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so: Lucy and I broke up hard in 2003.  i thought we had an on and off ongoing thing, she Changed in that way that people Change sometime...she married a Navy Interrogator, our voting records became completely opposite...we had Broken Up and I was in P-town, Providence, R. I. and so I sold my guitar so that I could drink and smoke.  I almost got a phallic piercing -- just to get Lucy out of my head, or at least to bind my memories of her to harsh, radical pain in my genital unit.  I SHOULD HAVE GOT MY HEART PIERCED! 

didn't do that.  instead, went to the Open Mic last evening that the Rat, the Brown University student center, was open.  they were building a new student center.

IT WAS 2003 AND I WENT GUITARLESS...no stranger to improvized extemporaneous poetry, I went all-out and shared my feelings about the current events of 2003, at that time i was in a deep and meaningful HATE relationship with Dick Cheney and the rest of the DICKS of the Bush Administration.

The kids at the student center loved me.  One of my main jokes is about U-Penn students, and about how Penn is basically an Ivy League "safety school" for kids who couldn't get into Brown.

The Brown kids adored me after the gig and told me that I was a "GOD" and should tour the Ivy League.  So I sort of agreed with them.

Been a performer all my life, but when kids tell you that you are a GOD after performing -- well, I took it to heart rather than let it go to my head like Shivaani, my former lover whom you see pictured here.  She grew up in Massachusetts, but could only get admitted at Penn.  (see above.)  She's very intelligent...but I think that you can't really get a decent education in Philadelphia...think: how many of our American PRESIDENTS have come from there?

(I'll wait while you google that.) anyway, I had many tales of irony, anguish and being at real gen-x postpunk hardcore shows...so i began there, opening up for hardcore acts. i know how to control my tongue, but I do advertise myself like "Uffie" as a rated-x comedian.  i don't have to "go there" for everything i do or say, and don't --

...i continued doing shows with my passable guitar and stories about slogging through the weird, edgy 1990s.  i currently prefer Chelsea Handler, Margaret Cho and Stephen Colbert...but it's my writers' opinion that will get you.

in my writers' opinion?  they claim that it is cyberspace and burgeoning technology that are killing newspapers and print media in general.  while those media ARE actually in decline, it's not because of new advances.

new advances make life BETTER, not worse.  what's really going on is uninspired writing. 

Hunter S. Thompson, one of my several Colorado-based Guardian Angels, called it "flag-sucking."  It's a mentality. 

It goes along with people who never want us Gen-X people

to be "politically correct."  Why should we want to be WRONG?

SO I HAVE SINCE THEN DONE THIS COMEDY AS IF I HAD BEEN FROZEN IN A BLOCK OF ICE SINCE 1992.  Not literally, figuratively...feeling as I do that we Generation X types were disgusted and repulsed, and that tagging us as apathetic was a cowardly attempt at mass hypnosis by Tom Brokaw's generation, and that it basically worked on the kids who were years younger than Winona Ryder and Brad Pitt and Angie Jolie and Jenny McCarthy and Janeane Garafalo and the Notorious CHO and myself, people who wanted an Alternative to the polluting, energy draining and constant compromise that we were offered when we got out of highschool to find out that whoa, "Reality Bites"

I've been booking shows for myself and friends who do stuff that i like since 1989...i like staying young and that means being a part of counterculture, not doing great work just so that i can become part of an industry that has never had the attention span for the deep ideas that we really can represent -- if we are not bamboozled or otherwise bought off by That Monster Industry...

so much of the Great Art of Western Civilization has NOT required that or any industry at all...and i would rather be obscure than be mediocre.  Here, for no seeming reason I include a picture of the Dali House.

Our group, The Design Outlaws, have been involved in making films about sustainability and the new paradigm emergent since Chris Zelov, the senior developer, premiered "Into The Fuller Universe", a breakthrough achievment about the life and vision of one of the most successful, if hard to figure out, inventors of the 20th century, R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller.

Since I was lucky enough to find a mentor like Zelov, I accepted his offer and became the Entertainment Coordinator for our (now) corporation, Knossus Inc.  Specializing in anticipating peoples' future needs as far as design goes, one of our ongoing projects combines, as the credits roll, the common meeting hallness of an espressoria or tea room with the modern intense consciousness of the cybercafe and the overall sense of aestheticism that is an ongoing on- and off-line art gallery.   Chris has the fire in his belly to create Think Tanks where people who enjoy the idea of sustainable futures can get together.

I have booked acts for his soirees, and as such, it has expanded my understanding of performance arts...large grafty industries are the old paradigm.  what matters most as now becomes The Future is human hands and hearts putting real inspiration into projects...projects like "Laughingstock," three days of peace, love and comedy that is being scheduled for the days between The End Of The World and Xmas, 2012...

see you here...or there...

