Subject: Oldest Known TV News Item on SubGenius

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.slack
Date: Sun, Apr 20, 2003 12:53 AM

The CBS affiliate in Dallas did this report on us in 1980. Yes, 1980.
This copy is from a VHS of the Betamax original, taped off the air.

It's now a VCD-ready MPEG (18 mb) that has been turned into two RAR
volumes with PARs. Use WinRAR or MacPAR to decode, then it'll play on
any computer or on a DVD player after being burned to a CDR.

Yes, Dallasites, that's Clarice Tinsley and Chip Moody.

Filmed at I think the second of about 4 or 5 little tiny devivals that
Buck Naked held at his apartment in Oak Lawn on Gilbert Street. Buck is
the Snuffy Smith looking character with the overalls. He disavowed the
Church in the 90s and supposedly got some variant of Christian religion
elsewhere.

The redheaded girl that you see on the far left at the end of the pan
across the congregation (at 32 seconds in) is Marian Henley, who draws
the weekly comic strip "Maxine."

The Book of the SubGenius didn't come out until 1983, so we are viewed
as a local curiosity, which if you don't count "Bob's" pals on the
Council of Foriegn Relations and the Trilateral Commission at the time
(and the John Birch Society), is all the Church was at that time.

What they cut from my comment at the end was that although it ACTED
like it was gonna make me rich, I didn't seriously expect that that
would necessarily happen.

At the end Chip Moody says, (refering to me, which is weird because I
am not named), "Doug's been standing out in the sun too long, I think."
The day that was aired, I had in fact been standing out in the sun too
long, and had suffered a mild heatstroke. I was working as a fucking
MIME in CLOWN WHITEFACE and a TUX, delivering balloons to sick people,
for a rip-off novelty firm, and my car had broken down from the heat.
Right in front of the Salvation Army, downtown. I'll never forget the
Fellini like situation I was in that day, with Bozo whiteface and a
tux, holding these fucking balloons while I tried to call a tow truck,
and these poor old Salvation Army bums, loaf-around-the-forts, begging.
BEGGING for a BALLOON. "Please, sir... please... jes' ONE BALLOON..."

The Church of the SubGenius has, actually, never stopped ACTING like it
is gonna make me rich. But, you know that "Bob." He's a hell of a
salesman. And you know those SubGenius Sacred Scribes. They're... below
geniuses.

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Original file name: Oldest Known TV News Item on SE - converted on Monday, 21 July 2003, 13:44