Tag: who’s to say what’s obscene

Our friend and Art of the Prank contributor Paul Krassner has a new book coming out:

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Yippie founder Paul Krassner still testing limits
by John Rogers, Associated Press Writer
June 22, 2009

Desert Hot Springs, Calif. – He was once a child music prodigy and in the decades since, Paul Krassner has been everything from political satirist to author, editor, anarchist and an advocate for both peace and pornography.

But the title he may favor is one he found buried in his FBI file.

“To classify Krassner as a social rebel is far too cute,” a letter in the file said in response to a favorable magazine interview with the co-founder of the Yippie Party, the group that notoriously disrupted the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. “He’s a nut, a raving, unconfined nut.”

So Krassner titled his autobiography “Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut.”

“I figured I might as well make use of it,” says the author, smiling broadly as he sits in the living room of his modest tract home in this sandy, sagebrush-dotted corner of the Mojave Desert on a scorchingly hot morning. On a nearby table is a copy of “A People’s History of the United States of America” by historian and social activist Howard Zinn. Continue reading “Krassner: Who’s to Say What’s Obscene”