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I saw him speak live a couple times and he loved this anagram
George Herbert Walker Bush = Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog
On time I in the early 90's I went to see him at the Booksmith on Haight St. My bus was slow and I got there about 20 mins late. He was taking questions and so I put up my hand and he called on me. I forget what I asked him, but the whole room busted out laughing and he growled at me, What, have you been asleep? I just spent the last half hour talking about that! Another time he spoke with Peter Lambord Wilson (no relation) and PLW mentioned that RAW would be on his WBAI radio show that night. This was the late 80's and there was no internet then and little way to find out about things, so I went up to PLW and asked him what time his radio show was on. The guy sneered at me like I was doing something wrong "Midnite". So I did tape a portion of that show where they talk about Black masons. I think they just thought it was funny to say that. Black masons.
IN retrospect, he was a very informative, interesting speaker. I never bother with his illuminati books because honestly, how much fictionalized pseduoconspiracy do I need in my life? The sex drugs and magic book was must reading in the 80's but it actually seems kind of light weight now (i.e, after last years Peter Levenda trilogy of the Occult History of America). I also think he was too involved with the church of the subgenius, which I think is a bunch of nonsense.
All the good ones are leaving us quickly. Burroughs, Leary, Lilly, McKenna, Ginsberg...
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