{"id":178,"date":"2007-06-06T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=178"},"modified":"2007-06-06T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T21:20:16","slug":"realist-archive-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/realist-archive-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Realist archive project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Realist archive project<\/a>:
\nMark Frauenfelder<\/strong>:
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\nThe Realist<\/em> was a satirical newsletter founded by Paul Krassner from in 1958. It mixed true stories with parodies, and sometimes it was hard to tell the difference. It was a freak’s version of Mad<\/em> magazine (and I just discovered on Wikipedia<\/em> that the first issue was produced in Mad’s<\/em> offices).
\nWhen Krassner relaunched The Realist<\/em> in the 1980s I devoured each issue as it arrived in my mailbox. It was a major inspiration for bOING bOING<\/a>, the zine. If fact if you look at the subject matter covered in The Realist<\/em>, you’ll see that much of it is remarkably similar to the stuff you’ll find on Boing Boing today. For example, the June 1963 issue (shown above) had the following articles: The Arrest of Lenny Bruce, “Negative Thinking” by Robert Anton Wilson, Epizootics by Gershon Legman, the FDA vs Scientology, and weird items clipped from the mainstream press. I can hardly believe this is from a magazine published 44 years ago! Mind blowing.
\nI have only seen a couple of the early issues of The Realist<\/em>, so I was elated to learn that outre-culture archivist Ethan Persoff has started on online archive for this eccentric and delightful newsletter.<\/p>\n

Announcing The REALIST Archive Project. A complete republishing of all 146 issues of Paul Krassner’s<\/p>\n

classic THE REALIST Magazine. Every page from the<\/p>\n

Realist that was ever printed will be included within<\/p>\n

this archive. A wealth of incredible things coming up<\/p>\n

for you. Posted with permission. Our thanks to Paul<\/p>\n

Krassner.<\/p>\n

Issue No. 44 – Lenny Bruce arrested (1963)<\/p>\n

Issue No. 66 – An Abortionist for the FBI (1966)<\/p>\n

Issue No. 74 – The full Disneyland Memorial Orgy issue<\/p>\n

(1967)<\/p>\n

-and-<\/p>\n

Issue No. 81 – The Digger Papers (1968).<\/p>\n

———————————————————-<\/p>\n

Also: writing from Robert Anton Wilson and from<\/p>\n

Gershon Legman. Tips on child pornography found in<\/p>\n

Reader’s Digest, and much much more.<\/p>\n

Four new issues posted every month until the archive<\/p>\n

is complete.<\/p>\n

Link<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Realist archive project: Mark Frauenfelder: The Realist was a satirical newsletter founded by Paul Krassner from in 1958. It mixed true stories with parodies, and sometimes it was hard to tell the difference. It was a freak’s version of Mad magazine (and I just discovered on Wikipedia that the first issue was produced in Mad’s … Continue reading Realist archive project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-2S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}