UPDATE: Robert Anton Wilson Needs Our Help!

Douglas Rushkoff makes an impassioned plea for us to "support cosmic thinking patriarch Robert Anton Wilson, whose infirmity and depleted finances have put him in the precarious position of not being able to meet next month's rent...

"Robert Anton Wilson will one day be remembered alongside such literary philosophers as Aldous Huxley and James Joyce. But right now, Bob is a human being in a rather painful fleshsuit, who needs our help. I refuse for the history books to say he died alone and destitute, for I want future generations to know we appreciated Robert Anton Wilson while he was alive.

UPDATE 101206: Most recently, Doug has asked people to STOP sending money given that more than $80K has come come in from contributors around the world. /Douglas Rushkoff/

UPDATE: "Bob Wilson's Daughter sent a letter with the following note from Bob to Boing Boing founder Mark Frauenfelder"

:BOB'S NOTE:

Dear Friends, my God, what can I say. I am dumbfounded, flabbergasted, and totally stunned by the charity and compassion that has poured in here the last three days.

To steal from Jack Benny, "I do not deserve this, but I also have severe leg problems and I don't deserve them either."
Because he was a kind man as well as a funny one, Benny was beloved. I find it hard to believe that I am equally beloved and especially that I deserve such love.

Whoever you are, wherever you are, know that my love is with you.

You have all reminded me that despite George W. Bush and all his cohorts, there is still a lot of beautiful kindness in the world.
Blessings.

Robert Anton Wilson