tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176438508248432116.post1071921127018379894..comments2018-02-06T14:45:15.738-08:00Comments on Hi Ho kids: Oh the HilarityChaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15650464261325058207noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176438508248432116.post-56023104362425070142018-02-06T14:45:15.738-08:002018-02-06T14:45:15.738-08:00More Rabbit hole: https://akiaforum.wordpress.com...More Rabbit hole: https://akiaforum.wordpress.com/<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176438508248432116.post-38953077139803998242018-02-06T14:20:23.106-08:002018-02-06T14:20:23.106-08:00A rabbit hole summary: http://virtualmagic.blogsp...A rabbit hole summary: http://virtualmagic.blogspot.com/2006/09/andy-kaufman.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176438508248432116.post-91098341947853242922018-02-05T14:59:58.436-08:002018-02-05T14:59:58.436-08:00Here is a set of links to the rabbit hole. Enjoy....Here is a set of links to the rabbit hole. Enjoy....<br /><br />https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Andy-Kaufmans-Archived-Cookies-Are-AliveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176438508248432116.post-82239114453994338472016-12-01T12:21:02.079-08:002016-12-01T12:21:02.079-08:00What I am saying is that this whole thing, at leas...What I am saying is that this whole thing, at least for me, at every stage has been about looking at what is there and deciding for myself if it aligns with my conception of Andy. <br /><br />Faking death--Definitely. It's the ultimate bit. Guaranteed legend. <br />Staying gone for a LONG time--definitely. I mean what do you do after it?<br />Houdini card at the 04 party--Hell yes. Illusion vs reality galore.<br />Claire--not abig step from wrestling women to posing as them<br />Enrique--Mysterious online presence making people jump through hoops--totally Andy.<br /><br />But here is where things shift in my head. Predeath Andy fooled the rubes. Increasingly, post death Andy seems bent on fooling the hip. My conception of Andy (and I know I am mythologizing here) is that ultimately he becomes onl;y satisfied by an audience of one--himself. In order to do this, he must alienate those that are in on the joke. And what better way to do that than to change the narrative voice and descend into hack behavior? I hear people here say that the recent activity is nothing like Andy. It is some hack pretending to be Andy and tarnishing his memory. <br /><br />Fair enough. But there is part of me that thinks that Andy would care more about the bit than his rep. Did he care about his rep while wrestling women? SNL vote off? No! It was WAY more important to break ground, to experiment, to play with the boundary. <br /><br />Now of course I want a big reveal as much as the next guy. But if Andy is trying to alienate me, then there a couple of ways to do that. one is to act in a manner that is not what I consider to be part of the Andy repertoire. DONE. Another is to change the construct of the setup so that even the people who still believe Andy is out there pulling a joke are convinced that the whole thing is not a joke at all but some kind of sad, pathetic withdrawal from the world, like a Hughes myth or Elvis. In this way the joke continues, but fewer people are in on it. DONE.<br /><br />I no longer want to be hip. I no longer want to be in on the joke. I want to be fooled. I hereby join the ranks of the rubes and suckers!!!<br /><br />Mock me if you must. Tell me I am foolish. In my world, the greatest joke of all time exists. In yours it does not. Who is right and who is the winner may be two very different things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176438508248432116.post-45673816112377691322015-11-24T15:43:43.025-08:002015-11-24T15:43:43.025-08:00http://stubhillnews.com/2015/07/07/donald-trump-ac...http://stubhillnews.com/2015/07/07/donald-trump-actually-andy-kaufman/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176438508248432116.post-77605735660890371332013-11-13T15:24:13.417-08:002013-11-13T15:24:13.417-08:00Big news, kids! http://defamer.gawker.com/is-andy...Big news, kids! http://defamer.gawker.com/is-andy-kaufman-still-alive-1463790778/@maxread<br />Chaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15650464261325058207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176438508248432116.post-80067965843122339802009-06-10T12:10:14.742-07:002009-06-10T12:10:14.742-07:00haha!
awesome piece.
I've heard of Andy Kaufma...haha!<br />awesome piece.<br />I've heard of Andy Kaufman, but never his story. thats incredible, with a bit of a strange ending.<br />fantastic!V=IRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737667987572975282noreply@blogger.com