From: onan@subgenius.com (Onan Canobite)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Reply-To: onan@subgenius.com
Date: Tue, Apr 4, 2000 4:49 PM
Message-ID: <slrn8eklhv.103.onan@shell1.aracnet.com>
Even though we shared a room my trajectories didn't seem to cross
Nickie's very often, but we did have lunch together one day and it was
good to talk shop. We're both blood farmers, I mainly raising them up
and she mainly mowing them down. It was also nice to have Dr. T. there
when [censored] passed out in the common room; Dr. T. laid on hands and
[censored] was healed of horizontality. We only had one death this trip
and they got resurected, so that's pretty good. Some people I didn't
interact with much but everybody seemed as isolated / social as they
wanted to be.
The Duke of Uke was poisoned by an unknowing Conspiracy dupe and
actually died on the operation table but Pope Black was called in and
healed his ass. This allowed him to give his all for Dobbs at the show
on Wednesday.
I got to visit with people I've known more than half my life (Stang
and Sterno), and with people I've known for only a few years (Sis D and
Doc Frop, Joy and Prostata) and made new friends (Zaphod and Aaron and
several more).
The Lemurian contingency was strong in Amsterdam; me, Crawford, Vagina
Jones and the Duke of Uke. We also discovered that there was in
prehistory a land bridge that connected current-day Lemuria with at
least one small part of Germany, where Pope Black now lives. Amsterdam
was a sister nation/continent to Lemuria and was cooler than Lemuria
even in the day, but Lemuria still hella rocks balls. Everybody knows
that.
The show was really good; it was nice to have it be kinda short. I sang
the finest accapella (sp?) SubGenius Anthem I have yet, only to be
outdone by the soon-to-be-released musical accompaniment version.
The "medical" side of the trip was not a problem for this "non-medical"
doktor but I do wonder how it will look on videotape after the fact.
When I was invited to be on a pirate radio station I thought it would be
a little table-top studio in somebody's basement. Instead it was a huge
Szuzalski-inspired zeppelin mooring building that led us to a real
zeppelin for the show itself. Stang and I broadcast over the city on
two (or more?) radio frequencies, online and via television for many
hours. We docked with the Vagina Jones / Pope Black show at one point.
After the yammering, Stang introduced me to a fine fellow whose name I
can't recall but who I'll be proud to say I met some day.
The Van Gogh museum was good: he was one unhappy SubGenius. The
Jungensteil (sp?) exhibit that was in another wing was great and I'm sad
only I saw it. Crawford took me to the History museum, which I was
skeptical about but which turned out to be great. The Red Light
district was just fine; it seemed in context. The Homomonument was very
moving, much more so than I expected it to be. No laffs there. The
architecture and transportation was wonderful, a treat in itself (and
yet there I was with all the SubGenii!).
Amsterdam is a great city. People are friendly and well-dressed, food
is good, all the cars are tiny and there are thousands of bicycles
everywhere. The architecture is wonderful. You can tell this isn't a
sue-happy people: instead of jarring beep-beep-backing-up sounds and
miles of warning tape at a construction site, you're expected to just
walk around it - DUH. I saw about as many lifts for wheelchairs as
you'd see anywhere except Lemuria but it might be tough to get around in
a chair on those old cobblestone roads. Yeah, there's "habifrop
zipulops" for those that want it, and decriminalized prostitution for
those that want it, but even if you don't want those things they don't
stand out as evil or bad-weird... they're just there. It is a slackful
place.
This was the first time I've travelled in a group and I hope to never
travel alone again. It confirmed a progression I've noticed in Church
involvement. The Church starts out as a funny pamphlet or big Web page.
Then it grows connections to a few other 'famous' SubGenii. Then you
actually start meeting Subs, who introduce you to 'non-famous' Subs.
Then you start going to shows or gatherings, and then it 'clicks' that
what started out as an intellectual study or belly laugh has gained the
potential to be frighteningly real. So I'd suggest to any newer or
text-only SubGenius out there that maybe you don't need to fly to
Amsterdam to party with the doktors, and maybe you don't need to make
the Pil-Grim-Age to X-Day at Brushwood, but you DO need to live the
Church. Make it a part of your 'real' life and all the good things you
like about it will be even gooder.
