Here's a fun "Bob" sound game to do and play

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!

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

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
http://www.cafepress.com/subgen/188926

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
• Constructed of stained Cherrywood
• Two holes for wall mounting


Dobbshead Light Switch Cover
$9.99
Turn On the Darkness! Causes light to be sucked from a room when activated.
Turn it on! Add a fun, stylish accent to any room with our high-quality metal light switches. The roomy 3.5" x 5" size is a roomy creative surface to display unique decorative accents for the kitchen, office, or kid's room. Fits flush to the wall when installed.
• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

Psytopia Still Not Yet As Cool As X-Day

Aug. 17, 2005

True, Psytopia is held at a posh resort in Jamaica where you get to live like a rich person, and X-Days are held at a campground where you have to sleep in a tent.

But X-Day has never been CANCELED. Even if the saucers didn't show, we at least held the DRILL.

Psytopia AS SUCH has been canceled, because the $ fell through at the last minute. And I do mean the VERY last minute! We almost left for the airport without reading the cancellation email.

Didn't I keep saying it sounded too good to be true? The people who bought $1000 tickets and flew to Jamaica will surely have a GREAT time at a SPLENDID resort, because their rooms are still reserved for them, but the Psytopia part of Psytopia is shut down totally.

I feel very sorry for the producer, and wrote him a letter saying I'm not upset and that surely it'll happen next year because it's such a great idea, and chin up, etc.

Then I immediately priced a Burning Man trip (about $2000 for the two of us, including a rented camper-van for a week, and a $650 plane ticket), but Philo and Wellman AREN'T GOING. Dr. Howll is. But the great thing about Psytopia was, it was ALL FREE for we the now-canceled bands, arteests and ranters.

We thought about spending only some plane ticket money, and flying to a place where we can PRETEND it's Jamaica or Amsterdam, and have Couchstock. (Dobbstown is out of the question, since it's hurricane season in Malaysia and three planes have already gone down.)

But in the end, we decided the Slackermansion and SubSITE need redecorating more than we need yet another festival. It's just that we were ALMOST ALL PACKED, and the act of UNPACKING now just seems so SAD. If we keep these bags packed, we'll be INSTANTLY READY for the next trip. ANY trip.

Talk about everything coming to a screeching halt. We got so much done in preparation for this trip, that just NOT HAVING TO DO ANYTHING for a while is like a vacation. I got AHEAD on Hours of Slack, bill paying, swag-mail-out, ALL that daily chore type crap -- for the next week we're FREE AND CLEAR! Starting last week, I'd been pulling my standard pre-trip last-minute all-nighter frenzy. I re-edited the psychedelic Dobbshead background projection video that I use behind my rant to distract and implant the audience (the music previously switched from instrumentals to bobsongs too soon), and made a new DVD of it. I got three MONTHS worth of Membership packs and ARISEs assembled. And then, just for the pure emergentile fuck of it, and to bone up on my lines, in the two days before the trip, I edited the two two-camera shoots of the Winterstar and Starwood devivals, AND made menus and put them on DVDs! And made DivX copies and RARred them! So there. And about that time I got the long sad email.

I was really looking forward to that warm ocean. Oh well. We have a beach nearby… SORT OF. And this DOES mean that I get to EDIT ALL THAT VIDEO, which is what I most have been wanting to do, really, if you get right down to it.

And Princess Wei is STILL off WORK, so it's not like I won't be in HEAVEN no matter what. This just means I won't have to share her for a WHOLE WEEK.

*************

That was yesterday. Since then we've seen the third Harry Potter movie on TV, and we went to the actual movie theater to see Willy Wonka, which is splendid. Tim Burton has finally made up for Planet of the Apes with this one. The score is so Elfmaniacal that one could almost suspect it of being a parody of Elfman scores. Johnny Depp creates yet another great comic character. What a stud. The art design is INSANE. I wasn't attached to the earlier film version and I like this one better. If anything it's much WEIRDER. I can't wait to see the Cinefex article on the special effects. It's a DAHLing movie, rally it tis.

