The Office Pulpit of Rev. Ivan Stang

Reminder for Clevelandians: "Devival" This Weekend, Oct. 15

2011-10-13T20:31:00.001-04:00

http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html

I will be ranting at THE NE OHIO WITCHES BALL/"CON ON THE COB", 7 p.m., Saturday, October 15, 2011

http://www.cononthecob.com/

Clarion Hudson at 240 East Hines Hill Road Hudson, OH 44236

Also See This More Dobbscentric NEO Witches Ball Website

http://www.neowitchesball.com/

From what I can tell this is sort of like two different events crammed together -- a 4-day geek/comics/crafts/sf con and a 1-night somewhat "neopagan-y" Halloween party (The Witches Ball, I assume based roughly on the older one in Columbus). Wei and I are planning to spend Saturday there because some of the "con" (not Con) stuff sounds fun and involves monsters, and we'll probably hang out after my rant, for bands and also guest parties where they'll probably give us free drinks.

I don't know for sure that a single ordained SubGenius will be there, and the only organizer I've met is the magician Michael Mirth, who performed at Starwood -- STAGE magic, not that other kind that's COMPLETELY fake.

For me this is good because it means I'm not "preaching to the choir," but doing "SubGenius 101," which I can probably do while asleep. And it's much more fun to preach at strangers than at SubGeniuses, because the strangers are always much more polite and don't preach back at the tops of their lungs. But, they are paying me, so as always under that condition, I will give it my all. (Meaning I won't touch any inebriant all day.) Before and after, Wei and I can ogle nerd girls in dorky costumes, artwork, vendor crap we can't afford, and miniatures. There's even a special effects make-up workshop. And something called "DEVO SPICE" -- I dunno if that's a band or what, but it just before the "devival" so I guess I'll find out.

The only thing I'm not looking forward to is hauling swag in for what will probably not be many sales. But every single penny counts. Who knows, we might even save a soul or two. And you never know when somebody will turn up who is SO drunk that they want to buy one of EVERYTHING.

VERY Heavily Revised SubSITE Page: SubG Blogs, Websites, Podcasts, YouTubes List

2011-09-15T23:52:00.002-04:00

http://www.subgenius.com/contact.htm

I've been at this (among other things) for days now, and, ASIDE FROM WHAT'S STILL MISSING, every link should work. MOST of them are "new" in that they weren't on this page before; 3/4 of what used to be there died and have been properly buried.

Includes:

Branch Offices

Usenet

Other SubGenius Websites

SubGenius Shops (unofficial)

E-Groups & Lists

Clenches & Schisms

War-Gods of AntiMusic (doktorbands)

SubGenius Radio on the Web

Since 1995 this list, and its categories, have mutated considerably. Before this week's monstro revision, Rev. Bucky was the last person to attack it, and that was years ago.

Just checking to make sure the links WORK takes an hour! FOLLOWING all the places these various sites lead, well, I'll leave that to those with a lot more spare time than I have.

I know that a lot of sites MUST be missing. For instance, the great SubGenius band THE AMINO ACIDS is not represented, because they technically broke up (except for SubGenius devival purposes). But... I don't know how many OTHER bands replaced them under bandleader Rev. Angry Larry!

I MUST SURELY have left out many important sites and forums with almost CRIMINAL negligence. WON'T YOU HELP? If I left yours out, EMAIL ME, damn it! "stang@subgenius.com" isn't that hard to remember. Trying to keep up with 30 years' worth of Clenches has turned my remaining half-a-brain-cell to MUSH. ONLY YOU can fill in the holes in this Swiss Cheese of a SubGenius Internet List.

It's funny... I remember a time when all SubGenius spin-offs were printed on PAPER, and the list of THOSE was a 16-page document with TINY PRINT! QUIJIBO was, as far as I know, the last of those zines... and I can't find a Quijibo website now! (However, I DID scan almost all Church-related pages of all QUIJIBOs for the SubGenius History Class, which I've been considering turning into the SubGenius History PAY-PER-VIEW website.)

Meanwhile... won't you help out an old Sacred Scribe? I've asked around, and got a few new clues and hints and URLs, but I KNOW there's still a lot missing. If you know of something?... WHIP IT OUT.

14X-Day Official Report Now on SubSITE (but growing)

2011-07-23T00:25:00.002-04:00

http://subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/14XDay/14X-Day_Pics/index.html

This version has two main photo sections besides the text report:

1) Photos by Stang-Doe, now carefully identified in file names and selected in order by day, several with MP3 soundtracks -- but only from Wednesday night, the only jam we had to work from until today, and the Hour of Slack first part from Thursday. More audio (plus videos) will be added as we sort through the various choices of recordings).

2) Photos by various other SubGenii, most of them collected fom Facebook and thus mostly chronologically random due to FB's renaming of photo files. I went to exactly as much trouble to make sideways shots upright as the original posters did. I did however remove the shots that were so amateurish that there was no image at all, and those so out of focus that they might as well have been shot and posted by a Pink. Ordinary photos of ordinary-looking people eating at picnic tables were likewise removed (unless their timing was dramatic.)

3) Lists of more 14X-Day stashes of photos, audio, YouTubes.

4.) The Bobbie Awards list. Shots of Bobbie Awards recipients begin here:

http://subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/14XDay/14X-Day_Pics/14X-Day_StangDoe/2011_07_03-BobbieAwards-Bands/index2.html

What the report lacks is the gigabytes we will cull from the 23 hours of DV video, as well as most of the audio. That material will take literally weeks to sort through for Hour of Slack and YouTube use.

We retain the hottest nude shots for private trading.

Next: The endless track-division of the dozens of 2-hour audio files, and the work of making the videotapes presentable even for SubGenii.

Last-Minute News, Changes, Improvements on Main SubSITE X-Day Page

2011-06-21T02:11:00.000-04:00

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/14XDay/14X-Day.html

Rev. Stang Reads "GREEN EGGS AND HAM" to his grandkids

2011-06-17T02:29:00.002-04:00

http://www.subgenius.com/MP3s/Green_Eggs_and_Ham.mp3

Our OrthoStangian Convox for My Sib's Son's Perelithian Liaison

2011-06-17T02:27:00.000-04:00

By Warden Fendant Stang and Primate Wei

Around May 26, after seeing the works of Saunt M. C. Escher at the Akronian Math, Primate Wei and myself were Vocoed for a Convox of OrthoStangians for the Aut of Perelithian Liaison of the son of my sib, Anti-C!, and a Pruittessian suur. Because we had to leave the Slackianist Concent and venture extramuros, we obtained a new cartabla for our fetch.

Along the way we stayed at various small but famed maths, using a jeejaw to communicate with our fraas and suurs at each to alert them to our approach. Travelling extramuros, one is forced to break the Discipline, and I admit that we used not only jeejaws but syntactic devices at some inns sometimes even with the help of local Itas.

The roads were good and our fetch dependable, and much of the journey was pleasurable, for we passed many a productive fuel tree and page tree orchard. We often had to use super-Allswell and Jumpweed for trade, and to prevent its discovery by the agents of the Saecular powers (and attendant wasted hours before courts of dour local Panjandrums) we hid the Allswell and Jumpweed in the back of the fetch. Also, to keep the Extras from recognizing us as Avout, we traveled sans belt, chord or sphere, wearing sline's clothing and hiding our hair beneath headgear bearing kinagrams of sports teams.

Our first stop was at the Wisterian Concent for Dialogs both Suvian and Periklynian with the Hierarchs there, concerning multitudinous details regarding the 14th Apert of X-Day. Fellow OrthoSubGenians at this Convox included Suur Pisces, Suur Joy, Fraa Suds and Fraa Nigel.

At the nearby Spencerian suvin of the Centenarians Pater and Petal Nostril, we enjoyed a traditional Messal, as elaborate as any of legend for which this Clench is known.

At the Concent of Saunt Sophie, Fraa Frop and Suur Decadence presented us with a book of specfic entitled "Anathem" by the pre-Reconsititution writer Neal Stephenson. Fraa Frop later showed a speely about uncommonly young Vlor Saunts entitled "Kick Ass," which left an impression on Warden Fendant Stang.

The agrarian math of Pa Tilles likewise proved an instructive and most enjoyable hostel. Pa Tilles presented us with the Challenge of the Vanishing Calf, a calca none has yet to solve.

While conducting Dialogs with Saunt Byron Werner and Saunt Sterno in the Arkansanian Concent, new Dobbsharkian calcas involving more than one solution were developed. *

In the Concent of the OrthoStangians we stayed with the Thousander known as Pa Pappy, and prepared for the Aut of Perelithian Liaison of my fid. There was some suspense over this Aut, as my sib's former Perelithian partner, who had been rejected from the mathic world in the Aut of Anathem, nonetheless returned from a sline prison to the OrthoStangian concent for the ceremony. Fraa Frop, my sibs and I feared that he would go Hundreder during the Aut, and we were prepared to employ vlor against him. Luckily his spinal clamp prevented violence, and to his credit he left immediately upon the completion of the Aut.

We are now back inside the gates of the Northern OrthoStangian Concent, replete with many memories, upsights, and, I must confess, a few treasured if illicit speely recordings that later generations might hopefully use in their researches centuries hence.

* The most recent Weiardian calca:

Saunt NHGH asks of The Dobbs: "Man made booze; "God" made pot. Who do you believe in?"

The Dobbs replies:" Pot."

Dozens of Newly Old SubGenius Videos Have Migrated from Google Video to YouTube

2011-05-01T14:58:00.000-04:00

Google Video was around before YouTube, and allowed members to load in movies of any length, so I loaded it with my older films, some of the SubG music videos from a few years back, and whole devival rants and Amino Acids concerts. My YouTube account only held the shorter and more recent items for the most part. Others took my Googles and put them on their YouTubes and got thousands of views, especially with my old 16mm films.

Google first announced they were just going to erase everything on April 29. Then they announced they had reconsidered (i.e. were threatened with a class action lawsuit, probably), and now are planning to "auto-migrate" everything over to YouTube accounts.

I decided to look into it, and found that a) I don't trust them to auto-anything and b) it's really easy to do it yourself and doesn't take much time per video. So, I moved a couple of dozen items over there. I have a couple dozen more to do yet, but they're mostly long, like the Baltimore 2007 devival, whole Amino Acids concerts, the old Club No video from 1991, that kind of thing, and in some cases the compression is lousy.

BUT! There's a lot of "new" stuff now on YouTube, which younger or newer SubGenii might never have been aware of at all.

My YouTube Channel

Up at the very top it says ALL, UPLOADS and FAVORITES. Click on UPLOADS and you'll see the 12 "faves" I picked (and which you may well have seen before, as they've had thousands of YouTube views on other people's channels) but if you scroll down you'll see many more in the descending chronological order in which they were uploaded, with most recent first.

OR,

At upper left is the UPLOADS box.
At the bottom of the box under the 3rd video it says "see all." (Not "see all" under favorites - those are videos by others that I like.)

The box gets bigger and you SHOULD see them in most-recent order. If the list starts with "Attention Spazzblister," that's the oldest (or the first thing I put on YouTube, rather), so toggle "Date Added" to get the most recent uploads, which starts with my 40-minute underground film from 1973, "Let's Visit the World of the Future."

MOST of the videos range from 30 seconds to about 6 minutes.

Or, blow all that off and just try, say:

Let's Visit the World of the Future

… you'll see plenty of the others in the list of related stuff on the right.

"Reproduction Cycle" from 1978 is a big favorite since it's porn stop-motion claymation of Martian microorganisms.

Here's a timely music video made from a.b.s. art:
X-Day's A-Comin' - King of Slack

The Making of MTV-SubGenius
is another long one, 37 minutes.

Then there's sections of "ARISE!" like
ARISE! Chapter 05 - The Life of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs

I also rearranged my Favorites (by others) and it's a pretty good stash of both SubG and non-SubG stuff.

Revised, Updated Official 14X-Day Page with Expanded Lists of Performers, Events, Bands, Instructions

2011-04-18T21:43:00.002-04:00

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/14XDay/14X-Day.html

This revised page now covers almost EVERYTHING about the X-Day fest, its new location, and also points to a pretty active 14X-Day Facebook page.

We have lately run into "counterfeit X-Day pages," just as there are counterfeit "Bobs" out there. This one has the GOOD links (and also quite a bit of nudity if you look at the "X-Days of Yore" links near the bottom. Not that any of you would be interested in nekkid pictures.

OOPS! CORRECTION to recent post regarding Universal Life Church ordainments

2011-03-24T19:10:00.003-04:00

I recently published a blog suggesting that the Universal Life Church had moved and was now in Seattle, and gave a new website to contact (since ULC is more well known in many states than SubGenius). I was misinformed. I had been getting occasional complaints from SubG ministers that they'd gotten no response to the postcards that come with SubGenius packs, which they mail to Modesto, California for a secondary ordination. I think that it's just that the ULC staff in Modesto was swamped.

The ULC Monastery in Seattle is NOT the original ULC, but a splinter group that is no longer authorized by the true ULC. I have been in touch with the original ULC in Modesto since my earlier announcement and understand things a little better. They have modernized their ordainment process and now accept ordainment requests electronically. But they still prefer the request in writing, such as the postcard we include in our Ordainment Package.

So, to get yourself ordained (above and beyond your perfectly good SubGenius ordination), send in your ULC request postcard, and/or go to the true original ULC website:

http://www.ulchq.com

and fill out their online form under the "Ordination" window. THIS IS FREE, although they accept donations. You can also buy nice printed wallet cards and certificates from them for $5 to $10, but those are not necessary. The important thing is that your name be registered with ULC. Same goes for SubGenius ordinations. If questioned by a city or state official you can always request a letter of credentials from us or ULC.

The Modesto ULC website has a very useful list of the specific credentials required for recognition as a minister, state by state in the U.S.A.:
http://www.ulchq.com/statelaws.htm

I apologize for sending out wrong information, and I thank Rev. Sysyphus for bringing this to my attention.

New Book on THE FIRESIGN THEATER Says Very Nice Things About Us

2011-03-11T13:50:00.001-05:00

Taylor Jessen and Seeland Records has put out a book-dataDVD set, THE
DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS. The book is full of interviews and essays; the
data-DVD carries MP3s of ALL their radio shows from 1970-72, which is
like 100 shows.

I haven't heard the 100 shows yet but I did get this far in the book:

"Yessiree, friends, these guys are some funny. Definitely "ha ha"
funny, but also funny dramatic, funny poetic, funny Dada. It's movies
for the mind that have only ever been matched by the likes of Ken
Nordine, Jean Shepherd, and Joe Frank. You can hear the tradition
continuing every Friday morning on Negativland's OVER THE EDGE series
on KPFA, and shows from the Church of the SubGenius like PUZZLING
EVIDENCE and THE HOUR OF SLACK."

It then refers to these shows being in "the Bulldada format" and says
more nice things about how even if we've been on for decades, every
minute of every hour still has that same "verbal jazz" spirit.

I just read the paragraph to Lonesome Cowboy Dave's message machine so
he won't feel so lonesome. (We're all a wee bit snowed in here
today.)

We also got TWO $200 donations to the show suddenly, so Dave even gets
a check. Actually I have several royalty checks to cut.

DUKE OF MADNESS MOTORS collection can be had from seelandrecords.com
and firesigntheater.com. Might be a good idea to move fast on this
one, if you're a serious collector. The whole package is $50 I think.

2011 UPDATE to ULC ordination instruction

2011-02-26T16:33:00.001-05:00

When you purchase a SubGenius Membership and Ordination, that little card that comes with the package (which you fill out yourself) is all you need to perform weddings almost everywhere we know of in the U.S.A. and, evidently, most other countries. You don't need any more documentation from us. We ask that you send in the little confirmation postcard to us mainly because so many of our Memberships are bought as gifts for others and we want to make sure we have the right person on record.

I, Stang, and countless other SubGenius ministers, have performed dozens of marriages in many states. Every now and then a city might require a one-time fee of like $15 to be registered in that particular city. (This happened to me recently after a New York City wedding but I had no trouble getting "certified" once I paid the city's fee and sent a copy of my SubG ordination card.)

We have offered the Universal Life Church ordainment as a kind of back-up, because they were better known than we are. According to their old rules, any ULC minister (such as myself) could ordain new ULC ministers. They have evidently changed this recently, and they also changed addresses and methods. For one thing they seem to have moved from Modesto, CA to Seattle:

ULC Monastery Staff
1425 Broadway Ste. 67
Seattle, WA 98122 USA

They now say that the only way to become a Minister of their church is through their online ordination process at :

http://www.themonastery.org/

This is still free, although they now (not unreasonably) charge to mail you the certificate ($7), a plastic ID card ($12, much fancier than the one I got in 1979) or even a big $50 package.

Hmmm. Maybe we need to update our ordainment package too.

To repeat: You are already a SubGenius minister and your card proves it. (You can also request an official letter from me if some picky state demands such things.) The ULC ordination is a bonus you can choose or not.

If your SubG package came with a postcard addressed to ULC in California, you can toss that, and just register with them online if you wish.

Thanks and praise "Bob,"

Rev. Ivan Stang

Not for Pinks or the Unsaved: SUBGENIUS MEMBERS-ONLY FORUM: SCRUBGENIUS

2010-12-02T21:59:00.002-05:00

There is now a Members-only Internet forum for True SubGenii on Google Groups, called ScrubGenius.

For decades -- since 1986 in fact -- alt.slack on Usenet was the main SubGenius forum. Unfortunately, because it was unmoderated, it acted also as a kind of "kook flypaper," and in recent years it began to draw so many -- er, how to put this? Our formerly great newsgroup is now about 90% what we might call unbelievers, Pink Boys, the Differently Saned, unfunny but overactive Bobbies, obsessive spurned fanboys, occultist ninnies who claim they're Dobbs or God, racist psychos and other "Bob"less paranoid PinKooks. Most of the "Rev. Ivan Stangs" that post there are not the real one, for instance, and (sorry to disappoint you) none of the so-called "Bobs" there are the One True J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.

Thousands of SubGenii are now using Facebook, initially meeting via the two official pages, CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS and SUBGENIUS FOUNDATION.

ALT.SLACK REPLACEMENT:

Our friend Rev. Tater Gumfries started SCRUBGENIUS, a new Members Only forum on Google Groups. Any DUES-PAYING $30 SubGenius minister can join, but anybody can be thrown out too. So, for the finest in kookery and kook-bashing, by all means see good old alt.slack. But for the unsullied SubGenius news, gossip and interaction, try:

http://groups.google.com/group/scrubgenius

You will have to join Google Groups -- most people probably already have -- which costs nothing, and you will then apply to join ScrubGenius. You must give your "human name" -- the one you first ordered your Membership under -- or otherwise give us something to look up in our records, like a physical or email address that we would have from your order.

ScrubGenius is where you'll find chatty posts, caustic humor, inner-church secrets and old-school rants by such long-time SubGenii as Rev. Stang, Rev. Susie the Floozie, Dr. Legume etc.

An Urgent Suggestion - VOTE (and some news)

2010-11-01T20:55:00.000-04:00

On behalf of myself and no one else, I urge my fellow U.S.A. citizens to heed the message of last night's Hour of Slack show, and get out and vote on Tuesday. Sure, the System's broken, blah blah woof woof, but just listen to the careful reasoning (and readings from the SubGenius-Only forum, ScrubGenius) and give it some thought. But do it before Tuesday night.

Hour of Slack #1281 -- Live: Halloween Monster / November Election Special

"After some choice clips from past shows and collages concerning the world of monsters and politics, we continue to explore that theme, live in the studio, with Lonesome Cowboy Dave, Princess Wei 'R.' Doe, and Rev. Ivan Stang on blabberlips. We try not to get too clearly or overtly political on Hour of Slack, but in this particular episode, Rev. Stang lets out some steam that he has evidently been holding in for some time. Learn why The Monsters Are Coming to Maple Street and how to stop them."

On SubSITE: 2010 NYC Devival Reports, Photos, Audio of the Whole Show

"X-DAY IN WONDERLAND"

That's what Princess Wei called this devival, because it really was like a good chunk of X-Day Drill at its best, only indoors. From my point of view it was one of the best devivals ever, on all counts. Turnout was great, venue was great, performances were great, sales were great, and best of all, unlike X-Day, I wasn't in charge. All I HAD to do was rant and perform a wedding!

You can hear/download the whole thing from the above-linked page. If you want you can also read an unreasonably detailed photo report by Princess Wei and myself about the quaintliness and quaintitudes we encountered on our road trip across Pennsylvania to and from the devival.

CULT CREATION & MANAGEMENT

And

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS

(scroll down to the SubGenius course by Stang)

The online class is in its fourth year at Maybe Logic Academy. We started on Oct. 25, but it lasts 6 weeks and all of the materials -- 3 data-DVDs worth of video, audio and documents (like all the STARK FISTS) from the early days of the Church until now -- are available the whole time. We're really just starting, and if you join now you won't have missed anything. Even the daily live chats are archived.

Nov. 13 -- Detroit Devival

With THE AMINO ACIDS, Rev. Ivan Stang, much more.

9 pm at Old Miami, 3930 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI

Facebook Page

TWO MAJOR SUBGENIUS EVENTS IN OCTOBER: NYC DEVIVAL Oct. 9 and MAYBE LOGIC ACADEMY'S 6-WEEK ONLINE SUBGENIUS CLASS - OCT. 25 - DEC.12

2010-09-16T21:07:00.003-04:00

One requires you to go to New York City; the other lets you download hundreds of hours of audio, video and graphics while ensconced at home.

You are more likely to pick up an attractive stranger at the NYC event. Therefore, we urge you to do BOTH.

The powerful Go F--- Yourself Clench of NYC is bringing top SubGenius preachers and bands, and Dobbs only knows what else, to the fabulous Wonderland in Astoria, to entertain you to within an inch of your life. Preachers include Rev. Ivan Stang, Rev. Susie the Floozie, Rev. Bleepo Abernathy, Priestess Pisces, Pope David Black, and Sinphaltimus Exmortis. Music will be by Rev. Phat Man Dee, The Duke of Uke, Fat Free, DJ2B, and Lon DuQuette. It's like an X-Day Drill -- only indoors! "HARD CORE SLACK IN THE GREATEST METROPOLITAN HELLHOLE KNOWN TO MAN! SEE IT before it gets BLOWN OFF THE MAP!" -- Rev. Back It On Up, Hostess

This blasphemous, alcohol-soaked SubGenius event is practically within spitting distance of the sacred "Ground Zero"!

Directions and many more details are on the subgenius.com Events Page:

http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html

(There you can also learn about the Nov. 13 Devival in Detroit and an event in Little Rock, Nov. 20… also, links to photo and video reports on the recent DEVOtional and other Cleveland events, 13X-Day Drill and Starwood 30.)

Updates to everything can always be found at the relatively new OFFICIAL SUBGENIUS FACEBOOK PAGE

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New Improved SubGenius Online Course at Maybe Logic Academy - starts Oct. 25, Bigger Than Ever

http://www.maybelogic.org/courses.htm

(scroll down)

To ENROLL:

http://www.maybelogic.org/enroll.htm

This online course offers two very different and distinct parts, running simultaneously for 6 weeks.

CULT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT is the interactive, participatory part, with several live chatrooms sessions each week. Students who want to create their own cults --- either funny or serious, or both -- work with Rev. Stang and each other to develop their ideas and bring them to life in the form of websites, publications, etc., just as The Church of the SubGenius did in its early days. By the end of the 6 weeks, industrious students will have developed their own proto-cult, ready for the market.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS is a truly huge stash of downloadable multimedia, including practically everything created by The SubGenius Foundation and friends besides the three main SubGenius books that are still in print.

It includes a book's worth of brand new text, a DVD's worth of MP3 audio, another DVD's worth of AVI videos, and yet a third DVD's worth of graphics -- most of it available ONLY through this course.

This course has been running annually since 2006, and in that time Rev. Stang has scanned practically every page of every important Church publication (for instance, all of the STARK FIST OF REMOVAL zines), the most revealing letters from Church artists, writers and even celebrity weirdos, color versions of art pieces and comics previously seen only in B&W if at all, every newspaper or magazine article about the Church, every interview, all the way down to the yellow pads on which the Church doctrine was first outlined in 1977.

The audio on the MP3 files includes all of the SubGenius Media Barrage tapes, all of the BobSong music albums, all of the edited SubG convention, devival and X-Day Drill reports, early phone conversations between Stang and Drummond and other very early collaborators on the project, actual documentary recordings of the various insane people and kooks who have attempted to hijack the Church, dozens of the best Hour of Slack radio shows (and other SubG shows, like Puzzling Evidence and Susie the Floozie's) from each year, going back to 1985, and many sermons from live Church stage shows. It totals literally hundreds of hours of sound, representing 30 years of SubGenius media editing.

The videos, in DivX avi and/or mpeg1 format, comprise another 20 or more hours of multimedia: TV news show segments about the Church, animated and live SubGenius shorts, documentaries about the various X-Day Drills and devivals going back to 1980, music videos, interviews with SubGeniuses, even "anti-SubGenius" shows.

Each year, Stang has added more and more detail to the text history, so that it is now the equivalent of an entire new nonfiction book. As you might imagine, the real-life events that occur with a global group of weirdos and freaks like The Church of the SubGenius involve many stories that seem almost too bizarre to be real, as do many of the real characters that have become involved with the Church in one way or another during the last 3 decades. You'll get Stang's autobiographical accounts of everything from the very first beginnings of the SubGenius concept to the worst and most insane crackpots that it has attracted.

The multimedia stashes will be available throughout the 6 week duration of the course, as it would probably take almost that long just to download it all. For the price of the course, each student has access to materials that would otherwise cost hundreds of dollars to procure one at a time, as well as priceless materials that are available no other way.

The strange, inspiring and sometimes frightening anecdotes that Stang presents will prompt all manner of questions and observations about the nature of religion and philosophy, and these will be addressed in the frequent live chat discussions.

At the end of the course, the student will not only have a diploma, but his or her own brand-new self-invented cult and a complete multimedia library of practically everything worthwhile created in the name of "Bob" -- thousands of pages of text and graphics, and thousands of hours of audio and video.

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TOP SECRET

SUBGENIUS MINISTER'S EYES ONLY

NOT FOR PINKS

There is a secret Internet forum for True SubGenii on Google Groups, called ScrubGenius.

For decades -- since 1986 in fact -- alt.slack on Usenet was the main SubGenius forum. Unfortunately, because it was unmoderated, it acted also as a kind of "kook flypaper," and in recent years it gradually began to draw so many -- er, how to put this? Our formerly great newsgroup is now is about 75% what we might call unbelievers, Pink Boys, the Differently Saned, unfunny but overactive Bobbies, obsessive spurned fanboys, occultist ninnies who claim they're Dobbs or God, racist psychos and other "Bob"less paranoid PinKooks.

Our friend Rev. Tater Gumfries started a new Members Only forum on Google Groups. Any SubGenius can join, but anybody can be thrown out too. So, for the finest in kookery and kook-bashing, by all means see good old alt.slack. But for the unsullied SubGenius news, gossip and interaction, try:

http://groups.google.com/group/scrubgenius

You will have to join Google Groups -- most people probably already have -- which costs nothing, and you will then apply to join ScrubGenius. Give your "human name" -- the one you first ordered your Membership under -- and the latest Church Name and/or Internet Handle you are known by. One of the moderators (I, Stang am one) will get back to you and grant you access.

If you give this secret out to the UnSaved, you will be struck down by the REAL Stark Fist of Removal. That will happen anyway sooner or later, but don't risk making it happen sooner. "Bob's" Wrath -- you don't even want to know. He doesn't get a wrath-on very often, but it's awful to behold.

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THE HOUR OF SLACK on Several New Stations

The show has been picked up by new stations in North Carolina, Connecticut, Texas, and several Internet stations. The complete list is here:

http://subgenius.com/ts/hos.html

Almost all of the 1,280 episodes of the show are available for free download! The rich can subscribe and have CDs mailed to them biweekly:

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/audio-hos.htm

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YouTube Slack

There's some new SubGenius & DEVO related video at my YouTube channel, which leads to many other, more active SubGenius channels:

http://www.youtube.com/user/revstang

Another huge collection of SubGenius videos:

http://www.youtube.com/user/mcgrewrich

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FILTH!

SLAKCHAN -- New Sick Art and Photo Forum:

http://www.slackchan.org/bob/imgboard.php

NOT FOR KIDS

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YOUR CHANCE TO VOTE FOR THE MIRACLE "BOB" TOAST MAKER!

http://jesustoasters.com/

This fellow's toasters will miraculously burn an image of Jesus (or a hemp leaf, or peace sign) on bread… help make the next one a Dobbshead-burner! Scroll down to the survey. "Bob" is already ahead of Moses and Our Lady of Guadalupe, and swiftly gaining on Sarah Palin and Jerry Garcia! (Muhammad remains in the lead.)

Let There Be Slack.

See you sinners on the Saucers,

Rev. Ivan Stang

Sacred Scribe #273

13X-Day Drill, Starwood 30 Survived; Backed-Up Orders Filled

2010-07-14T20:33:00.003-04:00

We are back in the SubGenius Foundation offices at the Slackermansion in Cleveland Heights, after two weeklong outdoor festivals in a row, plus days of packing and unpacking. Full reports on X-Day 13 and Starwood 30 will follow, but we want our beloved customers to know that all of the orders for books, ordainments, etc. that came in since June 29 have now been filled and the products are in the mail.

13X-Day is being called "the best X-Day Drill yet" by most of the attendees. Obviously, had the Xist saucers come and the Rupture happened, it would have been much better, but we're beginning to suspect that "Bob's" point may be that X-Day could happen AT ANY TIME - so you had better get Slack now. I know that I am happy with the hours of recordings I brought home, thanks to the great bands and ranters, and to Pater Nostril, who recorded it all. I will probably be combing through all that audio for the next ten Hours of Slack.

We are still editing our own photos, because we are very picky, but many other X-Day attendees have already posted theirs. You can find links to all of these various photo collections at Modemac's 13X-Day Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sherman-NY/X-Day-XIII-June-30-July-5-2010/10150127390070697

Many SubGenii have also posted their text reports on 13X-Day at the Members-only ScrubGenius group. Some are also posted on alt.slack, our older, unmoderated and kook-riddled forum. I will attempt to copy those reports and gather them in a 13X-Day section on subgenius.com soon. Anybody is welcome to email me their pictures, writings etc. if they want to be sure and see them archived for eternity at subgenius.com.

