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Related: About this forumBob Dobbs just celebrated his 90th birthday - Happy Birthday, Bob!
The "Religion and the new technology" thread made me think of Marshall McLuhan and Bob Dobbs,
especially the comment about "the vanishing of the media".
I decided to look at Bob's website and see if there was anything new and interesting.
He turned 90 last week!
http://www.fivebodied.com/viewtopic.php?t=4932
BLOWOUT/BLOWBACK Bash for my 90th BIRTHDAY on Thurs Feb 2...
... starting at 6pm EST!!!
One celebrity who will lurk, at least, is Scooter Braun, Justin Bieber's manager.
We've bonded since we met because the huge environments we "manage" both rose into intergalactic prominence on the same wave (2009-2012).
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BLOWOUT/BLOWBACK Bash for my 90th BIRTHDAY on Thurs Feb 2...
... starting at 6pm EST!!!
One celebrity who will lurk, at least, is Scooter Braun, Justin Bieber's manager.
We've bonded since we met because the huge environments we "manage" both rose into intergalactic prominence on the same wave (2009-2012).
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Bob Dobbs just celebrated his 90th birthday - Happy Birthday, Bob! (Original Post)
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Feb 2012
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DBoon
(22,397 posts)1. of the Church of the Subgenius?
bananas
(27,509 posts)2. This is the real Bob Dobbs, he was the inspiration for JR "Bob" Dobbs
Here's an interview from 2008:
Robert (Bob) Dobbs (born February 2, 1922, in Paris) is a paramedia ecologist, author, poet, politician, lecturer, and the inspiration for the J. R. "Bob" Dobbs character of the Church of the SubGenius. His father was a member of the Priory of Sion and his family worked as servants for the powerful aristocratic families of Europe for generations. Through his father's connections to these families, Dobbs became active in key international intelligence agencies after World War II. In the early 1960's, initially assigned to monitor and sabotage the work of Marshall McLuhan, Dobbs ended up becoming a promoter and archivist of McLuhan's project.
<snip - more info at the youtube page>
Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)3. The man, the myth, the bullshit