[Up-Tight] Family of Crawdaddy's Paul Williams needs help

[Albert Bouchard]

Yes, Pearlman got me a few writing assignments from Paul. They were  
enthusiastic pieces but probably pretty poorly written. It was kind of  
him to publish me. It made my mom very proud. Sorry to hear about  
Paul's condition.
Al

On Apr 1, 2009, at 11:52 AM, gary shindler wrote:

> A question to Albert Bouchard: One of the responses on the Paul  
> Nelson website says you wrote for Crawdaddy. Were they thinking of  
> Meltzer or Pearlman or did you write for Crawdaddy?
> Gary
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>
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Telstar <aclark23 at sympatico.ca>
> To: Up-tight at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:37:28 PM
> Subject: [Up-Tight] Family of Crawdaddy's Paul Williams needs help
>
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> "Paul Williams, the legendary creator of Crawdaddy! Magazine, fell off
> his bicycle in 1995 and suffered a traumatic brain injury, which has
> led to early onset Alzheimer's. His family's having difficulties with
> his care, and so a few of Paul's friend have set up a website both as
> a tribute to his life and work and in order to make an appeal for  
> help.
> Apart from being a true Founding Father of 'rock writing', and Philip
> K. Dick's literary executor, Paul should be of special interest to
> Boing Boing readers for his place at the crossroads where the science
> fiction fanzines of the '50's gave rise to an empowered and self-aware
> music-fan subculture -- and helped create what we now know as 'the
> '60's'. For anyone with a curiosity about the formation of world-
> changing subcultures through grassroots media, Paul was there when
> blogging was a twinkle in a mimeograph eye."
>
> http://www.boingboi ng.net/2009/ 03/31/family- of-crawdaddys. html
>
> Al
>
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