Subject: I, SPAZZ

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Fri, Sep 20, 2002 9:25 PM

I AM A SPAZZ

I finally got a ton of email answered, immediate swaggartly chores
done, unseemly nonChurchly mundanities accomplished, phone calls made,
bee hives insectocided, and deadlines postponed, and then finally got
down to finally uploading these "online Fist" art & articles to SubSITE
-- only to be faced with an amount of NEW stuff that has NOT been
prepped, an amount greater than what I was about to tweakify and
upload! I WAS STRICKEN, AND COULD NOT TURN AWAY!!!

I AM A *SPAZZ*!!

How the FUCK did I think I was just gonna up and get all this bullshit
done?!? All the newsgroup cullings since LAST XMAS?!?!? Was I just
hiding my head in the sand, pretending, "Oh, if I simply do these
things on this list step by step, one day at a time, why, I bet I'll
find they've been MAGICALLY accomplished, in no time!" WHAT A FUCKING
SPAZZ!! A regular walking spazz ATTACK.

BUT YET, it is VELLLLY INTELLESTING, the all-day skimming of 200 or so
somewhat pre-edited past alt.slack best-ofs and beat-offs.

Whenever I start organizing and compartmentalizing my saved alt.slack
posts, every 6 months or so, I have to create slightly different sets
of categories. For instance, here are this batch's categories:

Actual SubGenius-Related Articles
Bulldada movies, books etc
Dear-SubG-Answer-Thing
Devivals
hate-kooks
Legume Art Antics
misc.a-s
news
sex
sub-history
War
Immediate Church News
New Holy Goods

That folder marked "hate-kooks" contains by far the most interesting
and entertaining materials this time around.

By contrast, here are the cateories from last batch, which have been
prepped by Temujin, Two Beans, and Rev. Phloighd::

Horrible News
Misc. Alt.Slack Nonsense
Science
Articles
sub-historical
rants
Obits
Dear Subgenus Answer Thing
War
Websites

These categories haven't been renewed since last year:
Stang Reports
Tales

It is actually a lot of fun to pore through this stuff at high speed.
Unfortunately, what's called for is the low speed stark fingers of
Removal -- the somewhat careful deleting of the headers and reprinted
crap. Still, it's fun to relive vast stretches of a.s., acres of pain
and evil yuks, without any pauses between the monologs. So it almost
reads like a dialog, or the transcript of a party full of crowded
drunks.

Which very thing I had occasion to OCR recently -- a transcription of a
tape of a drunken party of my high school friends, recorded on a
1971-72 New Year's Eve. Talk about a terrifying trip into the retarded
past. Weird thing, though -- parts of it, especially my own all too
typical contributions to the drunken conversation, reads frighteningly
like a modern Sunday night SubGenius IRC devival.

((shiver))

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