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Subgenius School

For those of you interested in such things, my personal clergyman Rev. Ivan Stang will again be teaching his online course on the history of the Church of Subgenius. This allows the students to download huge amounts of Subgenius media, audio and video and text. Even better, you are given the opportunity to create your own cult for fun and profit. What’s the Church of the Subgenius without a little schism action? At $135 course isn’t so much more expensive than a continuing education course at a college. I think I paid a similar amount for my Spanish course in Evanston IL, and unlike Spanish the Church is something that no matter how hard you work will never be decipherable.

I’m thinking about taking the course. If I create my cult, it will be quite something I’m sure.

Practicum in Cult Creation

It’s already started, but my spiritual leader Rev. Ivan Stang is teaching an online practical course in how create and run a cult. I love this bit from the course description:

This course is really Volume Two of The Subgenius Psychlopaedia of Slack: The Bobliographon, a new SubGenius book from Thunder’s Mouth Press which will be in stores by November. This material — basically a behind-the scenes history of The Church of the SubGenius and an investigation into the nature of belief — requires way too much multimedia to work as just a book. But it’s perfect for an 8-week online course.

At the end of the course, students will have designed and developed their own religious cult to the point of marketability.

I have no problem with plunking down $95 for such a thing but I really don’t have any extra time to devote to it. It sounds like fun, especially since you get access to exclusive Subgenius multimedia. Fun stuff.

EGC Clambake For March 28, 2006

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for March 28, 2006.

On this show, I play a song by the late Nikki Sudden; I go ahead and run the table on our interview with Reverend Ivan Stang of the Church of the Subgenius, playing that for the remainder of the show. Refusing to break this up any more is me trying to increase my slack.

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EGC Clambake For March 20, 2006

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for March 20, 2006.

On this show, I play a song by Coconut Monkeyrocket; we have the first part of our talk with the Reverend Ivan Stang of the Church of the Subgenius; I play a song by Exene Cervenka and the Original Sinners; I talk about the spirit of punk and the idea of “that ain’t punk” and from there segue into discussing criticism with words where a little action would do better; I play an unreleased track from Jill Sobule and limp out of the show.