# Robert Anton Wilson running for CA governer -- Yay Bob! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 29, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-anton-wilson-running-for-ca-governer-yay-bob/198448 "2003-08-29T16:34:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-anton-wilson-running-for-ca-governer-yay-bob/198448/1 "2003-08-29T16:34:47Z")
For added surreality, he’s running [as a write-in](http://www.rawilson.com/main.shtml). > [@](#): > > Major goal of first term: California secession. [Oregon, Washington State and B.C. invited to join Freetopia…] I want to live in the alternate universe where he succeeds, and secedes, and sows seeds. I’d appreciate the hell out of any Cali Dopers who are in a position to help me out, there. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-anton-wilson-running-for-ca-governer-yay-bob/198448/2 "2003-08-29T16:43:10Z")
He’s got my vote. Except I don’t live in California. Plus I’m not American. Fnord ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-anton-wilson-running-for-ca-governer-yay-bob/198448/3 "2003-08-29T17:01:20Z")
I will astrally project to California to cast my vote for him. Will he employing any advanced mind control techniques to ensure his election? When will he emmanentize the eschatlon? ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-anton-wilson-running-for-ca-governer-yay-bob/198448/4 "2003-08-29T17:17:34Z")
Why is RAW famous? His name sounds familiar but I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-anton-wilson-running-for-ca-governer-yay-bob/198448/5 "2003-08-29T17:36:50Z")
He was the author of the Illuminatus trilogy among others. He was a 60’s radical author if I recall correctly. His books are interesting but read like drug induced paranoia. Still they are fun. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-anton-wilson-running-for-ca-governer-yay-bob/198448/6 "2003-08-29T17:40:17Z")
Aha! My husband has read those. Freaky-deaky. Did he write one called Schroedinger’s Cat, too? ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-anton-wilson-running-for-ca-governer-yay-bob/198448/7 "2003-08-29T20:16:44Z")
Yep. Schroedinger’s Cat too. It was theorized that he wrote them while tripping with Anton Shea (I think that is the right person). ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-anton-wilson-running-for-ca-governer-yay-bob/198448/8 "2003-08-29T22:31:11Z")
Close… _Robert_ Shea was the co-author of the _Illuminatus!_ trilogy, but didn’t collaborate on _Schrödinger’s Cat_. (The two Bobs took their inspiration from the flood of kook letters they received in their capacity as _Playboy_ editors, after a joke article about the Illuminati was printed.)