“Slim liked to say that it was his birthright to run a home-away-from-home for loony-tunes thinkers,” the Tribune once wrote. “He had been born in 1903 in an Idaho insane asylum, where his mother worked.”
The walls and ceilings of the College of Complexes two “classrooms” are covered with poems, drawings, speeches, want ads and epigrams scrawled by the “students” in 1956. The college was located at a tavern in the 800 block of North State Street in Chicago.
The clientele of the college was nothing if not eclectic. J.J. James, a published poet who for a time moderated discussions at the College of Complexes, where Thursday was poetry night, was in reality Norman Porter, a convicted murderer arrested in Chicago in 2005 after escaping from a Massachusetts prison 20 years earlier.
Brundage wrote books that never got published and was twice married and divorced. He was a piano mover, a house painter and an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, know as the Wobblies. He also got respectable members of the intellectual and political establishments to speak at oddball gatherings, which were regularly monitored by the Chicago Police Department’s “Red Squad,” which spied on alleged subversives.
Many evenings Brundage wore a painter’s white overalls. It wasn’t just shtick, though he titled himself the janitor as well as dean of his college. He often needed a day job.
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