There was NO ONE ELSE in the theater. I don't think there was anybody else in the whole multiplex.

Christopher Nolan's Batman movie is at 7… hmmm. And we haven't seen that Once Upon a Time in Mexico disk yet.

Our work is cut out for us!

I thought about making a fake "OUR TRIP TO/AT PSYTOPIA" photo gallery. Like, a blurry photo of an ashtray -- "THIS WAS OUR ROOM, MAN! IT HAD AN INCREDIBLE VIEW!" A blurry close-up of some striped fabric: "WEI WORE THIS WILD BATHING SUIT, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?" Blurry photo of a blur. "WE BOUGHT THIS "TREAURE CHEST" FOR ONLY $50, TEN MINUTES AFTER WE GOT OFF THE PLANE, FROM A CRAZY DUDE NAMED RASTAFUS! MONEY WELL SPENT!" Photo of a grinning young man with long hair. "OUR NEW FRIEND REV. 420 THUNDERFUCK-BEARER!" Photo of a plate with food on it. "EVERYTHING IN THIS RESTAURANT WAS TOTALLY FREE, EVEN THE DRINKS!" Extreme close-up of Wei smiling. "WEI AND I COULDN'T GET ENOUGH OF THIS BEACH -- OR THOSE FREE DRINKS!" Blurry streaks of red lights -- some out-of-focus band. "OZRIC TENTACLES ROCKED! WE PARTIED WITH THEM BACKSTAGE RIGHT AFTER THIS SONG." Bad close-up of a gir's face. "YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE THIS DANCE CLUB. SHE WAS WEARING ONLY BODY PAINT AND A BOA CONSTRICTOR!"

But, I didn't.

I think the problem with Psytopia may have been that some of it it was set up based on gentleman's agreements, with little on paper to speak of in the way of contracts. A backer suddenly changed its mind, plus, 20 of the people who signed up never actually got around to PAYING up. Too small a margin for catastrophe, and no insurance against it.

And then there's the "X-DAY JAMAICA" notion which got to burbling in our heads. You must admit, it has a ring to it.

Off To, and At, Psytopia

I guess I had better check in, or I might get in trouble with you-know-who. My head has been buried in Hours and Hours, weeks really, of Slack. Due to 8X-Day Drill and Starwood, Hour of Slack production had fallen behind while stacking up. After getting the new Gription 620 supercomputer up and running, and after then pretty much disappearing into it, like Professor Challenger into The Lost World, I have managed to catch up and even get ahead. In the last week I got shows numbers 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008, and 1009 up and running, and/or mailed to stations and subscribers. These particular Hours of Slack bear EXTRA SLACK, for they all feature the great Dr. Howll and the notorious Dr. Philo Drummond as special live guests, along with fabulastical new musical doktors, and our unusual usuals.

You can hear those shows in all manner of formats via the Hour of Slack page on SubSITE.

Next week, Princess Wei and I are lucky enough to be attending Psytopia, a sort of consciousness convention at a fancy resort in Jamaica, the prospects of which STILL seem too good to be true. In theory, I will be preaching on Sunday night on a beach stage, with a machine projecting the new Dobbsedelia II mind-control video behind me, with a crowd of the UnSaved, all naked, young, rich and SEEKING... and boy howdy, have we got a seeking-stopper for them! Well, a temporary plug, anyway. A plug with a PIPE in it!

There are still a few tickets available for Psytopia, and if you share a triple room with 2 others, it's a lot cheaper.

Having gotten these Hours of Slack out of the way, according to my Sacred Scribe Orders from Dobbstown, I am supposed to answer about three months worth of email. But I gotta admit, all I can think about are these hours of video and graphics awaiting editing and animation.

If you're into downloading movies, I posted more SubGenius video than I can list here on alt.binaries.multimedia.slack during the last week or two. Nothing brand new besides the radio shows and some 8X-Day stage recordings, but many nice mpeg copies of various Dobbsedeliasteses, ARISE!, short SubClassics, etc.