The Starwood Festival's 30th anniversary event was held at a new site, Wisteria, that is even prettier than Brushwood, and while attendance was down (as expected, considering the blow Starwood was dealt by its new competition), the event went beautifully. People are describing it as the most fun Starwood in several years. The devival, along with some great music by Rev. Phat Man Dee and others, will be heard on Hour of Slack in due time and possibly in multiple installments. We won't be posting quite as many photos from Starwood as from X-Day, because there was a lot more nudity (and more strangers and innocent bystanders).

We'll announce the links as soon as our big reports and photo galleries are done. Meanwhile, those who ordered SubGenius goods between June 29 and July 14 should be seeing the swag in their mailboxes by July 17 (or maybe a few days later for the overseas customers).

Praise "Bob," and praise all the SubGenii and other weirdos who made both the main SubGenius event and the USA's foremost neopagan festival such successes.

P.S. There is now an official SubGenius Foundation Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cleveland-Heights-OH/SubGenius-Foundation/124410604252009

NEW! - 13 X-Day Souvenir Propaganda Garments and Other Products

2010-06-20T02:26:00.002-04:00

http://www.cafepress.com/subgen/188969

Better late than never. Wonderful souvenirs to cherish! -- Touching reminders of the last days of your life on planet Earth and your liberation by Dobbs. Shirts, hoodies, kids' clothes, mugs, steins, Liquid Frop Bottles, all emblazoned with the famous 13 X-Day posters by Rev. Pan Demonium and/or this year's antique bug porn "squirrel shot."

See our 13X-Day page for complete information on how to not die very soon.

STARK FIST Newsletter May 18 2010

2010-05-18T18:48:00.003-04:00

This is your radio host and prayer partner Rev. Ivan Stang, posting here for the first time since last November. I have been Slacking off in the form of work, and have, with help, written a SubGenius movie. It might take a while to turn the script into a Hollywood-style movie, but in the meantime it should make for a damn good puppet show. We managed to get a few other projects done, though, like an official Church Facebook page and another Art Mine, with plenty more coming up, such as X-Day.

X-DAY THE 13th

The world ends July 5 at 7 a.m. That's why as many SubGeniuses as possible will gather at Brushwood Folklore Center in New York starting June 30, to party appropriately. There have been 14 X-Day Drills before this ultimate event, so we've had lots of practice. Our new X-Day page has all the details, as well as a new, improved way to surf through the nudity-packed photo essays on previous X-Day Drills, going back to 1996.

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/13XDay/13X-Day.html

1st SUBGENIUS DEVIVAL IN CHINA - May 22

Rev. Shining Path of Least Resistance, our man in Shanghai, is sponsoring a righteous SubGenius event behind the Iron Curtain. Dobbs only knows what will result. A billion new SubGeniuses, or a hundred years in the reeducation camps for Rev. Shining Path? You can fly to Shanghai today, or follow the results on our Events page.

http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html

NEW TUNNEL EXCAVATED IN THE ART MINES

Braving the danger of cave-in and deadly gasses, we carved out another gallery of graphics deep under subgenius.com. ART MINES TUNNEL #25 now displays almost two years' worth of accumulated graphics, from the fine art of IMBJR and LeMur, and many others, to Proof of "Bob" unearthed from ancient magazine ads and startling artifacts from real SubGenius life. Caution: once you enter these galleries, days or even weeks may pass before you emerge.

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/Art_Mines_25/index.html

THE ALT.SLACK PROBLEM FORCES THE CHURCH ONTO FACEBOOK

Many SubGenii love to interact at arm's length over the Internet. They josh, share, and fight in several different forums. The oldest, alt.slack on Usenet and Google Groups, is a complete free-for-all. It cannot be moderated, and therefore undergoes periods when it fills up with kooks, trolls and the mentally ill, resembling a kind of perpetual flame war. Some SubGenii enjoy that sort of thing. I love it, but then I am a professional kookbasher. Others simply cannot tolerate the high levels of rancor, sarcasm, and personal insults.

I want to keep steering new SubGenii to alt.slack. For the newcomer alt.slack is a gauntlet, an ordeal, a trial by fire. It's not for sissies! On the other hand, we also need a forum that is kook-proofed, where the fighting and flooding doesn't interfere with Slackful communication. That forum was started up by our beloved friend Rev. Tater Gumfries (of Kern's Holler fame), and it is:

SCRUBGENIUS!

http://groups.google.com/group/scrubgenius

You'll notice that to access the ScrubGenius forum, one must sign in to Google Groups AND apply for membership by emailing Tater. Just about anybody will be let in, but if a person proves to be a bad apple they can be cast out of the garden -- unlike alt.slack. ScrubGenius can be a much more Slackful read than alt.slack because Pinks are culled from it. Anyone can sign up, and anyone can be banned. Some of the best SubGenius writers such as Rev. Susie the Floozy ONLY post to ScrubGenius.

Then there is Facebook. After my experience with MySpace -- being bombarded by requests from too many total strangers -- I tried to avoid "social media." Meanwhile, literally dozens of people, many not even SubGeniuses, started up "Church of the SubGenius" pages on Facebook. It finally sunk in that since ours is a face-based religion, Facebook is inevitable, so with the help of co-administrator and longtime SubGenius Foundation officer Rev. Nickie Deathchick, and with the guidance of "Bob" and Dr. Philo Drummond, we have started an "official, authorized" SubGenius Foundation Facebook page:

FACEBOOK SUBGENIUS

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cleveland-Heights-OH/SubGenius-Foundation/124410604252009

http://tinyurl.com/subfacebook

This page has a discussion forum where Facebooking Subs can vent, a photos section where new artwork or Proof of "Bob" graphics can be posted, and a video section that can also take contributions. Crap posted by saboteurs can be removed. We will surely also add an area where MP3 audio can be posted. For folks who want to contribute to Hour of Slack or SubSITE, but who don't do the old Usenet approach, or email me directly, this is a good central gathering place to submit your works. Hopefully, this official Church Facebook page will become a whole "show" unto itself.

There is yet another SubGenius forum up and running at our IRC-chat host, TAPHOUSE. This is another potential True SubGenius forum from which false prophets can be cast, to make way for the true unburnished Word. It is not currently being used much, but ambitious schisms could make it their main hang-out.

http://taphouse.org/forum/

YOUTUBE SUBGENIUS

One can find hours of great and awful video by SubGenii by typing "subgenius" into the YouTube search window. But we suggest here some special channels by SubGenius old-timers. You can find plenty of links to new-timers in the old-timers' subscription and favorites lists.

Rev. McGrewich has gathered together a good cross-section of the best SubVids. He has also reposted many of the longer videos that I had originally put on Google Video.

http://www.youtube.com/user/mcgrewrich

ZONTAR RULES! This SubGenius picked up the CGI-Dobbs ball and ran with it. Surrealism at its most SubGenoid.

http://www.youtube.com/user/zontarnet

Puzzling Evidence, besides hosting the longest-running SubG radio show, has been documenting weirdness of every kind in the San Francisco area for 20 years. That documentation is now being heaved up onto the Internet, at long last.

http://www.youtube.com/user/PuzzlingEvidenceTV

Rev. Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller rants like 17 motherfuckers.

http://www.youtube.com/user/pennsays

You may be surprised by the subject matter of my own latest videos. I got a new hobby: wildlife photography. But not the kind you're thinking of.

http://www.youtube.com/user/revstang

Dr. Philo Drummond, co-subfounder of the Church, has been presenting SubGenius Film Festivals in the San Francisco area for some time. Here he offers some of his choice bulldada source material.

http://www.youtube.com/user/philodrummond

IMBJR SubG T-shirts

The great, if terribly perverted, SubGenius artist IMBJR has created some nifty new T-shirts carrying classic SubSlogans. Links to these (and several jillion other SubShirt sources) are on our main catalog T-shirt page.

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/tshirts.htm

INWO game almost gone

In 1997, Steve Jackson Games and the Church released a game called Illuminati New World Order - SubGenius. The game set includes 100 art cards by SubGenius arteests. However, it is officially out of print, and we possess the last 30 copies of this rarity. The price will go way up when we're down to the last 20 copies.

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/inwo.htm

BOOKS

Our three main books are our best product and the most crucial to SubGenius comprehension. Besides "Bob" himself, they are the main reason the Church exists. And yet, any of them could go permanently out of print at any time. Get 'em while they're extant. When you buy them from us, I, Stang, sign and date them.

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/books.htm

SUBRADIO: Hour of Slack, Susie archive, Philo archive, Puzzling Evidence

Thanks to advances in Internet cheapness, it is now possible to download SubGenius radio show episodes on MP3, going back to the 1980s. Almost all of the 1,200 past Hours of Slack are now available, as are Puzzling Evidence shows, Swinging Love Corpses concerts, and Rev. Susie the Floozy's "Bob's" Slacktime Fun House classics along with Lymph Node Institute ones. Also, there are constant streams of these shows that never ever stop. A person could drive itself completely insane. You can find links to all of it if you scroll down the Hour of Slack main page:

http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos.html

ORDAINMENT

What keeps the Church financially afloat is Membership Ordainments. Ordainment is also the only thing that erases your Pinkness in the eyes of "Bob." The ordainment package is like a book that you can wear. Don't live your life as a Gimme-Bob. Be a REAL SubGenius Minister, a Reverend or Pope, registered in the Book of Life. Until you do that, you are still utterly Pink in the eyes of "Bob" and all true SubGenii. Pinks like to joke that you are MORE "SubGenius" if you don't contribute. That's fine, for Pinks.

ORDAINMENT: http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/membership.htm

The best mere $30 you will ever spend.

PRAISE THAT MAN "BOB" AND THE PIPE HE CLENCHES BETWIXT HIS SHINING HOLY TEETH.

SubGenius News - Pre-Xistlessnessmess 2009

2009-11-15T15:03:00.004-05:00

Friends, we have many exciting announcements of upcoming events, products to spam for Xmas, personal news, and links to freebies that will keep you entertained for hours, especially if you are a sick, twisted, cynical or otherwise SubGeniusly individual. Events first, because some are coming up soon.

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Nov. 21st-26th, Amsterdam, Holland:

Frop Cup 2009 - Frop Cup vs. Cannabis Cup

Opening ceremonies will be at Cafe Mono Bilderdijkstraat 15, 1052 NA Amsterdam, Netherlands at 22.00 (10pm) on No.. 21st and the week's festivities include: Rantings, Frop outtings, drunken staggering contests, SubGenius Olympic Doping Committee Meetings, Spankings (tm), Vile Dancing, SexHurt, The Korsakoff.

If you'd like to attend please drop Pope Black an email: pope_black666@yahoo.de

November 28, Detroit, Michigan:

ANNUAL DETROIT SUBGENIUS DEVIVAL

with THE AMINO ACIDS and many others

9:00 PM at SMALL'S BAR, Hamtramck, MI -- ALL AGES - $6!

http://theaminoacids.com/

Nov. 28, Dec. 5, 12, & 19, Chicago, IL:

Weekly SUBGENIUS DEVIVAL of the FITTEST

with Pope Michael Flores

8 p.m. each night weekly at THE LIAR'S CLUB, 1665 W Fullerton, Chicago IL

http://subgeniusslack.blogdrive.com/archive/78.html

Feb. 12 - 14 Atwood Lake Lodge, Dellroy OH:

Winterstar Symposium

With Rev. Ivan Stang, Witch Disco, Harvey Pekar (?)

http://www.rosencomet.com/festhapp.html

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Sacred SubSpam: XISTLESSNESSMESS SALE!

A SALE at subgenius.com is a rare event. But, just for this holiday season, we refrained from raising our prices. Yes, after Xmas you'll never be able to get anything in our catalog so cheaply again. So hurry!

Not Yet ORDAINED?

SIGN UP NOW AND BE AN ORDAINED MINISTER! It only takes a minute and you'll get a huge 26-part package of stuff. These make GREAT Xmas gifts, especially for people who have never heard of The Church of the SubGenius! Perform marriages, funerals, circumcisions.

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/membership.htm

Some of our most popular items (like Book of the SubGenius) are already temporarily sold out, but our celebrated books Revelation X and The Psychlopaedia of Slack are still in stock (and all signed by Rev. Stang), as are all our DVDs, CDs, MP3-packed CDRs, even the SubGenius-Illuminati-NWO game box set and "Bob" condom packs.

Our main BULLDADA CATALOG includes those most sacred and in-demand goods:

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/mediashack.html

And there is another catalog with zillions of colorful SubGenius designs on T-shirts, mugs, clocks, thongs, hoodies, house wares, gifts, toys, posters, bumper stickers, stash-boxes, you name it, at THE SUBGENIUS STORE:

http://www.cafepress.com/subgen

For the SubGenius who has everything, The Official 2010 SubGenius Calendar is out! It's not especially cheap, but the paper it's printed on is slicker than snot on a doorknob:

http://www.cafepress.com/subgen.8404221

DobbsHead and the Wings of Slack designs are now both available on deluxe black hoodies from our pals at Anticonformity.

http://anticonformity.stores.yahoo.net/sujbdoheblho.html

http://anticonformity.stores.yahoo.net/nesuwofslblh.html

The great bulldada company Archie McPhee is now offering:

The J. R. "Bob" Dobbs Messenger Bag

This large, sturdy sacred stash bag features “Bob's" portrait on thick faux canvas and has adjustable nylon Big Black Straps! -- the kind men like.

http://www.mcphee.com/shop/products/J.R.-Bob-Dobbs-Messenger-Bag.html

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ONLINE FREEBIES FOR YOUR GAWKING AND GANDERING WONDERMENT

Portland Devival Videos and Report

Puzzling Evidence TV covered the spectacular SubGenius show in Portland last month, and it's all on YouTube. Links, stills, and a full write-up are at:

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/Portland_09/index.html

While we're at it, Rev. Stang's YouTube page is http://www.youtube.com/user/revstang

and a great SubGenius stash is at

http://www.youtube.com/user/mcgrewrich

We have a new favorite online magazine that has lately surpassed the old STARK FIST and even QUIJIBO in pure fun:

Kern's Holler Journal

This is Rev. Tater's ongoing compendium of the best rants, reports, poems and short stories by the top SubGenius writers and experts in The Forbidden Sciences. Includes some of the best of alt.slack by rip-snorters like Rev. Back It On Up, Rev. Stang, and good old Tater Gumfries hisself.

http://www.kernsholler.net/KernsHollerJournalOfScience/KernsHollerJournalOfScience.html

The Bob Belt

This is another of Tater's projects, and works with Google Earth. Go to this site and add to the list your fancy Church name and vague or fictional location (exact address not necessary!). Displays a graphic of Planet Earth with "pushpins" showing areas of concentration of SubGenius life: the "Bob" Belt. (Hint: Give this one extra time to load.)

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&vps=1&jsv=154c&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=110245893064340339403.000467c93e2919719f489

For a homey look at Rev. Stang's and Princess Wei's Halloween see:

Halloween at the Slackermansion

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/pics13/Halloween_2009/index.html

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HOURS AND HOURS OF FREE SLACK

Hour of Slack Archives

NEW! - an ever-growing archive of hundreds of uncut Hour of Slack radio shows from the 1990s, copied from the original tapes to MP3, thanks to St. David Bachner:

http://db8.ca/radioarchive/hos/

"All SubGenius, all the time!"

NEW - "Bob's" Golden Stream Resurrected

Random SubGenius shows streamed 24-7 -- includes Hours of Slack (going back 20 years), Puzzling Evidence, "Bob's" Slack Time Funhouse, National Cynical, much more! From Rev. NeuroManson.

http://www.shoutcast.com/Internet-Radio/resurrected

Latest Hours of Slack and archive of shows from Con Year 2000 on:

http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos.html

Home Subscription Hour of Slack CD mailings:

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/audio-hos.htm

LIVE SUBGENIUS CHAT

http://frop.taphouse.org:13013/chat.html

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Good News About Rev. Magdalen's Child Custody Case!

FINALLY!

"As of October 4, 2009, the case has been dismissed and custody of Reverend Magdalen's son has been awarded to her. This appears to mean that after over three years of legal wrangling and over $100,000 in costs to her, Magdalen, her husband, and her ex-boyfriend are back to the status quo. That, plus she is still the only SubGenius officially banned from keeping SubGenius materials in her home, where her innocent son might accidentally come across them and become corrupted into the corrupt, obscene, decadent SubGenius cult that got his Mom into trouble in the first place."

From http://www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Reverend_Magdalen

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Elect Dr. Hal for Congress 2010!

This will also lead you to the large Facebook realm of SubGeniuses.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=167120484239&ref=mf

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ALT.SLACK - AN ESPECIALLY WIGGLY WORLD

As always, for the most up-to-date daily SubGenius news and commentary on current events, as well as pages of insane ravings by actual kooks and hilarious mockings of them by expert kook-bashers, see the #1 SubGenius forum, alt.slack. Experienced geeks will want to use an actual newsreader program for this Usenet newsgroup, but the rest of us can use our plain browsers via:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.slack/topics

At any given time on alt.slack, half the threads will concern flaming and kook-bashing that may only baffle newbies. Beginners are advised to look for thread subject titles that originate from known SubSources. It's like one big bizarre, messed-up, hilarious family, and the focus of SubGenius as a social phenomenon. However there are even more forums listed on our SubSITE News Page too:

http://www.subgenius.com/updates/updates.html

One last thing: times are tough, and the Church of the SubGenius could really use a donation!

To donate via Paypal:

http://www.subgenius.com/contact.htm

and The SubGenius Foundation is always happy to take a check at our Cleveland Heights sacred post office box!

PRAISE "BOB"; INHALE CONNIE!

SubGenius

PO Box 181417

Cleveland Heights OHIO 44118

SubGenius Foundation Report - Sept. 2009

2009-09-28T18:00:00.000-04:00

The Stark Fist of Removal Online

Dear Friend,

Praise "Bob," and let us utter a resounding "WHEW." We at The SubGenius Foundation had a very busy summer, with numerous SubGenius devivals and outdoor festivals, and we're looking forward to spending more time in the office, finishing up numerous projects-in-progress. BUT! -- there is one last devival this year.

PORTLAND, OREGON Devival, October 10

This promises to be a classic old-time Devival, with guest preachers Dr. Hal, Rev. Ivan Stang, Dr. Philo Drummond, Princess Wei R. Doe and The Duke of Uke joining hosts Dr. Onan Canobite and Rev. Crawford Smith. (In other words, the main authors of the SubGenius books will almost all be in one place.) There are also three bands and Dobbs only knows what else. Address and lots more detail can be found at http://pdxdevival.com/

Past Devivals: Photo Galleries and Audio

We had big fun and recorded much audio and video at the recent DragonCon in Atlanta, DEVOtional in Cleveland and Starwood Festival in New York. Sermons, songs, and much much worse can be heard on current HOURS OF SLACK in MP3 (and possibly on your local station -- check the list at the link). Photos, and in some cases videos, from the various devivals and stage shows can be seen via links on our EVENTS page. CAREFUL: some of these photos are naughty and what might be considered 'NOT SAFE FOR WORK.' DVDs of some of our past shows can also be found in our video catalog.

Events page: http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html

DragonCon: http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/DragonCon09/index.html

Hour of Slack downloads: http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos.html

DEVOtional: http://subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/DEVOtional2009/index.html

Video catalog: http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/video.htm

12X-Day and Starwood photo essays:

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/12XDay/12X-Day_Text/index.html

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/STARWOOD29/index.html

Great New SubGenius Spin-Off Website: Kern's Holler Journal

This is an ongoing compendium from Rev. Tater Gumfries of the best articles and short stories by the top SubGenius writers and experts in The Forbidden Sciences. Very "down-home!" Don't miss it, and check in frequently for new stories: KERN'S HOLLER JOURNAL:

http://www.kernsholler.net/KernsHollerJournalOfScience/KernsHollerJournalOfScience.html

New Projects at SubGenius Foundation

We're getting tired of the Internet. It's been almost 20 years for some of us. The thrill is gone. We are back to working on books and movies. We intend to keep doing the weekly Hour of Slack for broadcast (and Internet) but are looking for a SubGenius with pay-website experience to help with subgenius.com. In the meantime, check out our main Internet forum:

Alt.slack

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.slack/topics

(It can also be reached with any Usenet browser if you have Usenet access.)

Alt.slack is the busiest online SubGenius meeting place by far. It is also the most kook-ridden, which makes for the finest in kook bashing by some of the top experts in that field. This is where to find links to several new SubGeniusly items of interest per day.

Best New SubGenius Products - Books, DVDs, Clothing

Our main BULLDADA CATALOG includes the latest of our 5 books. Did we mention that all books sold through our website are signed by Rev. Ivan Stang?

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/mediashack.html

And there is another catalog with zillions of colorful SubGenius designs on T-shirts, house wares, gifts, stash-boxes, you name it, at THE SUBGENIUS STORE:

http://www.cafepress.com/subgen

Not Yet ORDAINED?

It only takes a minute! SIGN UP NOW AND BE AN ORDAINED MINISTER! Perform marriages, funerals, circumcisions!

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/membership.htm

12X-Day Photos & Etc. on SubSITE

2009-07-15T20:33:00.003-04:00

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/12XDay/12X-Day_Photos/index.html

Galleries of photos by Stang & Doe, Dok Frop & Sister Decadence, Pater
Nostril, Agent Lloyd, Pisces, Misc (the Misc part is especially funny)
plus links to the Facebook ones that I've heard of so far, for people
on Facebook.

TEXT Reports (all gathered from alt.slack, but edited) are at:
http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/12XDay/12X-Day_Text/index.html

which is a SubSet of
http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/12XDay/12X-Day.html

Now, "Bob" has instructed me in a vision to assemble yet a THIRD 12X-
Day Hour of Slack and get it out of here by Saturday. The second one,
a "Bobtism" special, which we finished and mailed to stations
yesterday, will be linked into SubSITE on Thursday.

Any more photos, videos or recordings that are sent here won't be
gotten online until after we return from Starwood (which, being a week
of events within events, generates its own huge mass o' media). We/I
are trying to get a whale's butt's worth of work done before we leave.
This is an annual period of intensity that she and I keep voluntarily
putting ourselves through for some reason.

Oh wait, now I remember why. It's because the festival she runs comes
2 weeks after the festival I run. And her festival involves 1500
people. And she and I have to have the names, addresses and credit
card numbers of all those people right at our fingertips, starting
Sunday. But, by Saturday week I, the infamous disbeliever, will once
again be one of the 8 people who pretend to set afire instantly with
mere torches the artfully stacked, house-sized pile of wood. (The
ignition is actually triggered by remote control, by rocket
scientists.) Pissing off every fundie pagan in the campground on
account of me, a SubGenius, being involved in the Sacred Bonfire
Lighting is all the reward I need.

Also, I learned Ron Slabe will be projecting my Igazum-ation on a
giant screen during the pyrotechnics in the spectacular Friday night
island fire show. Knowing all those acid-gobblers are going WHOA DUDE
at my glorpy insta-psychedelia (when they're not looking at the
topless fire-twirling girls) always does my hideous hairy pride gland
good too.

But best of all, we won't be near a keyboard or computer for over a
week!

Unfortunately we will be closely surrounded by humans on all sides,
even when hiding out in The Medium Sized House or the various
SubGenius or SubGenius/Discordian camps. During Starwood, you have to
go pretty far out into the woods to escape the humans. Ask any bear.

SubGenius Online Course; New Videos; Magdalen & Other News

2009-03-19T09:34:00.002-04:00

THE SUBGENIUS ONLINE COURSE
Monstro 8-week SubGenius Online Event!

April 6 - May 31:
Running Your Own Cult: Do's and Don'ts
and The Church of the SubGenius -- The First 30 Years
An ONLINE course from Maybe Logic Academy

You don't have to leave your home! Once signed up, you use your browser to access vast amounts of SubKnowledge in the form of text, videos, MP3s, online chats with Teacher Stang, and thousands of pages scanned from our old publications, comics, out-of-print books, etc.

Each year the how-tos and History of the Church materials get more layered and detailed. Last year's course ended up having twice as much material as the first year. This year we're adding even more. Describes and shows all of the most insane and/or fabulous things that happened in SubGeniusdom over the decades. Includes STARK FIST magazines of the previous century, letters from famous artists and monsters, sexy photos, and enough rare audio and videos from past events and radio shows to fill 3 DVDs. Yes, 3 DVDs of SUBSTUFF. It's like getting EVERYTHING the Church ever did (except for the 3 main published books) for one one-thousandth of the cost.

You'll also meet some VERY interesting people -- at a comfortable distance.

"So if you're debating with yourself over whether or not to join, punch your other self (the one who is arguing against it) in the face and get ready to shell out the money. This is a chance that only comes around once in a great year." -- former student Rev. Anna Dynamite

Course description:
http://www.maybelogic.org/stangcrs.htm
Enroll:
http://www.deepleafproductions.com/deepleafcart/
Maybe Logic Academy:
http://www.maybelogic.net/

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Free SubGenius Movies -- The Very Newest and the Very Oldest

Newest: SubGenius IGAZUM Cerebral Reformatter playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=55B2042B110DCE54

If you are easily hypnotized, on strong antidepressants, or a chronic "chronic" user, set aside 40 minutes of time before you start into this, as it WILL mess you up one way or another.

A combination of interior-eyeball-scanned, mental projection-powered "animation" -- and past-landscape footage obtained through a randomly traveling time "camera" -- allowed us to create a composite music-video/brainwash code imbedder that will act as a replacement for recreational drugs. We used these techniques in six short videos about J. R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius. Animation and music are by Rev. Ivan Stang with sound collage editing and vocal craziness by LeMur, Norel Pref, Puzzling Evidence, Dr. Hal, Rev. Timothy Leary, Rev. Mark Mothersbaugh, and even J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.

If you have a really fast connection, we strongly recommend pushing the HD button at the lower right of the frame before starting each video. It makes a big difference.

My older videos (and my favorites, which are heavy on humor and animation) can be found at my YouTube site:
http://www.youtube.com/user/revstang

Our longer pieces are on Google Video. Newly added is my 1973 underground film:

"Let's Visit The World of the Future"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7200374813151075996&hl=en

If you liked SubGenius Pamphlet #1 or THE BOOK OF THE SUBGENIUS, you may find some surprising similarities in this old/future film, even though its discovery predates any SubGenius publications by 7 years. It is ". . . a travelogue inviting viewers of today to come visit the future."

This is the 45-minute "director's cut," restoring most of the bulldada that had been removed for the hippie "midnight movie" audiences of the 1970s, who could NOT handle it.

Another good YouTube playlist of SubGenius materials, the good AND the bad, is at Rev. McGrewrich's site:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mcgrewrich

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Free "Infinitely Recursive Dobbshead" Windows Screensaver by Rev. Frank Force

We announced this in the last newsletter, but it has been greatly improved since then -- there's a new "psychedelic mode," and you can control the zoom rate of the infinite Dobbsheadery! And there's a new link to it, with samples:
http://slack.3d2k.com

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Yet Another SubGenius Newsgroup!

GOOD READS SUBGENIUS
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1676.Subgenii

This literary-minded forum is in addition to alt.slack and the many other forums listed on SubSITE's NEWS page: http://www.subgenius.com/updates/updates.html

The most active and crazy one of all remains alt.slack:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.slack/topics

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UPCOMING EVENTS

July 1-5: X-Day XII at Brushwood, NY, USA and Amsterdam, Holland

This is the biggest annual SubGenius event! Not for the faint-hearted, although wimps are welcome.

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/12XDay/12X-Day.html

(WARNING: many 'adults-only' photos here!)

July 21 - 26: Starwood 29 at Brushwood, Sherman, NY

Although this is the largest "neo-pagan" event in the U.S., with amazing musical acts and speakers like St. Paul Krassner, it also includes a major Devival and other highly bulldada activities! I haven't missed one in 18 years. In fact I'm one of the organizers now.
http://rosencomet.com/starwood/index.html

September 4 - 7: DragonCon in Atlanta, Georgia

A HUGE SubGenius event unlike any other is planned for this, one of the grandest sci-fi/fantasy/comics conventions. Rev. Susie the Floozy, Priestess Pisces, The Quijibo Cartel, Yours Truly Rev. Stang and many other SubGenii will be staging a major Devival (with a Tesla Coil concert!), and will probably also have a sales table and be on some panels. Over 50,000 people attend this convention annually.
http://dragoncon.org/

Late September or early October: Kent, Ohio -- check our Events page: http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html for details as they develop. This promises to harken back to the infamous Cleveland devivals of the 1990s.

October 9 - 11, Portland, Oregon: EsoZone 2009
http://www.esozone.com/

This is the second year of this fringe-science / psychedelics / 'magic' conference. The 2008 one featured Dennis McKenna, Antero Alli, Trevor Blake, Richard Metzger, Taylor Ellwood and Paul Laffoley. It sounds like an indoor Starwood. Princess Wei and I have been invited to be speakers / presenters / devivalists at the 2009 EsoZone, which apparently has a similar line-up of guests to the first one, along with several bands. Dr. Onan Canobite and Rev. Crawford Smith are deeply involved.

Their MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/esozone

Boingboing on the '08 EsoZone:
http://boingboing.net/2008/10/07/esozone-this-weekend.html

A YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/esozone

November: Amsterdam Frop Cup?

New report on the 2008 Baltimore Devival:
http://clintjcl.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/journal-20081115-subgenius-baltimore-devival-2-2008-subgenius-balitmore-devival/
or
http://tinyurl.com/balt08

Text, photos, and movies from Rev. Clint. Very detailed. Some excellent cleavage photography too. Other coverage of this and ALL previous SubG shows can be found in our Devivals of Yore section:
http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/devivals.html

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THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS and "BOB"

Here is some interesting news from Rev. Joseph Daddy of Jesus, our Main Man in Amsterdam:

"I got The Butthole Surfers (the original 4) their Membership kits when they were doing their European Tour... they also took all of the SubGenius DVDs that I had, and ended up using Dobbsedeliasteses 1 & 2 for the backdrop on the rest of their tour. Paul Green from the School of Rock was also on tour with them, and he was a long time "Bob" fan, so he got his kit as well."

