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About Tom
FA Q
Dale Kirby has put together some Frequently Asked Questions about Robbins. How to contact Tom. Pepe Le Pugh's favorite perfume. And other amazing facts.
THE COMPLETE(?) TOM ROBBINS BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mike Songster has created a most excellent resource--a bibliography of works by or about Tom Robbins laid out for easy access. Dr. Mikey (aka Mike Songster) has taken time out from getting high, er, education to update, integrate, and something-else-with-an-ate on the end the Tom Robbins bibliography. Great job, Mikey, say hi to the Junior Songster!

 
 
 
 
 

Tom's home (and lifestyle?) is featured in Seattle Homes & Lifestyles magazine in the Jan/Feb 1999 issue.
Call 1-800-368-5938  for back issues to order a copy ($6.95 includes postage and handling.)

(Thanks PQ & EvTWal)

Tom Robbins was scheduled to appear as part of Robert Anton Wilson's presentation at the Prophets Conference in Port Townsend, WA at the end of August. (Thanks for the tip, Steve.)

Because of the illness ofTerence McKenna, this will be his only event this year. Tom Robbins is listed as a "to be confirmed" faculty member of A Conference on Hallucinogens and the Creative Process in Hawaii in September of 1999. Details of the event are available at the website. Terence McKenna is one of the organizers. (Thanks for the tip, Mikey.)

Tom is on the Board of Trustees of a program called Hollywood CPR.  No, it is not about giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to starlets. The program teaches disadvantaged young adults the skills to work in the art departments in the entertainment industry. They auctioned off a first edition signed copy of Skinny Legs and All.

Life is too small a container to contain certain individuals

Tom Robbins Filmography
Tom has 3 acting and narrating credits in film and Television (the Vast Waste Treatment Plant) O' Sacrilege & Sacre Bleu!

 
 





The Writer's Guild of America website is featuring an article by Michael Dare called, "How to Write Like Novelist Tom Robbins." There are also articles on the craft of writing, interviews with writers and profiles of writers. I guess that's why they call it the Writer's Guild, but I'll have to get back to you on that.
 
 


`Writer in the Rain': A look at  Tom Robbins, a Northwest original, a review by Melanie McFarland of the PBS documentary.

A 1975 Profile of Tom Robbins from People Magazine. Includes 3 photographs.
 

Tom Robbins bio Dale Kirby is putting together a biographic chronology. Hey, some of the info might even be accurate!

FALSE ALARM! _Millennium , Messiahs and Mayhem_ is not by our Tom Robbins aftr all. Thanks ET.


Talkin' 'bout Tom
Dale Kirby has compiled a page of quotes from and about Tom.

 
 
 
 

"At the end of the endless game, there is friendship."

Tom Robbins on Leonard Cohen etc. / J.P.'s HomePage
"Tom Robbins Considers The Man in The Tower. He was rowed down from the north in a leather skiff manned by a crew of trolls. His fur cape was caked with candle wax, his brow stained blue by wine - though the latter was seldom noticed due to the fox mask he...

 
 
 
 
 

Tom has been added to Dale Kirby's Heroic Efforts page.
 

 Steve Gillard has written a fascinating report about a reading that Tom gave recently that included part of his latest novel.

Tom's home (and lifestyle?) will be featured in Seattle Homes & Lifestyles magazine in the Jan/Feb 1999 issue.
(Thanks PQ & EvTWal)

Ray Collins aka Mr. Donut presents his vignette about Tom Robbins
as one of his three best of the year.



Interviews
Artists Named Ooola & MF Beta lay a double whammy on Tom. Interview-wise.
Twenty Three Questions of a Creative Nature.

 
 
 
 

Basking Robbins: An Interview with Tom Robbins by Lawrence Gerald from High Frontiers Magazine.


By Tom

Robbins on humanity and moral extremists
An excerpt from a lecture last year on City Arts of San Francisco. About 250K, 1:10 in length. AIFC format. (SoundMachine compatible) (Thanks to Michael Janssen!) From the Infinite Goof by Matt Cooperberg.

 
 

An  article from the June issue of Point No Point, a Seatle literary magazine.

Tom talks about Outer Space (and slips in a little inner space talk too) at Microsoft's Mungo Park website. Just select Legends, click on NASA and select Wild Lit . Requires Real Audio Player.

Debbie Rogers has charmed an Unknown Admirer into sending her some juicy Robbins quotes in Debbie Does Dejanews
Jes Billings has tracked down a speech made by Tom at a Writer's Guild Symposium titled A Sweet Tooth for Writing.

An audio clip of Tom talking about the Vietnam War is available at the Mungo Park site. Just select Legends, click on Vietnam and select Wild Lit. Requires Real Audio Player.




Inspired By Tom
Muse Mates, a literary parody by Barbara Karman
Barbara inc'd an exposé of the amusing mate-ing patterns of muses, mate.
Breath of Life
Katya Taylor of NIGHT PEOPLE has written a wonderful story about truth, poetic justice and the American way as seen by immigrants who see our land as their land with a twist of le mond.