I still hang out at alt.slack and alt.binaries.slack. If you prefer the blog method of communicating important messages to fellow SubGenii, remember http://slackoff.blogspot.com/

If you think you might like to read some SubGeniusly essays by a great SubGenius Hierarch from the Olden Days, try starting with this article about Yetis in the movies, and then back out from there to see Nensletic opinions and discoveries in many other fields of the arts and sciences.

SUCCESSFUL STARWOOD -- WORLD CONTINUES!

We/I have almost completely returned from the 25th Starwood Festival, in which we're involved as both organizers and performers. It's a big, weird festival -- ten times the size of SubGenius X-Day Drills, one-tenth the size of Burning Man. It's so weird that it takes a long time to fully return.

Princess Wei shot many evocative photos, and I have written up a fairly lengthy SubG-centric report; it's all now on SubSITE:

Stang's Report and Wei's photos of Starwood 25: http://tinyurl.com/7ruw2

ADULTS ONLY!

Saint Paul Krassner, who has delivered many hilarious sermons at the last several Starwoods, is writing up his own Starwood report for the normally staid The Nation magazine -- we're looking forward to that balancing act!

Next: PSYTOPIA, the psychedelics/consciousness convention in Jamaica! August 17-23.

All I want to do is EDIT ALL THESE TAPES!! But first I shall dutifully mail out the sacred swag that was ordered while we were gone, like a good Sacred Scribe. I know, I know, contradiction in terms.

SUCCESSFUL X-DAY -- WORLD ENDED

Yes, SCREW EVERYTHING! The world ended, and we MAY HAVE DIED! That means we can take our SWEET TIME doing DAMN NEAR ANYTHING WE WANT!

8X-DAY REPORTAGE ON SUBSITE

Tumultuous events marked the 8X-Day Drill, and SubSITE now sports the reports, disrespectful wisecracks and galleries of dorkily lewd photographs from dozens of SubGenius Delegates to the 8X-Day Drill -- actually our TENTH Drill, if you want to get technical about it. We thank all the writers and photographers who tossed in their cookies, and everyone who made this event the violent and fractious Apocalypse Practice that it was.

Incidentally, the reports from alt.slack, which also include the 2005 BOBBIE AWARDS list, have been specially Stang-edited for readability, with repetition and other meaningless Internet garbage eliminated. And, the photo section also features new pics from teX-Day '05 near Austin.

FREE SUBGENIUS MOVIES

The SubGenii returned bearing boxes of video and audio recordings. We are pumping those out onto Hour of Slack in refined form, and onto alt.binaries.slack and alt.binaries.multimedia.slack in raw form. Currently on both SubG binaries newsgroups there are hours of audio in MP3, including performances by special guest Dr. Howl, various other ranters, the Bulldada Auction, 8X-related live radio shows.

The newsgroup alt.binaries.multimedia.slack now holds several new and new/old SubGenius films in various digital formats, such as the 1-hour 7X-Day -- Share the Load, as well as a film ABOUT X-Day and the Church by non-SubGenii, plus 7-5-98, which solely depicts the 7 am climax of the 1998 X-Day gathering and the subsequent lynching of yours truly. The 7X-Day video is a barrage-edited GUT BLOWOUT, thanks to special guests Dr. Howl, Philo Drummond, Little Fyodor, The Amino Acids, Rev. Zorro, and many more Great Spazzmasters.

HOW TO USE USENET to get movies, etc

HOURS OF SLACK -- 8X, XXX-8

We celebrated our 1000th Hour of Slack just before 8X-Day; audio from the event fueled #s 1002, 1003, and 1004; and just for Emergentile Yuks we also cranked out our eighth "XXX-Rated Internet-Only" show, which is meant only for the ears of downloaders, bootleggers and our beloved Hour of Slack individual subscribers.