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REV. MAGDALEN'S CHILD CUSTODY CASE

It's not all bad news, but it's still dragging on, and she still needs financial help. The details are here:
http://www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Reverend_Magdalen_Part_3

Direct donations can be sent via Paypal to: magdalen@subgenius.com

Direct donation to Magdalen's legal fund: http://tinyurl.com/jbpe8

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New Station Carrying HOUR OF SLACK in Florida

Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, FL
http://wslu.saintleo.edu/
Saint Leo University Radio, 100.1 FM & Campus TV Channel 96
Saturday Evening at 11 PM ET

Also, there is a change at

Dade City Community Radio in DADE CITY, FLORIDA (near Tampa) -- they moved from an FM frequency to 1610 AM, with Hour of Slack on Sundays 6 pm.

Podcast, free show downloads and complete list of all stations carrying SubGenius shows:
http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos.html

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ORDAIN YOURSELF OR A FRIEND
http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/membership.htm
NOTE: Posthumous ordainments are also available.

Even those who have become ordained ministers in the Church need the three major bibles of our religion. Of course, everyone already has THE BOOK OF THE SUBGENIUS, but many SubGenii consider REVELATION X to be better, and the Third Testament, Psychlopaedia of Slack THE BOBLIOGRAPHON, to be better yet.

ALL BOOKS WE SELL ARE SIGNED AND DATED BY YOURS TRULY, REV. STANG.

SUBGENIUS BOOKS
http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/books.htm

Illiterates might be happier with our primary DVD, "ARISE!" There are several more recent SubGenius DVDs available as well. The great thing about our videos is that they are not copy-protected. When you buy one for yourself, it's like you are buying one for all your buddies as well.

SUBGENIUS VIDEOS
http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/video.htm

But the greatest gift of all, short of Salvation, is a subscription to THE HOUR OF SLACK so that every week for 6 months, you or your begifted one will receive the uncensored version of the same professional audio CDs that the radio stations get.

HOUR OF SLACK GIFT SUBSCRIPTION
http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/audio-hos.htm

Another good deal would be any of our MP3 stashes on CD-R. With one $15 purchase you can have up to 80 Hours of Slack, or mixed media barrages, music and devival recordings.

SUBGENIUS MP3 COLLECTIONS
http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/mediashack.html

And of course there are hundreds of designs on shirts, hoodies, baby clothes, mugs, buttons, posters, mousepads, geegaws, etc., at our sprawling SubGenius Store on CafePress.

THE SUBGENIUS STORE
http://www.cafepress.com/subgen

Remember, friends: ANY and ALL SubGenius materials could suddenly VANISH at any moment. Indeed, many pray daily for that very thing to happen. DON'T BE A CHUMP! Get, while the getting's good. You already have all the Slack you'll ever have -- but only the Church can make it PLAIN to you! And we really enjoy doing that.

PRAISE "BOB"!

SUBGENIUS XMAS SALE ENDS THURSDAY

2008-12-15T13:25:00.002-05:00

The holiday rush is on, but we can still take orders up until midnight, Thursday Dec. 18. It's the SubGenius holiday of Xistlessnessmess, during which we unshackle our factory workers and send them home for a couple of weeks. BUT! If you order a gift by late Thursday, it can go in the mail on Friday and you or your intended victim will have it by Xmas.

What if X-Day happened on Xistlessnessmess Day? It wouldn't be the first time vast numbers of humans were slaughtered by an Act of God on Dec. 25. You'd hate to see your loved ones go unordained and unsaved on that day just because you procrastinated, dragged your feet or were dead broke.

ORDAIN YOURSELF OR A FRIEND

Even those who have become ordained ministers in the Church need the three major bibles of our religion. Of course, everyone already has THE BOOK OF THE SUBGENIUS, but many SubGenii consider REVELATION X to be better, and the Third Testament, Psychlopaedia of Slack THE BOBLIOGRAPHON, to be better yet.

ALL BOOKS WE SELL ARE SIGNED BY YOURS TRULY, REV. STANG. That has actually been true for years, but we thought this Xmas we'd actually MENTION that fact.

SUBGENIUS BOOKS

Illiterates might be happier with our primary DVD, ARISE! If you haven't seen the new improved version (updated 2005), you have not even LIVED. There are several more recent SubGenius DVDs available as well. The great thing about our videos is that they are not copy-protected. When you buy one for yourself, it's like you are buying one for all your buddies as well.

SUBGENIUS VIDEOS

But the greatest gift of all, short of Salvation, is a subscription to THE HOUR OF SLACK so that every week for 6 months, you or your begifted one will receive the uncensored version of the same professional audio CDs that the radio stations get.

HOUR OF SLACK GIFT SUBSCRIPTION

Another good deal would be any of our MP3 stashes on CD-R. With one $15 purchase you can have up to 80 Hours of Slack, or mixed media barrages, music and devival recordings.

SUBGENIUS MP3 COLLECTIONS

And of course there are hundreds of designs on shirts, hoodies, baby clothes, mugs, buttons, posters, mousepads, geegaws, etc., at our sprawling SubGenius Store on CafePress.

THE SUBGENIUS STORE

WE KNOW YOU ARE SUFFERING FINANCIALLY, now that the EconoCataclysm has arrived (just as "Bob" predicted in 1977!). We too feel the emptiness in your wallet. But your heart and brain need not go empty just because you are dead flat-ass broke. WE STILL OFFER FREEBIES GALORE on our website, latest of which is:

THE INFINITELY RECURSIVE DOBBSHEAD SCREEN SAVER
(Only for Windows PCs, sorry)
This intense visual hypnosis device was created by Rev. Frank Force and you can download it directly from him via:

RECURSIVE DOBBSHEAD SCREENSAVER

Of course, Hours of Slack are always available for free download, and this week we're offering our traditional SubGenius Christmas Rerun, an incredible barrage of over 70 different tracks, each of which takes a truly SICK or otherwise deranged bite out of the holidays. If the Christmas Carols that run incessantly and annoyingly on the Muzak speakers in your environment are about to drive you completely nuts, this show is the antidote. That's Hour of Slack #1183. The previous show, #1182, is also Christmas-y, albeit disrespectfully.

HOUR OF SLACK XMAS SPECIALS

Get those Xmas orders in by Thursday Dec. 18 and we'll have them all in the mail by Friday Dec. 19! If your order is a gift you want sent to someone else, simply put your friend's name and address in the "SHIPPING ADDRESS" box.

In the meantime, we at The SubGenius Foundation wish you and your pals an extremely Slackful holiday.

2008 Baltimore Devival Pix, Audio on SubSITE, a.b.s.

2008-11-21T15:12:00.002-05:00

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/Baltimore_2008/index.html

That link goes to my still pics (and one very short video of Rev.
Susie the Floozy) as well as photos from Nigel and CosmicDebris.
There's also a link to MP3 audio of most of the ranting from this
first-class, first-water devival. (My pulpitside mic, on radio4all.)

The photos on SubSITE are relatively small for quick loading on your
browser.

Much higher-resolution copies of my photos, including several that
aren't on SubSITE, are on alt.binaries.slack, for your
mass-downloading, printable-copy pleasure.

The a.b.s. versions average 1 mb in size, suitable for printing,
whereas the SubSITE versions are made for quick viewing, only about 80
kb or so max.The otherwise-censored stuff is on a.b.s. too.

A SubGenius Halloween plus Ask Me About My GrandYeti

2008-11-01T13:24:00.000-04:00

http://subgenius.com/bigfist/pics13/Halloween_2008/index.html

Photo gallery of:
Halloween in L.A. and our Jack-Off-Lanterns inluding Punkinsaurus
Halloween (last night) at the Slackermansion in Cleveland Heights -- Floppy "Bob" greets all our trick-or-treaters (or at least the ones who would allow photos of themselves to be taken)
Some other Haunted Mansions in Cleveland Heights
L.A. Miracle Photos and ASK ME ABOUT MY GRANDYETI (he was born the day after my birthday, 10 weeks ago)
Somewhat Less Miraculous L.A. and Nearby Desert Pics (Deep Creek Hot Springs -- remote Bobtism spot in the Mojave)

BAD NEWS IN REV. MAGDALEN'S SUBGENIUS CHILD CUSTODY CASE!

2008-09-21T16:57:00.003-04:00

DETAILS HERE.

In other news, the DEVIVALS OF YORE section of SubSITE has been updated with many photos, videos, audio downloads and text reports about the Devivals and festivals of 2008. See also UPCOMING DEVIVALS concerning Baltimore and Amsterdam events in November.

X-Day! Dobbs Cloisonne Pins and Cufflinks! Updated Graphics Orgy on SubSITE!

2008-06-26T02:03:00.002-04:00

Joyous News! The world ends next week and you MAY die!

You definitely won't, however, if you're right with "Bob." In fact, you'll live forever, and then some. And the rightest of the correctest of what's left of "Bob" will be ushering out the Old Age and welcoming the Sex Goddesses from Planet X at our favorite official X-Day Landing Strip, Brushwood Folklore Center in far western rural New York State. This will be the thirteenth time we've partied to excess in full expectation of the Apocalypse and the Rupsture, and we're getting good at it. We are expecting an unusually large turnout this year despite the way the Conspiracy deliberately raised gas prices just to defeat this festival.

Even if you can't make it to New York's Amish country by July 5, you might enjoy the vast array of soft-core promises and photos from previous X-Days, as well as the lively Instructions about what to expect once you get there. None of it is safe for work, or mental ward, but all of it is at our X-Day XI SITE.

Joyous News! HUGE NEW TUNNEL EXCAVATED IN THE SUBGENIUS ART MINES

We've made it an X-Day tradition to console the unsaved and the non-traveling by posting on our website all the best graphic work and short mini-videos that have been created by SubGenius artists since the previous such excavation. Besides the latest volumes of work by the Giants such as LeMur, IMBJR, iDRMRSR and Heart Ignition, we also present the perverse 3D "movies" of bO-nana, some screen-crushers, amazing NEW artists like Pan-Demonium, inspiring documented Proof of "Bob," vignettes from SubGenius Life, and even a new Hall of Assholes (or "LOL ASSHOLES"). There's a lot more than you can imagine, even if you're God, at:

ART MINES TUNNEL 24

Joyous News! The Dobbshead Cloisonné Pins are Back -- with CUFFLINKS!

SubGeniuses have wept over their inability to procure these incredibly slick pieces of SubGenius jewelry. The second they were out of stock, everybody wanted one.

We just got the first shipment from our new manufacturer. These are quite an improvement on the original design! There are FOUR colors now, and the Sacred Rim of the Ultimate Pipe-Bowl is now outlined in white, as is doctrinally correct.

The cufflinks are a brand new product -- just like the fine enamel pin, but with cufflink attachments in back.

HOT PICS at this catalog page link!

If you miss X-Day, you might console yourself with a devival at the same location during Starwood, the huge festival from July 22-27 also at Brushwood. Details here.

OTHER SUBGENIUS OUTREACHES
Don't forget the many other ways to contact your fellow SubGeniuses besides SubSITE:

Alt.slack, the greatest "kook flypaper" ever invented:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.slack/topics

The SubGenius Reverends Blog: http://slackoff.blogspot.com/

The SubGenius Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/subgenius/

Modemac's SubGenius Wiki and Bulldada News Blog:
http://www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

The Euro-SubGenius Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Euro_SubGenius/

And everything else listed on our Contacts Page:
http://www.subgenius.com/contact.htm

You can chat live with strange SubGenii at the main SubChat room:
http://www.subgenius.com/subirc.html

And The Hour of Slack radio show is new every week, and besides the many broadcast stations that carry it, you can also download it or get podcasts from http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos.html

SubGenius Class Starts on Monday!

2008-04-25T14:51:00.002-04:00

MaybeLogic Academy Online Course:
Running Your Own Cult (Do's and Don'ts) and
HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS
Presented by Rev. Ivan Stang and other SubGenius Old-Timers
8-week multimedia online course from April 28 - June 22

http://www.maybelogic.org/stangcrs.htm

This isn't held in a classroom in Ohio. This is an online course that takes place on a slick interactive multimedia website. You can "attend" from anywhere in the world, and you can log in any time of day or night. Everything can be downloaded and saved for later, too.

Last year, we had exactly 50 online "students" sign up. Many signed up after the classes had already started; I guess word got around. I wasn't expecting such a large online audience, and really went overboard. Each week I wrote a chapter of text that described various parts of SubGenius real-life history in hopefully funny detail, and I scanned hundreds of documents from each period so that the students could read our older zines, early works, and even organizational notes and letters to each other. (For instance, the correspondence between us and R. Crumb, and Mark Mothersbaugh, are included, as are the outlines and basic scribbled notes that became Pamphlet #1 and THE BOOK OF THE SUBGENIUS.)

I spend a lot of time describing the high points and especially poignant or hilarious moments involving the bizarre characters we met over the years while developing "Bob's" Church. The idea was to find the real-life turning points that make good stories.

Because the Maybe Logic Academy website allows downloading of large files like videos and audio, I went through our archives of video and tapes going back to 1977. I turned hundreds of hours of audio into MP3s, and converted ancient VHS tapes to MPEG videos that any computer (and many DVD players) can play.

SubGenii may be interested to know that the course allows you to download, if you want to, THREE DVDs' worth of audio, video, and graphics. This includes ALL the dozens of Media Barrage and Bobsongs tapes, all the edited SubConvention tapes, a ton of video unavailable anywhere else, and thousands of scanned photos and out-of-print magazines, including most of the 7 giant Stark Fist printed issues and "Bob's" Favorite Comics.

Students don't have to download all this stuff; I expect that most people last year read the text and looked at all the scanned graphics like zines and letters, and then downloaded just the main bits of multimedia that interested them. Or they downloaded all of it and saved it for later. No one could possibly have time to absorb all the hours of media we offer while the course is going on.

As far as requirements go, I am a pretty Slack teacher. Energetic students can work to design their own cults -- there were both funny and serious ones last year -- and less workaholic students can just lurk. It's not like you are graded or anything, although last year I did provide a diploma at the end.

The most fun part of the course for many is probably the interactive aspect. The course has its own online forum, like a newsgroup, where people can leave comments or questions any time. I answered a lot of questions there in great detail, covering stuff I hadn't in the main text. We also had chat room "live" sessions every few nights, at various times of day so that folks in distant time zones could tune in conveniently. (There were students from all over the world.)

Because I got all that scanning done last year, and a detailed history of the Church written, I'll have a lot more time this time to expound, tell embarrassing stories and do online chats with the students. Last year it was extremely hectic for me, but this year I'm looking forward to having time to flesh out the material with more and funnier detail.

I will also try to drag in more Guest Instuctators like Dr. Philo Drummond, Onan Canobite, G. Gordon Gordon, Dr. Hal, LIES, maybe even Nenslo!

So if you're really curious about the real-life side of SubGenius -- "What are these people REALLY like?" -- or if you simply like bargains, for that $135 you get media that would cost about a thousand bucks . . . if you bought the items one at a time, and if the items were available in our catalog. Most aren't. (Although just about all the media in our catalog is also included, in downloadable form!)

Here are the other instructors of various classes so you can see how highly faluted it is:
http://www.maybelogic.org/instructors.htm

As you can see, MaybeLogic Academy is a class act, with some of the most visionary artists and writers of our time involved. (They snuck us in the back door when no one was looking.)

But most important of all, here is the shopping cart:

https://www.deepleafproductions.com/deepleafcart/home.php?cat=2

See you in the virtual classroom! (You don't need to shave or dress up.)

Seattle, Hamburg, X-Day; SubGenius Online Course; SubCondoms; videos; MORE

2008-04-12T01:01:00.002-04:00

It's a busy summer in SubGeniusdom!

(Scroll down past this simple list for details on each item.)

This week: ROBOHAMLET play in NYC

April 19: MONSTRO Seattle Final Devival!

April 25: London fund-raiser with SubGenius preaching, music

April 28: MaybeLogic Academy's 8-week SubGenius History and Cult Development ONLINE COURSE begins

May 3: Hamburg Devival in Germany

July 2-6: X-Day 11 (details with adults-only pictorial)

July 3rd-7th. Xday Europe 10, Copenhagen Denmark
See Yahoo Groups Euro_SubGenius for details

The Amino Acids Movie, Part 1

"Bob" and Connie Condoms

Fixing alt.slack, the SubGenius Forum

July 22-27: Starwood 28

Hour of Slack Home Subscription Service

New stations and mp3 downloads

More SubGenius Movies, downloadable sermons (see below)

Jocko Domo Art Project

INWO/SubGenius Game -- Last Chance for Out of Print Game

Magdalen could still use help

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ROBOHAMLET play -- now in NYC, April 10 - 19

A COMEDY ABOUT THE EXTINCTION OF THE HUMAN RACE.
The Church's new Sacred Agent is the producer, and SubGeniuses get in for half price!

Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd, 3rd floor, New York City
All shows 8 pm, $20. Tickets and reservations, call Medicine Show, 212 262 4216.

ROBOHAMLET is the story of the extinction of the human race at the claws of their own creations, the Crylons, genetically modified crabs created to make a caviar substitute, whose incredible fecundity has overwhelmed their human creators. The last humans make a brave stand, and the only weapon that can stand between them an annihilation of humanity is the Robot, who carries the burden of human culture, recites Shakespeare, and feels ambivalent.

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APRIL 19: The Final Devival - Seattle, WA

at Transcendent Church of Bass, 920 Elliott Ave. W. on the Seattle Waterfront. This will be one of the larger devivals of the year. Preaching by Dr. Hal Robins, Popess Lilith von Fraumench, Assassinated Nenmaster Nenslo, Priestess Pisces, and others; Musical Guests: Hemorrhoy Rogers and the Ping Pong Ding Dong Gang, many DJs.

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April 25: London fund-raiser
EDENSOUNDS 3rd BIRTHDAY - CHARITY FUNDRAISER
@ The Synergy Centre, 220 Farmers Road, (Off Camberwell New Road), London SE5

A 3 room musical mashup of deep house; progressive, psychedelic & hard trance; funk, soul, acid jazz, rare & tribal grooves, Latino, Balkan Beats, global chill, glitch, dub, ambient electronica, live acoustic & musical comedy... many bands, with Rev. Priest and Pope Mickey Finn in Room 3.

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April 28 to June 22:
MaybeLogic Academy's SubGenius History and Cult Development 8-week ONLINE Course:

Running Your Own Cult - Do's and Don'ts / History of the Church of the SubGenius

SubGenii may be interested to know that the course allows you to download, if you want to, THREE DVDs worth of audio, video, and graphics. Includes ALL the Media Barrage and Bobsongs tapes, all the SubCon tapes, a ton of video unavailable anywhere else, and thousands of scanned photos and zines, including most of the 7 giant Stark Fist printed issues. If you're REALLY curious about the real-life side of SubGenius, or if you simply like bargains, for that $135 admission price you get media that would cost about a thousand bucks if you bought the items one at a time and if they were available anywhere else.

Last year's course attracted 50 students and was very successful. Because we got so much scanning done last year, and a detailed history of the Church written, there will be a lot more time this year to expound, tell embarrassing stories and do online chats with the students. We will also try to drag in more Guest Instuctators like Dr. Philo Drummond, Onan Canobite, G. Gordon Gordon, Dr. Hal, LIES, maybe even Nenslo!

Here are the other instructors of various MaybeLogic Academy classes so you can see how highly faluted it is.

But most important of all, here is the shopping cart.
This might be the last year we do this!

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May 3: "The 7th Heaven Devival" Hamburg, Germany

Hafenklang (Große Elbstr. 84, Altona, S. Königsstraße

Appearing: The Cassandra Complex • Mutate Now • 23 Diameter Drill Heads • Tumorchestra • DJ Ratagosk • Crazy White Shaun • Pope Black • Rev. Plastic Mediator • Pope Mickey Finn • Pope Perro • Rev. Kay Witke the Keeper of Pope Perro • The Pope of Dope Rev. Inspector Insector • Rev. Blue Rabbit • Rev. Lucky Bastard • Rev. Femme Delux • Rev. Skum • The Right Rev. Rodney Orpheus • Rev. Priest • Pope Circlemaker • Add your name here.

"This Devival has snowballed outta ConTroll and this is proBOBly the biggest EuroVenue we have ever had. Dont forget that Mon. May 5th is a bank holiday in England and Mexico. Other slacktivities include: Following Pope Black • Follow Pope Perro • All You Can Eat Sushi • Acubeating • Sex Hurt. Any questions just contact me." Email: pope_black666@yahoo.de

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July 2-6: X-Day 11! SUBGENIUS EVENT OF THE YEAR and END OF ALL HUMAN LIFE ON EARTH

At Brushwood Folklore Center, Sherman NY

The new sub-SubSITE for X-Day 11 (or XI X-Day) is up and running, with info, maps, a mess of new graphics by everybody - an endless ocean of X-Day promotion.

But what you REALLY want to see is the X-Days of Yore PICTORIAL (Adults Only!!).

NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR HUMANS! Or some SubGenius kids. It's not ALL nakedity, but it's MOSTLY nakedity, and femalien at that. If you want to see even more -- like, hundreds, maybe thousands more -- at the bottom of the main X-Day 11 page are links to the photo/text reports on all the Drills since 1996, and links to all the X-Day movies on YouTube and Google Video that we know of, with the best ones individually linked.

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July 3rd-7th. Xday Europe 10, Copenhagen Denmark
See Yahoo Euro-SubGenius group for details

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The DOBBSHEAD CONDOM and THE CONNIEDOM

Now available directly from Bulldada Time Control Labs!

"DobbsCo DobbsHead Brand condoms... it's like coming into money!" Available in "Bob" or Connie packaging. Attendees of X-Day Drill X will remember these; those who were awake at 7 am on July 5 got free ones, and those who weren't found "loaded" used ones in their tents later.

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July 22-27: Starwood Festival 28 at Brushwood, Sherman, NY

This is the largest neopagan outdoor fest in the country, and usually features our best-attended Devival of the year, with Rev. Stang presiding, but often with other SubGenius preachers and bands as well. Great music festival, with dozens of bands and workshops; not just for pagans and occultists!

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Hour of Slack on New Stations, Home Subscription Service

Latest station to carry our weekly radio show is WXDU 87.7 FM in Durham, NC (Duke University station). Showtime is 6 am to 7 am. The station also streams at http://wxdu.org

Complete list of stations, and mp3 podcast, downloads of all past shows

Remember, HOUR OF SLACK CDs are available as a HOME SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE!

(Note: radio stations get CDs with the cusswords safely bleeped
out; civilian subscribers get to keep all the cusswords for their
collections.)

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New SubGenius Movies, Audio links and downloads

Amino Acids Movie, Part 1 - SLACK REMOVAL MACHINE

Baltimore Devival Videos
Includes Dr. K'taden Legume, Rev. Carter LeBlanc, Priestess Pisces, Rev. Susie the Floozy, The Amino Acids' entire set, Rev. Ivan Stang doing "SubGenius 101."

Amsterdam Devival and Tour, 2007

San Francisco Mongoloidapalooza, December 2007:
Video and photos by Scott Beale of Laughing Squid
Stang's rant

Download/hear the 3-hour Puzzling Evidence show from Dec. 7 on KPFA Berkeley:
Yappers include Dr. Gary G'broagfran! Dr. Hal! Dr. Philo Drummond, OverMan First Degree! Puzzling Evidence! Stang! Bishop Joey of Church of the Last Laugh! KROB! And Many More!

Denver radio KOA with Stang, 2008

Denver Radio report from 2007 on Magdalen

Nostalgia! Stang on AM radio from 1988

Winterstar 2008 Stang sermon audio

St. Byron Werner on Little Rock news TV
The local news DARED to bring St. Werner into their studios to show his art, discuss his illustrious Hollywood FX and art career, and his Secret Techniques. I notice that the examples of his art shown do not include any of his blowjob collages. In fact MOST of his new artwork they probably dare not show. St. Byron retired from the Hollywood scene and moved to Little Rock about 4 years ago. He just wrapped up an L.A. art show with Rev. Mark Mothersbaugh, St. Robert Williams, St. Gary Panter , Todd Schorr , Dennis Worden, The Pizz and others.

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Jocko Domo, Aug. 29
Decorative Domes by Creative Apes - raises money for the Magdalen Bevilacqua case, lowers consciousness for the basket case.

Reverend H.V. Monkey is on the lookout for creative individuals to participate in a DEVO-themed art project which will be taking place on August 29th at the Asterisk Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. This project—called JOCKO DOME-O—involves the artistic ‘mutation’ of DEVO Energy Domes.

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INWO/SubGenius Game -- Last Chance for Rare Out of Print Game!

Steve Jackson Games has discontinued this classic, but we acquired all 150 remaining copies! Currently still $16.95, but the price goes up as the stock gets lower. Includes 100 high quality art cards, elaborate game rulebook.

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Fixing alt.slack, the SubGenius Forum

Normally it is the greatest forum on the Internet. (It's also one of the very oldest!) Recently, for those who access it through Google Groups and browser, it has been marred by spam and numbskulls. This browser fix 'kills' the spam and Pinks.

Also, for gamers, SubGenius Steam Groups wanted

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SubGenius movie screenplay
That's what I, Stang am working on in my copious spare time. I don't want to say who prompted us to finally get on this, because nobody would believe me. We're also engaged in finding overseas publishers for Italian and French translations of our books, and planning a SubGenius art book and more CD albums.

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Rev. Magdalen and family can still use all the help they can get with the SubGenius child custody case. The family is currently together, thanks to a gigantic screw-up by their enemies, but their legal bills are eating them alive. All details at Modemac's Wiki.

PRAISE "BOB," THANKS FOR THE SLACK; SEE YOU ABOARD THE SAUCERS ON JULY 5!

GETTING RID OF THE ADS AND ASSES OF ALT.SLACK

2008-04-11T16:16:00.002-04:00

Praise Rev. ChuckKey for bringing this to our attention.

Many of us LOVE the main SubGenius forum, alt.slack. The fact that it is unmoderated and uncensored is one of the best things about it, but that has also lately allowed a drawback: floods of both unsightly ads, and nonsense floods (the bad kind) from disturbed SubGenius wanna-bes. These seriously cut down on the Slack in alt.slack.

If, like many, you are using Google Groups through web browsers like IE or Firefox to look at alt.slack (as opposed to a newsreader and Usenet service, which already come with these anti-spam features), the simple installation I'm about to describe will allow you to "killfile" unwanted ad spam and chronic assholes whose posts you do not want to see.

Imagine never again having to scroll/wade through floods of nonsense posted by Chinese spammers or drunk, mentally ill Pinks just to get to the JUICY STUFF!

This works on Mac OS, Windows, Linux, or any other platform using Firefox as a browser.

Go to this site:

http://www.penney.org/ggkiller.html

There are three links there -- one to download Firefox browser, one for GreaseMonkey (a Firefox extention), and one for the latest Google Groups Killfile Script.

#1. If you aren't already using Firefox, you might want to try it. It's more secure than Internet Explorer. On Macs, it's much more stable than Safari. There are ways to copy over your bookmarks.

#2. Now go to the GreaseMonkey site and click on DOWNLOAD GREASEMONKEY and then "ADD TO FIREFOX" on the resulting page. It will automatically download the extension and put it where it needs to go in Firefox. (Ignore the warnings re: malicious software! Show no fear!)

#3. Then you must RESTART FIREFOX. You will probably be prompted to do this, although in my case the prompt window was hidden at first.

#4. Now you reopen a Firefox window, return to http://www.penney.org/ggkiller.html and go to the next link, "Latest Google Groups Killfile Script:" http://www.penney.org/googleGroups.user.js

If you've done everything right so far, just clicking on that link (which ends in "user.js," telling Firefox it's a script) makes the newly installed GreaseMonkey present a dialog box with the option for installing that Google Groups Killfile Script. Ignore the warnings and let it install the script.

The next time you go to Google Groups, EVERY POST now has the option of "IGNORE USER" between the name of the poster, and the PROFILE link. (On Windows this may appear as an X in a box as well.) You can also IGNORE THREAD. This is good for killing crossposted flame wars from other newsgroups.

Once you have clicked the IGNORE USER link for a given asshole, the next time you return to alt.slack, all posts initiated by that asshole will have VANISHED, and you won't see any future posts by that asshole either.

If you have trouble, here are the instructions that helped me:

http://wiki.greasespot.net/Greasemonkey_Manual:Installing_Scripts

Under TOOLS menu (on Mac Firefox anyway) there's now a GreaseMonkey option where you can uninstall the script or reinstall it.

Finally, even Googleposting Jackadandies, to borrow a Nensletic term, can truly and effectively "plonk."

AMSTERDAM FROP CUP DEVIVAL and FIELD TRIP Report is online

2007-12-06T00:16:00.000-05:00

Completed article, photo-illustrated, with photo galleries:
http://subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/AMSTERDAM-2007/index.html

Next: San Francisco DEVO-vival, December 8 at 12 Galaxies -- with Dr. Hal, Rev. Stang, Mongolounge, Mongoloid, KROB, Philo, and…?
See http://subgenius.com/newdevivals.html

BALTIMORE DEVIVAL on GOOGLE VIDEO

2007-11-15T15:37:00.000-05:00

On Nov. 10, 2007, inside a huge rented Methodist church building in Baltimore, we Ministers in The Church of the SubGenius enjoyed a Slack-packed devival with four bands and seven preachers, all in the name of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.

I've posted a few of the highlights to Google Video. (There are DivX versions of the shorter ones on alt.binaries.multimedia.slack for those who want better copies to show on their DVD players.)

This clip features the infamous Dr. K'taden Legume at the pulpit. Jenkem is referenced.

In this clip, Rev. Carter LeBlanc deliniates the impact of Pinkness on the U.S. economy. Rev. LeBlanc also organized the event, with Priestess Pisces and Rev. 2Beans.

Here, devival cohost Priestess Pisces shares a poignant parable about the Bobbie.

You can see Rev. Susie the Floozy deliver her rant, but you can't see the audience melting or hardening in adoration.

In this raw shaky-cam footage, the musicians from out of space called The Amino Acids perform their entire "set" (except during a camera roll change) and close the devival by very nearly destroying themselves.

Rev. Ivan Stang herein presents the sermon known as "SubGenius 101," which covers "Bob," Slack and The Conspiracy for the uninitiated.

