Howlingly Cute

One of my favorite musicians and artists, Archer Prewitt, best known for the comic Sof'Boy and band Sea and Cake has just finished the latest figurine in his series for PressPop, the Allen Ginsberg doll - authorized by Ginsberg Estate. Complete with glasses, book, and beaded necklace, he should make a fine addition to anyone's collection of beat poet dolls.

The doll comes with a CD of some of Ginsberg's previously unreleased live poetry readings, including Manhattan Mayday Midnight and On William Burroughs' Work.

Winner of the Media Ecology Association's first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is technology and media commentator for CNN, and has taught and lectured around the world about media, technology, culture and economics. His new book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, a followup to his Frontline documentary, Digital Nation. His last book, an analysis of the corporate spectacle called Life Inc., was also made into a short, award-winning film.

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Anonymous

I will put him on a different shelf than my “Natsume Yuujinchou” figurine.
Yamara

“Allen, what are they doing?”
“I think it’s funny.”
BlueKephra

Allen Ginsburg following Burroughs around like a puppy always gave me the creeps.
colin

We’ll should have these at Last Gasp in a few weeks, and from there to your neighborhood beat book store. Estimating the retail price between $50 and $60, though it might be a bit higher depending on shipping cost.
rrh

They’re not dolls they’re figurines!
Anonymous

The typo further down in the web page is sort of funny:

“Comes with fabric cloth jacket, glasses, book, Uncle Tom hat”

_Uncle_Tom_hat_
fyreflye

Yes, it’s a mala. Ginsberg was a disciple of Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
hpnsack

buying these for all of my friends children.
- Brainspore
  
  Careful there, buying NAMBLA-approved toys for children might give some people the wrong impression.
Anonymous

hmmm… i recall a time when the beats thought the ‘beatniks’ were too commercial…
Anonymous

Are the beads supposed to be a Mala – something used for meditation/mantra work?
Anonymous

Here’s John Lennon, from “Skywriting By Word Of Mouth”

“It took a long time and a lot of good magic to get rid of the stench of our lost virginity, although it was fun meeting all the famous underground heroes (no heroines): Bobby Seale and his merry men; Huey Newton in his very expensive-looking military-style clothes; Rennie Davis and his ‘You pay for it and I’ll organize it’; John Sinclair and his faithful Ann Arbor Brigade, and dear old Allen Ginsberg, who if he wasn’t lying on the floor ‘ohming,’ was embarrassing the fuck out of everyone he could corner by chanting something he called poetry very loudly in their ears (and out the other).”