..it's all relative..

"What will happen to The Discordian Society?"

AFTER…

LAUGHINGSTOCK

December 22, 23 &24

2012

3 Days Of Peace, Love and Jokes

in

BOULDER, Colorado

(hint: Live Mice Sit On Us)

with

Brad Wollack – Chelsea Handler – Chuy Bravo – Loni Love – Chris Franjola – Mikal De Valia – Trish Ruggiero – Margaret Cho

and Very Special Guests

Steve Martin – Tina Fey – Robin Quivers

&

Gypsie Skripto & Rev. Ivan STANG and Wei R. Doe, Princess of Space and Freaks Without Borders & Blind Faith

With a Grant from the Church of All Worlds and Nemea Divine Arborvitae & Friends of The Earth and Maureen Elizabeth Johnson Long and PrincipiaDiscordiaDotCom & Robert Anton Wilson courtesy of the Lymph Node Insititute & Spliff Chaser & Your Mother &  Amorah Quan Yin and Maneewan and Mantak Chia and Saint Germaine and Michael Jackson and The Rabbitt and Whiskey Dick and the Three-Pump Dumps & Sabrina The Newage Bitch and Cyberpunky Booster(tentative, scheduled to perform)

FEATURING:

The eTemple of The Screaming Electron & The Fall of the Prime Movers & Samuel R. Delany and Samuel L. Jackson and The Olesen Twins and Jimmy Oleson and Lou Minatti and The New Discordians

With:  Juicy Flawless, Actively Weird, Puzzling Evidence, Reverend Doctor Susie The Floozy (ONE TIME ONLY! MUST FEEL TO BELIEVE!), “Madonner,” Courtly Love, Seven Carbos, Einstein’s Secret Orchestra, The Manicures, The Easy Cure, The Rosicrucians, Bill Blasphemy, and Your Mother

RECENTLY ADDED TO PLAYBILL: The European Community, Plan B, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks, Michael Row The Boat Ashore, Thinking About Horticulture, Zippy The Pinhead (Unconfirmed!), Sinead O’ Connor, The Gabrielles, Unity Cognition (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, Skins For Unity, East Coast Hardcore Syndicate, Kosher Hardcore Syndicate), Writing Is Gay, The Terminator, Hump Day, Reverend Friendly (Tentative, As If Faithful Yet Still Somehow Unsure), Bag Of Wolverines, F. O. R. (Friends Of Rabbitt)

also, we need a new VCR. if you have one to give away (it will be burnt out after the weekend) please contact Black Marques @ this site)

Principia DiscordiaThe Eleusis cult and rituals of tte classical Greeks reflect into the 20th and 21st centuries like the shout against the Apostle Paul/Saul that comes to us from the book of Acts: “Great is Diana of the Ephesians!”  It is pretty obvious that God has a part that is self-willing, feminine and far more honest about reproduction and recreational sexuality than any religion positing that “Gawd” is and can only ever have been Male.

The Thunder: Perfect Mind Sophianic exegesis fits in closely with the view that folks calling themselves “Discordians” have shared that God IS Goddess, and that WORLDLY clerical conspiracies blind most of humanity…this coes along with our worldview that the weapons of the ancient, eternal Gods include Coffee, Duct Tape and Medical Grade Marijuana.  Coexisting in “happy anarchy” remains one of our original and long-held goals, as laid out by one of the original Discordian Popes, the seer and scribe Robert Anton Wilson.   

Eris, the Goddess of Confusion could be to some people only a mascot.  Others see her as a way of understanding the different “Masks of God,” – we have viewed worlds only capable of seeing God as male as being crippled, incomplete worlds, whether those worlds come from Jewish, Christian or Islamic perspectives.   We tend to view such as insane, using history’s many citations of atrocity as our example.

We have our own explanation as to why these “Big Three” corporations of military-industrial strength religion are always at each others’ throats: we figure it’s because they just Don’t Like Girls.

1 Corinthians 5, New Int’l Version

(Saul as uncompassionate JUDGE who counsels JUDGMENT in others.)

“The King James Version of the New Testament was based on a Greek text that was marred by mistakes, containing the accumulated errors of foutrteen centuries of manuscript copying.”

(From the Preface, Rev. Stan. 1980 A. B. S.)

ACTS 9:36

Mentioned: a Disciple:  “Gazelle” in Greek: Tabitha or Dorcas

1 Corinthians 11:13

(PAUL exhorts posterity to JUDGE.  Again and again, the man who teaches “Judge Not!” is rejected and misquoted and BLUDGEONED philosophically by the one who once sought His demise, Saul, the Pharaisee of Tarsus.)

The Unseen Role of DenialWhen it comes to accessing Magic and or miracles, most of us humans are self-consciously in DENIAL.