The Baltimore Devival 2007 Text Reports from alt.slack and Stang's Photos

Rev. Susie the Floozie's devival photos

I'll try to post more videos when we return from the Amsterdam devivals. And the San Francisco devival. Meanwhile, don't miss ChasFest and the Detroit Devival, around Thanksgiving (details here).

Halloween at the Slackermansion, 2007 photos

The Alien SkullFace Cult Leader outfit is courtesy Sister Decadence.

Baltimore Devival, Slackermansion Halloween Pictorials, Reports

2007-11-14T00:51:00.000-05:00

The Baltimore Devival 2007 - miscellaneous reports and photos

Rev. Susie the Floozie's Baltimore photos

Halloween at the Slackermansion, 2007

The Alien SkullFace Cult Leader outfit is courtesy Sister Decadence.

PHOTO & ESSAY REPORT on X-DayX

2007-11-07T14:54:00.000-05:00

ARE YOU ABNORMAL?

This is a wonderful article for non-SubGeniuses about the Church and last July's X-Day Drill X, written by Rev. Nancy Rawlinson, with photos by Rev. Lucas Thorpe.

Bon Voyage, Chas Smith

2007-10-16T10:24:00.001-04:00

This morning, Oct. 16, our friend Chas Smith peacefully vacated Earth Plane One for greener pastures.

((SCROLL DOWN FOR NEW FUNERAL INFORMATION.))

New tribute site: http://www.chastribute.com/

Chas was hospitalized a month ago with double pneumonia, and had a severe stroke while in the hospital. He had also been fighting Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer which he had beaten in his youth but which killed his brother several years ago, and for which he had recently started getting radiation treatments. Chas was a really tough old soldier but nobody could fight this so many illnesses and traumas forever.

Chas had just turned 50.

As a music professor at Cleveland State University, Chas taught the most popular course at the whole school, a class in the history of rock and roll and its roots. Chas put much more into his class than just the history, however. He was beloved by students as much for his spontaneous rants on life and society in general, or on space and science, or whatever had grabbed his interest that week, as for his musical subject matter.

He also taught regular and very popular workshops in music and consciousness at Starwood, Winterstar, and Sirius Rising. He taught basic musical composition to little kids through a program with the Cleveland Opera. He authored three textbooks on the history of rock and roots music: "From Woodstock to the Moon: The Cultural Evolution of Rock Music," "The Soul of Sunrise: Grassroots Music in America," and another which was only recently finished.

The focal point of his life, however, was playing music. He was in The Clocks, a popular Cleveland punk band in the late '70s and early '80s. During the 1990s and early 2000s he fronted Einstein's Secret Orchestra or ESO (with Dave DeLuca, Bob Mozick and Michele George (to whom he was married for several years). Two excellent studio albums and many good live recordings exist. In recent years ESO became more of a blues, classic C&W and jam band with many different members. Chas also toured with Cobra Verde as keyboardist.

Cleveland radio listeners heard Chas's weekly show on WCSB, Swamp Radio, every Thursday night for over 20 years. This eclectic show included not only whatever music Chas was into at the time, but live performances, jams, and also improv comedy and plays -- first with Brain Rot Theater (radio comedy sketches by Dave DeLuca, Dan Didonato, and Chas) and later with DeLuca, myself and my wife "Princess Wei." Chas also took calls from listeners -- and he got some pretty wild listeners. The bits recorded on Swamp Radio were a mainstay of the syndicated SubGenius show "Hour of Slack" for almost a decade.

Almost all SubGenius events in the Cleveland and Northern Ohio area featured ESO (or sometimes just Chas, solo) as the musical headliner from 1992 to 2002.

Chas was an outdoorsman -- not a hunter, but a hiker and camper. His seasonal camp at Brushwood Folklore Center in western rural New York grew into a sort of giant art gallery and performance area where some of the coolest events at Brushwood took place -- and if you're familiar with Brushwood, that's saying quite a bit. Variously called Tranquility Base and Club Tiki Banzai, Chas's parties (including the annual Rumble in the Jungle) are legendary. When Chas wasn't playing, he was DJing.

The camp -- and his performance costumes or "rock star duds" -- were outlets for Chas's considerable graphic arts talents. He had some of the most psychedelic outfits I've ever seen in rock shows, decorated by hand in his inimitable style. His home and especially the recording studio in the basement benefited from his handiwork and seemingly boundless energy.

Chas will be remembered by thousands -- his almost countless former students, his many fellow musicians and performers, his camping buddies and the many communities to which he was such a big contributor -- Brushwood, A.C.E. in Cleveland, The Church of the SubGenius, WCSB, Cleveland State, and probably many more of which I have yet to learn.

Chas wasn't the only reason I left Dallas for Cleveland, but he was definitely one of the main ones. He is already greatly missed.

A deep and heartfelt thanks to Bob Mozick for being such a rock for Chas and his family and friends through this whole hard time.

The funeral will be held at Brickman Funeral Home in Willoughby, Ohio --
Visiting Hours
Thursday, October 18th
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

BRICKMAN BROS. FUNERAL HOME
37433 Euclid Ave.
Willoughby, Ohio 44094

440-951-7800

If you live in NE Ohio, you can go to http://tinyurl.com/25zpeh for
directions.

The Service, followed by the Funeral begins
10:00 AM
Friday, October 19th
Brickman Bros. Funeral Home

PHOTO GALLERY of CHAS SMITH PICTURES at
http://subgenius.com/bigfist/pics13/CHAS_SMITH/index.html

Hour of Slack #1122 will be a tribute to Chas. (Will air in Cleveland Sunday Oct. 20 at 9 pm on WCSB - 89.3 FM or streaming from http://wcsb.org (also to be available on SubGenius.com for download)

Jason Isla (part of the fire team at Brushwood, just married out there weekend before last) put up this excellent tribute site for Chas -- has Paypal donation area too, nice photo gallerly.

http://www.chastribute.com/
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FROM PRINCESS WEI'S LETTER TO THE CHAMELEON CLUB/ A.C.E.

I'm sorry to be the bearer of sad tidings, and they don't come much sadder than this one.

Bob Mozik called me at 7:30 this morning to tell me Chas had left this mortal plane.

He said Chas had a small army of visitors over the weekend - we think he was waiting to see as many friends as he could see before he left (or hear them as it was more toward the end).

A Beachland Ballroom benefit concert is in the works. His memorial will most likely take place at Brickman Funeral Home in Willoughby, OH. I will post any more info as soon as I know it.

Chas was overcome by multiple medical problems. While at the Clinic, he bravely fought 4 separate infections, double pneumonia, his Hodgkin's disease, which had come out of remission, and massive stroke damage. The thing to remember is that to the end, Chas kept a bright outlook. Always the thumbs up - while he was able.

Also, the doctors at the clinic used all of their knowledge and expertise to do everything they could for him. I visited him every other day, and witnessed very compassionate care each time I saw him.

Thanks to Bob Mozik, he had music in his ears the last week or so of his life. Bob bought a CD player and brought in many mix disks of Chas' favorite music. One of the nurses said she thought a CD player should be standard equipment for every hospice room - what could be better than soothing music to allow you to be far away while still physically there?

Chas' family had no idea how many friends Chas had. They were bowled over by the number of cards, gifts, flowers and visitors he received. I pray that that bowling over can continue when many contributions toward the Medical Fund his father set up begin coming in.

Again, donations for Chas can be sent directly to:

Donation for Charles V. Smith
U.S. Bank 26410 Lakeshore
Euclid, Ohio 44132

Please make checks payable to Donation of Charles V. Smith

Memorial Art Gallery for the Late St. Joe Riley

2007-10-12T10:44:00.000-04:00

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/pics13/JOE_RILEY/index.html

Check out all five index-pages-worth of Joe's incredible paintings, models, masks
and SubGenius drawings. There are also links to his blog and MySpace
page, with more art, some interviews, and also the newly-installed
"Making of MTV-SubGenius" on Google Video. St. Joe was a major part of SubGenius video productions and graphics output.

Prof. Chas Smith of ESO Hospitalized -- Fund Started

2007-10-11T11:13:00.000-04:00

I so wish this could be good news.

Our friend Chas Smith of Swamp Radio, Einstein's Secret Orchestra, the Rock & Roll History class at Cleveland State University, Club Tiki Banzai at Brushwood, etc., is very ill. About a month ago he entered the Cleveland Clinic (a top-notch facility luckily) with double pneumonia. He was already fighting other infections. While in the hospital he suffered a severe stroke that left him paralyzed on his left side. He has had many visitors; his parents, Princess Wei and drummer Bob Mozick have been at his side almost daily.

Yesterday this message was sent out by Bob Mozick ("Drummer Bob" of ESO, many other bands):

"A fund for donations has been set up for Chas to help with medical and other expenses.

"Unfortunately Chas has no medical insurance. He has been relocated a new room, number is M70-13. Sadly, his condition has taken a negative turn; the main issue is the series of respiratory problems he is having. Certain antibiotics are not working, and this in combination with a weak immune system and the stroke is making it very difficult for him. His dad Stan asked me to pass along his sincere thanks and appreciation to all for your support, prayers and positive energy.

"Donations for Chas can be sent directly to:

Donation for Charles V. Smith, U.S. Bank, 26410 Lakeshore Euclid, Ohio 44132

"Please make checks payable to Donation of Charles V. Smith

Cards and letters can be mailed here:

Chas V. Smith, M70-13, c/o Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland Ohio, 44195.

Bob

GOOD NEWS BUT HELP NEEDED IN REV. MAGDALEN'S CHILD CUSTODY CASE! Also: X-Day Videos

2007-08-18T16:00:00.000-04:00

To make a long story short, a panel of New York judges unanimously decided to give full custody of Rev. Magdalen's child to the biological dad. We got this news on July 6, right in the middle of the 10X-Day Drill celebrations -- an unimaginably sobering moment. I don't think any of us had realized that "The Conspiracy" could be THAT REAL. (As heard on Hour of Slack #1112.)

HOWEVER -- by the time we got to Starwood, two weeks later, the entire situation had practically reversed, and it now looks like Magdalen and her child will be together after all! And, to boot, her husband Steve "Jesus" Bevilacqua is being transferred by his employer from England back to Georgia, so the whole family is together again!

The reason this happened is because that panel of judges learned something they hadn't been told by the bio-father and his lawyer… that three weeks BEFORE the judges' snap decision, the bio-dad had managed to -- on a school day -- drive his car into a wall, injure somebody, flee the scene of the accident, and then get caught, and charged with, among other things, his third drunk driving offense. Altogether the lad is charged with multiple felonies and could spend up to 7 years in federal prison. (But he probably won't.)

A lot of other stuff about the bio-dad came out that we shan't repeat here prematurely. There are many more details however on Rev. Modemac's excellent wikipedia site, which has closely followed this case and provides links to court documents:

http://www.modemac.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Reverend_Magdalen_Part_2

The really bad news is that the Bevilacqua's legal bill is around $140,000. Yes, that is the latest figure. The bio-dad's lawyers (provided free of charge by the state since he's on the dole due to "chronic fatigue syndrome") deliberately prolonged and delayed this whole ordeal just to "GET" the Bevilacquas and run up legal bills so high that they'll basically spend the rest of their lives paying. That was the cost of getting the child out of... a bad situation, let's say. And, the funny thing is, Magdalen STILL is legally bound never to have copies of SubGenius materials in her house.

Needless to say, the dust hasn't completely settled yet. The Bevilacqua's lawyers have been working for cut rates, and have given her plenty of time to pay off, but all relatives are tapped out financially now, so we, her fellow SubGeniuses, are asking each other to DONATE WHAT YOU CAN to help see that justice is done.

One way you can contribute funds to the SubGenius child custody case fund is via this PayPal link:

PayPal donations can still be sent to magdalen@subgenius.com:
http://tinyurl.com/jbpe8

If you'd rather use a credit card, the nifty button below takes you to the Pledgie.com page for the Rev. Magdalen Legal Fund, where you can use a credit card OR PayPal to donate. The button shows what's been donated so far via Pledgie.com.

Checks or other payments can be mailed to the attention of:
Rachel Bevilacqua
c/o Christopher S. Mattingly
Lipsitz Green LLP
42 Delaware Avenue
Suite 300
Buffalo, New York 14202-3857

Friends, we rarely come begging. Normally we come selling. Thanks to a Slackulous X-Day (and also a hell of a Starwood!) we'll have plenty to sell… once we finally unpack. But for now, all we want to sell you on is the GREAT FEELING IN YOUR GUT that you'll get if you donate whatever you can spare to help make life bearable for this family that has suffered such suspense and agony JUST BECAUSE THEY CALLED THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS THEIR RELIGION! (Ironically, as SubGenii go they never were all that religious, believe me! Like my kids, their boy might have believed in Santa Claus, but he was definitely NOT expecting at any point to meet "Bob.")

Dig down deep in those pockets, scrounge to the bottom of that purse, and whip out what you can for the CAUSE! -- or, well, for the Bevilacquas, anyway. They are a very nice family -- and a few years ago they forced The SubGenius Foundation to survive as a business when I was about to give up -- but right now they need as much help as they can possibly get.

TEN BUCKS isn't too little! TEN THOUSAND would not be too much! If ever there was a time to spread around any excess Slack you might happen to have, this is it.

When life gives you Dobbsheads, make Dobbshead-Aid. There are some SubGenius shows and fund-raisers coming up -- Cleveland, Baltimore, Amsterdam, Detroit -- and those are all listed at subgenius.com on the events page. We'll soon have some detailed illustrated reports on 10-X-Day and Starwood. I'm frantically editing video and audio from both of those for a multitude of projects. I've been putting bits and pieces on Google Video, and others have been putting their X-Day home movies on YouTube, as linked below:

UFO Sighting at 2006 SubGenius X-Day Drill

Just as Rev. Susie the Floozie was loudly bemoaning the lack of any flying saucers at 9X-Day, a UFO flew across the sky in the background of my home movie. This was not noticed until almost one year later, when I finally examined the video footage. The UFO itself does not appear until 1 minute 13 seconds in, after some fanciful banter about messages from J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (or the aliens) spelled out in clouds -- but the UFO segment is replayed twice in slow motion afterwards.

The Amino Acids at 10X-Day SubGenius End of the World Drill

What better band to usher out all human reality than The Amino Acids? This merry band of alien stooges serenaded the SubGenii with their blistering instrumentals and delicate pantomime. Note the brief appearance of Slack guru J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. See theaminoacids.com for more.

AUDIO recording of SubGenius 10X-Day - Awaiting the Saucers at 7 am, July 5
39 minutes, MP3 (36.2 MB)
From a lapel mic attached to Rev. Stang

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Rev. Jimbo's X-Day videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jcz-j05ibE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzmoDEeL_eI&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZUuAWYwtGA

The Wedding of Nickie and Teela

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iDRMRSR's 10X-Day videos

Beer Tasting

Amino Acids

XX- Day Computer Camp

The Comic Book

Swinging Love Corpse

The final scroll of Bob's Deviant Rectum

The Making of the X-Day Bobbie Awards

Amino Acids (second video)

Friday night jam session w/Pisces + Carter

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Ankara's Drunken 808 video

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PHOTOS:

Rev. V's pics are up

Rev. JimboDeLimbo's photos

Rev. Scalpod's

An X-DAY PRESENT from ALT.BINARIES.SLACK and THE SUBGENIUS FOUNDATION

2007-06-24T15:01:00.000-04:00

A new tunnel has been excavated in the SubGenius.com ART MINES:

ART MINES TUNNEL CLUSTER #23

This is the first major excavation since June, 2006. Therefore this stash contains ONE YEAR'S WORTH of Slackwork by dozens of artists and arteests… probably around 1500 to 2000 pieces. AND THIS IS JUST THE GOOD STUFF! We didn't include EVERYTHING in this stash, just our faves.

There are actually 3 new tunnels… there was too much for one. Tunnel 1 contains work by the four most prolific: IMBJR, LeMur, Heart Ignition and Bat Mummy. There's also a "MISCELLANEOUS" page with dozens of pieces by folks who only did the one piece that year. NOTE: there is a special "XXX-IMBJR" section that REALLY IS "adults only." And squeamish adults may want to think twice before venturing into IMBJR's "special room"!

Tunnel 2 contains numerous tributaries by Reverends Artemia Salina, ErRoR, iDRMRSR, Zontar, some raunchy 3d ones by BO-nanana (use your old set of blue-red 3D glasses for these!), Ennui Malaise, generic spam harvester bait, Heathen, Legume, Lord Of Eltingville, Neuromanson, Norel Pref, Razna, Unclaimed Mysteries, and some GIF-mations by Walter Cosmac.

There are even some leftover photos from 9X-Day in a special 9X section, pics that didn't get to us in time to be used in the 9X Photonovella.

P.S. I did this instead of editing the 9X-Day videos. I am STILL gonna try to do that too before XX-Day.

X-Day - SubG Condoms - News of Magdalen - Signs of Witness - Links

2007-06-21T21:09:00.000-04:00

X-DAY IS ABOUT TO SLAM DOWN UPON THE EARTH!

And we are ready! The Annual SubGenius Migration to our breeding grounds in the wilds of rural western New York State has begun.

If you haven't heard about Brushwood and would like to await the saucers with a hundred or two of your fellow SubGenii (and some great bands!), see the fully expanded X-Day intro and registration pages on SubSITE.

Or see Modemac's X-Day Pages

You don't have to be at Brushwood to be Ruptured, but it might be more fun if you have the SNAZZY NEW ACCOUTREMENTS that have been added to the Special X-Day Page of the SubGenius CafePress Store!

We went crazy adding 10X-Day pre-memorabilia and souvenirs to our OTHER online shop. Now, YOU can go crazy WITH them! Huge range of swag from badges and stickers to shirts and shotguns. CafePress now has several nice shirts that come in up to a dozen different colors, and there are now shirts for "Plus Size Women." If you haven't looked at the store in awhile, you may be surprised at the variety of women's clothes offered now.

We will not necessarily have all this stuff at the Sacred Sales Shack at Brushwood. We'll probably bring ONE of everything new and it'll be first come, first serve. At an X-Day Drill that could have a double meaning. We suggest buying NOW NOW NOW -- in fact this is true of ALL SubGenius products in BOTH online catalogs, because:

EVERYTHING MUST GO BY JULY 5!!!

VIEW OR DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE SCHEDULE BROCHURE IN PDF FORMAT! (360 kb) Page 1 is last in this layout, as this version was prepared for printing to 11x17 paper, to be folded. The brochure also includes Rev. Joe Cosby's short story "BRACE YOURSELVES."

For FREE DVDs of documentaries covering past X-Days, learn how to download Usenet binaries and look at alt.binaries.multimedia.slack! The unfree versions (including the revised, spectacular 1998 one) are in our Scatalog.

You can also find all manner of X-Day related videos on YouTube and Google Video

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New SubGenius Health Product: "Bob" Condoms!

Don't leave Earth without 'em!
SUBGENIUS CONDOMS! For real! Includes both Dobbsheaded and Connie-doms!

Also, condom designs by Rev. Winston Smith, Coop, Peter Bagge!

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NEWS OF REV. MAGDALEN'S CUSTODY CASE

Rev. Magdalen on her child custody case:

"Well, we all waited expectantly for the decision to come out on June 8, but the court decided to "hold it over to the next term", which means they'll be releasing it, supposedly, the Friday two weeks after June 20, which puts it squarely at July 6. They did not inform us ahead of time they were doing this, and in fact it's not really legal, as the law says they have to decide in 30 days. But this does happen from time to time, my lawyer says, and there's nothing we can do. Oh yeah and they might decide NOT to hold it over to the next term but instead release their decision at a random time between now and July 6. So it's like they're saying, have fun checking the website every day to see if maybe today is that random day that probably won't even happen! It's really awful.

"I've asked if I can get my son for a six-week summer visitation, like other non-custodial parents get, starting after his school year ends next Friday, but I haven't heard back yet."

So Magdalen continues to be "on hold," waiting for the slow grinding wheels of Justice to reach some kind of decision.

I can't even IMAGINE what this must be like. I'm a parent, and in the 90s I worried LIGHTLY that such a thing might happen to my family. It didn't, and now my kids are grown, so it can't. (In fact my daughter is getting married in about a week!) I suppose I can imagine WORSE things... but... this insanity has been going on for almost TWO YEARS now.

This is the kind of thing that makes me think almost ANYTHING is better than a COURT CASE. Once your life is in the hands of lawyers and judges, YOU ARE SCREWED whether you win or lose. Same with doctors and hospitals. When it gets so bad that you're dependent on THEM -- that's REALLY REALLY *REALLY* BAD.

The JUDGES shall be at The Judgment. The JUDGMENTAL shall be at The Judgment. The Conclusion-Jumper shall be at The Judgment.

I wish The Judgment would hurry up and happen, and get it over with.

BACKGROUND STORY ON MAGDALEN CASE, DONATIONS BUTTON

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HAVE YOU SEEN THE SIGNS OF WITNESS?

SIGNS OF WITNESS is Rev. John Shirley's ongoing newsblog of END TIMES NEWS -- similar to Modemac's Bulldada NewsBlog, but with more serious scary world news and less of the whimsical news of dumbasses. I have been reading this daily, and it's been scaring me so badly that I've had to go look at Modemac's Bulldada News Blog wiki just to calm down.

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Gearwire.com Reveals Hour of Slack Production Secrets!

This is a 2-part interview by Gearwire editor Rev. Joe Wallace with Rev. Ivan Stang specifically about Hour of Slack production and SubGenius audio history.

Part One
Part Two

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The SubGenius Alphabet by IMBJR

You may enjoy this short video by the celebrated SubGenius artist, IMBJR.

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A Socratic Dialogue on the Superiority of the Church of the SubGenius

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Dr. Hal, KrOB Forge Ahead With Radio Ministry

PIRATE CAT RADIO 87.9 FM TWEAKS FCC, RADIO CONVENTIONS

SAN FRANCISCO - The pioneering Ask Dr. Hal! show has now adapted fully to the alternate medium of radio, according to its broadcasters, Dr. Howland Owll and KrOB. Since the closing of the popular night club phenomenon last experienced by eager audiences at San Francisco's 12 Galaxies night club until February 2007, diversification has been the word as the show, chameleon-like, has metamorphosed to its current on- air version on the innovative S.F. Pirate Radio station, Pirate Cat 87.9 FM.

Just as in its salad days under the aegis of impresario Chicken John, the show still features the question-and-answer format of yore. Listeners are encouraged to call the show during its broadcast hours (10 PM - Midnight Wednesday nights) using the Sacred Telephone Number, (415) 626-6180. By doing so they receive answers to questions they are able to pose on any conceivable subject. But now, the traditional "gratuity" is officially waived -- these answers are provided for merely the cost of a standard telephone call. But there is much more happening in the show's new, cyber-age radio version. For one thing, an innovative podcast makes the full show available twenty-four hours each day! Yes, it's a new world for friends and followers of Ask Dr. Hal! Just go to

PIRATE CAT RADIO

and enjoy two solid hours of unique entertainment through the medium of streaming audio.

Dr. Hal's main site

THE HOUR OF SLACK and other SubGenius Radio Shows

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ALT.SLACK

This newsgroup remains your best bet for IMMEDIATE, UNCONTROLLED SubGenius news, commentary, reviews, rants, flaming, and the Casting Out of False Prophets. It's really what the old Stark Fist zine turned into after it got out of control.

You can find even more groups and email or web forums, along with Other SubGenius Websites and dozens of important links on our CONTACTS PAGE.

Coming Soon: OnLine Stark Fist 2007

The SubGenius Online Mail Order Catalogs

Gearwire.com Reveals Hour of Slack Production Secrets! Plus: "Bob" Condoms!

2007-05-15T22:43:00.000-04:00

http://www.gearwire.com/stang-interview-part-one.html

This is part 1 of a 3-part interview by editor Rev. Joe Wallace with yours truly specifically about Hour of Slack production and SubGenius audio history. Part two will be up tomorrow, according to theory.

Also in the news:

SUBGENIUS CONDOMS! For real!

Also, condom designs by Rev. Winston Smith, Coop, Peter Bagge!

May 'STARK FIST OF REMOVAL' Newsletter - teX-Day, New DVDs, Misc. Linkslack

2007-05-02T14:36:00.000-04:00

I just sent this to the 3,000 on the SubGenius Email List of the Gods
( SIGN UP HERE IF YOU HAVEN'T -- we cannot automatically add you! )
but I figured it wouldn't hurt to splash it around here too.

THE STARK FIST OF REMOVAL Newsletter May "2007"
In This Issue:
teX-Day This Weekend - and Free Videos
Euro-X-Day, May 12
Amino Acids CD release
X-Day is Coming! (July)
Starwood and Burning Star
The SubGenius GAME is back!
X-Day '98 Now on DVD
Night of Slack now on DVD
New Animation DVD
Dr. Hal's New Dinosaur Book
MANY LINKS OF FUN
Some Oddball SubGenius Video Links
News for Ministers, News of Magdalen

It's the spam you requested! And, as promised last time, it's not even all spam. After the list of upcoming devivals and new religious products from the Church (DVDs and a game), this newsletter has a looong line of links to many Slack-filled forms of free Time Control.

Alt.Slack remains your MOST up-to-date (and maddening!) source of SubGenius Brand News and -- uh, SATIRE. Yeah, that's right, SATIRE. That's all it is. Good clean healthy satire, Officer.

There are many ways to look at Usenet newsgroups like alt.slack, but the easiest for most Subs is probably via Google Groups' version of alt.slack

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TeX-Day this weekend; teX-Day videos online

TeX-Day 2007 is THIS WEEKEND, May 5, and we're EXCITED, since it's a meeting of many of old-time original Texas Apostles as well as many new and ASTONISHINGLY YOUNG ones. (They may seem so young to me only because I am now astonishingly OLD.) Such was our excitement that we've thrash-edited the videotapes and stills from teX-Day 2005 into what Rev. Artemia Salina calls an "actio-mentary" -- and also a 10-minute promo trailer.

Both versions are on one page at:
http://subgenius.com/newdevivals.html

The longer one features many more songs and sermon clips than the short promo, including Rev. Chupacabra's timeless and heartfelt testimonial, and slo-mo replay of many Launchings.

This year's teX-Day III:
May 5-6 weekend, Dragonz Wylde Ranch, Red Rock, Texas, near Austin

I, Stang will be there, as will host Loke E. Coyote, many bands including The Great Groovy Neptune, Sister Decadence, Princess Wei, Dok Frop, THAT, Col. Sphinx Drummond, Launchings, Doktor Music, Sex Temple!

Directions, tickets, and details are at the teX-Day website

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May 12-18 - Euro-X-DAY 2007

Various Noted Clubs, Bars, Coffee Shops - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
At least 70 people are planning to converge for this insane multi-venue LIFE EXPERIENCE! But the venues and hotels may change so we suggest following Euro_SubGenius at yahoogroups.com or emailing the evil Pope Black (pope_black666@yahoo.de) for details.

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June 16 - Amino Acids New CD Release Gut Blow-Out
The Magic Stick, 4120 Woodward, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Nothing is more BASIC than the amino acids. They are everywhere and they are anonymous, but if it weren't for them, there would be NO DNA AT ALL.

The new Amino Acids album "Humanity Will Fall Like Pins" could be called "music to ride an experimental test rocket bareback directly into the Sun through a dense meteor shower while beating back attacking robodemons with bare fists by." One might alternatively term it SciFi Surf Punk Masked-Man SuperVillain Metal. Previous albums might have fit the "Superhero Metal" genre but this is definitely more Brainiac and The Joker than Batman or Superman. (But it's still KINDA Superman and a whole lot of Batman.) "The Ennio Morricone of Surf Music!"

Also with EASY ACTION, STYLEX, FUN ENDER, and the most elaborate Acidic staging plans yet. Many will perish!

http://theaminoacids.com
http://myspace.com/theaminoacids

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X-DAY X IS COMING! DATE CERTAIN!!

JULY 4-8 - Brushwood, Sherman, New York

This is THE SubGenius World Destruction Event!

(The world ends on July 5 at 7 a.m.; party continues for SubGenii aboard Escape Vessels)

Featuring The Amino Acids, Bonobos Convergence, Fake UFO Evidence Hoax Contest, SubGenius Wedding Ow-My-Costume-Ball, Dr. Dark's Drive-In, Dr. Hal, Priestess Pisces, Rev. Carter LeBlanc, Rev. Susie the Floozy, Lonesome Cowboy Dave & Mondo Retardo Band with Princess Wei, Rev. Ivan Stang, everybody on the SubGenius IRC and alt.slack, Scientology & Other Cult Horror Tales Round Table, Scrapple Toss, Pancake Orgy, Liquid 'Frop Tasting, much more.

"It's like GITMO, but in reverse." - Rev. Carter €

PRE-REGISTER and ALL INFO

X-Day postcard 1, Side 2

"THE WORLD WILL END TOMORROW!, eventually."
- Zapanaz

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JULY 24-29 - STARWOOD 27, BRUSHWOOD, Sherman, New York, USA

Largest Neo-Pagan and Multi-Weirdo Event in the NE - SubGenius Devival included
A.C.E./STARWOOD WEBSITE

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August 17-18 - BURNING STAR
Near Syracuse, New York, USA

INSANE FESTIVAL!! Inspired by Burning Man and Starwood.

These are the same guys that brought a Time Machine to the last
Starwood, and caused all that turbulence downStream in the Temporal Timestream. Rev. Ivan Stang Devival and Video Barrage included

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NEW SUBGENIUS PRODUCTS -- DVDs, GAME

Steve Jackson's Illuminati New World Order SubGenius Game - Back in Scatalog

This is a hundred-card non-collectible set from STEVE JACKSON GAMES, written and designed by Steve Jackson and Ivan Stang, featuring over 100 full color art pieces provided by the greatest artists of alt.binaries.slack. It can be played independently, or incorporated within SJG's sprawling ILLUMINATI NEW WORLD ORDER universe of TOTAL PARANOIA.

Here's a preview (from 1997)

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NEW SUBGENIUS DVDs

Until now, several classic SubGenius videos were only available in VHS. We have painstakingly remastered several of them onto 2 separate DVDs, and added many new extras such as subtitles so that both collections are as densely Slack-packed as possible. Besides the oldies, there's also a brand new collection of 2 hours of SubGenius animation.

