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Reverend Stang
Reverend Stang

Rev. Ivan Stang (born Douglass St. Clair Smith August 21, 1953 in Washington, D.C., raised in Fort Worth, Texas) is the author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas and the seventeenth-largest city in the United States. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created The Church of the SubGenius is a religious group that satirizes Religion, Conspiracy theory, UFOs and Popular culture. He is credited with founding the Church along with his pal Philo Drummond in 1979, though Stang himself denies this and claims the organization was founded in 1953 by J. R. "Bob" Dobbs. J R "Bob" Dobbs is the figurehead of the Church of the SubGenius. Since the publication of the first SubGenius pamphlet in 1980, Stang has embarked on a worldwide crusade (spanning at least three continents) to promote the Church. In May 2006 he finished writing, editing and designing a new SubGenius book for Thunder's Mouth Press, The SubGenius Psychlopaedia of Slack: The Bobliographon. He has appeared on several national radio and television shows, including the The Jon Stewart Show on MTV. The Jon Stewart Show was a short-lived Talk show hosted by Comedian Jon Stewart on MTV. MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City. Stang is an instructor on the faculty of the Maybe Logic Academy. Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 &ndash January 11, 2007) was an American [1] Both he and J. R. "Bob" Dobbs appear as characters in John Shirley's science fiction novel Kamus of Kadizar: The Black Hole of Carcosa. John Patrick Shirley (born February 10, 1953) is an American Science fiction and horror writer of Novels short stories

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SubGenius Foundation

Stang also founded the business entity of the Church, the SubGenius Foundation. The SubGenius Foundation was located in Dallas, Texas for most of its life, though in 1999 Stang himself relocated to Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Cleveland Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The SubGenius Foundation is now based there, and the syndicated show The Hour of Slack is produced partially at WCSB at Cleveland State University. The Hour of Slack is a one-hour radio program produced by the Church of the SubGenius. Cleveland State University ( abbr CSU) is a Public university located in Cleveland Ohio. His "Rants" are a regular feature at the Starwood Festival[2] and WinterStar Symposium[3], both produced by the Association for Consciousness Exploration (ACE). The Starwood Festival is a six-day Neo-Pagan, New Age and multi-cultural festival presented in mid- to late July currently in Sherman New York. The Association for Consciousness Exploration LLC (ACE is an American organization based in Northeastern Ohio which produces events books and recorded media in the fields The Church has collaborated with ACE on a number of projects, including CDs, DVDs and the Rant 'n Rave events in Cleveland, OH. He was awarded Best Crack-Pot Preacher by the Cleveland Scene in 2000. [4] Stang himself continues to promote the Church, and he is a prominent member of Cleveland's underground pop culture scene.

High Weirdness By Mail

In 1988, Stang compiled a book called High Weirdness By Mail - A Directory of the Fringe: Crackpots, Kooks & True Visionaries. High Weirdness by Mail, by Ivan Stang (ISBN 0-671-64260-X is a 1988 book dedicated to an examination of "weird culture" by actually putting the reader in The book examined many non-mainstream or marginal cultural movements of the period, as well as providing contact information for those wishing to interact directly with those driving these movements. The modern offshoot of High Weirdness By Mail is "The High Weirdness Project"[5], which is part of the Subgenius wiki. [6]

Filmmaking

Stang is a filmmaker and editor. In addition to creating several stop-motion short films with such titles as The Reproduction Cycle of Martian Peen Worms and Let's Visit the World of the Future, he also edited the 1989 feature-length VHS video spoof-documentary Arise! for the Church of the SubGenius, as well as providing narration and commentary for the 1999 documentary Grass. Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) animation is an Animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own Commercial jobs have included a 60-second "Art Break" animated short for MTV, animation in DEVO music videos, as well as writing and editing the feature length documentaries China Run and The Cu-Chi Tunnels. MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City. Devo (pronounced DEE-vo (IPA /'diːvoʊ/) or dee-VO (IPA /diː'voʊ/) often spelled "DEVO" or "DEV-O" is an American

Notes

  1. ^ Maybe Logic Academy
  2. ^ Witchvox article on Starwood
  3. ^ WinterStar 2001 Slackathon: Exhausting!!, article by Rev. Ivan Stang
  4. ^ "Best Crack-Pot Preacher of 2000", Cleveland Scene
  5. ^ The High Weirdness Project
  6. ^ Subgenius wiki

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