Today's Topics:
Bob in fiction, volume 8223792, part .03
The Devival You Missed
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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 91 18:38:25 EST
From: drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9103022338.AA02479@nevanlinna>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject:
800/424-9090. White House Press Office Radio Actualities line.
Technical note: 800/424-xxxx was previously restricted to the WDC area,
before the widespread use of ESS switches.. ah, those were the days, when
you could call without fear of being caught. I think I stumbled upon this
number 6 years ago; I haven't seen it anywhere else.
Details? How can a number be restricted because ESS's aren't common?
Dale
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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 91 20:24 EST
From: AF 6D FE 12 CD AC DC FB 18 99 <BARRSTEV%UNCG.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Bob in fiction, volume 8223792, part .03
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Message-id: <AFAAFA69053F202027@uncg.bitnet>
[...]
...icons from the post-Acid House era: Timothy Leary ascending into heaven,
riding a floppy disk like a flying saucer; William Burroughs and Laurie
Anderson waltzing through a concentration camp while the starveling camp
victims played Strauss on orchestral instruments; Kotzwinkle shooting
skull-shaped dice with William Gibson; Bob Black and the minimono star Calais
chained to Stephen Hawkings' wheelchair; the American guru Da Free John with an
arm growing from his forehead, arm wrestling with an arm growing from the
forehead of Rick Crandall; Robert Heinlein goose-stepping with Adolf Hitler and
Le Pen; Rickenharp falling into the rubble of the collapsing Arc de Triomphe;
Ivan Stang adding twentieth-century paper money to the flames under the stake
on which a grinning J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is being burned alive; David Bowie eaten
cannibalistically by a demon horde of twenty-first century pop stars; Buddha
making love to Mrs. Bester, the President of the United States. [...]
_Eclipse Corona_, by John Shirley ISBN 0-445-20510-5
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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 91 00:14:49 CST
Message-Id: <9103020614.AA03280@track29.UUCP>
From: Charles Forsythe <track29!forsythe@utacfd.uta.edu>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: The Devival You Missed
On February 9th, Pastor Buck Naked and the First Naked Church of the
SubGenius hosted The Big Slack Attack Schizmatic Devival here in
Dallas.
Ranters, Unorthodoks and Schizmatic Subs came from exotic and far-
reaching locations such as Oklahoma City just to join the festivities
at Dave's Art Pawn Shop Cafe in trendy Deep Ellum.
Selected Highlights:
- Musical numbers by Buck and the Tow Trucks including
`Wirehead Conspiracy', `Drinkin' Budweiser and Watchin'
"Bob" on TV' and `"Bob" is Leading Me'.
- Reverend Rabii Schwa and his expose on the International
Coffee Conspiracy. "Why are they always secretly replacing our
coffee with Folger's Crystals?" Indeed.
- Dr. Trixter S. Shaman pegged the needle on the Discord-O-Meter
with his line,"WE are the MASTER RACE that Hitler spoke of in
the BIBLE!"
- Reverend 3.0 brought the house to a screaming fever pitch when he
hacked an effige of TV Evangelist Robert Tilton to tiny bits. With
a machette.
About 300 people showed up.
Incredibly cool poster art depicting a "Bob"-burger (suitable for eating
the hell out of) was placed on a T-Shirt and put on $ale for $15 a piece.
There are still some left so if you want to claim you were there to all your
hip-wimp bobbie friends, you can get one from:
Weeping Cyclops Insignia
P.O. Box 595148
Dallas, TX 75359-5148
(and other cool shit, too)
Slack!
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| Charles Forsythe forsythe@track29.lonestar.org |
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