X-DAY "1998" DVD

It's like an Hour of Slack radio show, but you can see it. Footage taken from 6 camera sources just before and after the world ended, slam-cut by Rev. Ivan Stang into a compressed vision of life among the SubGeniuses during their violent and apocalyptic X-Day Drill (held at a clothing-optional campground deep in New York's Amish country). ((Winner, Dallas Video Festival, 1998)) 1 hour 44 minutes. Much nudity, profane language.
EXTRAS: 5X-Day 2002 (22 minute dokumentally), X-Day Commercial; DVD menu pages have minute-long special hypnotic soundtracks,
trance-inducing collage imagery
Not recommended for mature audiences

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GREAT DOBBS ALMIGHTY DVD

Includes the 1984 NIGHT OF SLACK Devival, The Making of SUBGENIUS/MTV, "Bob's" Lunch Hour, 1990 SubGenius Art Gallery Show, and more

NIGHT OF SLACK -- The legendary 1984 San Francisco revival at which "Bob" first 'died.' Pope David N. Meyer, The Band That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Dr. Hal, Rev. Ivan Stang, Pope Sternodox, Doktors 4 "Bob".

MAKING OF MTV/SUBGENIUS (1991)
You'll "LAK TO DIE" when you see Dobbs in a flying saucer, blowing up the MTV building (a pyramid with an eye on it); the stop-motion death in flames of Barbie and Ken; live recreations of two SubGenius book covers; and Dobbs being worshiped by slinky devil-girls in Hell. During the sometimes surreal shooting, we also shot this 40-minute look behind the scenes.

The SUBGENIUS ART SHOW AT PSYCHEDELIC SOLUTION GALLERY, NYC (1990) -- now fully subtitled so you can tell who the "famous" celebrities are!

"Bob's" LUNCH HOUR starring Dr. Philo Drummond as "Bob" (Started in1977 - finished in 2007)

Dr. Hal interviewed re: "Bob's" Shooting, 1984

UNSEEN INTERVIEWS: LIES (Paul Mavrides), Pope Sternodox and Puzzling Evidence - uncut footage from 1981 World SubCon videos, shot for Showtime "What's Up America"; LIES & Puzzling Evidence - 2-minute "interview" from 1985; Dr. G. Gordon Gordon Goes Fishing with Snavely and Philo - 1991

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PSYCHLODELIACA DVD - The Oilslide Collection

The first hour of this program was made by Rev. Ivan Stang specifically for projection at live stage shows, devivals, raves, etc, and presents pure eye-candy and instrumental music with only the occasional Dobbshead or OverMan peeking through. The second hour involves shorter pieces, animation/music videos focused on "Bob," made mostly by Stang since the Dobbsedeliasteses collection was done. Almost all of these can be seen in gritty no-res teeny-vision on YouTube or Google Video, but many excited SubGenii who have seen these projected at live shows have asked for these trippy visuals on DVD.

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A REVIEW OF REVELATION X

"This book should be required reading. This is the best book that truly unmasks the conspiracy. It is so good I am almost taking it seriously. With all due respect to the Book of the SubGenius and the latest one. They are not as in-depth as this one on one specific subject. It is the ultimate SubGenius conspiracy life self help book. Kudos to all involved. Now fuck off." -- Rev. Chain Smerker

THE WHOLE SUBGENIUS CATALOG

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GREAT GIFT BOOK FOR DINO-LOVERS OF ALL AGES!
Dinosaur Alphabet
By Harry S. Robins (known to the SubGenius Race as Dr. Hal/Dr. Howl)
Frog Ltd./North Atlantic Books

If you're familiar with Hal's comics and SubGenius artwork, I need say little more. DINOSAUR ALPHABET makes the perfect gift for any adult dinosaur fan, because chances are good that this is one book they don't even know about -- in bookstores, it's in the Children's Nonfiction section. This is possibly because each pictured dinosaur is also described in verse!

The dinosaurs (and dinosaur-like creatures) that Hal so vividly describes and depicts in eye-watering color are ones you never heard of -- Euoplocephalus, Fabrosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Huayangosaurus, Quaesitosaurus, Rhoetosaurus, Vulcanodon, Zuniceratops, all of them intricately rendered, and all described in more scientific detail in a long appendix.

See the cover art in these on-web reviews:
Laughing Squid review
Boing-boing review of the book

$18.95 (But only $13.95 at Amazon.com!)

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LINKSLACK:

If you like your news delivered to you WEIRD, we heartily recommend subscribing to Rev. Modemac's free Bulldada Newsblog & daily SubGenius Calendar. Every day this SubGenius Mad Doktor collects together the most bizarre and absurd news links from around the Internet. It's as if Charles Fort ran the Drudge Report.

SubGenius wiki sites
Modemac assembled this page of links showing how the Church of
the SubGenius is portrayed on various wiki "encyclopedia" sites out
there. And some of them are indeed pretty OUT THERE.

For that matter, there's more of everything at
http://www.modemac.com

SubGenius Ascendancy

The Are You Subgenius Test

St. Byron Werner's amazing radio show RURAL WAR ROOM (broadcast on the Little Rock indie station KABF Tuesdays at
10 pm) now being podcast!

http://tinyurl.com/2726jw to download these half-hour shows

Secret Sex Cult Origins of the SubGenius
Scientists have discovered that both Discordianism and the Church of the SubGenius are actually descended from a secret Islamic sex cult founded in New Jersey in the 1800s!

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VIDEO LINKS
Discordianism (and SubGenius) in court
Reverend Magdalen is not the first SubGenius forced to defend her
religion in court. Discordianism has also appeared in a court case --
along with an explanation of the SubGenius Short Duration Marriage.

Stang Videos (anything WITH Stang) on Video Google

SUB-AD page with Stang vid list

City Lights San Francisco SubGenius Book Signing
In this video excerpt you only see Dr. Hal, but you hear heckling by
Dr. Philo Drummond, Puzzling Evidence, Pissbaptist John Shirley, and
(towards the end) St. Palmer Vreedeez of The LIES Foundation.

(Look at her list of videos and you'll see that Bug Girl has put many Dr. Hal performances on You Tube!)

The Man from SLAK

George Clinton Sub Video

Illuminati Symbols EVERYWHERE!

Save-A-Copy

Revised "BOB" Sayings

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CU CHI TUNNELS
The three feature documentaries that I, Stang wrote and edited for director Mickey Grant in the previous century have been put on Google Video by Mickey. These include THE CU CHI TUNNELS, the only American film I know of that depicts the Vietnam War AS RECOUNTED BY THE VIET CONG. Some scenes are pretty excruciating. Also, this film features more one-armed people than most documentaries do.

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NEW SUBGENIUS MINISTERS:
When you get the ordainment package, remember to fill out and mail back the "Confirmation Postcard" or else you won't get mailings on such occasions as they occur. We've been updating our Sacred Mailing List/Book of Life, or trying to, and it seems that we've sold a lot of Memberships to people who aren't finishing the process by sending in that little postcard.

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UPDATE ON REV. MAGDALEN'S CHILD CUSTODY CASE

YOUR DONATIONS DID THE TRICK! She needed $2000 and got $5,000! That helps a lot with the Bevilacquas' huge legal debt. She can still use all the help she can get, though! At one point, some unnamed donator managed to place the online donations counter at exactly $3333.33 . . . and it stayed lodged in that position for several days!
Donations button

Details of the case

The text of Judge Adams' decision in the case of Reverend Magdalen, is now available online. You can download it from the wiki page for Magdalen, along with all of the other links; the link is available at the top and bottom of the page.

An appellate court hearing is scheduled for May and we have high hopes that once a panel of real judges hears the case, real justice will be done.

Praise be to all who have helped in the fight for Slack for so long!

ALL SUBGENIUS CONTACTS, WEBSITES:
http://subgenius.com/contact.htm

2 New Thangs: SubG INWO Game & Long Form teX-Day Video

2007-04-14T22:04:00.000-04:00

The teX-Day video posted earlier is the short 10-minute promo. This is the long-form one.

Both versions are on the SubGenius Events Page

TeX-Day 2007 is coming May 5, so we've thrash-edited the videotapes and stills from teX-Day 2005 into an actual finished "fropumentary." (I, Stang didn't edit any 2006 teX-Day footage because I wasn't there to document it -- had to work on the Bobliographon book deadline instead.)

TeX-Day Documentary (32 minutes)
This is the full-length (32 minutes) documentary from which the 10 minute promo was whittled down. It features many more songs and sermon clips than the short promo, including Rev. Chupacabra's timeless testimonial, and slo-mo replay of some of the Launchings.

This year's teX-Day III:
May 5-6 weekend
Dragonz Wylde Ranch, Red Rock, Texas, near Austin

Directions, tickets, and details are at the teX-Day website

I, Stang will be there, as will host Loke E. Coyote, many bands, Sister Decadence, Princess Wei, Dok Frop, Launchings, Doktor Music, Sex Temple, maybe even THAT! More to be announced!

There is yet a longer, much more perverse version -- the full uncensored 40-minute director's cut, which is only on alt.binaries.multimedia.slack because it has nipples and (CENSORED) that Google Video would not want on their pages. The 10-minute short is also on a.b.m.s. All versions posted to that binaries group are high-quality DivX avi files, suitable for your DVD player (when burned to a data CDR) vastly better looking and sounding than the very low-res, choppy format that YouTube and Google Videos must needs resort to.

I should make a special version of JUST the 8 minutes of censored stuff, for alt.binaries.slack perhaps, if I can make it small enough and yet not too degraded. By that I mean video degradation. The behavior shown could not be any more degraded.

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Steve Jackson's Illuminati New World Order SubGenius Game - Back in our Scatalog

This is a hundred-card non-collectible set from STEVE JACKSON GAMES,
written and designed by Steve Jackson and Ivan Stang, featuring over
100 full color art pieces provided by the greatest artists of
alt.binaries.slack. It can be played independently, or incorporated
within SJG's sprawling ILLUMINATI NEW WORLD ORDER universe of TOTAL
PARANOIA.

The set of 100 cards is usable by itself, and includes rules for a 4-
player common-deck game, using four Church of the SubGenius cards
(with different art, of course). Each represents a different faction
of the Church, fighting for control, Slack, and that unending flow of
dollars from the mindless Pinks. You can also drop other INWO cards
into a SubGenius game, or vice versa!

Here's a preview (from 1997)

Here's the Order Form

Here's 32 minutes of teX-Day 2005:

teX-DAY is STILL COMING, May 5 - NEW VIDEO online

2007-04-13T20:41:00.000-04:00

May 5-6 weekend - teX-DAY III

Dragonz Wylde Ranch, near Austin, Texas, USA

Directions, tickets, and details are HERE at the teX-Day website.

I'll be there, as will host Loke E. Coyote, many bands, Sister Decadence, Princess Wei, Dok Frop, Launchings, Doktor Music, Sex Temple, maybe even THAT! More to be announced!

I have spent the last three days trying to cut the video of teX-Day 2005 into a decent promo -- and I SUCCEEDED! There is also a 40-minute uncensored version that I'll be posting in high res DivX to alt.binaries.multimedia.slack, and a 30-minute somewhat censored version that I'll post on Google Video a.s.a.p.

In the meantime, here's my DECENT PROMO! Well, as decent as YouTube will let it be, anyway.

If the teX-Day movie below won't play for you, try this link to it on YouTube.

teX-Day is Coming! - May 5 Weekend, Red Rock, Texas

2007-04-06T12:22:00.000-04:00

This will be the third teX-Day! Here's a quickie promo video using pics from the first teX-Day:

More details at the NEW DEVIVALS PAGE on SubSITE
or
teX-Day Website

IMPORTANT: Rev. Magdalen Child Custody Case -- Donations Needed!

2007-03-10T08:21:00.000-05:00

I only send out bulk news releases like this when I feel it's IMPORTANT news for SubGenii. I don't want you to come to regard it as spam. So I'll go straight to the point, which may seem spamlike at first. Jesus and Magdalen Bevilacqua still need money -- $2,000 to be exact -- and you can contribute funds to their SubGenius child custody case now via this PayPal link:

Paypal donations can still be sent to magdalen@subgenius.com:
http://tinyurl.com/jbpe8

This nifty button takes you to the Pledgie.com page for the Rev. Magdalen Legal Fund, where you can use a credit card OR PayPal to donate. The button shows what's been donated so far via Pledgie.com.

Checks or other payments can be mailed to the attention of:
Rachel Bevilacqua
c/o Christopher S. Mattingly
Lipsitz Green LLP
42 Delaware Avenue
Suite 300
Buffalo, New York 14202-3857

UPDATE, March 12 -- Mike Gil has just written the best article about this case yet! Read it here.

If this is your first News email from the Church of the SubGenius, you might not be familiar with the tragic situation of Rev. Magdalen "Rachel" and Rev. Jesus "Steve" Bevilacqua, whose child was taken from them by a New York state family judge -- BECAUSE THEY ARE SUBGENIUSES.

I know this sounds ridiculous, and insane, like a made-up SubGenius prank, but if you suspect it might be one (HOW I WISH IT WERE!), here are links to newspaper and encyclopedia articles about it:

WIKIPEDIA News article about it
http://tinyurl.com/lljse

This feisty weekly from the Rochester area, The Beast, has the most scathing of many good articles about the case:
http://www.buffalobeast.com/96/subgenius.custody.htm

An excellent, somewhat more recent article is in the Cleveland Free Times:
http://www.freetimes.com/story/262

Modemac's wikipedia page has the most detailed history of the case, with much more recent details, as well as the most complete collection of links:
http://www.modemac.com/wiki/Reverend_Magdalen

You can find the various judges' actual comments there… to me, those are the most horrifying documents in the whole story. Obviously, what made the Salem Witch Hunts possible is still alive in New England.

To make a long story short, recently, after a very prolonged and difficult struggle, Rev. Magdalen won back custody of her child… only to have it again denied BEFORE SHE COULD EVEN SEE HIM by an "emergency stay order." This means that now the case must go to a higher court -- which is good, because it will be FIVE judges who aren't just yokels from that same small town, who managed to get themselves elected as family court judges. There is a good chance that, when the case is seen by educated people, Magdalen will regain full custody of her son.

One of the nightmarish aspects of this, however, is that, because the biological father supposedly has "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome," he has never had to work and is a trailer-court welfare case. This means that the state pays for his lawyers! But because the Bevilacquas each work the equivalent of two jobs, they have to PAY for their lawyers.

And they have to pay a new, DIFFERENT lawyer to handle the higher appellate court case.

From Rev. Magdalen:

"Basically, although I did win the case, it's now going to appeal. Orleans County has, of course, offered to pay all the expenses for my ex's appeals case, while I still have to pay for my appellate lawyers, which it turns out are different from regular lawyers and require a new $10,000 retainer to hire. I'll still be represented by the same firm, Lipsitz, Green, Scime, Cambria, but a different individual will be handling the case.

"We go before the Fourth Circuit Appellate Division on June 2, and then they will make their decision within 30 days of that. I am cross-appealing to ask that the parts of the decision forbidding me to make or keep SubGenius art inside my home, travel with my husband for his job, and homeschool my son, be struck down. Until then, my son has to stay with my ex, though I am supposed to get "extended visitation." So far, I have not yet been able to actually access that extended visitation, as my ex says it will take a court order in writing to make him comply, and all we have is a verbal order. I hope that will be straightened out soon.

"In the meantime, I'm getting some desperately-needed R&R with my husband, as my mother-in-law generously gave me a ticket to come see him in England, where he's been sent for work. I'll be here in the UK for the next three weeks, then back to the daily grind in New York, waiting in place for the decision to come through and trying to spend as much time as I can with my son.

"There was an incident that occurred during that brief day when I had won the case, but the appeal had not yet gone through, that is very hard for me to write about. The principal of my son's school, Mr. P_____, actually disobeyed my written and verbal instructions to keep my son at school so I could pick him up and have at least one night with him before the appeal was filed. Instead, Mr. P____, knowing I was literally on the way to get my son from his school, deliberately released my son to my ex, so when I got there he was gone. My ex took my son and disappeared with him that whole night, not returning my son until the appeal went through. I called my ex and begged him over cell phone to tell me at least where my son was, if he was still in the state or the country, or what, and he just laughed and said that I would never find them.

"It was the most horrible night of my life, and it was made so much worse by knowing that this did not have to happen, but Mr. P_____, who had been a witness in the case and was fully aware of the vicious hostility involved, chose to pick one parent over the other, directly in contradiction to the written order that I had sent him a copy of. I don't know what to make of it. I contacted the superintendent of Lyndonville Central Schools, and she refused to take any disciplinary action against Mr. P_____. My lawyer, Mr. Mattingly, is preparing a case for bringing charges against Mr. P_____, so I will update you all again when I know more about that. I know a lot of you are going through your own custody issues, so I thought you might like to know that this kind of flagrant abuse can happen—your children might not be as safe at school as you think they are.

"Anyway, that's about it for me, I hope all is well with all of you! My finances are still in extremely dire straits—I am $2,000 short of the retainer fee I need to proceed with my appellate lawyer, even after my father lent me his entire life savings as collateral on a loan, so if anyone feels motivated and has some extra cash, it would be so very much appreciated. Thank you all so much for everything, all your concern and support really has made the difference. I would have given up long ago and just spiraled into a fog of despair without all of you, so thank you, thank you, I can never thank you enough."

++++

Magdalen added this in a personal letter to me:

"The appellate lawyer says he’s working on the case already as a courtesy, but he wants his retainer ASAP. I just don’t have it, and I can’t get it. My parents already shot their entire savings and maxed out their credit, and Steve and I did too, and now there’s nothing left for it but to beg the Internets and see if anyone would be willing to help out again, though I’m sure they’re sick of me whining.

"So far, this whole thing has cost us $73,000, and this new $10,000 charge on top of that is just the retainer, I’m sure the appellate lawyer will spend that all in no time and send me more bills as we get closer to June 2. So anyway, I was wondering if you could put out another email plea for money.

"…So hopefully, the appeals court will straighten everything out, give me back my boy, and set me free to go roam the earth with my husband and make whatever art I choose, as is my right as an American! But then, after following the Anna Nicole saga and seeing the way they treated her, I still don’t have a lot of confidence in the American legal system. I wish some of the candidates would make reforming it their hot-button issue!"

Sincerely,

Rachel Bevilacqua

Finally, check out this mp3 audio clip from a national so-called "Christian" radio talk show: host Bob Larsen slandering people he knows NOTHING about:
http://www.subgenius.com/MP3s/05-19-06-Bob_Larson_on_BevilacquaCase.mp3
or http://tinyurl.com/yc8ayw

Paypal donations can still be sent to magdalen@subgenius.com.
http://tinyurl.com/jbpe8

Checks or other payments can be mailed to the attention of:
Rachel Bevilacqua
c/o Christopher S. Mattingly
Lipsitz Green LLP
42 Delaware Avenue
Suite 300
Buffalo, New York 14202-3857

THE WHY A GOAT? SHIRT: The brave and hardy administrators of Taphouse IRC (the official IRC network of the Church of the SubGenius) have begun a fundraiser for Magdalen's legal fund, by producing T-shirts with a goat head logo and the quote "Why a goat?" (as was repeatedly asked by the original judge in this case). These shirts are being sold for $20, of which $8.10 of every sale will go directly to her legal fund. All help is appreciated, and every little bit helps. The URL for the fund-raiser is:
http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=32908

I promise the next report, which will come soon, will have lots of FUN news and reviews, and links to vast endless hours of SubGenius media Slack.

SubGenius sacred book REVELATION X reprinted!

2006-12-29T20:54:00.000-05:00

The Book of the SubGenius and The SubGenius Psychlopaedia of Slack - The Bobliographon are once again joined on bookstore shelves by the second of the SubGenius trilogy of "Bobles," REVELATION X - THE BOBAPOCRYPHON!

ORDER IT NOW FROM AMAZON.COM FOR ONLY $12.86 (a $6.06 ("b0b") savings!

Of our three main holy books, this one is my favorite. Paul Mavrides and I strove against titanic forces and insane odds to make sure it did justice to the richness of “Bob’s” teachings and to the slavishness of his minions, the dozens of artists and writers who were sacrificed to it. Originally published by Simon & Schuster, an actual conspiracy (albeit a small one) kept it from being properly promoted, and it has been out of print since 1998... UNTIL NOW!!

The visionaries at Thunder’s Mouth Press (Avalon) have now brought out this new edition. Although it is nearly identical to the first edition, 20 pages have been updated, and the printing quality is actually improved. It’s the same physical size as The Book of the SubGenius – 8.5” x 11” – but is even more densely packed over more pages. Contributors include not only SubGenius luminaries such as Dr. Hal Robins, PissBaptist John Shirley, Dr. Philo Drummond, Dr. G. Gordon Gordon, St. Paul Mavrides, etc., but also such world-esteemed graphic artists as Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, Mark Bode, and many more.

The reason we are directing buyers to Amazon.com (or your local bookstore) instead of the SubGenius catalog is because we didn’t expect it to be out before Xmas… and we’re out of the office for the holidays. Just before we left the Cleveland Heights corporate headquarters (“The Slackermansion”), a box of the books unexpectedly arrived from the publishers! As soon as we are back in the factory facility and able to fill orders, it will be added to the Bulldada Time Control online catalog. We don’t particularly advertise this fact, but all SubGenius books sold through that catalog are autographed by at least one of the authors – usually me.

For the holidays, we are operating out of the Stang Family Historical Church Compound (a renovated old stone fortress) just outside Stangville in Stang County, Texas. The online SubGenius History course with Maybe Logic Academy – http://maybelogic.org -- is in a week-long holiday break, but will resume January 2, when we will post links to audio and video classis from the 1990-1994 period (already uploaded before we left our high tech Cleveland facility).

The 50 students who signed up for that course are getting way more than they bargained for. Along with thousands of scans of old Stark Fists, letters, photos, newsletters, art and other documents, they’ve also gotten ALL of the old Church music and media barrage albums, plus a number of extremely rare videos and recordings that have never been released anywhere else. And, they’re getting it all EXPLAINED to them by yours truly. Meanwhile, they are also being very slightly guided through the creation of their own custom-made mind control cults. In fact, I’m starting to have misgivings about having helped sponsor so much of our own FUTURE COMPETITION!

Best of all, once this first 8 week course has been finished, we will be able to offer it again every year, and each time I’ll be able to layer in a little more detail. For that matter, since all the course material will stay in place throughout the whole 8 weeks, a person could join at any time between now and January 20, and still be able to read and download all of the course materials – although it might take you a week just for the downloading, since it already fills almost 3 DVDs. (All for only $95!)

Many have asked what became of the SubGenius child custody case involving the Bevilacquas. THE NEW JUDGE STILL HASN’T MADE A DECISION. If what was intended was mental torture of the parents and child, that has been accomplished. The decision was supposed to happen in September, but lawyerly evil has been evoked to keep prolonging the agony.

We hope the new year will bring good news for Magdalen and Jesus. Princess Wei and myself are going for double the Slack in the meantime, hopefully storing some extra up for the Bevilacquas for when they are finally able to access any Slack at all.

My daughter Sivet is engaged to be married in June; her fiancé passed The Baseball Bat Test when I met him for the first time this week. He hardly even felt the blow! Also in June, I will be performing the wedding ceremony of Foundation loyee, Rev. Nickie Deathchick and her fiancé Bob Wild. And Dr. Philo Drummond and his new child bride, Rev. Kaosmic Bobcat, are raising their own newborn Uberbaby. Just the SubGenius Foundation staff ALONE is making sure the SubGenius beautant population continues to grow.

And, now that we again have THREE of our SubGenius Sex Manuals in stores worldwide, we anticipate a “Mutant Baby Boom” that will help make the promise of X-Day come true, whether “Bob” and the Xists themselves ever get their act together or not.

WON’T YOU JOIN US?

Slackermansion Halloweie'en Photos

2006-11-01T10:14:00.000-05:00

We had high Hallowed-Weenie traffic at The Slackermansion, and ran out of candy early, despite having bought twice as much as last year -- an excuse for us to go out trick-or-treating, ourselves. The Giant Head Dobbs doled out the goods, Princess Wei sweet-talked the kids into posing with "Bob" for photos, and iDRMRSR impressed the moms and dads by claiming to be a U.N. observer. Pics are up:

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/pics13/stang/Halloween06/index.html

This collection includes some new SubG Halloween art (by newcomers) that was emailed in over the weekend before Halloween, also pics from ACE party with Wei as the female Amina Acid, and Pater Nostril as Tor Johnson (original mask by St. Joe Riley).

Plus, a rare shot of a Cyclops Skull Root found growing at the local graveyard.

The photos (and many more) are all posted to alt.binaries.slack as well.

Alt.binaries.MULTIMEDIA.slack has yet another dozen MP3s of whole hour-plus shows by Rev. Susie the Floozy. We are uploading "Bob's" Slacktime Funhouse Shows at the rate of 11 or 12 per day. Also uploading over a 3-day period is Rev. Circlemaker's bizarre EuroX-Day 2002 documentary (in high quality mpeg-2).

Now that the weddings and Holy Days are over for a little while, this Scribe will be tearing into the Maybe Logic Academy Online Course in the Secret History of the SubGenius Church and How to Run Your Own Mind Control Cult (Nov. 20 -- Jan. something) -- see http://www.maybelogic.org/stangcrs.htm
for the complete curriculum.

This course will essentially be a whole new illustrated SubGenius book in PDF plus a lot of personal forum and chat activity, and umpteen hours of downloadables -- MP3s and videos of primal moments in real-life Church history (ADULTS ONLY!).

So I must get cracking! Cracking, scanning, sorting and, hopefully, remembering.

New SubGenius Book is Available; Multimedia Online Course in SubGenius runs November - January

2006-10-20T14:48:00.001-04:00

Two big hearty chunks of news: the new SubGenius book is in stores and our catalog, and Maybe Logic University is offering a media-soaked online course in SubGenius History and How to Run Your Own Cult. Also, our book Revelation X is being reprinted, and yours truly has a MySpace page now.

ONLINE LESSONS IN SUBGENIUSDOM via Maybe Logic Academy

In some ways this course is yet another book, but not with just new text and photos. It also features hours of downloadable audio and video, exclusive to this course. And it has YOUR PARTICIPATION -- if you so choose -- since it also involves chat-room sessions, online forums, etc. By the end of the course, not only will you possess an exclusive stash of inside-SubGenius goodies, but you'll have developed YOUR OWN ORIGINAL CULT RELIGION.

We had already been planning a big "History of the SubGenius" book/DVD project, when Maybe Logic University approached us about doing this class online. This is the same group behind the excellent RAW film, Maybe Logic. They have already run successful courses under instructors like Robert Anton Wilson, Douglas Rushkoff, Antero Alli, R.U. Sirius, Erik Davis, David Jay Brown, Luke Rhinehart, Starhawk and others.

The inexpensive course will run 8 weeks, from November 20 to January 21 (with a holiday break). There is a good chance that this is a one-time opportunity that won't be repeated. There will be massive amounts of rare SubGenius text, comics, devival audio, radio clips, backstage historical material, photos and graphics that WON'T be on SubSITE or our binaries newsgroups.

This is a one-of-a-kind, hands-on, participatory MUST for the hard-core SubGenius, or the investigator who has always wondered just what's REALLY been going on in this Church.

The detailed course overview can be seen here:
http://www.maybelogic.org/stangcrs.htm

To enroll (or buy the Maybe Logic DVD): http://www.maybelogic.org/enroll.htm

THE SUBGENIUS PSYCHLOPAEDIA OF SLACK -- THE BOBLIOGRAPHON

NYES! It's now available! A THIRD SUBGENIUS TESTAMENT! The NEW encyclopedia of abnormality -- 240 pages of cornea-melting illustrations and newly-released SubGenius writings that will SHOCK those who thought that surely all of everything must be contained within the previous books. This book goes where THE BOOK OF THE SUBGENIUS and REVELATION X could not. Contains all-new revelations re: the Mystery of X-Day; Secrets of Connie Dobbs; Avoiding Subicide; Slack Magic; SubGenius Kooks; "Bob's" Dark Secrets; a Tour of Dobbstown; The Yacatizma vs. Yacatisma; The Earth-Mars Switch and infinitely more!

THE BOBLIOGRAPHON has a much different look from the first two holy Bobles, and an even broader range of contributors, because it's our first book since "Bob" took over the Internet in 1995. Hence the illustrations tend to be richly detailed 3D computer graphics by the likes of LeMur, IMBJR and Heart Ignition. Writers include Rev. Ivan Stang, Dr. Philo Drummond, Nenslo, Rev. Dr. Onan Canobite, Dr. G.G. Gordon, Dr. Hal, Rev. Susie the Floozy, and 45 other Doktors and NunSnakes. From mighty Thunder’s Mouth Press/Avalon. Size: 7" x 9" Weight: 13 oz.

You can buy it in most bookstores, online via Amazon.com, Powells (http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-1560259396-0) and others, or you can buy it AUTOGRAPHED directly from Bulldada Time Control Labs and yours truly:
http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/books.htm

REVELATION X reprint out in January

Thunder's Mouth Press has enjoyed such robust pre-sales for THE BOBLIOGRAPHON that they are reprinting our Second Testament, REVELATION X, and are rushing to have it out before the end of this year. (I have already finished revising the address and catalog info, which was a HEROIC CHORE, let me tell you!) Many SubGenii, myself included, consider this the best of our first four books, and that may explain why it was taken out of print after truncated Conspiracy distribution in 1994. The book was 2 years in the making, and it shows. Interestingly, the revised new edition is ALREADY for sale, from that unique avant-garde vendor of only the most bizarre and rare items -- Wal-Mart!
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5167991

WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND?

Because it was the only way to communicate with my nieces and nephews, I took the MySpace plunge. YIKES! It's insidious! I had to rant about it -- but on alt.slack, not on MySpace: http://tinyurl.com/y53aev

I have to admit I have enjoyed the Helle out of many of my fellow SubGeniuses' pimp-jobs on their own MySpace pages, which you can access via mine. Other strange bands of weirdoes such as Negativland, The Amino Acids, Little Fyodor, DEVO etc. also bleed over into it.
Rev. Ivan Stang MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/ivanstang

Note: there is also a non-official "Church of the SubGenius" MySpace site, evidently set up by someone who doesn't know how to spell "SubGenius"… or even "Bob"!