For a short time, ALL of those shows will be on SubSITE in hi-res (and also very lo-res) Ogg Vorbis format, and for a LONG time, all of them will be on the wonderful Radio4All site in good quality MP3.

FREE DOWNLOADS, SUBSCRIPTION INFO on HOUR OF SLACK

NEW DVDs, DOBBSWEAR, HOUSE WARES

Just before the world ends, in a frenzy of meaninglessness, we always manage to finish several projects for our Bulldada Time Control media catalog, and to add the most intense new designs to our CafePress SubStore of clothing, house wares, art objects etc.

In Bulldada, you'll find a new Best of SubGenius Albums collection (Hour of Slack 984 actually), a DVD collection of best shorts by SubGenii from the last two or three years ("10 Minutes 'Til Showtime), new bumper stickers, an all-LeMur album… and, in the Whizbangs section, 7 Bladed Windbreakers are back!

WORLD ENDS -- EVERYTHING MUST GO

Our CafePress SubSTORE has a dozen new designs on men's and women's clothes, badges, carafes, throw pillows, framed art prints, you name it! There's so much new that the best idea would be to start at the newest new page, which is the deepest in, and then work your way backwards through the various tangential product lines.

We brought ONE EACH of all the new products to 8X-Day -- some are displayed among the very first photos in our 8X pics -- and they were mostly gone within minutes of the Swag Shack opening. Maybe we should have brought more than one each.


GREAT BOOK ON CHICK COMICS by PAPA JOE MAMA

The great SubGenius preacher vanished -- went undercover for TWO YEARS, and at the end of that time revealed that he had not only successfully infiltrated the Jack T. Chick organization, but had produced a huge, DEFINITIVE book about the famous TRACT EMPIRE. Chick Comics are those little bitty free religious comic books that have provided so much joy to smirking hipsters and disbelievers. Wouldn't it figure that only a SubGenius Master would be able to pull off such an impressive guide to that whole world of Inadvertent Bulldada?

EVERY CHICK COMIC is REVIEWED in HILARIOUS DETAIL by Papa Joe. Chick's TRUE STORY is told. Every SHRED of trivia is covered, and all of the 226 pages are SLATHERED in illustrations, a lot of it in color. This book is an INCREDIBLE VALUE and a sure fire major-league collector's item -- GET 'EM WHILE YOU CAN!

The Art of Jack T. Chick


New QUIJIBO out - Greatest SubGenius Magazine

29th issue of this PHYSICAL, PRINTED-ON-PAPER ZINE was unveiled at 8X-Day. Includes: The Search for the Perfect Connie, Russians ranting about "Bob," teX-Day report, an alternate Dobbstown history by Rev. Chris Lee, hueyspewy, Dick Dobbs, Spamalot report, zombie movie reviews, hot pics.

ANY 2 ISSUES only $5!! Plus $1 for postage in U.S.: QUIJIBO CARTEL, 18 W. Main St. Suite X, Greenfield, IN 46140

Next Up: STARWOOD, PSYTOPIA

Starwood: July 19 - 24 Sherman, Brushwood, Sherman, NY. Rev. Ivan Stang's sermon and video show will be on Saturday afternoon, following St. Paul Krassner's rant.

Held a couple of weeks after X-Day (on years that the world doesn't end), and at the same place, Starwood is the biggest neopagan conclave in the U.S. Here, SubGenii meet and mate with weirdoes of other faiths, see important countercultural speakers, enjoy intensely hedonistic nighttime activity (or "spiritual" activity -- WHATEVER!). The bands are usually excellent and the Saturday night bonfire is, truthfully, an East Coast alternative to Burning Man's Saturday nights.

Psytopia: JAMAICA, August 17-23, 2005

Check out this Psychedelic Convention in Jamaica! This has the potential for being the most EXOTIC devival situation yet. The host told us that the suggestion to have a devival at Psytopia came from none other than SAINT GEORGE CLINTON! -- who will also be involved in this event, along with artist Alex Grey, wise guy Ram Dass and other Illuminutilated Ones.

