fuck yeah, tom robbins

May 14

the59thstreetbridge: On to the next book (Taken with instagram)

the59thstreetbridge:

On to the next book (Taken with instagram)

May 06

Robbins, unruffled, likes to think of Sissy as a hero. ”Here’s a person considered deformed, but rather than submitting to that, she exploits it,” Robbins said. ”She revels in it, pushes it to a higher level. She takes something that could have wrecked her life and rides it all the way to glory.”

Robbins, unruffled, likes to think of Sissy as a hero. ”Here’s a person considered deformed, but rather than submitting to that, she exploits it,” Robbins said. ”She revels in it, pushes it to a higher level. She takes something that could have wrecked her life and rides it all the way to glory.”

May 05

“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.” — Tom Robbins

“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.” — Tom Robbins

May 04

That’s true. [Laughs] I hadn’t thought about the potential guilt involved. Just prominent readers. TR: Timothy Leary told me that when he was in Folsom Prison — he had never heard of me, at the time — Sonny Barger, who was the president of the California Hell’s Angels came up to him and handed him Another Roadside Attraction and said: [he speaks in a gruff tone befitting an Angels president] Read this. It’s the Angels’ favorite book.For a long time I thought: Well, if I’ve got Elvis and the Hell’s Angels on my side, who cares about The New York Review of Books. [Laughs]

That’s true. [Laughs] I hadn’t thought about the potential guilt involved. Just prominent readers. 

TR: Timothy Leary told me that when he was in Folsom Prison — he had never heard of me, at the time — Sonny Barger, who was the president of the California Hell’s Angels came up to him and handed him Another Roadside Attraction and said: [he speaks in a gruff tone befitting an Angels president] Read this. It’s the Angels’ favorite book.

For a long time I thought: Well, if I’ve got Elvis and the Hell’s Angels on my side, who cares about The New York Review of Books. [Laughs]

May 03

I’ve read that when Elvis was found dead, he had a copy of Another Roadside Attraction next to him. Have you heard that?TR: Yeah. It didn’t actually mention Another Roadside Attraction. In one of the books that was written by one of his entourage — one of the members of the Memphis mafia — this fellow — and I don’t know what his function was in Elvis’ life — said that Elvis was in bed with this woman. Not Priscilla. Got up in the middle of the night and said: I’m gonna go take a read. And went to the bathroom. And when he was found, the book beside him on the bathroom floor was a book about the discovery of the mummified body of Christ in the Vatican. Well, I don’t know of any other novels about the discovery of the mummified body of Christ in the Vatican, so it stood to reason that it was Another Roadside Attraction. However, just recently someone pointed out to me that in what is now regarded as the definitive biography of Elvis, by a real investigator and a real writer, the book Elvis was reading was a book about the sexual positions that correspond to various astrological signs. The various signs of the zodiac. So that was a great relief to me, if it’s true. Because now I no longer have to feel guilty about perhaps killing Elvis.

I’ve read that when Elvis was found dead, he had a copy of Another Roadside Attraction next to him. Have you heard that?

TR: Yeah. It didn’t actually mention Another Roadside Attraction. In one of the books that was written by one of his entourage — one of the members of the Memphis mafia — this fellow — and I don’t know what his function was in Elvis’ life — said that Elvis was in bed with this woman. Not Priscilla. Got up in the middle of the night and said: I’m gonna go take a read. And went to the bathroom. And when he was found, the book beside him on the bathroom floor was a book about the discovery of the mummified body of Christ in the Vatican. Well, I don’t know of any other novels about the discovery of the mummified body of Christ in the Vatican, so it stood to reason that it was Another Roadside Attraction. However, just recently someone pointed out to me that in what is now regarded as the definitive biography of Elvis, by a real investigator and a real writer, the book Elvis was reading was a book about the sexual positions that correspond to various astrological signs. The various signs of the zodiac. So that was a great relief to me, if it’s true. Because now I no longer have to feel guilty about perhaps killing Elvis.

May 02

MJ showing Tom Robbins her rad tattoos by keewee on Flickr.

MJ showing Tom Robbins her rad tattoos by keewee on Flickr.

May 01

Apr 30

“To administer the test, merely ask the subject to name his or her favorite Beatle. If you are at all familiar with the distinct separate public images of the four Beatles, then you’ll recognize that the one chosen - John, Paul, George, or Ringo - reveals as much about the subject’s personality as most of us will ever hope to know.” —Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“To administer the test, merely ask the subject to name his or her favorite Beatle. If you are at all familiar with the distinct separate public images of the four Beatles, then you’ll recognize that the one chosen - John, Paul, George, or Ringo - reveals as much about the subject’s personality as most of us will ever hope to know.” —Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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Apr 28

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