Along with Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson can be thought of as a psychedelic messenger who took a baton from Timothy Leary before heading off on a long strange journey into consciousness expanding new realities. McKenna became the greatest spokesman an entheogen could ever dream of, but Wilson became something more like a conman sage whose writing and lectures were packed with equal parts philosophy and flim-flam, bombast, Buddha and bullshit. In my repost for From the Archive Friday last week I mentioned that we observed the 10th anniversary of Wilson’s death on January 11. As a more fitting tribute than the rerun of an old post, here’s a full documentary about the man, his work, and his ideas. Here’s Maybe Logic: The Lives & Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson…

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I was bummed to find out that Gene Wilder died on Monday. Wilder hasn’t been on our screens in years, but I grew up during the actor’s run with Mel Brooks, and I’ll never forget watching Stir Crazy on my uncle’s Betamax machine. I watched Wilder’s iconic turn as Willy Wonka continuously as a preteen, and back in 2005 I got obsessed with Young Frankenstein which I consider to be his greatest performance. Wilder could sing and dance, he could play goofy and tender. But most of all Gene Wilder could do over-the-top crazy better than most because he knew how to nail that balance between comedy, dramatic outrage, and pure mania.

Here’s a compilation of Wilder’s wildest. Bless you, strange prince…

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