![]() Vermin have a chemical way to sense their own kind. She is what you would imagine the screaming brunette standing at the stage door of the Ed Sullivan theater on that chilly day on Februwho left with one of them would look like today. His wife, Aline the star fucker, is vile. He spends his days looking at his old comics and fucking that disgusting wife of his which might very well explain why every man over 70 is looking for his Tadzio. Crumb is Norma Desmond, he was somebody in the ’70s, but now he’s rotting away in this small desperate village in the south of France, in jail. It is fair to say that most nice kids with OCD and ADD want to kill you. I’m always wary of geeks who spend hours in their room like he does studying fringe topics with the zeal only anti-OCD and ADHD drugs can give you. “This sack of shit is trying to get close,” he was thinking. ![]() I noticed him shifting position in his chair. In the interview he gave me he mentioned other graphic artists who were more talented than he was but who never made it because they were not “readable.” I remember asking him if his success had been due to a certain mercantile opportunistic adaptation to a system he was supposedly fighting against. The Mick Jagger of cartoons, rock and roll straight out of the London School of Economics. So without transition because none can be found here, here we go: He’s the guy who classically challenged America’s middle class’ puritanism and yet is he a narc? Yes, he’s the guy who, while you were occupying Wall Street with him, was taking your cell number Cointelpro style to the FBI. We choose to pretend we just didn’t hear you when we should be saying: just hold on, don’t move, hold that thought, I’ll be right back, gimme a sec, lemme just look for my gun.īut let’s go back to more trivial matters, that’s what we have been doing, maybe wrongly, since the Beginning whence confronted with such violent, gut-wrenching stupidity. Why did I leave it out and pretend I didn’t hear anything? The answer to this question can be found in Primo Levi. The true story of this piece is why didn’t I go back to New York and write the entire thing about that. A functioning psychopath, an ex-girlfriend former writer at the New York Observer once called me.) (Mind you, I don’t think I have ever liked anyone I’ve met yet. Jews, you see, had been persecuted since the dawn of time, forbidden to do many types of work and therefore turned to the only trade left to them, usury. ![]() We were talking about his latest opus on the Bible and he let it out, like the occasional gas geriatrics can’t help releasing at the most inappropriate time. We know he doesn’t like blacks, but during the interview he let slip the usual anti-Semitic subtlety we’ve all heard so many times before. Does this guy smell? Is it me? I am half-French, after all. ![]() was rough but strangely he wore pressed Egyptian white cotton shirts tucked into high-waisted slacks, which makes you think twice. Exhibit A: Howard Stern.Ĭrumb is lanky and smelly. I always had this theory that as much as I sided with and tried to protect dorks and rejects in high school these were the very same people who, given a chance to shine, would espouse the ethos of the worst jocks. He was wrong because he was ugly, Nietzsche said about Socrates. American cartoonist Robert Crumb shows one of his paintings at the Museum Ludwig in the western town of Cologne, Germany, May 27, 2004. ![]()
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