The Seuss family got a crazy friend of mine tossed in jail after they allegedly stole a story of his which he entered into a contest they sponsored. I have no idea what the ultimate truth of the alleged theft was.
The Seuss family had enough pull to send two local police detectives up from Cali to get my buddy arrested for a vaugley theatening email.
It was a crazy mess.
Fuck the Seuss estate, they are pricks.
Wow. That’s some crazy shit. The title of his play just made me laugh out loud in a restaurant.
- Angry at this turn of events, Steen wrote a play — The Tragical History of Audrey Geisel or How the Grinch Plagiarized My Goddamn Children's Story —
Hahahaha!
I found a video of Charles talking about the case.
He dressed like this about 80% of the time.
It in no way imparts how what a strange man he was.
He slept in a little attic room of our house for about a month while he was going through the Seuss law suit, I can't believe that my roommates didn't kill me for letting him in the front door.
His grandfather was known as The Uranium King! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Steen
Wow, again. I watched the video. He is quite a character. You must have had patient roommates.
More impressive though is the story of the Uranium King. That’s a hell of a story:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Steen
Never bet the farm on Arabian horse breeding. That sounds like such a “new money,” thing to do. Lol.
Craziness. You never know where a post about teaching Dr. Seuss to kids will take you....
Thanks for the worm hole. I enjoyed it.