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Robert Maier

The Day I Nearly Burned Down Edgar Allen Poe’s House

I worked for many years on the production staff of numerous films, including stints as a location manager. This is from 1974, in my…

4 min readAug 31, 2021

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Robert Maier

God I Loved Snow

Many winters’ days, I woke up at first light, to the odd squeal of a car tire spinning on ice. Wheeee, wheeeee… then look out my bedroom…

4 min readAug 29, 2021

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Robert Maier

I spent two summers writing my 346 page memoir “Low Budget Hell: Making Underground Movies with…

Half-way through the book I started looking for agents, but none were interested enough to take it on. The main thing was that I was an…

4 min readAug 27, 2021

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Robert Maier

“Edith to Edie The Impossible Dream” An Eulogy for Edith Massey from her brother, Morris Grodsky

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4 min readAug 27, 2021

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Robert Maier

How to sell a $100,000,000 painting for $10,000

I lived and worked on low budget movies in downtown New York City in the early 1980s when the arts were going through big changes.

4 min readAug 20, 2021

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Robert Maier

My first memory

I’m just ending my 68th year on earth — much to my surprise. I was born on December 26th 1950. I was a day late to imitate Christ, and…

1 min readAug 19, 2021

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Robert Maier

Review of “The Baltimore Kid Rides Again” by Tom DiVenti

Review by Robert Maier

6 min readJun 11, 2021

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Robert Maier

New York City in the Stoned Age

I grew up in the Baltimore suburb of Towson. It would be almost anonymous, if it hadn’t also been the town where John Waters and Divine…

4 min readJun 7, 2021

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New York City in the Stoned Age

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Robert Maier

Bum Trips on Air BnB

Notice: this is not a sweet puff piece about the joys of Airbnb. As such, I expect to be banned from Airbnb for life in the near future…

4 min readSep 27, 2019

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Bum Trips on Air BnB

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Robert Maier

Review of Tom Diventi’s book “The Baltimore Kid” and Punk’s Salad Days

Tom DiVenti was born and raised in an early 1960s working-class Baltimore City neighborhood. It was row houses, apartments and small…

4 min readSep 22, 2019

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Robert Maier

Robert Maier

Robert Maier is an educator, author and filmmaker. He has made documentaries from Honolulu to Kabul, throughout Europe, and 49 of the 50 US states.

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