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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.)
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.
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.
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.
Basking Robbins: An Interview with Tom Robbins by Lawrence Gerald from High Frontiers Magazine.
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.
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
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.
Got the Blahs? Why not?
And all about the movie here
More information about Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, the
movie.
Web.