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  • {votd} Michaelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” (1966)

    {votd} Michaelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” (1966)

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    I remember reading a review of Blow-Up in the very left-wing mid-Sixties magazine, Ramparts, edited by the madman Warren Hinkle, who was a good friend of my dad’s, although I didn’t know it at the time. The review was really strange, straining for meaning, overly verbose and enigmatic. I really couldn’t understand it, though I…

  • Zap Comics #1

    Zap Comics #1

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    I was sixteen years old, at a party in the Claremont neighborhood of Berkeley, where I grew up. I was on a not-too-strong dose of acid. The host, my friend Ted Thornton, asked me if I had ever seen Zap Comix. I said no. I remember his face lighting up with excitement. He knew I…