HALLOWEEN
… the one holiday during which the SubGeniuses DON'T wear their disguises! We have some pages of graphics and photos showing the alt.binaries.slack and SubGenius Foundation HQ Halloweens of the past. Make sure you check out ALL the links. SubG MaskMaster St. Joe Riley's costume shop is one of them.

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/pics11/HALLOWEEN/index.html

NEWS OF REV. MAGDALEN AND HER CHILD

We don't have any good news yet. The new judge is supposed to hand down a decision any week now. Meanwhile the child is still kept from his mom.

NEWS OF POPE ROBERT ANTON WILSON

He got lots of donations, and the financial crisis is postponed for a couple of months. His health unfortunately is not especially improved.

REMEMBER - NO "BOB," NO SLACK. KNOW "BOB," KNOW SLACK.
Let There Then Be Slack

Time to Repay RAWilson for All the Slack

2006-10-03T10:27:00.000-04:00

Pope Bob (Robert Anton Wilson) loaned us SubGeniuses a LOT!

Most of what he loaned us were ideas. We took those ideas and ran with them. We did all KINDS of things using his ideas. We started every manner of experiment, inspired by his experiments. Many of those experiments PAID OFF.

I have said many times to interviewers that were it not for Robert Anton Wilson (and the late great Robert Shea, who co-wrote Illuminatus), there would be no Church of the SubGenius.

Although Pope Bob was tough enough to beat childhood polio in his youth, now that he is old, it has returned to harass him. He busted his ass his whole life, writing, lecturing, and selling books -- and if you think those jobs are EASY, try it yourself. He shared part of his mighty brain with the world, supported his family, and even survived the loss of a child and his wife without GIVING UP. But nothing lasts forever, and now it's down to the wire.

Princess Wei, Pater Nostril and I got to hang out with Pope Bob a couple of times in recent years, at Winterstar. The polio had already put him in a wheelchair, and it must have been hurting all the time, but Bob was as cheerful and snappy as I'd seen him in the '80s and the '90s, and he delivered one of the most brilliant talks I've ever seen at an A.C.E. event. He was still writing books (and plugging SubGenius!) and doing everything he could physically and financially to pull his own weight.

I "saw" him more recently in the excellent film, Maybe Logic. It was agonizing to watch Pope Bob demonstrating that he can still walk, with effort, because the polio had obviously gotten much worse. But he was STILL TRYING TO WALK and STILL WORKING!

Do you imagine that writers like Wilson make a lot of money? Well, if he was the kind of writer whose books are in airports with embossed covers showing blurbs like "ANOTHER BEST SELLING CORPORATE THRILLER," then you might be right.

However, Robert Anton Wilson didn't write the kind of books that Hollywood likes to make movies of. He wrote the kinds of books that weird individuals make their very LIVES from.

Earlier this year -- when finally he could no longer sit at a machine and type all day -- rather than asking for charity, he started SELLING OFF HIS OLD STUFF. Autographing and selling all the spares of his books. Now even those are gone, and there's not much he can do but hope that people remember what they owe him.

I REMEMBER!

Any donations can be made to Bob directly to the Paypal account olgaceline@gmail.com.
You can also send a check payable to Robert Anton Wilson to
Dennis Berry c/o Futique Trust
P.O. Box 3561
Santa Cruz, CA 95063.

I am emptying the SubGenius paypal account into his paypal account, and we are mailing monthly $50 checks as suggested.

Here is another testimonial and some more info, from Douglas Rushkoff:

http://tinyurl.com/lb3mm

Here's a good wiki team write-up on RAW:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson

RAW's main website:
http://www.rawilson.com/main.shtml

Other top RAW info site: http://www.maybelogic.com/

SubGeniuses, you helped out Rev. Magdalen when the Conspiracy took her child away. (Incidentally, the child is still away (!) and she still has huge legal bills.) You helped her out even though many of you never met her or her child. You took our word for it that the situation was dire and that the call for help was justified. Well, you may not have ever met Robert Anton Wilson… you MIGHT not even have read any of his books… but if you're a SubGenius, he has sure as hell helped you out. He has given you Slack, BIG TIME.

Now, you can give him Slack at a time when he REALLY NEEDS IT. He will almost certainly never need your help this way again. The kind of Slack he most immediately needs is the peace of mind of knowing he can fucking DIE IN PEACE, at home, in bed, and not in the middle of a HOUSEHOLD MOVE watching the loss of his home and last possessions.

If you love "Bob," then you will send money to Bob. For without Bob, we would never even have heard of "Bob."

PRAISE BOB!

Report on DEVOtional 2006 on SubSITE

2006-09-18T15:03:00.000-04:00

Princess Wei and I barely survived the DEVOtional of 2006. But we are stronger for it, and our bedroom is much cleaner.

PICTORIAL REPORT

Other news:

I'm teaching an online course in The History of The Church of the SubGenius in November and December. Yes, I'm PERFESSOR Stang now.
SUBGENIUS COURSE AT MAYBE LOGIC ACADEMY

MAGDALEN & JESUS NEED $LACK!...

2006-08-03T17:20:00.000-04:00

… because their child needs THEM!

You may have read about the child custody case of Rachel Bevilacqua, aka Rev. Magdalen. Her 10-year-old son was taken away from her last February because a New York family court judge thought that her involvement with The Church of the SubGenius disqualified her for motherhood. The horrible news is, even though the original judge is off the case, THE CASE IS DRAGGING ON and she has been allowed very little contact with her son. The state is paying for the father's lawyers, because the father is a welfare case who never has a job, and that side is deliberately prolonging the court sessions BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT THE BEVILACQUAS, WHO BETWEEN THEM ARE WORKING FOUR JOBS, DO HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR LAWYERS.

Rachel has very good lawyers now, but they're very expensive, and they want another $10,000 from her by LAST WEEK. Meanwhile, her husband Steve, aka Rev. Jesus, has been tranfered by His employers to ENGLAND -- which would be lots of fun IF HE COULD HAVE HIS FAMILY WITH HIM. But Rachel cannot leave New York until she regains at least partial custody of her child.

Friends, normally when I send out these letters it's because I'm selling something -- some new holy SubGenius product. Well, our new book will be out in October, and I will surely sell the Hell out of that when the time comes. But right now I'm not selling anything. I'm BEGGING for your money, for SOMEBODY ELSE -- for Rachel's legal fees, so she can hurry up and get young "ConBo" back before he has to spend YET ANOTHER 6 MONTHS IN THAT WRETCHED TRAILER COURT.

If you read any of the stories that have now been written about this case -- and especially if you read the publicly available transcript of the original abusive judge's outbursts -- you'll see that this is not just another cute SubGenius money-making gimmick, but a serious fight against a REAL THREAT. Magdalen is a degreed college graduate with a long and responsible job history, a good income, no jail record, etc. If her child can be taken away by a small local court just because she's a SubGenius, THINK WHAT ELSE THEY COULD DO… MAYBE TO YOU.

Modemac's wikipedia page has the most concise history of the case and the most complete collection of links:
http://www.modemac.com/wiki/Reverend_Magdalen

This feisty weekly newspaper from the Rochester area has the most scathing of many good articles about the case:

The Beast:
http://www.buffalobeast.com/96/subgenius.custody.htm

Another excellent, more recent article is in the Cleveland Free Times:
http://www.freetimes.com/story/262

Paypal donations can still be sent to magdalen@subgenius.com.
http://tinyurl.com/jbpe8

Checks or other payments can be mailed to the attention of:
Rachel Bevilacqua
c/o Christopher S. Mattingly
Lipsitz Green LLP
42 Delaware Avenue
Suite 300
Buffalo, New York 14202-3857

THE WHY A GOAT? SHIRT: The brave and hardy administrators of Taphouse IRC (the official IRC network of the Church of the SubGenius) have begun a fundraiser for Magdalen's legal fund, by producing T-shirts with a goat head logo and the quote "Why a goat?" (as was repeated by the original judge in this case). These shirts are being sold for $20, of which $8.10 of every sale will go directly to her legal fund. All help is appreciated, and every little bit helps. The URL for the fund-raiser is:
http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=32908

Needless to say, this has been unspeakably hard on Magdalen and Jesus. The SubGeniuses at large, however, sure had a lot of fun at Judge Punch's expense at our last X-Day drill. There are 4 Hours of Slack online now that feature recordings from 9X-Day, but this week's show, #1058, a Magdalen Case Fund-Raising, Punch-Bashing special with Dr. Hal and other great ranters (also featuring Mag's shordurpersav band, The Billy Nayer Show).
Hour of Slack 1058:
http://subgenius.sensoryresearch.net/hos/Hour_of_Slack_1058.mp3

While we're at it, this is a good place to mention THE HOUR OF SLACK HOME SERVICE -- a 6-month subscription to weekly Hour of Slack CDs delivered to your home! Only FIVE BUCKS PER SHOW. Sure you can download it, or you can record it off the air if you're in one of the 17 cities where it's carried (see website) -- but these are audio CDs made direct from the masters, with 25 to 60 separate tracks so you can easily isolate your favorite parts. You can specify X-Rated or Air-Safe copies. I know, I said I wasn't selling anything. But, hey -- What Would "Bob" Do?

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/audio-hos.htm

*******

9X-Day 'Comic' - a SubGenius Photonovella

2006-07-28T23:40:00.000-04:00

I just finished my first SubGenius 'found' photonovella, utilizing the photos from 9X-Day Drill shot by several SubGenii, arranged in panels like a comic book. It's 23 pages long, has captions, 'sound effects' and word balloons like a comic, and can be viewed on SubSITE at the following links (and is also downloaded there as a small PDF file). A very large, high-res, printable PDF version is on alt.binaries.multimedia.slack, and the 23 separate numbered JPEGs are on alt.binaries.slack.

http://subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/9XDay/9X-Day_Comic-sm/image-html/9X-Day_Comic_01.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/jsqt7
for the 9X-Day Photo Comic

The photonovella replaces our traditional annual X-Day Drill photo gallery. You'll see why. It's so much more DRAMATIC this way! It's part of the new

9X-DAY REPORTS on SubSITE at:
http://subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/9XDay/9X-DayText/9X-DayReports.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/l6j6p

Includes the 2006 Bobbie Awards
http://subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/9XDay/9X-DayText/X0007_2006_BOBBIE_AWARDS.t.html
aka
http://tinyurl.com/etuu6

BIG THANKSLACK to the photographers and stars of the 9X-Day photonovella! Photo credits are on the last page.

Hours of Slack #s 1055 through 1059 will be edited 9X-Day audio entirely: live radio, preaching, bands, Wotaning, and related Puzzling Evidence. The first two are available in various formats from multiple sources via http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos.html

The sub-web-bots also assembled some SubSITE pages about the large neopagan festival, Starwood 26, using Rev. Alex Thompson's text report and Princess Wei's photos:
http://subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/STARWOOD26/Starwood_26_Alex_Report.html
aka
http://tinyurl.com/hc9of

Ironically, there is much nudity in the 9X-Day pictorials, but none in the Starwood ones.

Announcement: Birth of the OverBaby!

2006-07-28T23:26:00.000-04:00

BORN to Dr. Philo U. Drummond, Primary Subgenius Overman
Second Authorized MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Church of the SubGenius /Drummondian, and the beautiful Rev. Kaosmic-Kitty:

THE OVERBABY
Lily KatBuck Drummond

ACTUAL BIRTHDATE:
7-22-06
TIME: 6:06 A.M.

REPEAT: 6:06 A/M.

Two strange events (besides "Bob's" signature on the time of her birth) mark this far-from-emaculate birth.

Prior to the birth, Dr. Drummond and the extremely pregnant Rev. Kaosmic-Kitty attended Annie Sprinkle's birthday party. Kaosmic-Kitty was scheduled to sing a song on the stage and so she did -- but in the middle of the cute little song, HER WATER BROKE! Yes, Rev. Kaosmic-Kitty stood there on the stage at Annie Sprinkle's bithday party, with water streaming down her legs, calling for a doctor. Instead she got a DOKTOR, her husband Dr. Philo Drummond -- in full-on OVERMAN TRANSFIGURATION MODE! The OverMan rushed to her side, REACHED UP HER DRESS, and extracted… A LITTLE STUFFED KITTY-CAT PLUSH-TOY! To the amazement of the crowd. SEE THE PHOTO HERE.

AFTER the birth, yesterday in fact, Dr. Drummond was taking his new child and fairly new wife to the pediatrician and was engaged in putting coins into a parking meter on the street outside the doctor's office when he was suddenly and completely randomly ATTACKED by a CRAZY DRUNK. One minute this lurching drunk is acting like he's about to ask for money and the next second the drunk SUDDENLY HITS PHILO IN THE JAW!

All the fight-or-fight reflex that one might expect from a new-father OverMan whose little family is being threatened ROARED INTO ACTION. "WHAT THE FUCK?" asks Philo, recovering, and as the drunk sees the bright firey red light emiting from Philo's eyes, he mutters something about being sorry and starts to flee. PHILO PURSUES THE INSANE DRUNK… in fact Philo catches up with him and starts thrashing the bastard. (Philo Drummond is in very good physical condition from incessant bike-riding in hilly countryside.) Philo, indeed, sees a tree that has various support-boards nailed to it, WRENCHES LOOSE ONE OF THESE BOARDS, and now threatens the insane, formerly-aggressive drunk with a NAIL-STUDDED BOARD, like a troll wielding a club. Philo then makes a snap decision to ROB the drunk and demands he empty his pockets. The drunk displays a dollar or so -- Philo SLAPS the money onto the ground and says "I DON'T WANT YOUR FUCKING MONEY!" and about then, the cops pull up.

Luckily the cops instantly detect the drunken condition of the fucked-up guy and beg Philo to press charges. The drunk is begging him not to so Philo DOES PRESS CHARGES.

The cops are happy, Philo goes to his pediatrician meeting with his wife and baby and the drunk is hauled off to jail.

Moral: DON''T FUCK WITH THE PHILO.

9X-Day special Hours of Slack now online

2006-07-18T18:52:00.000-04:00

We have started culling down the best of the 9X-Day recordings. You can go straight to the 1-hour shows here:

Hour of Slack 1055

Hour of Slack 1056

8X-Day video, 9X-Day audio posted for download

2006-07-14T14:06:00.000-04:00

Famed Usenet newsgroup alt.binaries.multimedia.slack now sports many many hours of raw, uncut audio (in MP3) from 9X-Day -- all the preaching and ranting, most of the music, all the "live Hour of Slack" and Ask Dr. Hal. Also there for the download is the 1 hour 23 minute 8X-Day edited video. It's not SUPER-edited -- I cut it two days before 9X-Day, SUPER-fast.

I will be further editing the 9X-Day audio into smaller chunks and weaving it
through the next 5 or 6 Hours of Slack, also probably will post the ensmallenized MP3 chunks
to a.b.s.

There are zillions of photos on a.b.s., and also:

PHOTOS:
RAVNA:
http://www.echt-wichtig.de/xday9/
Assco:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?
fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=61320080&blogID=141749788&indicate=1
and
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?
fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=61320080&blogID=142431683&indicate=1
ANKARA:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ankaraenator/Xday9

FoxyG
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43658528@N00/

I didn't do this 10 minute film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DQXPz4fhoM

It's by Rev. Mykeru
http://www.mykeru.com

I am working on a PHOTONOVELLA of 9X-Day photos for SubSITE

Gotta do Starwood first though! BACK TO BRUSHWOOD!

First Wave of 9X-Day Photos

2006-07-09T15:23:00.000-04:00

RAVNA:
http://www.echt-wichtig.de/xday9/
ANKARA:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ankaraenator/Xday9
ASSCO:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=61320080&blogID=141749788&indicate=1
and
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=61320080&blogID=142431683&indicate=1

Wei's and Sister Decadence's are on alt.binaries.slack; all will go onto SubSITE when the next wave of photos comes through.

9X-Day - So Mote Enslackenment Be!

2006-07-08T17:28:00.000-04:00

9X-DAY DRILL was one of the best yet, as Drills go, from my point of view. As actual Ruptures go, of course, it was another fizzle, but in terms of PRACTICE for ENJOYING the end of the world, everybody seems to agree that it offered plenty.

THERE WERE MIRACLES

One miracle was that Brushwood was BEDOTTED with ANGEL TURDS throughout the week. AssCo even shot a blurry night-vision videotape of what appears to be a naked, giant-breasted beautiful female angel shitting one of these miracle turds along a camp road. No one else saw the actual angel or angels, but almost everyone stumbled upon at least one or two of these Miracle Turds either in their camp or in odd spots around Brushwood, like under rocks or in the clefts of tree branches.

The Miracle Angel Turds look like smooth gray rocks WITH PICTURES ON THEM! -- yes, miniature PAINTINGS looking much like they had perhaps been done in enamel color paints. Yet no mortal human or SubGenius would be capable of such incredible miniature paintings -- not even Dr. Hal! FOR HOW WOULD HE BE ABLE TO PAINT A STONE WHILE IT WAS STILL INSIDE AN ANGEL'S RECTUM?? Only Rev. Susie the Floozy would be able to do something that that, and even then it would be difficult. Many HAVE pointed out that the writing on some of the stone-turds resembles the calligraphy-like writing of Susie the Floozy. And Suzie seemed at times to have preternatural knowledge of some of the stones before she had even seen them. But she has always been weird that way.

The pictures on the turdstones were gorgeously detailed, and often personalized. For instance, Princess Wei's had saucers and fropsticks on them. Dr. Hal got one with a fez (he often wears a special fez with a huge eyeball on it). G. Gordon Gordon's was either a suppository or The Magic Bullet from the JFK assassination. We have documentation of many of the stones and no doubt you will be seeing photos of them as we process the evidence.

THE XXXXX-WRISTBANDS WERE USED UP!

Every X-Day we tag paying Members with a special ElectroStimulo Negative Reinforcement Wristband. I had purchased some extras in case of this eventuality, but I didn't really expect to use them because we seemed to have PLENTY of the original wristbands left -- the ones with the XXX-design on them.

WE RAN OUT OF THOSE THIS X-DAY!

That seemed a sign that this would be THE X-Day, and got our hopes and fears up as much as the Angel Turds did.

Since I was in charge of registration this year, we have NO IDEA how many attendees there were at the festival. But there were enough that we ran out of those wristbands and had to shift to dayglo orange ones.

I counted attendance at the Saturday night music show... there were 57 people there that I could see, but I know many of the Frop/NYC cabal were not there that night when I was counting. And there are always the many mystery Yetinsyn who sign in and then disappear into alt.slack Woods, never to be seen again anywhere near the stages.

MIRACLE: THE FOG DURING "THE DIVINE CONJUNCTION"

On July 4, a mini-observatory with a huge telescope had been set up near Dr. Dark's drive-in so that we might follow the events on Jupiter during the collision of the Great Red Spot with the smaller storm known as Red Jr. We knew the Conspiracy wouldn't report anything of Dobbsful portent. BUT... of all nights... that is when a thick, werewolf-of-london FOG rolled over Brushwood, obscuring the view from the observatory at the crucial moment!

Just before the fog closed in, I myself witnessed a great multicolored VORTEX form at the border of the two massive storms (each large enough to swallow our planet), and from this Vortex I saw emerge what must have been at least a million of the 2001-style MONOLITHS, rising in pairs into space, criss-crossed to form Xes when seen from the front as they advanced towards my telescope... and it was just then, as the Million Monolith March began, that the fog thickened and my view was occluded!

MIRACLE:

NO ONE DIED OR WAS HURT!

What I mean by that is that no one died or was hurt MUCH.

MIRACLE OF LITTLE GIRLS!

The Volkerdings not only survived and came, but brought a THIRD VOLKERDING -- the laughingest baby since the Gerber's model! Agent Lloyd brought Gwendolyn, to her second X-Day; and the superstar of the Ikon and Book Burning was "Halie," who is a precocious 5 year old belonging to the Master Jason of the Woodbusters, builder of the Great Fire (and retriever of the Sacrificial Victim, which believe me is a GROSS job). Whereas the SubGeniuses were timid about attacking the Judge Punch Punching Bag, little Halie was absolutely vicious and relentless. No matter how many times Judge Punch came to his feet, she was there to lay him low again with the most powerful roudhouses ever seen in the RoundHouse (where the burnings and drummings take place).

Halie also proved herself BY FAR the most receptive and appreciative audience for my latest Dobbshead-centered animated music videos. Some of the time she was the ONLY audience. She truly appreciates morphing, drooping, vortexing Dobbsheads with tekno music in ways that escapes anyone over 6.

MIRACLES: THE BOBTISM and CHILI COOK-OFF

We made sure that it was WELL UNDERSTOOD that there would be NO cameras at the new, Stangian Bobtism. There would be no Legume and no Jesus. Dr. Hal and myself were the only Bobtizers and we kept our sacred robes on. The result was, for the first time in several years, a pool HEALTHILY FULL OF CONNIEITES. Almost as many female as male SubGenii entered the Pool of Nakedity, and there were NO FROGWATCHERS (except, ironically, Dr. Legume himself!). Every Bobtism was personalized and I was able to remember the names of every single SubGenius that I Bobtized with the odd exception of Rev. Venus Envy.

This year, because of the newly-enforced orders, EVEN PRINCESS WEI and Rev. BARBRA ALIEN were Bobtized in full nakedity.

The SubGenius 1st Annual International Chili Cook-Off featured only 5 brands of chili (including Mammy Stang's Secret Recipe), but the important thing about the chili cook-off was the SHOT I got on my DV cam panning across the cafe.

ALL OTHER GEEKY WEIRD CULTS, EAT YOUR HEARTS OUT!

At times X-Day has been called by its jealous detractors a "sausage fest," implying that, like a GWAR concert or a Star Trek convention, it's all fat 15 year old boys and almost no girls.

HOO-HAH! We built it, and THEY CAME. As I panned across that crowd of SubG pigs stuffing their faces, what my camera caught was A GAL FOR EVERY GUY. Numerically, that is. Many of the gals and guys were independent, not attached to each other. But, by Gobbs, every other person at X-Day (or at least the cook-off) was a GORGEOUS FEMALE BABE, with an excellent range of age and shape, and I inwardly laughed my ass off at the TRUE LOSERS who slander our gatherings as somehow being all-male.

The pictures that are already going around prove what I am saying. I wouldn't feel the need to brag about this, but criticisms of over-maleness have been unfairly aimed at us for some time.

Also you can't say we're all white people anymore, because there were Negroes, Puerto Ricans, and Italians galore! I think one or two people might even have been Jewish persons!

MIRACLE:

Dr. Hal aka Dr. Howll!

This man is so infuckingcredibly talented that only his devotion to "Bob" keeps him from being disqualified as a SUB-genius. Were it not for his love of "Bob" we would have to declare him a genius or even a deadly super-genius.

MIRACLE:

THE SUNDAY NIGHT RANT-MUSIC JAM.

First miracle is how GOOD it was. The main mike-bearers were Princess Pisces and Rev. Carter LeBlanc, although others such as Alex, Scalpod and DJ Shaver (possibly many more) leapt onstage to rant or sing behind or over music provided mostly by Rev. Angry Larry on guitar, Carter on bass, Rev. Phil on drums, and Rev. Two Beans on synthesizer. Pisces was SPOUTING LIKE A HOUSEAFIRE! I haven't seen anything like it in some time. She composed something like 8 different songs right off the top of her head. Fucking amazing. I kept thinking, "This CAN'T sound later, on the tape, as good as it's sounding on headphones" -- but, BY GUM, it DID!

Yes, the audio on the Volkerding-donated 4-track cassette deck SOUNDED REAL GOOD!

I have also been checking through the videotapes, going backwards from the final sixteenth one on July 5, and when that's done I'll be have a skeletal list of events which can be filled in by others. There's a lot I missed! I would have missed a lot more had not Governor Rocknar been able to hand me 5 more mini-DV tapes after I ran out (we never used more than 10 1-hour tapes before this!).

I only heard about (and saw from a distance) the naked Slip-n-Slide that was set up by (I think) Rev. Andy Christ. Luckily, Mom Exmortis was able to inform the teens sliding on it that it would work MUCH better if they TOOK OFF THEIR CLOTHES. Thus many people COULD have witnessed the sight of many skinny nekkid young folks sliding back and forth, and of the occasional middle-aged person injuring their hips on it.

I also missed an actual fake giant UFO constructed by Rev. Sloth, Gonzo, Samhain and ExMortis after the 7 AM time. (I was sleeping, finally.) Thankfully, Sis Dec was there was a camera to catch some really WEIRD images that will be excellent for future controversies over whether the Xists or SOMEBODY really DID land at Brushwood in 2006.

The sight of classic Romero LIVING DEAD shambling out of the woods and into Two Beans' rave, then the drive-in, was wonderful enough, but even better was seeing the people they had BITTEN, COME BACK A LITTLE WHILE LATER AS ZOMBIES THEMSELVES! In other words, after the first wave of zombie attacks, there was another wave, with TWICE AS MANY ZOMBIES!

There are many many more people to thank (especially Modemac) and events to marvel about, and photos to jack over, but I have just barely gotten back onto "the stick." Among the 1200 emails I had upon our return were several DOZEN orders, mostly for new Memberships and ARISE! DVDs, and I have to get on those. Also, one of my 250-gb hard drives DIED COMPLETELY yesterday. Luckily I had suspicions that Dumbkoff was dying so I had backed up pretty much everything on him except maybe some MP3s that I had collected but haven't yet put on Hour of Slack. We'll see... there may be some hope for the drive yet but only one of my 4 repair progs can even detect the drive and it soon crashes after trying to sort out its scrambled nodes, keys and B-trees, due to hardware failure... oh well... good thing I was paranoid about back-up.

The SubGenii are apparently immune to the Shulginesque poisons that were promised.

As always, no matter what they may have promised and claimed after the fact, the chickenshit kooks of alt.slack (you know who they are) once again stayed in their hovels and guessed at what they were missing.

I'm sure more spectacular remembrances will come back to me as I slog through the tapes and videos, first for Hour of Slack and then for eventual DVD etc. The Amino Acids put in an unusually long (for them) performance of WELL over their normal 20 minutes. The Billy Nayer Show certainly picked up a hundred new die-hard fans besides myself and Wei, Nickie and The Artist Formerly Known as Magdalen.

Which reminds me, the Bulldada Auction raised some good money to help with her legal bills, and I suspect that personal contacts with the right persons may have helped raise REAL REAL good money to help with those bills.

I have only half-scanned alt.slack for other 9X-Day reports and I haven't even looked into the IRC.

If anyone has IRC logs which include active X-Day participants reminiscing or fighting, if you emailed me the text log I wouldn't mind. I had house guests up until yesterday so I was not geeking in computerland.

I will say that I have seen some speculation by our critics about what sort of "vacations in England" and "fleets of Jaguars" that Magdalen has also to pay for, besides her legal bills, and I have gotten some real belly-laffs out of those. To those who will believe anything, I must stress that YOU AIN'T HEARD NOTHIN' YET! Wait'll you gimps finally figure out who we REALLY are! The Masons, Satanists and International Jewish Bankers, hell, even the U.S. Government, will all seem like PIKERS and SMALL FRY by comparison.

THANKS, EVERYONE, FOR EVERYTHING!

9X-Day Report ALREADY online via Time Control - also, 6XDay video

2006-06-26T15:52:00.000-04:00

Hour of Slack 1054 - 9X-Day Report Via Time Control

MP3 download, podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=18711

OGG VORBIS and alternate MP3: http://subgenius.com/ts/hos.html

And on alt.binaries.multimedia.slack: http://www.usenet-replayer.com/cgi/content/archive?scan=alt.binaries.multimedia.slack

See the Hour of Slack page on SubSITE for list of 20 broadcast stations in the U.S. and Canada: http://subgenius.com/ts/hos.html

There is ALREADY A REPORT ON 9X-Day -- the whole thing, in this live show from WCSB's studio. Rev. Stang and Lonesome Cowboy Dave, exhausted after having just gotten back into town after 9X-Day, report on the bizarre events that took place at Brushwood, including the Time Control classes which make this pre-debriefing possible.

The show also includes the following pre-recorded collages and X-Day songs:

LeMur: PR_Gnus1301 00:23
LeMur: HOS_Intro643 00:26
LeMur: PopBob_ Song #1006 00:09
El Queso All-Stars: This is the Hour of Slack 02:41
The Billy Nayer Show: Montage Instrumental (background) 02:11

Lonesome Cowboy Dave live: SubGenius Anthem 01:10
Billy Nayer Show: Hopping On Ceres Theme (background) 02:06

KirkendahlVoid: "Plan 69 from Outer Space" 03:50

St. N and Hellena Handbasket: "It's the End of the World" 03:59
Nanslo: Take Me Off to Space 02:12

Ouroborus ReX: "X-Day" 04:53
Bill T. Miller: "X-Day's-a-comin'" 04:07

Sivet Stang: "I'm "Bob's" Own" PG 02:46

Billy Nayer Show: http://billynayer.com
Background music: Hippsaqidix, Edfred, Lonesome Cowboy Dave
*********

6X-DAY 23 minute video (very high quality) is currently downlaodable from alt.binaries.multimedia.slack: http://www.usenet-replayer.com/cgi/content/archive?scan=alt.binaries.multimedia.slack

This is a very good mpeg2 (DVD quality) copy of the barrage-edited 6X-Day documentary. The one that was on Google Video until it was banned for nakedity was much shorter (and, of course, low-res like any streaming video). This will play on most DVD players when burned to CD-R. It's about 450 mb, posted in a couple of dozen RAR sections that can be reassembled using the PAR file to make the complete file.

X-DAY IS NIGH!

2006-06-20T21:54:00.000-04:00

The SCHEDULE for the End of the World is now online:
9X-DAY SCHEDULE

If you missed the MAIN information about 9X-Day, such as the horrifying events on the planet Jupiter which are due to climax on July 4, see
9 X-DAY MAIN PAGE

Pre-registrations are higher than last year, and we're expecting a good turnout (considering gas prices). It's looking to be fewer old timers -- they must be dying off, or having kids -- and a lot more newcomers. For all we know, these newcomers may all be 80-year-olds. But we suspect they are mostly younger. SubGenii are coming to Brushwood from such remote locales as Germany and Florida.