- O.
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Subject: Re: Onansterdam DokStok Report v1.0
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Apr 4, 2000 8:48 PM
Message-ID: <040420002048476090%stang@subgenius.com>
In article <slrn8eklhv.103.onan@shell1.aracnet.com>, Onan Canobite
<onan@subgenius.com> wrote:
> Even though we shared a room my trajectories didn't seem to cross
> Nickie's very often, but we did have lunch together one day and it was
> good to talk shop. We're both blood farmers, I mainly raising them up
> and she mainly mowing them down. It was also nice to have Dr. T. there
> when [censored] passed out in the common room; Dr. T. laid on hands and
> [censored] was healed of horizontality.
Now all we need is a LAWYER on these trips and we can be just like
Hunter S. Thompson.
> Amsterdam
> was a sister nation/continent to Lemuria and was cooler than Lemuria
> even in the day, but Lemuria still hella rocks balls. Everybody knows
> that.
"L"
>
> The show was really good; it was nice to have it be kinda short. I sang
> the finest accapella (sp?) SubGenius Anthem I have yet, only to be
> outdone by the soon-to-be-released musical accompaniment version.
Sterno and I were standing backstage singing along, wondering what the
long lost guy who wrote that song would think to hear it under those
circumstances. I know what *I* thought. I thought, well hell, I dunno
WHAT I thought. It makes me try to think about my own brain and you
know you just can't do that.
>
> The "medical" side of the trip was not a problem for this "non-medical"
> doktor but I do wonder how it will look on videotape after the fact.
Can't tell, the camera work's too shaky and out of focus!
>
> When I was invited to be on a pirate radio station I thought it would be
> a little table-top studio in somebody's basement.
Like the Hour of Slack in Tarzan's Radio Station, or Gadgeto?
Instead it was a huge
> Szuzalski-inspired zeppelin mooring building that led us to a real
> zeppelin for the show itself. Stang and I broadcast over the city on
> two (or more?) radio frequencies, online and via television for many
> hours. We docked with the Vagina Jones / Pope Black show at one point.
> After the yammering, Stang introduced me to a fine fellow whose name I
> can't recall but who I'll be proud to say I met some day.
That was Willem de Ridder, the Johnny Fropseed of Hollandian marijuana
laws. I think it's "www.deridder.com"
>
>You can tell this isn't a
> sue-happy people: instead of jarring beep-beep-backing-up sounds and
> miles of warning tape at a construction site, you're expected to just
> walk around it - DUH.
That's the kind of thing that makes me want to move there. THEY DON'T
TREAT YOU LIKE A DUMBSHIT!!! The very CLERKS THEMSELVES act FIRST like
you have half a brain and only LATER treat you like a dumbshit, AFTER
you've proved yourself to be one. The common denominator seems to be
MUCH HIGHER. Of course, we were in the nicest neighborhoods in town...
> This was the first time I've travelled in a group and I hope to never
> travel alone again. It confirmed a progression I've noticed in Church
> involvement. The Church starts out as a funny pamphlet or big Web page.
> Then it grows connections to a few other 'famous' SubGenii. Then you
> actually start meeting Subs, who introduce you to 'non-famous' Subs.
> Then you start going to shows or gatherings, and then it 'clicks' that
> what started out as an intellectual study or belly laugh has gained the
> potential to be frighteningly real. So I'd suggest to any newer or
> text-only SubGenius out there that maybe you don't need to fly to
> Amsterdam to party with the doktors, and maybe you don't need to make
> the Pil-Grim-Age to X-Day at Brushwood, but you DO need to live the
> Church. Make it a part of your 'real' life and all the good things you
> like about it will be even gooder.
Yeah, I'm more interested in the "real"-"life" Church of the SubGenius
these days. Since we can't NECESSARILY trust Dobbs TOTALLY, exactly, we
may have to depend on each other sometimes. For all we know, that in
itself might be part of the "teaching" of the Two Year Late X-Day.
Nah.
Although maybe the Delay of X-Day was Dobbs' way of telling us, "DON'T
TAKE THE OTHER HALF."
