Seditious Content Warning!
My new, expanded project American Obscurist is coming along nicely. Valuable content which I would have appreciated myself only a couple of months ago has started piling up.
AO is long on obscure biography and short on interpretation. My greatest talent is at collecting raw materials. You’ll find them, representing plenty of neglected American eccentrics, free for the taking.
We are still a couple hundred AA subscribers short over there. If you are fascinated by Pelley you will be nearly as interested in these other characters. Just now I am heavy into the 1944 Mass Sedition Trial and oh boy have I ever found some good source material. Photographs, news clippings, adversarial underground press reports, FBI files, spy dossiers… it’s amazing how much effort went into demonizing these people, most of them mere harmless cranks at worst.
Aside from a few paid subscribers, I think I’ve done a fair job of providing some densely researched, high effort content here.
I never asked anyone to earn their keep and am entirely grateful for the paid subs. But here’s what I ask of you.
SHARE SOME NOTES
SubStack is turning into an active social network. I have started to “follow” and read around more. Your registration sets you up with a wall to scroll much like other social media. There are a lot of literate people with longer-than-X attention spans here.
I’m adding links, bonus visual material, PDF downloads, lots of rare press items, etc. in the “Notes” section and the only way this does anyone any good is if you get over there and look at it. Scroll. See something interesting? Like it. Share it. Try it out.
Make it your solemn duty for the next 5 minutes.
Aaaaaaand… GO! —→ https://obscurist.substack.com/notes