell if Legman is having fun with us, enjoying the very art of complaint as his canvas, or if he really believes this wild talk. Of course, written in 1967 during the still-surging peak of the 60s one can assume that the flagrant posing of most hippies was, in fact, a sort of threat on the authentic identity Legman and others had carefully cultivated over decades. But such language! We post THE FAKE REVOLT with the question of 'meaning it' as a does he or doesn't he.
Either way, Legman is one of our favorite writers and it's a genuine thrill to add him here to the archive. Here for the first time in forty years (and there can't have been more than 500 copies or so of these printed back then) it's Gershon Legman's... THE FAKE REVOLT!
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Legman postscripts:
ON THIS WEBSITE:
1) POODLE is dedicated to him, along with the Fleischers and Eleanor Roosevelt
2) He appeared in The Realist in 1963 with a reprint of EPIZOOTICS
Following the 1967 publication of The Fake Revolt were two of Legman's greatest pieces of what some would deem academic obscenity:
1968 - Volume One of Rationale of the Dirty Joke (Grove Press)
1969 - OraGenitalism (comprehensive book on oral sex - he also produced an entire book on 'intimate' kissing)
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