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The people's Bloomsday

By Tim Cavanaugh
June 13, 2004

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FOR MY MONEY, the greatest reference to James Joyce's "Ulysses" in popular culture appeared in "The Freak Brothers Come Down," an issue of Gilbert Shelton's underground `60s comic "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" in which the comic's hippie heroes try to pass one drug-free day. What follows are many frames of silence, awkward small-talk, and squalid mundanity as the Brothers ... (Full Article: 916 Words)

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