The bands and guest preachers are all still as advertised -- The Billy Nayer Show, The Amino Acids, Dr. Howll, etc.

I am hoping to have some new video to show, newer than "PRESCRIPTURES 35:9" or whatever I called it and "SubGenius Numa Numa Song"... but we'll for sure have sneak previews of the new SubGenius book floating around, taped to the bathroom stalls, floating in the pond, etc.

The new book, SubGenius Psychlopaedia of Slack Vol. 1 - THE BOBLIOGRAPHON, is due out in October/November. We just finished final revisions and are hoping to see galley copies soon. Meanwhile, I have my own home print-out and a marvelous PDF of it. I am very happy with it and so are the publishers, Thunder's Mouth Press/Avalon. We have not gotten a response back about the book from J.R. "Bob" Dobbs himself yet, however.

IF for some reason the Earth planet (so-called) is still here and functioning after July 5, and if we're still on it, we get to CONTINUE the insane celebrations at Brushwood two weeks after X-Day, for ANOTHER week, at STARWOOD... only, Starwood isn't SubGeniuses-only. Instead, it is a place to meet and trade with unsaved believers of other cults. Many SubGeniuses go so far as to MATE with them. This is a good way to convert people! Princess Wei is heavily involved in organizing Starwood, and I am hosting a devival there on the main Saturday afternoon. Between getting ready for the world to end, and also for it NOT to end just in CASE, We/I are plenty busy.

Rev, Magdalen's important new custody hearing with a new judge happens June 23, and we're all eagerly waiting to hear the results. However it turns out, she AND Jesus will be at 9X-Day... as will THE FAMOUS DEADLY GOAT MASK ITSELF!

I'm sure there's some other important news, but you are actually more likely to find BREAKING SUBGENIUS NEWS at ALT.SLACK. Good luck distinguishing between the SubGenii and the insane trolls! -- when there IS a distinction.

New SubGenius Book 'THE BOBLIOGRAPHON' Finished

2006-06-03T18:33:00.000-04:00

I finished the final layout tweakings, art credits, etc., and got the master to the publishers only 6 hours after the May 31 deadline!

And you can already buy copies! It's just that your copy won't EXIST until October or so. Check out The SubGenius Psychlopaedia of Slack - THE BOBLIOGRAPHON on Amazon.com.
This was one of the most PLEASURABLE jobs I have ever done, despite the grueling schedule and short deadline. Princess Wei and I are very happy with the final product. THANKS (and eventual royalty checks) to the dozens of artists and writers who contributed!

Who include, as follows: Dr. Philo U. Drummond • Uncle Dr. Onan Canobite • Nenslo • IMBJR • Dr. G. Gordon Gordon • Heart Ignition • Mr. Fernandinande LeMur • Princess Wei “R.” Doe • Rev. Espira • St. Paul Mavrides • Dr. Hal Robins • Satellite Weavers • Father Joe Mama • Rev. Christopher Lee • Rev. Nu-Monet • Jesus Devilacqua • Dr. K’taden Legume • Rev. Susie the Floozy • Rev. Carter LeBlanc • Artemia Salina • Rev. Mary Magdalen • Dave DeLuca • Rev. John Shirley • Modemac • Rev. Nanzi Regalia • Rev. Joe Cosby • St. Byron Werner • Puzzling Evidence • Popess Lilith von Fraumench • Ignatz Topolino • J. Vandewalker • Dok Frop • Lemuel Atom • Rev. Alliekatt • Polar Bear • Rev. Nickie Deathchick • St. Stymie DeBergerac • Dr. Ahmed Fishmonger • Sosodada/AssCo • Sternodox • Rev. Mark Mothersbaugh • Peter Hipwell • Pope Charles • Pope of Berea • Atom Funway • St. Joe Riley • iDRMRSR • Phineas Narco • Frater SODDI • Sister Decadence • Poindexter • Friday Jones • Brad Parks • Doeroadx • A. Tuttle • P. Larsen • M. Carey • J. Graham • Scott Orsi • Michael Peppe • Pastor Bedtime • J. Cobblestone • M. Doscher • Pope Phil Monty • Champion Jack Codini • Enki • Crypts • L. Minatti • S. Kristensen • Rev. ErRoR • HdMrs. Salacia • H. MacAdams • Zontar • J. Miller • DougW • Allosaur • Winkie Emoticon • Rev. Farrago • D. Silk • Magna-3 • Sr. Melodious Chopps • St. Marc • Kimsker • Subvorkian • Minitru • Edfred • KRK Ryden • M. Marren • Delirus • Rev.Freeman • Eric Moore • Juan Forderode • Deivid’s Thang • Unknown SubGenius •

New SubGenius Book DEEP in Progress

2006-04-12T10:54:00.000-04:00

The new SubGenius book, The SubGenius Psychlopaedia of Slack -- THE BOBLIOGRAPHON is scheduled to be in stores in August -- IF 9X-Day turns out to be just another Drill. However, the finished manuscript and complete layout with illustrations must be in the hands of the publishers, Thunder's Mouth Press, by May 30. (Note: they are also reprinting our Revelation X!)

We did not get the go-ahead on this project until middle February, giving this book such a short production schedule that ONLY an Emergentile SubGenius could possibly make it, and ONLY by doing it single-handedly. Thus, I, your not especially humble ediotor, am Slack-working 16 hour days both writing and doing the layout. Most of the art, and many of the text pieces, are by dozens of other SubGenii, but this time I am working alone to pull it all together. If the budget was a little bigger, no doubt Paul Mavrides or another pro would be doing the design. Don't tell the publishers this, but I never even learned a page layout program until last week...

Anyway, the cover (see earlier article) and the first 20 pages are done, and it's looking GORGEOUSLY DENSE. I have to hammer together chapters at the rate of one every two days between now and the deadline, so that is practically all I'm doing.

I'm still putting out Hours of Slack, but 3 out of 4 are re-runs from the olden days. Not necessarily a bad thing. I doubt if I will be able to get to teX-Day, which is a major bummer. And since Magdalen and Jesus have their custody case to fight, I'm also doing what they used to -- filling Membership and product orders, and keeping the swag in stock.

So far, so good. I'll be glad when the book is finished and I can do things like read books and watch TV again.* On the other hand, because I am an Emergentile SubGenius, and love "Bob," I am in hog heaven with all this work. Assembling the best of the last ten years' worth of SubG art and writing is ABSOLUTE TOTAL ALL-OUT SLACK for me. Princess Wei is helping in a million ways, including taking on talk-show jobs that I can't do.

The child custody case that Magdalen and Jesus are fighting has drawn a great deal of attention. Several of the better-known web-zines and blogs are covering it, and this has resulted in a huge influx of business for the Church. We've been ordaining new SubGenii at the rate of 3 a day for a couple of months now, and I'm having to restock ARISE! DVDs and The Book of the SubGenius every couple of weeks.

In other words, when that judge threw his temper-tantrum in court (for which he has since recused himself and handed the case to another judge), sure, he did manage to screw up the lives of several people OVER A CARTOON, but he also inadvertently gave the Church a new financial lease on life.

We have never been so busy. Thanks to the influx of new customers and believers, we've paid off some old Stark Fist printing debts and are actually starting to make REAL MONEY (and KEEP IT!) for the first time since August, 1998!

SO... if it takes me two or three months to answer your email, if I ever do, THIS IS WHY.

As I've been doing for the twelve years, I post daily to alt.slack, which I still consider the main SubGenius forum. It has changed in the last two years, since Google Groups made it easier for amateurs to use Usenet newsgroups, but by the same token it has allowed a lot of riff-raff to abuse it. If you look at alt.slack this month, you'll have to skim past an awful lot of "kook posts" to find the juicy true SubGenius material. Luckily, the kook stuff is instantly identifiable -- it's insanely racist. The current kook crop would be FUNNY, and is at first, but unfortunately there are a lot of Bobbies who insist on FEEDING the kooks rather than ignoring them.

You will soon learn which are the Bobbies to avoid this way, too.

I use a newsreader proper to view Usenet groups like alt.slack, so I am able to filter out the kooks and the subkooks who feed them. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I would heartily suggest looking into Usenet and good (free) newsreader programs -- there's a whole world of goodies out there, a lot more than you can get on the Web without spending a lot of money. My personal favorite goodies are the SubGenius ones.

Most of what's in the new book originally came from alt.slack, alt.binaries.slack and alt.binaries.multimedia.slack.

WHICH REMINDS ME, I have to finish the "Bob" chapter today. Back to work! Work-Slack! OK OK SLACK SLACK

* I actually have been taking "breaks from Slack" and have managed to read a novel per week by my current ShorDurPerSav, Terry Pratchett and his FUCKING HILARIOUS Discworld series. Also, I have seen the Peter Jackson KING KONG 7 times so far. (I'm out to beat Harryhausen's record on the first Kong.)

Magdalen's case makes TV news

2006-03-28T09:47:00.000-05:00

Magdalen's case makes TV news

http://www.wroctv.com/news/story.asp?id=22255&r=l

From the story:

"Judge Punch refused our previous requests for comment on this case.
And we learned he is currently out of town. Bevilacqua will be back
in court next month, but in front of new judge. Judge Punch recused
himself last week."

-- Please note this does not mean Magdalen has won the case (yet), or
that the case has been settled or dismissed. It is being re-assigned
to another judge, who will be from a completely different country.
Magdalen is hopeful that the new judge will be one who treats the case
with less bias and more neutrality, as judges should.

This news came to us thanks to Modemac's The High Weirdness Project

Wild Hunt has been doing a good job keeping track of the ongoing
case:
www.wildhunt.org

Maybe this ongoing publicity explains why we're STILL selling way too many Ordainment
Memberships a day (like 6 or 7).

Judge Punch may have gotten his Good Christian rocks off briefly by
fucking up one SubGenius family throroughly, but in so doing he also
inadvertently provided the Church of the SubGenius with priceless,
life-giving publicity.

I did like 8 talk shows in the last 2 weeks, and I have had to
constantly replenish Membership pack supplies to meet the demand for
ordainments.

Oddly enough there's a marked increase in orders from military bases...
I must've sent 10 APO/AE packages out last week.

Methinks Judge Punch could smell Geraldo coming.

New SubGenius Book Cover

2006-03-22T14:45:00.000-05:00

Due out in August from Thunder's Mouth. Due into Thunder's Mouth by May 15.

Photoreal Dobbshead by Nenslo

45 Dobbsheads background by Heart Ignition

Princess Wei "R." Doe came up with the spelling "Psychlopaedia" as well as half of "Bobliographon."

"The SubGenius Cyclopaedia" is predicted in the little list of Books and Films in Pamphlet #1, written in 1979.

In other news:
REGISTER FOR 9X-DAY

Updates on Magdalen's custody case

SubGenius Reverend Magdalen ordered not to mention her son on the Internet

2006-03-17T10:38:00.000-05:00

This news from Modemac:

Since the news of Reverend Magdalen's legal proceedings broke, people
have been asking Magdalen to post the actual transcripts of the court
proceedings, so that they can read Judge Punch's words for themselves
and verify that she was speaking the truth. The transcripts of the
case were to become available by March 6th. However, for the entire
week since March 3rd, Magdalen has been absent from the Internet, and
she has not been able to make the transcripts available.

The reason for Magdalen's absence (and the lack of the transcripts)
became clear as of Thursday, March 9. On that day, I learned that the
judge had ordered Magdalen to cease all communication on the Internet
regarding her son. This was not a written statement ˆ the judge had
verbally ordered her to remain offline, and no written order was
available. Magdalen stated that even though the order was verbal, the
court considered it to be an official order from the judge, and so she
has had to remain offline since then.

However, as of March 15th, Magdalen had obtained legal reputation from
none other than the law firm of Lipsitz Green Fahringer Roll Salisbury
& Cambria, LLP. (This firm includes Larry Flynt and Marilyn Manson
among their clients.) Magdalen's legal team is challenging this order.
When the order is overturned and she is online again, she will have
quite a story to tell.

IMPORTANT: Because Magdalen has a new legal team, donations to her
legal fund are to be sent to a new address. Paypal donations can still
be sent to magdalen@subgenius.com. Checks or other payments can be
mailed to the attention of:

Christopher S. Mattingly
Lipsitz Green LLP
42 Delaware Avenue
Suite 300
Buffalo, New York 14202-3857
http://www.lipsitzgreen.com/attys/Mattingly.asp

X-Rated Satanistical Masoniac Artwork, Photos

2006-03-15T22:18:00.000-05:00

Ah, yes, Dear Friends.

I have been promising for a year to update the Art Mines, and, by gobbs, I have just uploaded a year's worth of art, cartoons, printable PDFs, little Internetiful movies, lost 8X-Day photos, Chick take-offs, Flash blips, media barrages, comics, proon, etc.

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/pics13/index.html

This is ART MINES TUNNEL #22

and it contains the Dobbsly stuff from alt.binaries.slack since Sunday-year.

A year of IMBJR, LeMur, Heart Ignition, Artemia Salina, Espira, Zontar. . . it has ALL THE THATs by the forementioned, and the CONNIEs. . . little movies in cellphone-ready tiny WMV format. . . Pamphlets #1 and 2 in PDF format. . . an all-new pamphlet by Pope Coronus, and another by Rev. Priest. . . Lamprey System's TRANSMANIACON, which presents 1000 bulldada images per second, if you have a Mac; and. . .

SubGenius PORTRAITS 2004-2006 -- photos of everybody
plus hand-drawn portraits by Nu-Monet and Artemia Salina

8X-Day pics not previously posted

Although I carefully tweaked and adjusted the main Art Mines stash, the Portraits and Devivals photos stashes are assembled rather more hurriedly. Be ready for larger file sizes. The Index might sate your curiosity without your having to look at each picture full-size. Some Mysteries may await you in the Portraits area, because I've relied on the file names to identify the individuals and I (or the contributors) didn't always label the files with that much detail.

There are definitely all manner of mistakes and typos in this brand-new mass upload, so if anybody wants to tattle to me about fuckups I'll be glad to hear them.

I might also add the other recent news that we got a new SubGenius book deal. We are now assembling the tome "SUBGENIUS CYCLOPAEDIA OF SLACK Vol. 1 -- THE BOBLIOGRAPHON" for Thunder's Mouth Press, who will also be reprinting REVELATION X. The books will be out in August, but that means I have to finish the writing, art selection and layout by May 15!

So, if you notice that Hours of Slack are all RERUNS for the next 2 months, you'll know why.

BUT! At least I got 300 megs of newly old stuff onto SubSITE.

FREE for you to view, in FULL COLOR and STEREOPHONIC SOUND. So, think about contributing to our projects by BUYING SOMETHING from the Scatalog. . . because the stuff we SELL is NOT THE SAME as what we HAND OUT.
http://subgenius.com/scatalog.html

Now that we have refreshed the Art Mines, done the umpteen dozen radio talk shows and Hours of Slack about Magdalen's case, and generally caught up or gotten ahead on the various weekly and monthly SubGenius media stashes, I am planning to vanish into this book project until it is done. We will still be filling orders and accepting donations, but if nobody answers your friendly, chatty email to SubG Foundation, this-all is why. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Now scope out http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/pics13/index.html

WinterStar, Magdalen News on Radio4All

2006-02-28T14:58:00.000-05:00

WinterStar, Magdalen News on Radio4All

MP3 and podcast:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=16817

Church of the SubGenius Special Report
Rev. Ivan Stang at WinterStar 2006, Part 4
Rev. Mary Magdalen's Custody Case In the News

Recorded at WinterStar Symposium 2006 (see rosencomet.com), where Rev. Ivan Stang preached to the NeoPagans and other weirdos regarding a miscarriage of justice in a SubGenius's child custody case.

Some texts being read are by Magdalen, Rev. Carter LeBlanc, Dr. Onan Canobite, Orton Nenslo, Rev. Joe Cosby, Rev. Ivan Stang

This mp3 covers the end of the sermon. We'll post the rest later. For more info on the fundraising and other links, see earlier posts on this blog.

Recorded 2006-02-25
WinterStar Symposium, Atwood Lodge, Dellroy, Ohio

We're suddenly in the news, for all the wrong reasons

2006-02-22T14:57:00.000-05:00

This just started yesterday morning with Magdalen's press release about her custody problems (see earlier post, below). During the course of yesterday, Feb. 21, the SubGenius website got 36,366 visits -- not hits, but site visits. (Our average generally is about 17,000 visitors a day).

Below are some of the sites that have picked up on this story. So far it's all Internet, but it's big Internet.

http://tinyurl.com/na6af (wikipedia news)

http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/2006/02/21.html

http://www.johnshirley.net/

http://revstang.blogspot.com/

http://patrhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif iotboy.blogspot.com/2006_02_19_patriotboy_archive.html#11405041544637586
(Yesterday's news, so you'll have to scroll down a bit for this one, same with the boing boing one below)

http://boingboing.net/

Alt.slack is going slightly berserk, but it always does that.

The good news is that we're being FLOODED with Membership ordainment orders, DVD orders and radio show subscriptions. The Hour of Slack downloads jumped from maybe 300 or 400 to over 1,000. The bad news is that I have a new SubGenius book due by May 15 -- and that includes writing, illustrating, and finished design! I mean, that's good news, but it's bad that two time-consuming events are coinciding.

I wish this notoriety was happening for some other reason than a miscarriage of justice.

On a lighter note, our videos (well, excerpts of the longer ones) are now freely available and easy to view on Video Google, and there's a brand new one up:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1619903307050450812

"Bob's" Most Dutiful Servants in Desperate Straits -- You Can Help

2006-02-21T10:45:00.000-05:00

http://subgenius.com/updates/maghelp.html

A few years ago, the Bevilacqua family (Rev. Magdalen & Jesus) literally kept The SubGenius Foundation from folding up and vanishing. I had been trying to keep the little business together practically on my own, but it had become a gigantic drain on me personally and financially. Jesus saw potential in it, though, and convinced me not to give up -- BY MOVING TO DALLAS TO HELP FULL TIME. (To this day, Jesus and Magdalen remain the only other SubGeniuses besides myself to LITERALLY repent, quit their jobs and "slack off" in this manner.) By 1998, when Jesus and Magdalen married, the Foundation income had tripled, and not only did we have salaries, but we were able to hire more part time help (Rev. Nickie Deathchick in addition to Will O'Dobbs).

The existing custody case over Magdalen's son, however, created huge legal bills that eventually required Jesus to take a higher-paying job for The Conspiracy. At that point, it was Rev. Magdalen who stepped in and kept the practical, day-to-day, unglamorous aspects of the little biz going. She was doing it basically without pay, too.

When Jesus' job suddenly took the whole family to Austin, Texas and then to Colombus, Georgia, it became obvious that The SubGenius Foundation's Sacred P.O. Box and mail order biz could not continue to jump from city to city, so I took over the whole shebang again. Thanks to the countless ways in which Jesus and Magdalen had streamlined the business, it's become vastly less time-consuming, taking me maybe an hour a day.

Were it not for this family, there'd be no SubSITE any more, HOUR OF SLACK would have ended, I wouldn't be working on a new book and REV-X reprint, etc. etc.

((NO NENSLETICAL WISECRACKS HERE, PLEASE!!))

TIME FOR PAYBACK

For Magdalen and Jesus, a parent's NEXT-TO-WORST NIGHTMARE is taking place in real life, and one reason this injustice is happening is due to, not the Church of the SubGenius, but dumbass misunderstandings of it (and probably pretty much everything else Slackful). Also, if you ask me, on a monstrous misunderstanding of what "freedom" in America is supposed to mean.

I raised two children. I cannot imagine how this must feel. I HAVE had to TRY to imagine it, but, praise Dobbs, that's all I've had to do. I speak to Magdalen on the phone fairly often and she's holding up, amazingly. She's fighting instead of sinking into despair, which, believe me, would be VERY tempting.

This is our chance as a bunch of weirdos to pay back a family of weirdos who have, for YEARS, done the DIRTIEST JOB OF THE CHURCH -- being the interface between it and the Con, on a daily basis.

SubGenius Foundation mail order is doing fine this month. We got several new subscribers to Hour of Slack and a big donation from one of the best guitar players in the world. I got a new book contract and the check is in the mail. So DON'T BUY ANY SUBGENIUS SHIT THIS MONTH! Send your checks or Paypal funds to Magdalen instead, and next time you download an Hour of Slack or SubVid for free, or browse through the Art Mines (which I WILL update, I SWEAR!!), consider it bought with a Love Offering.

That's what this is. A Love Offering. MAGS NEEDS $LACK.

More than that, most important of all, eclipsing any other bullshit I could possibly say, CONBO* NEEDS HIS MOM.

THE STORY and donations links, info:

http://subgenius.com/updates/maghelp.html

* Think "MarJoe"

Bobliography-90, new video

2006-01-20T15:09:00.000-05:00

Viewable now (streaming) at:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3601799870447642425

Higher resolution copies are available at alt.binaries.multimedia.slack (and some at alt.binaries.slack) in formats SVCD mpeg2, vcd mpeg1, iPod mp4, regular mpeg4, and DivX avi.

"A 4-minute computer animated music video celebrating Slack, J.R."Bob" Dobbs, The Hour of Slack, comedy, collage, experimental anarchy, X-Day, sexhurt, nudity of Dobbsheads, Prairie Squid, and The Church of the SubGenius."

Director, Music, Animation: Rev. Ivan Stang

(Color Dobbsheads by St. Kenneth Huey, Assassinated Nenmaster Orton Nenslo, and Atom Funway; quick-cut still graphics by IMBJR)

Animator's note:

This seems to happen whenever I get sick. Two weeks ago, it was poison ivy. The itching had me feeling intermittently crappy and I took that as an excuse to take a break from doing clerkish Sacred Scribe work. This usually means that I "splurge" on making artwork, normally a guilty pleasure, because the income it derives is LONG-TERM and that doesn't pay the limo lease bills, kow'm sa'in'? In this case I decided to celebrate my poison ivy by monkeying with Artmatics, the Final Cut Pro effects gizmos, Apple Soundtrack (for music) and old Bryce files that had never been animated. Thanks to THE GRIPTION CLENCH I have new gear that makes animation of old 3D scenes possible.

Anyway I set out to do gloorping Dobbsheads set to gloorping original music. I started with a few random gloorping Dobbsheads and some random ravey beats. Then I kind of went back and forth between the music program and the animation programs, a couple or three times, adding to the animation to match the music and adding to the music to match the animation until the whole mess was suitably crammed with eye and ear candy, all directed entirely at mindless hymnotic Adoration of The Dobbshead.

Many other SubG videos are on Google Video at
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=subgenius

SubVids are also downloadable in differing DVD-ready formats at various times from alt.binaries.multimedia.slack (with smaller, computery versions at alt.binaries.slack)

Two New Hours of Slack -- from Rev. Susie the Floozy

2006-01-06T16:15:00.000-05:00

Hour of Slack #1029 -- Susie's Hurricane Spectacular - "Hell & High Water I"

MP3: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=15870
And on alt.binaries.multimedia.slack

Hour of Slack #1030 -- Susie Hurricane 2
"Hell & High Water II"

MP3: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=15891

Ogg Vorbis high and low res files of both new shows are at http://subgenius.com/ts/hos.html
and alt.binaries.slack

Rev. Susie the Floozy produced four timely Hurricane Katrina special editions of her show, "Bob's" SlackTime Funhouse on WREK-Atlanta (wrek.org), and we're honored to present them in this untimely fashion as Bonus Floozian Hours of Slack. Susie's editing is SubGenius Media Barrage Style at its most battering!

The Church of the SubGenius Radio Ministry seeks to brainwash you totally into abject lifelong subservience to The High Epopt and Living SlackMaster, J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

Keywords
Hurricane Katrina, Susie the Floozy, Slack, J.R."Bob" Dobbs, Bob Dobbs, Hour of Slack, comedy, collage, experimental, anarchy, X-Day, nudity, sexhurt, Prairie Squid, SubGenius

St. Byron Werner Art Website!

2005-12-17T00:16:00.000-05:00

SubGenius Saint Byron Werner has been making unusual original art since the early
70s. He is currently working in a style that is uniquely his own. Using
gift wrapping paper and various hole punches and scissors he creates a
psychedelic folk art paper mosaic, blazing with bright contrasting
colors and jumbled textures. His surfaces are alive, kinetic and
interactive with reflective elements and curious details. Photography
sometimes does not do them full justice. Computers are not used. This
is strictly a folk art, hands on approach. The meticulous detail gives
evidence to the long hours of careful assembly.

Commissions are welcome. Please contact the artist for details.

Artwork by Byron Werner web pages:
http://www.rockseye.com/werner/

Contact Byron Werner:
col.bleep@netzero.com

Ultimate Xistlessnessmas Holiday Rerun Hour of Slack

2005-12-16T23:11:00.000-05:00

Hour of Slack 1026: Ultimate Xistlessnessmas Mix

Rerun of #867 (& 921), which was itself a condensation of the previous year's 3-show "Best of Xmas Sickness" compilation, which were themselves the concentrated best-of from 15 years' worth of previous Xmas SubGenius and other Xmas weirdo collections.

MP3: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=15584

Stereo Ogg and mono mp3: http://subgenius.com/ts/hos.html

For folks with old timey modems, that mono mp3 is quite a small file, only 10 mb.

Also just put online is the latest of the SubG-OverTheEdge-Puzzling Evidence Thanksgiving Executive Banquet III and JFK Assassination Investigation, Hour of Slack #1025:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=15580 for the stereo mp3.

Zillions of free SubGenius Videos

2005-12-11T11:18:00.000-05:00

Over twenty are already posted, and more coming!

Just about ANYBODY can now view the main SubGenius videos (including excerpts from the newly revamped ARISE!). Over twenty are already posted, and more coming!

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=SubGenius

NOTE: Two of the videos, "Public Service Announcement" and "Dobbs DeMeditator," were not posted by me. These may be the first two that appear on the screen; don't let them deter you. There are two pages listing a dozen videos each. The best one to start with would be "SubGenius Commercial," if you have't seen it, or the ARISE clip called "Life of "Bob"."

This Video Google thing can be pretty habit-forming. The oddest things come up when you use its search engine. I typed in "nudity" for the search, and on the first page I got (among other things with little or no actual nudity) the SubVids BUG PORN and X-DAY'S A-COMIN'.

Seeing "BUG PORN $1" on that screen in exactly that way completes a
circle -- years ago, I had a dream of seeing bug close-ups with the
blinking bold red phrase "BUG PORN $1" on an internet movie, and that's
what prompted me to start actually putting together that movie. Which
may be one reason the narrative of the movie actually makes no kind of
sense at all.

I need to go back in and add keywords to most of the movies'
descriptions. I'll put them in a secret place where the video uploader
put the transcript, if there is one -- which nobody else sees yet. The
search engine looks for those words, though. That's why if you use
"triceratops" for the search it'll pull up a dumb Japanese rock band
and Day of the SubGenius -- which is based on Brag of the SubGenius,
which text is what I pasted in for the transcript.

OTHER VIDEO NEWS: iPod, phone versions of ARISE!, other SubGenius shorts
posted

iPOD-ready versions of several shorts -- and THE WHOLE ARISE! --- are
on a.b.m.s. Yes, ALL OF ARISE! in iPod-ready m4v format (mpeg4 with a
twist of lemon). Only 400 mb! (posted in easy-to-assemble RAR parts
with special PARS in case any of the RARs are missing)

Also posted are teeny-tiny versions of ARISE! (the whole movie, in
sizes from 25 mb to 70 mb) ready for various types of mobile phones --
3GP format and AMC -- and a WMV version that's the teeniest yet, just
for the hell of it.

I also put some of these onto the Usenet groups alt.binaries.ipod.videos and alt.binaries.warez.pocketpc.movies

If any of you all-net-capable kids wanted to put these smallish files into circulation
some other way besides Usenet, that'd be great. I don't even know what
the other parts of the Internet are CALLED. All your peer to peer
stuff. Where you let your computers directly sniff each others' butts.
Let me know, is all I ask, so I can put a link to them on SubSITE.

A.b.m.s. also sports the full-res DivX avi of ARISE (from last week)
and an mpeg4 hi-res version, posted a month ago.

This is the REVISED ARISE!, with a lot of fixes and new footage. The ARISE! DVD in our catalog likewise is the new version. It has 45 minutes of Extra Features, too, that the old DVD didn't have: the Censored Scenes, 6X-Day, Bug Porn, 2 X-Day music videos ("X-Day's A-Comin'" and "Planet X or Bust"), Sosodada's Dobbstown travel ad, Onan's Confession, and Cobblestone's "Mapped Out 2".

I recut ARISE! video like a house-afire. I started out
intending merely to change some addresses and prices in the old
version, and pack some extras into the DVD (like the out-takes), but I
got to picking my way through the entire thing, replacing shots here
and fixing little niggling errors there. I must've made 300 changes.
It's REALLY different... much better looking.

Where there used to be shitty shots of great artwork, now it's great
shots of great artwork. Where there used to be crappy silent movie
footage in some places, now there's full-scale CGI. Like for instance,
Dobbstown used to be represented by some ripped-off shot from a silent
Atlantis movie or whatnot. Now it's REALLY DOBBSTOWN in full glorious
CGI. The Wings of Slack rise over cities as sunset-lit clouds stream
overhead. Melty psychedelic Dobbsheads that were impressive in 1986
have been replaced by melty psychedelic Dobbsheads that were impressive
in 2006.

Sequences that were once one dull shot of an old graphic are now
BARRAGES of DOZENS of new graphics. Or oldishly-new graphics (mostly
Nenslo, me and LeMur). I even added updated end-credits so that
Nenslo's name is spelled right. His was the last name listed on the old
credits roll and it was spelled "Orton Neslo."

There are excellent mpeg4 and divX avi copies on alt.binaries.multimedia.slack for
those who can't wait for the revised DVD, will never pay for it, and
who know what an mp4 is and how to download a 686 mb file from a
binaries Usenet group, which I figure narrows it down to about 5
people.

The mpeg4 plays on video iPods. Some DVD players will
play mpeg4 or avi, some won't.