AND FINALLY…

THANKS! -- to all the SubGenii who made 8X-Day the Ultimate Slack-Out that it was, as well as those who didn't, but made something ELSE an Ultimate Slack-Out. Many of you got Bobbie Awards -- paper certificates and ACTUAL 8-BALL-on-Pedestal AWARDS -- but were not at Brushwood to have them handed to you. Wei/I are gradually completing all the rest (they are calligraphically lettered) and mailing them to the Beloved Servants of "Bob" who earned them by sacrificing Conspiracy jobs, False Slack and entertainment for SubGenius-style TRUESLACK.

PRAISE J. R. "BOB" DOBBS!!

Your Dear Friend and Prayer Partner,

Sacred Scribe #273, Rev. Ivan Stang

ALL of Princess Wei's photos of 8X-Day on a.b.s.

Alt.binaries.slack now holds all the GOOD photos -- 192 of them -- that Princess Wei "R." Doe shot at 8X-Day. I will be putting all of the INTERESTING ones on SubSITE permanently -- but fewer than half of the ones I've posted to a.b.s.will be on SubSITE. So, get 'em while they're hot. A few actually are kind of hot. Others are just plain gross.

I'm waiting for reports and photos to roll in from a few more contributors before I put up an 8X-Day report on SubSITE.

We now have filled ALL orders that came in since we left for 8X-Day on June 26... although the ones going overseas were mailed only today.

Current job is to get a couple of new Hours of Slack slung together using some of the massive amount of material recorded at 8X-Day. Dr. Howll, Dr. Drummond and I did something like three hours of live radio from the stage, all told. And then there're all the other ranters and the bands. Lordy. Good thing EDITING IS SLACK for me, among other things.

A few days after we got home, I realized that the Hour of Slack in OGG VORBIS format has been undownloadable since July 6 or so. That's being fixed now. The MP3s are still there.

Next big SubVents: STARWOOD in a week and, in August, in Jamaica, PSYTOPIA! I am trying to ready special videos for both of those. Supposedly there's a Columbus, Ohio devival in October too, but we don't know the details yet.

The 2005 BOBBIE AWARDS

Ceremonially doled out by Rev. Ivan Stang and Princess Wei "R." Doe at Brushwood Main Stage, Brushwood Folklore Center, July 3, 2005, 8X-Day Drill



Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Philo U. Drummond, OverMan 1st Degree

Best Speechifying: Dr. Howl

Most Realistic Human Cartoon: Lonesome Cowboy Dave

Best Escape Vessel: Brushwood

Most Conspicuous Absence: Jesus

IRC Maintenance: Rev. Weinholt and Rev. Ankara

Alt.Slack Writer Who Cracked Stang Up the Most: AssCo

Most Initiative: Rev. Hostage

Best Creator God and Sex God: Modemac

Least Recognized: Bachelors for "Bob"

Most Valued Craziest: The Gription Clench, Pammy and Random

Most Insistent Enabler: Dok Frop

Sexiest: Kali

Time and Rhythm Control: Rev. Nickie Deathchick

SubSITE Chassis Detailing: Rev. Fenian and Rev. Paco

Dripping CandelaBra of Connie Award: Overmistress Salacia

Hospitality/Best Sustainers of Life: Rev. Chris Mok & Rev. Ellis Dee

Best Diction: Rev. Alex Thompson

Best Dressed Preacher: Rev. Carter LeBlanc

Best New Pope: Pope Perro (Rev. Kay Wittke, Pope Keeper)

