You can watch this full documentary about artist Robert Williams, Mr. Bitchin, on YouTube for free. This 2013 film takes a deep look into the story of painter and cartoonist Robert Williams. Williams is the founder of Juxtapoz magazine and one of the artists who produced and drew for the classic underground comic book series Zap Comix. — Read the rest

Europe is beginning to accept the stark reality that is our future; COVID is with us for good. Germany's health minister Jens Spahn shared the harsh view that his countrymen will either be vaccinated, have recovered from COVID-19, or have died by the end of this winter. — Read the rest

Real estate heir Robert Durst, famous for inadvertantly confessing to murder while being interviewed for a documentary, was sentenced to life in prison.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Windham handed down that punishment one month after jurors convicted Durst, 78, of first-degree murder for the Dec.

The makers of Hulu's Fyre documentary expose a new scammy subject: multi-level marketing. LuLaRoe sells stretchy patterned clothing, but their main business is selling a dream of financial freedom to new sellers. According to The Guardian, the company allegedly makes money "through the unsustainable recruitment of new members." — Read the rest

New York's Morgan Library has the entire scanned handwritten manuscript to Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde available for paging through and reading online.

This manuscript of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Virginia's 111-year tribute-on-the-national-stage to renowned traitor Robert E. Lee has ended.

AP:

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said in a statement that workers removed the statue from the National Statuary Hall Collection early Monday morning.

Northam had requested the removal and a state commission decided that Lee was not a fitting symbol for the state.

On the 100th anniversary of Timothy Leary's birthday, Hilaritas Press announced a new book by Robert Anton Wilson. It's called The Starseed Signals: A RAW Perspective on Timothy Leary.

In 1974, Robert Anton Wilson wrote a book about the ideas and tribulations of his close friend, Dr.

Mark Yohalem has worked both on his own projects and as an offsite senior or lead writer for BioWare, inXile Entertainment, TimeGate Studios, S2 Games, Nikitova Games, and Affinix Software.  As co-founder of Wormwood Studios with two friends (artist Victor Pflug and programmer James Spanos) in 2010, he developed Primordia, a classical point-and-click adventure game that has sold about a quarter-million copies and was, for years, the highest-rated adventure game on Steam.  — Read the rest

Tear down all the Robert E.T. statues and stop celebrating his invasion tactics.

The creator of Full House Without Michelle returns with a documentary on General Robert E.T. [Reid McCarter / AV Club]

As you might know, Robert Anton Wilson (1932 – 2007) is one of Boing Boing's patron saints. Raw's humor, skepticism, optimism, and ability to reveal the deep weirdness underlying almost everything were deeply influential to Carla and me when we launched bOING bOING as a zine in 1987. — Read the rest

There’s breaking news, fake news, a news flash, even news you can use, but they all supposedly share one attribute: their information is new.

The deepfake technology in this video is far from flawless, but Jim Meskimen's voices and mannerisms more than make up for it. Watch him recite a poem of his own composition as John Malkovich, Colin Firth, Robert Deniro, Tommy Lee Jones, Nick Offerman, George Clooney, Christopher Walken, Anthony Hopkins, Dr. — Read the rest

Robert Hunter, who penned the lyrics to the majority of the Grateful Dead's songs, died last night at age 78. Hunter first met Jerry Garcia in 1961 and went on to write the words to such classics as Ripple, Dark Star, To Lay Me Down, Fire on the Mountain, Truckin', Touch of Grey, and nearly every other great Dead song. — Read the rest

If you know the name Robert Bork, it's probably in the context of his failure to secure Senate confirmation when Ronald Regan put him up for the Supreme Court (his sins from his days in the Nixon administration caught up to him).

This totally excellent computer animated television commercial for Hawaiian Punch was created in 1987 by Omnibus/Abel, the ill-fated company born from the merger of Omnibus Computer Graphics with computer animation pioneer Robert Abel's Abel and Associates.

From Vintage CG:

Rarely seen is this full 90 second version….

They ruled unanimously on one element and 6-3 on another, with liberals and conservatives on either side.

The justices ruled in favor of a company called "FUCT" whose trademark was earlier found to have violated the provision.

The court found that the statute can't stand because it "disfavors certain ideas."

Back in 2017, a law student named Lena Khan made waves in policy circles with the publication of her massive, brilliant, game-changing 24,000-word article in the Yale Law Journal, Amazon's Antitrust Paradox, which revisited the entirety of post-Ronald-Reagan antitrust orthodoxy to show how it had allowed Amazon to become a brutal, harmful monopoly without any consequences from the regulators charged with ensuring competition in our markets.

Stalkerware — spyware sold to people as a means of keeping tabs on their romantic partners, kids, employees, etc — is a dumpster fire of terrible security (compounded by absentee management), sleazy business practices, and gross marketing targeted at abusive men who want to spy on women.

"We chose those words carefully and the report speaks for itself."

Special Counsel Robert Mueller will speak about the Russia investigation at about 11:00 am ET, according to an announcement released by the Trump administration early Wednesday morning.