Now here's another one of those "coincidences." Our devival's competition that night, the other wild, weird and wacky show in town, "The Cyber Ball" or something like that, a ten year SF tradition which everybody dresses up in costumes and takes magic mushrooms for, WAS SHUT DOWN BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AT THE BEHEST OF THE OFFENDED YOUNG RICH DOT-COMMERS WHO HAVE TAKEN OVER THE CITY.

Which was a BUMMER for the San Franciscans... a final spadeful of grave-dirt heaped on the coffin of Olde Weird San Francisco, now smothered by the mindless, soul-rotting "gentrification" that comes with the modern gold-dot-com rush in Northern California.

But what a LUCKY BREAK for THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS SF DEVIVAL! All those costumed mutants who had gotten all hopped up for the Cyber Ball ended up coming to the Justice League where, as much to my surprise as theirs, they were treated to an EXCELLENT SUBGENIUS DEVIVAL!

Excellent because it was NOT TYPICAL. It was SHORT, there was ONE BAND, 1 barker/pimp/game show host, 1 Preacher, a Giant Flaming Dobbshead Oracle and 3 Sideshow Marvels, and it all LOOKED and WORKED GREAT.

Funny how, no matter how exhaustedly pissy and peevish and headachey you are, when you are FORCED to step out there in front of those thousand primate eyeballs all glaring directly at YOU, why, it's just AMAZING how you'll "SNAP TO".

Dr.Howll starts the show:

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