If tame is your cup of tea, go away now. Otherwise here’s how you can begin exploring the very involved and unexpected world of R. F. Laird. You can click on the graphics below to be transported to a relevant url. (You can return with the back button or the open file listings on your screen.) Other links are straight from text.
Here are a lot of his books:
Some on-line books are free elsewhere…
Click on the photos below for links to some major sites…
Here’s his 3,000-pg video game/puzzle/labyrinth called Shuteye Town 1999:
Here’s his massively hyperlinked fictional country, called Shuteye Nation:
Here’s the website that will tell you the most about R. F. Laird and his work:
Here are links to most of his blogs:
InstaPunk Returns (2018-Present, 125+ posts)
InstaPunk Rules (2014-2017, c.600 posts)
RFLaird.com (a.k.a Deerhound Diary, 2013-Present, c.500 posts)
InstaPunk.com (10 years of weekly archives at Wayback, c.2,500 posts 90+ percent intact)(sample single posts here)
Robert Laird @Facebook (2014-2019, 1,000+ posts, Scroll to read)[If you get the Newsfeed not the Main Page, click on the helmet icon to the left of “What’s on your mind?”]
Here are links to some of his other websites:
My Selfies (Spoof site also includes a sampler of representative Laird works)
The South Street Mystery (conspiracy theories about punk writers)
The Gypsy Gallery (representative Punk City artworks)
The Paranormal Plexus (tracking fringe literature and banned books/magazines)
The Boomer Bible and 9/11 (connecting a 1991 book and a day almost exactly 10 yrs later)
Miscellaneous:
Laird’s Author Page @ Amazon.
Laird On Laird (6,000 words and a tombstone)
There you have it. One page of text, plus links. One computer page anyway.