Russ Kick - Disinformation Book of Lists

BOOK OF LISTS

SUBVERSIVE FACTS AND HIDDEN INFORMATION IN RAPID-FIRE FORMAT

RUSS KICK

2004 Russ Kick
Each guest list 2004 by its author

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INTRODUCTION

A book of lists? Maybe some of you whippersnappers out there are scratching your heads in puzzlement. Those of us who are a tad older fondly recall the original Book of Lists series from the mid-1970s to early 1980s (with a fourth volume in 1994). I was only a lad then, but I devoured them.

David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, and Irving Wallace were ahead of their time when they first put together these compendiums of rapid-fire facts. We had yet to enter the era of the short attention spanMTV-style hyperediting, USA Today, Headline News Network, soundbites, blogs, Nintendo and Xbox, fast food domination, and microwave everything (not to mention the resulting Attention Deficit Disorder)but they and their many, many contributors, researchers, and editors gave us a mountain of knowledge in an easily digestible format. We could read about 12 Famous People Who Changed Their Birthdays, 8 Generals Who Never Won a Battle, 18 Words Worth Reviving, 6 UFO Encounters of a Sexual Kind, 18 Health Experts and How They Died, and 9 Famous Hemorrhoid Sufferers.

The format caught on like wildfire. Amazon currently returns 267 hits for the title search book of lists. This mini-library includes The Art Teacher's Book of Lists, The Southern Gardener's Book of Lists, The Marine Corps Book of Lists, The Gay Book of Lists, The Bride's Book of Lists, Civil War Book of Lists, and The Celebrity Sex Book of Lists. Could there be a more versatile format for presenting facts? I doubt it, which is why I'm surprised that it took me this long to think of doing a book of lists for subversive and unusual informationpot-smoking politicians, criminal cops, corporate crooks, CIA cryptonyms, gay animals, biblical contradictions, banned movies, and health problems that cause or mimic so-called mental illnesses. In the tradition of the original Books of Lists, I asked some contributors to join in, and they gave me rosters of botched executions, Disneyland deaths, sex spam, modern magicians, and more.

So jump right in anywhereno need to worry about whether you can devote a long stretch to your reading. The disparate info has been condensed into a super-concentrated form. Simply apply to your brain.

Russ Kick
Tucson, Arizona

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Besides the books below, Russ has written articles and a column for the Village Voice. The Memory Hole [www.thememoryhole.org], a website devoted to rescuing knowledge and freeing information, is his labor of love. Russ made the front page of the New York Times when he digitally uncensored a heavily redacted Justice Department report.

9 BOOKS BY RUSS

1. Outposts: A Catalogue of Rare and Disturbing Alternative Information (author)

2. Psychotropedia: Publications from the Periphery (author)

3. Hot Off the Net: Erotica and Other Sex Writings From the Internet (editor)

4. You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths (editor)

5. Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (editor)

6. Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies (editor)

7. 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know (author)

8. The Disinformation Book of Lists (author)

9. 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know, Volume 2 (author) [forthcoming]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Personal thanks to
1	Anne
2-3	Mom and Dad
4	Ruthanne
5	Jennifer
6	Billy Dale
7-8	Brett and Cristy
9	Darrell
10-11	Terry and Rebekah
Research thanks to
1	Michael Ravnitzky
2	Richard Metzger
3	Matt Silvey
4	Beau Gunderson
5	Kevin Saylor
6	Hilary Claire Carmody
7	rvdh0
8	walrus and carpenter
Publishing thanks to
1	Gary Baddeley
2	Richard Metzger
3	Ralph Bernardo
4	Alex Burns
5	The rest of the Disinfo gang
6-8	Paul, Tomo, and Mary
Trade thanks to
1	Consortium Distribution
2+	All booksellers
Ultimate thanks to