{"id":190,"date":"2012-01-07T18:19:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T18:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lightangel.net\/lightblog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2015-03-30T00:13:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T00:13:01","slug":"confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/margaretharrell.com\/2012\/01\/confessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions &#8211; Paul Krassner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/margaretharrell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Paul-Krassner-Confessions.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3226 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/margaretharrell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Paul-Krassner-Confessions-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Krassner, Confessions\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/margaretharrell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Paul-Krassner-Confessions-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/margaretharrell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Paul-Krassner-Confessions.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Krassner is putting what he calls, in quotes, &#8220;our story&#8221; into his reissue of his autobiography, <em>Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counterculture <\/em>\u2013 New Expanded Edition. This is quite funny. I love the effect of being a &#8220;character&#8221; in a book stepping off the pages, or maybe just pretending to step onto them in the first place. It makes me wonder how Hunter would have responded to my memoir, suppose I had published it while he was alive &#8211; which never crossed my mind. Anyway, just suppose. See more about Krassner\u2019s memoir <a title=\"Paul Krassner, Confessions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Confessions-Raving-Unconfined-Misadventures-Counterculture-ebook\/dp\/B00918JU6C\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=&amp;qid=\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0on Amazon.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Krassner lives in a world where Truth and Satire are swingers, changing partners so often you never know who belongs with whom \u2013 <em>Playboy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wickedly funny . . . Chillingly funny . . . A convincing look at a man who knows how to wield absurdity \u2013<em> San Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s own writing, in particular, seemed daring and adventurous to me; it took big chances and made important arguments in relentlessly funny ways. I felt, down deep, that maybe I had some of that in me too; that maybe I could be using my skills to better express my beliefs. <em>The Realist<\/em> was the inspiration that kep pushing me to the next level; there was no way I could continue reading itand remain the same \u2013 George Carlin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krassner is putting what he calls, in quotes, &#8220;our [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[227],"tags":[137,72],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul-krassner","tag-paul-krassner-hunter-thompson","tag-paul-krassner"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Confessions - Paul Krassner - Margaret A. 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