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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
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
We're suddenly in the news, for all the wrong reasons
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.gifiotboy.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
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.gifiotboy.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
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
"Bob's" Most Dutiful Servants in Desperate Straits -- You Can Help
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"
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"
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