 
 
 
 

The Timbuktu Journals of Carboy Quirky
The Respectful Parody continues.(Ma says it PoMo, but I say it's Avant, Pop.)
" Instead of samadhi I found myself in the room of the fatherknowsbest wallpaper.
The roach motel of the American dream, where folk tales of the fifties crawl in
but they don't crawl out."
Tom Robbins Scares People
Harry Rodersheimer has written his musings about Tom Robbins and missing goddesses.
Lost & Found in Louisiana
Laura Davis reports on visitations by a couple of Tom Robbins characters at a roadside BBQ stand in the bayou. There we find a definite attraction.

 
 
 
 

Triple hyphenate, Michael Dare, (producer, writer, critic) is producing the movie version of Another Roadside Attraction. He is sharing the treatment for the screenplay at http://home.earthlink.net/~dare2b/ara.htm.

Kae Brown has been inspired by Tom to write a fable about Pan outwitted. Using his netherbrain again! By Goddess, ain't that just like a Pan. Music, from Laughter and Lust



Critiques and Reviews
People Magazine review of Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas.
The Truth from Ruth Ruth Priester preaches the gospel of Tom in an essay on the meaning of three of Tom Robbins novels.
Dawnmarie reviews Another Roadside Attraction
It dawns on me that Dawnmarie (say, whatever happened to Donny and Marie?) knows what she's talking about. And she's talking about Another Roadside Attraction. Not just a review--a how-to! How to read Tom's first novel.

 
 

Sean Anderson's essay called, Sex, Individuality, and Immortality in Tom Robbins' Jitterbug Perfume. (Psst, Sean, Leslie Fiedler was a guy.)

Over at Ed's Internet Book Review website, Karen A. Bornstein has written very insightful reviews of two of Tom's books: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues & Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. Just click on "General Fiction" and then "R" for Robbins.
 
 

Barbra Nightingale teaches the Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar IDS 1936 at Broward Community College in the Ft. Lauderdale area. She assigned her students a Tom Robbins novel to exercise their critical skills upon and is sharing some of their work with us. Now that's the kind of teacher I wish I'd had! Here are the articles by Catherine Gangitano and Donna-May Sakura-Lemessy.

Marcus Pan has written a delightful piece about Still Life with Woodpecker.


 James Lee Stanley brought out an album named Even Cowgirls Get the Blues in 1993.
 John Cale brought out an album named Even Cowgirls Get the Blues in 1979. Interestingly, he had a cut called Dance of the Seven Veils on it, even though Skinny Legs and All didn't come out until 1990. (Play Twilight Zone theme here!)

Joe Tex brought out an album named Skinny Legs and All. Doug Gatlin sez that Skinny Legs and All was named for Joe Tex's 1968 or '69 song of the same name. Sounds logical to me. Anybody want to argue with it?

There is a girl band called Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, from Denmark.

 Another Roadside Attraction is the name of a concert tour featuring The Tragically Hip and Sheryl Crow in Canada.

 Click on the CD Cover for information about the soundtrack from Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.




Art and Artifacts
LaConner/ Skagit Valley Miscellaneous pictures of the town and country where Tom Robbins has lived and worked for the last 35 years.
Got the Blahs? Why not?
Performance poet, Tom S. Thomas, captured the other Tom's autograph and a 3-word comment that says it all on a common inanimate object (or was it?) For more on the blah phenomena vist the Blah Page.
Kudra's Tom Robbins Art Gallery
Kudra Scans! AKA Chrissy, she has provided some TR eye candy (some info-bonbons.)

 
 
 
 

And all about the movie here

More information about Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, the movie.

Letterhead
One of our resident red-heads, Marianne, has contributed this black and white image of Tom's letterhead.
Freeze Tom.
We've got you covered. Thanks to Bantam Books. See if you can tell these Books by their Covers Includes Morphin Book Covers. Why? Because we can! Us lucky dogs.

 
 
 
 



Web Sights
Bantam Books
Tom Robbins was featured as author of the week at the Bantam Books Web Pages in November of 95. Madeline McIntosh, Manager of BDD Online, has set up the Web site. This is in honor of the occasion of the paperback release of his novel, Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas.
Christopher Ritter's Bohemian Ink: a Guide to Writers of Coffee, Angst, and Experimentation has a wealth of information about writers and writing.
Includes: A literary analysis by Rush Payton
Links to Web Pages who so much as mention Tom Robbins
Lots of folks use Tom Robbins quotes on their Web pages, if they whisper his name, I've got'em right here. There might be a lot of bad links so surf at your own risk.
Axiom
Tom Robbins has dubbed this New Age training organization on Maui a possible Timbuktu U. gypsy campus.

 
 
 
 
 



Driving Miscellany
The Luminaries of Timbuktu U. In Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Tom Robbins mentions some non-African visiting professors for Timbuktu U. (Quick! Who is Ted Joans? Diane di Prima?) This page sheds a little illumination on each of those people.


A tribute to Clyde Sanborn a Skagit Valley poet who died is being edited by Ben Munsey. Tom Robbins wrote jacket copy for the book of poems.


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