Hmmm. Delay, X-Day. X-Delay.
NAH!!
The obvious answer is, "MOVE TO AMSTERDAM, *TOO,* JUST IN CASE!!"
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Subject: Re: Onansterdam DokStok Report v1.0
From: Legume <legume@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Apr 4, 2000 10:53 PM
Message-ID: <38EAAA9B.101A@subgenius.com>
Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
> Yeah, I'm more interested in the "real"-"life" Church of the SubGenius
> these days. Since we can't NECESSARILY trust Dobbs TOTALLY, exactly, we
> may have to depend on each other sometimes. For all we know, that in
> itself might be part of the "teaching" of the Two Year Late X-Day.
Rock.
Stick.
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Subject: Re: Onansterdam DokStok Report v1.0
From: nickie@subgenius.com
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Apr 5, 2000 1:46 AM
Message-ID: <8cejuv$rpk$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
In article <040420002048476090%stang@subgenius.com>,
"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote:
>
> Although maybe the Delay of X-Day was Dobbs' way of telling us, "DON'T
> TAKE THE OTHER HALF."
>
> Hmmm. Delay, X-Day. X-Delay.
>
> NAH!!
Oh, yeah, baby. I DID take the other half! I didn't get the message
until it was TOO LATE! Now, I'll never be the same, praise "Bob."
-Rev. Nickie
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Subject: Re: Onansterdam DokStok Report v1.0
From: prostata@bronze.coil.com (Rev. Prostata Cantata)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Apr 5, 2000 3:35 PM
Message-ID: <8cg4h9$bik$1@news.concourse.com>
In article <slrn8eklhv.103.onan@shell1.aracnet.com>,
Onan Canobite <onan@subgenius.com> wrote:
>
>This was the first time I've travelled in a group and I hope to never
>travel alone again. It confirmed a progression I've noticed in Church
>involvement. The Church starts out as a funny pamphlet or big Web page.
>Then it grows connections to a few other 'famous' SubGenii. Then you
>actually start meeting Subs, who introduce you to 'non-famous' Subs.
>Then you start going to shows or gatherings, and then it 'clicks' that
>what started out as an intellectual study or belly laugh has gained the
>potential to be frighteningly real. So I'd suggest to any newer or
>text-only SubGenius out there that maybe you don't need to fly to
>Amsterdam to party with the doktors, and maybe you don't need to make
>the Pil-Grim-Age to X-Day at Brushwood, but you DO need to live the
>Church. Make it a part of your 'real' life and all the good things you
>like about it will be even gooder.
>
AMEN brother Onan!
An excelent point, and very well stated.
The trip to Amsterdam was MUCH better with all of you then it
would have been with just Joy and Myself. I had also never gone anywhere
with a group before, and had no idea what to expect since I barely knew
most of you, but what actually happened was way more fun than I had dared
to imagine.
Perhaps it's just coincidence that when I started taking the concepts of
slack seriously that my life improved in many ways almost overnight.
That was years ago. It was only recently that I actually showed up
at any actual church events or gatherings, as I'm a VERY anti-social
bastard and just don't work or play well with others.
So you're right, you don't NEED to go to X-day at brushwood, and
you don't NEED to hang out with anyone, just LIVE. But while that is very
true, anyone who had not shown up to a church event should probably do so
at least once! As I found out, it's really worth it.
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Subject: Re: Onansterdam DokStok Report v1.0
From: Popess Lilith von Fraumench <lilith@ZubJenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Apr 6, 2000 9:25 AM
Message-ID: <060420000625299994%lilith@ZubJenius.com>
In article <slrn8eklhv.103.onan@shell1.aracnet.com>, Onan Canobite
<onan@subgenius.com> wrote:
> So I'd suggest to any newer or
> text-only SubGenius out there that maybe you don't need to fly to
> Amsterdam to party with the doktors, and maybe you don't need to make
> the Pil-Grim-Age to X-Day at Brushwood, but you DO need to live the
> Church. Make it a part of your 'real' life and all the good things you
> like about it will be even gooder.
ONAN GETS IT.
What's YOUR excuse?
The Prophet Lilith
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