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Lowell Massachusetts native Jack Kerouac is getting bobbleheaded - Boston Red Sox single-A affiliate Lowell Spinners will be giving out 1000 Jack Kerouac bobbleheads on August 21, as part of Jack Kerouac night.
The bobblehead doll itself is about 8 inches tall. The figurine sports a full head of black hair and stands on a copy of On the Road, pen and notebook in hand.
And, lest you think, this is blasphemous, his executor thinks it's a great idea. John Sampas, executor and brother of Kerouac's third wife, says, "Besides being an author, he was an all-around guy. He was a great sports enthusiast, too. Certainly, Jack would love it." The Lowell Spinners' official site. [Via MeFi]
Bobbleheads we'd like to see: J.D. Salinger, Patricia Highsmith, Thomas Pynchon, and Haruki Murakami.
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Instead of On the Road, shouldn't he be standing on an overturned, empty bottle of tequila? What did Truman Capote say about him? Something like: "That's not writing ... it's typewriting."
Can the Sylvia Plath bobblehead be far behind?!?
Yeah, his executor also thought it was a good idea to use his picture in a GAP khaki ad a few years back...
I'd add one bobblehead to your list -- Norman Mailer. I'd buy one just so I could cut its head off.
How about a Thomas Pynchon paper doll?:
http://wso.williams.edu/~dgambrel/pics/pynchon/
He's a Dixie Chicks fan, who knew?
Haha, Howard, nice.
People either love Kerouac or hate him... And the Capote quote is correct, although Capote has little room to criticize anyone. How about a Hunter S. Thompson bobblehead?
hey howard.
maybe a vic morrow bobblehead would be more appropriate.
I know he's not an author....but David Gray already looks like a living, breathing bobblehead
How about NY's very own Paul Auster?