SubGenius News - Pre-Xistlessnessmess 2009

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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!

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!

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

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GETTING RID OF THE ADS AND ASSES OF ALT.SLACK

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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