Rogue SubGenius Award: Pope Jimbo of Brighton

Coolest: Rev. Chris Lee

Sacred Garter of the Sodality of the White Glove of Connie: Heart Ignition

Most Exploited for Commercial Purposes: Espira

Best Recent Eruction of Dobbsheadism: Mister Fernandinande LeMur

Best Taste in Tastelessness: DJ Shaver

Best Invokers of Titanic Unseen Forces: The Amino Acids

Best Pope Black Imitation: Rev. ErRoR

Best Pronunciation of The Name of "Bob": Pope Mickey Finn

Planetary Science Research Grant Award: Uncle Dr. Onan Canobite

Nicest Mean Person: Pope Phil Monty

Best Blog/ SubGenius News Service: Rev. Nu-Monet V. 8

Most Balls: Governor Rocknar

Most True-to-Life Goddess In or Out of Costume: Rev. Susie the Floozy

Chaos Coordinator and Special Nepotism Award: Rev. Nickie Deathchick

Bulldada Preservationist Society -- Epopt 2nd Degree Special Award: Dr. Dark

Best Award Award: Her Highness Hellno

Least Killfiled: Rev. Joe Cosby

Unmasker of False Prophets: Nenslo

Sexiest Den Mother: Rev. Magdalen

The Unremembered Award Category Award: The Oyeh Guy ("Masturbating Shawn")

LongDurPerSav, HOUR OF SLACK: Mister Fernandinande LeMur

Best Non-Old Radio Doktor: Dr. Sinister, Radio Synaesthesia

Everything: Pater Nostril

Worst Role Model: Banjo Bob

Best Role Model: Dok Frop

Sharer of Most Wanted Knowledge Erasers: Rev. Joseph, Daddy of Jesus

Keeper of Sifu: Rev. Diana

Most Brain-Scrambling String-Bending: Rev. Angry Larry

Best Stage Presence: Rev. Ed Strange's Pulpit

Inspirational Good Humor Amidst Slacklessness: iDRMRSR

Best GuitCollage: Rev. Norel Pref

Most Patient Wife: Rev. Sinphaltimus Exmortis

Best Children's Books: (TIE) IMBJR / Rev. Artemia Salina

Participation Award: the late Rev. Eris Pagana

Good Online Article about Starwood

http://tinyurl.com/b7cqk

or

http://freetimes.com/

Well written front page article about Starwood in the Cleveland weekly,
Free Times, with uncredited photos by Rev. Steve Chekey and Pater
Nostril. "Meredith," who closes the story, is Princess Wei. Yes, it's
true, the most sacred Can of All Starwood Bonfire Ashes is in the same
glass display case as The "Bob" Museum. I am quoted some, although the
writer spells SubGenius the way humans do, with a lower case g.

Several of the SubGenii who were at 8X-Day are planning to attend
Starwood this year. I'll be delivering my sermon and some background
video projections on Saturday afternoon on the main stage at 5 pm,
following Paul Krassner or RU Sirius or whichever other hop-head has
the 3 pm slot. As long as I'm not up against the Nude Body Painting
Workshop this time.

Writhing in Slack After 8X-Day

It's the SubGenius New Year. Everything is renewed, refreshed, rebuilt, reconstructed.

Every X-Day Drill, when the world doesn't end, a new version of Nu-Monet comes out -- as does a new version of every SubGenius, although most of them aren't labeled as such, like Nu-Monet is.

Every X-Day, because we move half of our Throne Office to the stage at Brushwood, we CLEAN the Throne Office for the first time since the world last failed to end. I'm strangely HEALTHIER after an X-Day Drill, having involuntarily pumped up from days of swaggarting, packing, moving, unpacking, socializing, walking all over the campground, ranting, spazzing, etc. My very soul-gland is exercised and trod upon until it's leathery and buff, and my memory is cleansed by the finest 'Frop, scoured of impure remembrances and pretty much everything else. It's like getting one's overgrown brain-yard mowed.

I just finished putting my freshly dust-covered electronics back together, on freshly dusted tables and desks, after dusting it all, and why, it's almost like a brand new pristine Escape Office, especially with the recent donation of a near-MWOWM-level Earth computer by the Gription Clench.

