Talk:Kerry Thornley
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[edit] Activity
Wow, this page has seen a lot of work since last i checked it. cool to see some interest. anybody wanna talk shop on a Greg Hill entry? from what i understand, gorightly's book is about the only dependable source of info. who's read it? Is there enough to paraphrase?
popefauve 10:37, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I see a big hole in this article, between the 60s/Kennedy debacle and his death. Does anybody have any background on his general activities (writing and whatnot) during the 70s and 80s?
popefauve 14:24, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I recently posted a huge collection of his Decadent Worker series on ReHistory.com. See the External Links section.
stbob 22:02, 6 Feb 2005
I'm weirder than the next guy, but this sentence still makes no sense no matter how many attempts I make to parse it:
Incidentally, it was also at this time that he and Greg Hill—a bowling alley in their hometown of Whittier, California (a hometown shared by Richard Nixon). Brodo 19:44, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
In the mid-nineties during one of his more gregarious periods, Thornley founded a pranking/media manipulation group in the Little Five Points district of Atlanta based around the concept of the Clown as sacred to society. As the pranks became more successful Thornley returned to his paranoid baseline and dissavowed any connection to the group.
Anonymous eyewitness
The narrative style of this article is shocking: what tense is the history supposed to be in? Why is Oswald referred to at one point as "Lee"? What principles were applied to determine which words are links? "Events, personages and phenomena"???? And where it refers to Thornley's "truthful denial" of any contact with Oswald since '59, "truthful" should really be dropped.
Anonymous Iwitness
I'm taking this line out of the final section. It's not that the fact itself doesnt belong, i just cant figure out how to make it fit right at the moment. popefauvexxiii 17:11, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
, but spending most of the remainder of his life in the "Little Five Points" neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia
[edit] Independent verification
Much of this looks to need independent verification. To me it reads like a reinvention of the past that someone who has created their own religion might write about themselves - but are there any facts there ?
The reference to his 1965 book "Oswald" takes us to a general Oswald page - did the book actually exist ?
-- Beardo 04:05, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
yup. Oswald, ASIN: B0007DYIU8 popefauvexxiii 05:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
- Do some web searches. Someone is selling the book on amazon.com for $95. His books and the creation of Discordianism, his Marine service, the Warren Commission testimony, accusations by Jim Garrison that he was involved in the JFK assassination and coverup, are all verifiable.
- It is also verifiable that he made the claims of having participated in MK-ULTRA, dicussed assassinating JFK with E. Howard Hunt, and that he was a Vril. IOW, the article appears accurate.
- Naysayer 08:13, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Seminal
As a matter of fact, linking the word "seminal" to the semen article IS my idea of a joke, and in this pope's opinion, a pretty damn funny one. i dont consider it to be innappropriate, considering that the word seminal is derived from the same root, and the association actually makes the statement MORE factual, as there are relatively few strictly discordian derivative works, subgenius stuff notwithstanding. feel free to de-link the term, I will happily wikify it back as many times as is necessary; however, please refrain from reverting my copyedits in the future. popefauvexxiii 05:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
- You're not specially privileged to have your bad jokes stay undeleted. DenisMoskowitz 20:14, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
But I am specially endowed with a terrifying and monstrous tenacity that strikes without pattern or warning. popefauvexxiii 00:55, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] cat:subgenii
i was not aware that thornley was affiliated with the church of the subgenius... im not saying he wasnt, but is this verifiable? discordianism ≠ subgenius. popefauvexxiii 19:23, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Yep. Kerry had a lot of material in the Stark Fist of Removal, and a picture of him f**king a chair on Ivan Stang's web site. Don't think the penis was real... Icarus 23 06:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anti-semitism?
The article makes the following claim: "For a time Thornley wrote a regular column in the zine Factsheet Five, until editor Mike Gunderloy stopped running his column due to Thornley's increasingly anti-semitic sentiments." As far as I can tell, Gunderloy never dropped Thornley's column. Gunderloy's last issue was Issue #44, August 1991, and Thornley's column appears in it. I wonder if someone might have confused Thornley with Garry de Young, whose column Gunderloy did drop after Issue #39 over anti-semitic remarks (directed toward, but not published in, Factsheet Five -- see Gunderloy's "Aeditorial", Issue #40, Feb. 1990). I will modify the statement in question to simply read "For a time, Thornley wrote a regular column in the zine Factsheet Five, until editor Mike Gunderloy stopped publishing the magazine." -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:47, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Texas
Any particular reason this has been tagged as part of the WikiProject Texas project? The word "Texas" doesn't even appear in the article. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 01:02, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- Probably either because of his involvement in the Warren Commission, or with the Church of the Subgenius, or both. wikipediatrix 02:46, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Activity
I know personally that Kerry lived in Atlanta, GA from 1995 until his death. He told me himself (and his son agreed) that he had had surgery and that had completely changed his paranoid outlook on many things, but I can find no online source to say this. The link to his "Kultcha" wall newspapers specifically states that he was living in Atlanta from 1980 onwards but I find no other verification for specificity. All reports that he died of a heart attack are easily verified but the "illness" mentioned cannot be found. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Smibbo (talk • contribs) 16:41, 28 December 2006 (UTC). sorry forgot to sign Smibbo 16:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] American writer category
Thornley needs to go into one of the American writers categories, but im at a loss for which. im thinking religious and/or political. Anybody got any better ideas? --popefauvexxiii 03:22, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
