Marijuana on front page of Fortune mag

[rich]

the doc is interesting primarily, for me, by not so much the stuff on
Crumb (which is interesting enough) but on his two disturbing brothers

Pekar thought Pynchon a phony is memory serves. American Splendor is
great. the guy who played Crumb in the movie--a very arch performance

On 10/9/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> my wife grabbed the documentary Crumb over my misgivings so
> of course I had to watch it,
> but it wasn't completely terrible...
> anyway, he was big into acid and grass early on,
> but always a big jazzhound.  He quit doing that a few
> years back, and a recent quote I read somewhere from
> him is that one of the best compliments he ever got was
> from a person who wrote that "your cross-hatching is better than drugs"
> or words to that effect.
>
> Also in American Splendor, which again Marie picked out over
> my misgivings but turned out to be pretty good, that Harvey
> Pekar met up with R. Crumb at a yard sale in, like, Cleveland
> picking up old jazz records.
>
> But Dr Atomic is by Larry Todd, I think.
>
>
>
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