I feel GREAT! This was certainly the most Slackful Drill ever for me personally. I never freaked out! I barked at Dr. Drummond once when he tried to fix the unbroken parts of my temporarily broken sound system, but I do that almost habitually if I see him messing with my equipment, ever since THAT ONE TIME, which I will NEVER let him forget.

7X-Day, last year, was NOT pleasant for me. That year, I had resolved to get the kind of Slack everybody is always telling me I should get, and I was CONSTANTLY DISAPPOINTED, because, DURING X-DAY, THAT IS NOT SLACK FOR ME. At X-Days, Slack for me IS running around trying to meet every single person at once while filming anything even remotely interesting and hunting down blown fuses with Pater Nostril and listening faux-patiently to insane or young people telling me insane or young things while I'm wondering just where I put that adapter that I'm going to need in a few minutes after I find an extension cord for this video projector. When I just GIVE IN to the Emergentile Force, and let IT run ME, then I not only get everything done (or close enough for the girls we go out with) but I also get a massive dose of Slack Awareness.

So, I managed to exploit my Emergentile Slack to the MAX, and then every night when it was too late to have giant noise, and the stage show was over, Princess Wei and I did our fair share of hedonistic partying. Heck, we even DRANK! Yes, on Sunday night we drank a beer each and a hit of rum or something! On Monday night we drank a cup of wine and some kind of weird liqueur! By Tuesday night, we were slamming down Lord Ferg's Fighting Cock whiskey right out of the jug and chasing it with Cokes! Hell, we figured, the world's ending, or something; it's 8X-Day anyway, so WHY NOT LIVE DANGEROUSLY!

I probably drank almost as much at 8X-Day as a human drinks in a... a DAY!

Every night at about 3 in the morning, we went to the Secret Elite Second Hot Tub and there we found yet more ways to get in touch with and amplify our INBORN SLACK.

We never went to bed on X-Day-eve; we kept ourselves awake, USING PURE SLACK! We were the first ones at the pavilion, around 6:30 a.m., and we were shaved, shined, shampooed and ready to leave our Earthly shells looking their best when we vacated them. There was a record crowd of Those Who Don't Wuss Out at the spirited 7-A.M. countdown, with none of the corny "Stang, into the pond" crap, because I threatened to kick the ass of anybody who pulled that trite bullshit.

Now that I think about it, I'm not actually real sure what DID happen at 7 a.m. But I know I had working batteries in the video camera this time, so somewhere there must be a record of what "Bob" did to us. If anything. (BUT WHY CAN I NEVER REMEMBER THAT PART?!?!?)

Evidently NASA's attempt to start an intergalactic war between the Xists and Yacatisma by firing bombs at a Yist scout ship on July 4th WORKED, because neither of the great space races appear to be paying any more attention to "Earth" than normal.

We had so unexpectedly much Slack at the 8X-Day Drill that we stayed at Brushwood an extra night. We returned Dr. Howll to California yesterday via the Cleveland airport, and the Frop-Decadences back to Ft. Worth this afternoon.

There are two CASH BOXES behind me. One came from Rev. Nickie Deathchick's Swag Shop and one came from Rev. Magdalen's Registration Desk. I have not opened them.

I must assemble an Hour of Slack BUT FAST! HOOO-hah! We have the usual godzumptillion digital photos, soundboard recordings of the bands and jams and the hours of "radio" that Dr. Howl and Philo and I did, and something like 9 hours of DV video plus another 5 or 6 hours that Rocknar shot and handed to me.

I will strive to get the Bobbie Award list and the photos posted within a reasonable time. I intend to attempt to edit the 8X-Day footage SOON this time. If nothing else I can probably get a 2-minute VCD mpeg of the teabagging online soon. I LOVE doing this shit, but I have run out of hard drive space until I either get this new supercomputer up and running, or edit the Winterstar DVD and get the master off my drives, and also there were quite a few swag orders that stacked up since June 26, yet the leftover swag is all strewn across the reception room three stories below, so it might be bzzz bzzz bzzz PRABOB PRABOB PRABOB bzzz bzzzz click

To Be Continued