In preparing yesterday's Pee-Wee Herman Show post I got to looking through some old
Gary Panter artwork.
It sparked memories of his 'Rozz Tox Manifesto'.
It was an interesting essay he wrote back in 1979 and posted item-by-item in the free personals section of the LA Reader.
When I first saw it, it was printed in the pages of a Ralph Records mail-order catalog.
Panter had done several album covers at the Ralph label, and for me, Ralph's slogan/credo of 'Buy Or Die!' resonated with the words of Panter's plea for artists to work within the capitalist market and find a larger audience.
There were other groovy ideas in there that inspired me so much at the tender age of - - what, seventeen years old?!? (yeesh) - - that I carried (more like buried) the thing in my wallet for a while.
A wish for coolness by osmosis or something...
...Though that was probably missing the point.
(As the original copy I've kept is now all weathered and aged, has it attained talisman status?)
It's fun to read it now and see what's developed and changed, what truly hasn't, and what points speak to our modern digital world.
- Click on that image below ⬇ of the tattered copy torn from a 1980 Ralph Records catalog to ENLARGE, or incur less eyestrain by reading the Rozz Tox Manifesto posted at Gary Panter's blog.
- Also at the blog, you can read Panter's story about the manifesto's origins.
In preparing yesterday's Pee-Wee Herman Show post I got to looking through some old 
It's fun to read it now and see what's developed and changed, what truly hasn't, and what points speak to our modern digital world.