Old ARISE! watchers will not be able to detect anything MISSING, but
you'll see a lot of NEW stuff. The old version of ARISE was finished in
1991... but this new version has glimpses and even whole added clips of
(relatively) newer SubGenii like Rev. Susie the Floozie, Rev. Nickie
Deathchick, Rev. Carter LeBlanc, The Amino Acids, Lonesome Cowboy Dave
etc.

OK OK SLACK SLACK

Here's a fun "Bob" sound game to do and play

2005-12-11T11:15:00.000-05:00

http://www.leanbackproductions.com/streams/slack/

The fine folks at Leanback Productions (or so they say) have completed
this hypnotic interactive noisemaker. You access this ongoing stream of
audio loops from the site, then click on a colorful Dobbshead -- each
click causes the configuration of random audio loops to change. Some of
the loops are musical and some are from the SubSITE Sound Holes, so
what come up are randomly-grabbed combos of music and old-timey
SubGenius ranting. If you like a loop, you click in the red areas near
the Pipe, and if you don't like something, you click in the blue upper
hairdo areas of the Dobbshead. This "ranks" the loop, and changes the
stream to another randomly-selected one.

So far, only the maker and I have diddled with it, but in theory, as
more people monkey with it, it becomes more complex.

As I understand it, which may not be saying much, there is some math
behind this that's new, which may be of interest to programmers.

My only problem with it is that it takes like 8 seconds for the change
to occur after my clicks, which I think is because the signal has to go
to London and back for the change to register.

I had extra fun with it, because it forced me to install the free Mac
audio prog "WHAMB," which streams OGG files that iTunes won't stream,
and I'm always glad when I'm forced to install a superior free program

SubGenius Holiday Coming!

2005-10-27T23:36:00.000-04:00

Reverend Sinphaltimus Exmortus called Halloween "the day I wear my costume on the inside."

Here are our yearly SubSITE holiday reruns!

2004 Scary Art

2002 Scary Art

Olde-Tyme Halloween SubSITE home page

Extreme Pumpkins! Helpful hints. (Not one of ours.)

Pope Phil Monty's Halloween Card to Everyone

Halloween Rants

And in DETROIT, MICHIGAN:
AMINO ACIDS HALLOWEEN!
Oct 29th
The 9th annual Halloween bash @ Larry's house in Mount Clemens mi
Starring:
Mike The Pagan (Bagpipes)
The Cahsket Bahstards
The Jollys
The Minowin Brain Eaters (an Amino Acids cover band...wink wink)
It IS A BYOB PARTY
Snacks and stuff will be here as well
E-mail Rev. Angry Larry for directions or more info
rev_angrylarry@hotmail.com

All Manner of New Stuff in the SubGenius Store

2005-10-12T18:33:00.000-04:00

Ah, the $ales of "Bob"!

When our manufacturing partners at CafePress suggested some new SubGenius products they could provide at ULTRA-NEW, LOW, LOW NECK-BREAKING PRICES, we POUNCED UPON THE CHANCE!

For the Connietites (and the ladies) there are Sacred Tracksuits, Junior hoodies and Raglan hoodies! For the cud-chewin', head-scratchin' good ol' SubBoys, or SubGals, we offer several new Poebucker Cap styles sporting our best-selling, most Pink-angering designs, including the beloved "Bob"Fish.

For the Home or Lab Handyman we have Dobbshead light switches -- he looks great with a switch for a nose -- and for the devout, there are stately cherrywood-framed ceramic Holy Art altar ornaments.

We added some of our favorite art to three of the Large "Big Slug" Hallucinogenic Coffee-like Beverage Mugs. We offered these designs on regular coffee mugs already, but nobody here at the labs uses the regular sized mugs anymore, and we wanted them on large-size buckets for ourselves. All these fine things are pictured at the links below.

DID YOU KNOW that we can customize goods for you to some extent? For instance, if you see some art on a white T-shirt that you wish you could have on a GRAY or GREEN shirt, or if you would prefer a given shirt DIDN'T have anything on the back, say… we can easily add that product to the catalog, just for you (and whoever else comes along later). Just email stang@subgenius.com with special requests.

***********2 new Goodies in GEEGAWS and GIMCRACKS
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Sacred Church Logo Framed Tile
$11.49
Mounted in front room, keeps out evil spirits, nosy neighbors, cops, IRS.
Set off our decorative ceramic tile in its own stylish Cherrywood frame – the perfect way to complete a decorative gift or keepsake. Rounded edges and quality construction make this Framed Tile the ultimate wall accent.
• Frame measures 6” x 6” x 0.5”, with 4.25” x 4.25” tile
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• Two holes for wall mounting

Dobbshead Light Switch Cover
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• Measures 3.5" x 5", center hole measures 15/16" x 7/16"
• UL approved
• Glossy finish, fits flush with wall when installed

*********** New Hoodies, Tracksuits in WOMENS
http://www.cafepress.com/subgen/188963

Dobbshead Jr. Hoodie
$27.99
BRANDED! "SubGenius" on back repels, True Dobbshead on Front beckons!
A fashion "must" that defines today’s hip style, our Jr. Hoodie is a body-loving curve-hugger. From American Apparel, get into baby soft 100% super fine-combed cotton fleece. Front zipper, hood and pockets to keep the chill off.
• Pre-washed 7.2 oz 100% Combed Ring Spun Cotton Fleece
• Size up for a looser fit
• Made in the USA

Dobbshead-Blessed Women's Tracksuit
$43.99
Show you're not PINK! (Also available in Pink).
Our Women’s Raglan Tracksuit is sporty, stylish and ultra-soft, so it feels great against the skin. The zip up hoodie is side-seamed for a shapely fit. The color coordinated sweatpants are destined to be your favorite etc.etc.
• Preshrunk and laundered 100% combed ring-spun cotton
• 7.5 ounce mid-weight fleece
• Straight-leg sweatpants with drawstring waist

Dobbshead Branded Women's Raglan Hoodie
$29.99
Three colors available -- but Dobbshead and Church Logo on back retain sacred original untainted noncolors!
Our Women's Raglan Hoodie is sporty, stylish and ultra-soft, etc etc etc.

*********** New Styles in SubDobbsian HEADGEAR
http://www.cafepress.com/subgen/368125

Bobfish Cap
$15.99
The other good ol' boys will jes' luv this'n. Yeee haw. Available in khaki or white.
Our adjustable, 100% brushed cotton Cap is unstructured and an ideal way to beat the heat. Wear it anytime you want to keep the sun off or cover up a bad hair day. It features a sturdy low profile brim, sweatband, and adjustable closure, as well as Premium Printing for images that last.
• ·Adjusts from 20" to 24"
• Crown measures 3 _"
• Unstructured 100% brushed cotton canvas
• Available in Khaki or White

SubGenius Logo Cap
$15.99
Handy "cap" hides cranial deformities, macro-or micro-encephalagy, Mentat swelling, Slan tendrils, etc.

Bobfish Trucker Hat
$13.99
One of our most popular and also most widely detested items! Yet it's NEW!
Up for the long haul, our standard Trucker Hat features a resilient polyester foam front, and adjustable headband for the perfect fit.
• Adjusts from 17" to 24"
• Crown measures 4"
• 100% polyester foam front, 100% nylon mesh weave back

OBEY Trucker Hat
$13.99
Sturdy Espira "Obey" logo hypnotises subjects, lessens their squirming during Indoctrination sessions.

***********3 new LARGE CERAMIC DRINKING MUGS
http://www.cafepress.com/subgen/188946

45 MORE Dobbsheads Large Mug
$14.99
Heart Ignition's mutated grandchildren! Takes days to ingest.
Super-size your favorite beverage or just size-up to avoid spills with our hefty, 15 oz. ceramic Large Mug. Large easy-grip handle. When you need more, mug it up.
• Measures 4.5" tall, 3.25" diameter
• Dishwasher and microwave safe

The Test Large Mug
$14.99
Mural by Rev. Ivan Stang pays homage to "Bob" and Don Tatro's Creepy Clown.

Bond-2 Dobbsheads Large Mug
$14.99
Mister Fernandinande LeMur adapted this old timey artwork just for you. Romantic. Buy a whole set for a wedding gift.

*******And don't miss the short-lived collector's items in the X-Day section:
http://www.cafepress.com/subgen/188969

ALL PRODUCTS ARE MADE IN DOBBSTOWN

Hour of Slack #1016 - Live show with St. Paul Krassner

2005-10-12T18:26:00.000-04:00

Special episode, live at the WCSB studio in Cleveland on 10-09-05 with guest St. Paul Krassner and regular hosts Rev. Ivan Stang, Lonesome Cowboy Dave and Princess Wei "R." Doe.

"What REALLY Happened to The Left?" -- plus the unusual chain-gang of idiots.

Ogg Vorbis copies and misc. radio stations' streams: http://subgenius.com/ts/hos.html

MP3s at:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=14469

SEE ALSO http://WWW.PAULKRASSNER.COM

Euro-Devivals set for November

2005-09-10T19:50:00.000-04:00

HAMBURG Devival Weekend
Nov. 18, 19, 20th

AMSTERDAM 'FROP CUP
Nov. 26-30

IX-X-DAY
July 2006

Details on our Events page

Last year, thanks to Pope Jim of Brighton, Princess Wei and I were fortunate enough to do the Euro-Sub tour, and we had the time of our lives -- partly because we had already learned to expect the unexpected, particularly when following Pope Black, who is organizing the Hamburg weekend. The Amsterdam 'Frop Cup, however, is organized by NO ONE, and nothing is promised, so maybe nothing can go wrong.

Also, we have never met a Euro-Sub we didn't like. Probably we've just been lucky as hell.

If another demonic angel were to come along, we'd love to attend this year. But the angelic demons at Gription Clench donated an EXTREMELY nice computer, and my intention is to exploit that gift by editing the choice footage from the many past devivals, the 2004 Euro-tour, 8X-Day, teX-Day -- and eventually to dig way down into the vaults and start assembling a History of the Church of the SubGenius. This huge multimedia project would also involve a new book and an endlessly linked timeline on SubSITE. That should keep us busy here at the Foundation office for a few YEARS.

A reminder -- this "blog" part of SubSITE is really just for SubGenius product and event "spam." I still write rants and tirades about current events and people, but I prefer doing that in the interactive environment of alt.slack, where there's almost INSTANT negative feedback from equally ornery rant-writers. Some of it bleeds over into The Hour of Slack when we do those live, and the best of it is what I try to use in devivals or speaking engagements.

For years we tried to edit some of alt.slack and drag it over here for permanent installation, and we still do, but it's DAMNED hard to keep up with that exceedingly busy newsgroup!

New SubGenius DVD just out

2005-09-07T12:48:00.000-04:00

STANG LIVE 2005 DVD

http://subgenius.com/scatalog/video.htm

3 Sermons on The Word of "Bob"
by Rev. Ivan Stang
(sections co-written with Uncle Dr. Onan Canobite)

WINTERSTAR 2005 • DETROIT DEVIVAL • STARWOOD 25

2 one-hour rants, covered by multiple cameras at Winterstar 2005 and Starwood 25 -- plus a short excerpt from the insane Detroit Devival of 2005.

The WINTERSTAR '05 rant takes place indoors at a fancy ski resort, with a smaller crowd, and is relatively informal. The sermon at STARWOOD 25 is presented with a special rearscreen projection of *Dobbsedeliasteses* before a large audience of neopagans at an outdoor festival. Unlike the diatribes and jermemiads delivered to dues-paying, ordained SubGenii at Devivals, these Stang-rants are not "preaching to the choir." Starwood and Winterstar audiences, being largely new to SubGenius doctrine, require a more explanatory, soft-sell approach. Also, unlike at Devivals, the audience is not trying to out-yell the preacher. Thus, these sermons make good watchable introductions for those relatively new to the Church.

The Detroit clip is more typical of what one might see at a true SubGenius devival -- delivered completely spontaneously in a rock-n-roll bar, between band set-ups.

Princess Wei "R." Doe shot parts of all shows; the Starwood segmant utilizes Andy Adamovich's multi-camera video coverage, and Dennis Murphy ran the second camera on Winterstar.

Winterstar and Starwood are produced by A.C.E. (www.rosencomet.com)

This is our first all-rant video.

Hour of Slack 1011 -- Live 9-4-05, Hurricane Katrina

2005-09-05T22:54:00.000-04:00

http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=14011 for mp3 and podcast
http://subgenius.com/ts/hos.html for OGG and Log

Doing a live "funny" show after something like this is a challenge. Before the show, I scoured alt.slack for various SubGeniusful takes on the tragedy, and then culled out the notions that were too sick even for us. That meant removing many of iDRMRSR's inimitably grisly writings! But many more remained -- this is an unusually Sisterian show. (Or would that be "Sisternian"?) A Nensletic news report about the all-devouring Bush is recited with gusto. Even the tasteless IRC movie title list was scavenged (albeit edited). The copious collages by Norel Pref and LeMur (and lately, JOE) were mostly done before the disaster and relate mainly be coincidence, likewise the Rainmakers songs.

The Internet version of this particular show is 8 minutes longer than the air-play (PG-rated) version.

Hurricane-Area SubGenii -- Phone Home

2005-09-02T09:11:00.000-04:00

We understand that you may have other things on your minds, such as they are, but if you get a chance, please email me - stang@subgenius.com - so we can let your fellow SubGenii know if you're okay and if you need help. You might not have to be the refugee guest of Normals. The Slackermansion here in Cleveland is already full of refugees from Normality, but maybe there's a SubGenius family near you that could be of assistance.

We haven't come up with very much that's FUNNY about the disaster, but on alt.slack there is plenty of anger to be found, with the reminders that most of the budget for U.S. flood control was diverted into Iraq oil control a couple of years ago. That decision sure came back to bite The Conspiracy on the ass, although the decision-makers aren't the ones who'll suffer from it. They never are; Their eager Dupes do all the suffering. And the funny thing is, those Dupes always come back for more!

The Book of Life shows several hundred SubGenius ministers in LA, AB, MI and So. FL. We haven't heard from any of them yet.

In 1962, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs made a prediction. He said, "It's gonna be a bummer, man."

His Threat Rang True.

Volume 21 of Hour of Slack in MP3 now in Scatalog

2005-08-25T22:48:00.000-04:00

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/new_crap.htm

takes you to

12 Hours of Slack in MP3, Volume 21: Shows # 998 - 1008, plus XXX-Rated Hour of Slack #7
(June to August, 2005, including much 8X-Day live stage radio with Dr. Howll, Philo and Stang)

HoS 998 - X-Day
HoS 999 - "Bob" and X-Day
HoS 1000 - Special Episode!
HoS 1001 - Secrets of The Conspiracy
HoS 1002 - 8X-Day
HoS 1003 - 8X-Day/Starwood
HoS 1004 - The Con Vs. 8X-Day
HoS 1005 - Philo & Hal Vs. The Con
HoS 1006 - Sex, Drugs and Keywords of 8X-Day
HoS 1007 - early man vs. the drug war
HoS 1008 - - Ask Dr. Howl

X-Rated Hour of Slack #7

Nifty covers on the jewel case by Heart Ignition and IMBJR

Ton o' Luv on alt.binaries.multimedia.slack

2005-08-22T15:15:00.000-04:00

Thanks to the Gription Clench donation of a REALLY high-end computer, the Bombies and Zomboes here at Bulldada Time Control Labs have been cranking out video. Eventually we will probably attempt to make actual money off these videos, by selling DVDs of them, but in the meantime, they're free on our binaries newsgroup in very high quality DivX avi format, usually with an alternate in old-fashioned MPEG video. If you burn them to a CDR, they play and look pretty much like a DVD.

I have also been posting the teeny-tiny, jerky-movement, tiny screen-sized "Internetty" versions on alt.binaries.slack, where we keep the smaller files like single-song MP3s and nonmoving graphics.

ALSO, I have begun posting entire Susie the Floozy radio shows in MP3.

Last X-Day Drill, Susie gave Pater Nostril copies of a several dozen of her incredible shows, in MP3 on two data DVDs. He gave them to me to put on a.b.m.s., since I have a faster connection. So far I have uploaded four of these shows… I'll probably put another one or two up every couple of days for the next few months. Being hour-long shows, the MP3s are a little too big for alt.binaries.slack in the quantities I'll be uploading.

You KNOW, of course, that the Puzzling Evidence shows are also downloadable, archived in MP3, from
http://matrix.csustan.edu/Negativ/

Susie's shows are also archived for a while on wrek.org, as are the Lymph Node Institute shows.

VIDEOS on a.b.m.s.:

DOBBSEDELIASTESES
Not all of them, but some of these short animated music videos have been reposted in SVCD-style mpeg-2. These probably WON'T be posted again in this form, because I plan to add more spiffy effects to most of them for their next incarnation.

WINTERSTAR 2005
This is just me sitting at a table, talking to a big room full of people who are mostly NOT dues-paying SubGeniuses. Because of this I was able to get lots of words in edgewise. There are dozens of videos like this, except this had a) unusually good video and audio (a 2-camera shoot) and b) an unusually good performance by me, or else an unusually understanding audience, maybe both. The audio is available on a CD in our catalog, but this is the first whole sermon by me that I thought was good enough to go on a DVD. Main subjects of the rant, besides a brief into to the Church, are SubGenius "kooks," and the ease with which a fairly "unenlightened" individual can come to believe itself to be "enlightened." In other words, ALL BELIEF SYSTEMS are politely but very conscientiously trashed.

STARWOOD 2005
Although I was working from some of the same notes as the Winterstar sermon, this one is a completely different animal. I was speaking on an outdoor stage to a much larger audience, with a special video projection behind me made from the instrumental Dobbsedeliasteses music videos, with the credits and titles removed. (Thus in some ways, you're getting two videos for one.) My camera was shooting from the side (and getting excellent sound) but there was also a professional crew shooting and live-mixing two cameras. I was able to intercut between these two sources, so the end result is like 3-camera coverage.

Mayjickians, Maygggishens, and students of the occult will recognize the female authors of several of their fave witchcraft books, walking past the stage during wide shots, TOPLESS. New game: IDENTIFY THE OCCULT AUTHORS BY THEIR TEATS.

8X-DAY IN PROGRESS:

I'm editing this footage bit by bit, in discreet chunks, like a bunch of little shorts. The first one is the least explicable, least doctrinal, least identifiable as in any way inspired by "Bob" -- the Ritual Teabagging of Gov. Rocknar. For this I had footage from two cameras, operated by Wei/I and Frop/Dec. Includes Dok Frop's bizarre "facehugger" bagging.

"TEABAGGING" is only 7 minutes long. Don't ask me to explain or excuse it.

"AMERICA, FUCK YEAH" cover by Lonesome Cowboy Dave and The Mondo Retardo Band, also includes "SUBGENIUS ANTHEM". Princess Wei is actually the main singer on "America, Fuck Yeah" (from the movie Team America). This video is just one long shot, with me operating camera, zooming and panning appropriately. I had the advantage of having seen the rehearsals. The sound is a mix of the board recording by Pater Nostril and the video sound -- not too bad for low tech! 6 minutes total.

Almost all the ASK DR. HOWL audio from 8X-Day has been posted to a.b.m.s. in MP3, also to a.b.s. This is all from the hours of live "stage radio" recorded by me, Dr. Howl and Dr. Philo Drummond. If you are familiar with Dr. Howl, then I don't need to tell you anything. If you aren't familiar with Dr. Howl, especially his "Ask Dr. Howl" performances, please believe that this is some of the best, most highly faluted SubGenius material you'll ever encounter. Despite me and Philo.

Also on a.b.m.s. are several Hours of Slack and ARISE! The video, in DivX avi -- and, just today:

KEEP IT SURREAL by Lamprey Systems (lamprey-systems.com) -- a collection of all the collage music videos so far by this great SubGenius Arteest. The videos aren't specifically SubGenius, but they are about as SubGenius-y as you can get. AND YOU CAN GET THEM MAILED TO YOU FOR FREE!

Yes. I was about to download this 2-DVD set when I found DVD copies from Lamprey System in the Sacred P.O. Box -- with a letter from St. Robert Carr stating that any DUES-PAYING SubGenius minister who emails him at lampreysystems@cableone.net and is gullible enough to tell him their snail mail address can have their own personal copy!

And I thought I was being generous by giving my videos away on the Internet -- he's even paying the POSTAGE, and MAILING you free copies!

Now that alt.binaries.multimedia.slack exists, poverty cannot stop you from getting SubGenius videos and audio. Only a refusal to read the instructions can prevent your downloading. The lazy and/or ignorant can always BUY these videos, needless to say.

GLOSSARY:

"DivX avi" is a video format that will play on most new, cheap DVD players but not on most older, expensive ones. It will play on any computer that can play video, but it needs the latest version of the DivX codec, which involves a quick, painless, free operation at www.divx.com.

"alt.binaries.multimedia.slack" is on Usenet. Here are some clues about Usenet binaries newsgroups:
http://subgenius.com/usenet.htm

You can learn much more by googling.

Boy, is that an understatement.

Here at SubGenius Foundation we believe in BOTH "open source" AND the evils of piggish capitalism. We see absolutely no reason why the two can't co-exist, as long as lazy or ignorant people can't download the free stuff too easily, and must buy it to see it. PRAISE "BOB" for the lazy and the ignorant, for they pay MY MORTGAGE, among other things. And, like "Bob," they seem to make more money than the rest of us.

DEVO Art Show

2005-08-22T15:13:00.000-04:00

Aug. 20, 2005

In alt.slack, Pink Liberation Front wrote:

>
> Stang thats the price of fame, ya know I put up the pic of abo'bob at work
> today and no-one even noticed him
>
>

That's what you think.

Like none of those millions of schoolchildren noticed him when he was
on the wall of Pee Wee's Playhouse.

YOU didn't notice the Dobbshead the first time, yourself -- THAT YOU
KNOW OF!

I managed to edit the Ritual Teabagging footage yesterday. The fact
that I did so is PROOF that I am a SubGenius. YOU'LL SEE... it is truly
MOST fucked up. Fucked up and inexplicable. I am gonna put titles on it
today and probably post it to abms tomorrow. This is one of those
situations where I'm GLAD that many people "can't" get abms. (Actually
anybody with a computer and a phone line can, but it might cost them
$10/month for EasyNews or Giganews or whatnot.)

Also on a.b.s. are the first full-length rants by me on video that I
thought were worth sitting through visually (i.e. more than one camera,
and a video backdrop) -- Winterstar and Starwood both from this year.
I'll put these on DVD eventually, but for now there's an excellent free
DivX avi of each one on a.b.m.s. -- each exactly fits a 700 mb CDR.

Last night we attended the Mark Mothersbaugh art show in Kent, and
performances by The Spudboys and the actual real life School of Rock
kids. It seems that the Jack Black vehicle, "School of Rock," was
loosely based on a real situation. That school exists and the kids are
taught to rock. Currently they are being taught to rock by the people
who are in Stinking Lizavetta. Anyway these high school kids cover a
couple of dozen DEVO songs so well that I honestly enjoyed them and The
Spudboys, the DEVO research and emulation band that forms ONLY during DEVOtionals, MORE than I enjoyed the actual DEVO concert the night before.

Reason being, when DEVO does their old songs, it sounds EXACTLY LIKE
THEIR OLD SONGS. And they can't help but sound like they've played each
big hit song a thousand times. The Spudboys and School of Rock however
DON'T sound like they've played these songs a thousand times, they
sound like they're really enjoying playing the songs THIS ONCE.

The DEVOtional starts in Akron at noon today... Wei is yard-saling, and
I'm teabag-titling, but but tonight we'll go and videotape the bands at
the Lime Spider.

I now wish I had brought my DV cam to the bar last night because those
PRETTY TEENAGE GIRLS covering songs like "Wiggly World" and "Big Mess,"
you had to see it to believe it. Especially the ... well... let's not
go there. Suffice it to say that the knuckles on my right hand are well
gnawed.

According to Gerry Casale, The Disney Channel is working on some show
called DEVO 2.0, about the adventures of a teen or child band that does
DEVO songs.

GOD ONLY KNOWS.

Rev. Mothersbaugh's art show was fun enough, but it wasn't the
hand-drawn sicko postcards or the blacklight poster paintings; this
time it was pretty elementary Photoshop tweaks on antique photos he
found -- simply mirroring one side of the image right down the middle,
producing an odd symetry. I like Mark's hand drawn art a whole lot, but
if he posted this stuff on alt.binaries.slack under a fake name, they'd
congratulate him on successfully running a Photoshop filter, the same
way we all did when we first got Photoshop, and then ignore him. If
they even replied at all. I love his nutty writings a la My Struggle
by Booji Boy, and his cartoons and drawings, but this Photoshop filter
stuff... EH.

I'll bet it impresses the rich, though.

But then, who am I to act like Mister High Faluting Art Critic. I'm
making a SUBGENIUS TEABAGGING DOCUMENTARY which won't impress ANYBODY
except the absolutely most Sub of SubGenii.

But, yet, that damn footage is still cracking me up EVERY TIME.

DEVO Concert and DEVOtional in Cleveland

2005-08-22T15:08:00.000-04:00

Aug. 19, 2005

Much to my surprise I'll get to attend the annual DEVOtional services after all.

That's at The Lime Spider in Akron, a nice bar that has sponsored DEVOtionals and also devivals before. Here's the blurb on the DEVO fan site:

http://www.devo-obsesso.com/obsesso/html/news_pgs/devotional05.html

And tonight, in Kent, Ohio, Mark Mothersbaugh's traveling art show opens. I guess Wei and I will go to that as well. It'll be the first time I've ever actually been to Kent.

Princess Wei and I bought the expensive floor tickets to the DEVO show at the last minute, by email, went to the outdoor Scene Pavilion, met Rev. Chris Lee and Rev. Prostata Contata, as planned, and also encountered many other SubGenii, the more insane WCSB DJs, and otherwise devolved friends and acquaintances, including the ubiquitous Rev. Steve Scynic.

The show started on time and, what can I say, it was a DEVO concert. I've seen about ten of those, and the main thing that distinguished this one especially for me was that everyone in the band is ten years older and fatter. Performancewise they were the same young spudboys, which is exactly what DEVOtees want.

For the first half they wore the classic first-album yellow radiation suits, then they tore those off to reveal their new black T-and-short-pants minimalist uniform.

They noticeably stuck to songs from the early albums. A stagehand who was a Princess Wei admirer gave her the actual filth-besmeared set list print-out after the show:

(DEVO Concert Video Overture)

THAT'S GOOD
GOING UNDER
GIRL U WANT
WHIP IT
SATISFACTION
UNCONTROLLABLE URGE
MONGOLOID
BLOCKHEAD
JOCKO HOMO
SMART PATROL/MR. DNA
GATES OF STEEL
FREEDOM OF CHOICE WIGGLY WORLD GUT FEELING/SLAP YER MAMMY
COME BACK JONNIE

There were no big changes to song structures, no weird versions, although "Freedom of Choice" began with an "America the Beautiful" intro and a sarcastic rant about the current state of American politics.

Throughout the whole last half of the show I was wondering what Mark had stuffed in his crotch that made it bulge cartoonishly. It was a giant sack of multicolored marble-sized SuperBalls, which, during the climactic number, he emptied by bouncing handfulls of the balls all off the stage into the audience.

For me a high point was when Gerry Casale addressed the crowd to say that de-evolution has turned out to be, if anything, much more real than the band had suspected when they were young. He declared, "I'M SORRY WE WERE RIGHT."

After the show, partially thanks to his nephew, we found our friend Rev. Michael Pilmer, the DEVO archivist who is now in their employ. He was handing out decal stickers with pictures of Energy Domes that you can punch out and plaster everywhere. "Spread 'Em Like a Virus," it says on there.

Holy shit, I just now noticed the credit line on this sticker: copyright 2005 DEVO Dome Illustration by Krk Ryden

Well I be damn. Rev. Krk Ryden (brother of Mark, also an illustrator) just joined the Church this year.

We met the band's new drummer for the first time. I asked DEVO guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh how his kids were, all grown up by now, and he said, "See that blond woman in the red shirt over there? That's my daughter Alexi, she was on the Shout cover," and I realized, I had met her when she was a 6 year old! We kept her up too late filming the R. U. Experienced? video. (She's the little girl sitting with a little boy when the TV explodes -- the little boy was Dr. Tim Leary's son.)

Much to my great horror, Gerry Casale now looks YOUNGER than me by about 15 years. He must have struck a deal with The Elder Bankers or the Gnomes of Zurich or somebody. Satan maybe. Mark Mothersbaugh, thank god, looks his age. In fact he and Rev. Bleepo Abernathy could now pass for twin brothers. I got to introduce him to Princess Wei. The last time I saw Mark, I was married to someone else. Unfortunately, he won't be at his own art opening in Kent, nor will any of the current DEVOs be in Akron for the DEVOtional, because COMMERCIAL MUSIC PRODUCTION CALLS. They have to run back to Mutato in L.A. to do a commercial or tweak a movie score.

I didn't see Rev. Bob Casale after the show, darn it. He's the only member of the band who actually PAID HIS $30. His wife Lisa is duly ordained too.

Much to my own ego gratification, and as heartening examples of continued DEVO-SubGenius crossover, six or seven people who were complete strangers to me approached and said nice things about the Church or The Hour of Slack. Three DIFFERENT complete strangers -- handsome young studly fellows -- approached Princess Wei and asked if she was "the space princess." One of them said, "Weird how the Internet can make you famous, huh?" This prompts me to envision dozens of studly young men happily wanking to digital photos of Wei on computer screens. Disconcerting. SHE probably thinks it's "COOL".

Anyway, hordes of newly-discovered Wei-stalkers aside, I was gladdened to see DEVO playing to a nice healthy-sized arena crowd, obviously making good money, while inspiring the geeks, abnormals and Beautants to resist surrender for another day or year. And in Cleveland, yet.

We will join our fellow enhardened DEVO fanatics at the DEVOtional geek-in on Saturday. But we won't be there until the evening; there's a street-wide mass yard sale on our street during the day, and we have several previous lives and families worth of excess material crap to get rid of.

Today I hope to edit an 8X-Day teabagging conga-line video. Yes, an 8X-Day teabagging conga-line video. For, NOW IT CAN BE TOLD -- WE'RE ALL DEVO!

By chance I have started reading "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond, which comes to the same basic conclusion that a DEVO concert does: de-evolution IS real.

"DUH."