Todd Haynes’s Bob Dylan movie is getting a lot of notice. Apparently Haynes is merely another artistically strange individual, for the following was revealed in a Robert Sullivan interview this weekend:

“For one issue of Plazm, Haynes posed in a Bigfoot suit, no one apparently telling him how dangerous it is to run around in the Pacific Northwest woods in a Bigfoot suit with so many armed Bigfoot hunters running around.)”

Okay, first off, I can’t imagine this guy was in much danger surrounded by a crew of Plazm photographers and celebrity handlers.

Secondly, don’t you think there’s a bit of a myth being created about the PNW forests being full of gun-toting Sasquatch slayers and six-pack Bigfoot hunters with their elephant rifles?

I’m the first one to say I’m all for the camera over the gun, but the numbers of actual Bigfoot hunting-related accidents seem to be microscopic. The incidents of humans-in-gorilla-suits being plugged in the woods are, what, none? one?

Statistical logic appears to overturn this business about “so many armed Bigfoot hunters running around” the woods injuring hoax-minded humans.

Can anyone name two events of this kind? (I seem to remember one.)

Are Bigfooters out there, armed and dangerous, ready to kill your grandmother in her ghillie suit?