Comments on: RAW Week: Pope Bob Remembrance, by Rev. Ivan Stang http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 13:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: pKp http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1321206 pKp Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1321206 Seconded. Make it RAW Year while you're at it. Seconded. Make it RAW Year while you’re at it.

]]> By: Jay Kinney http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1321155 Jay Kinney Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1321155 Funny. When I bought a used copy of Cosmic Trigger many years ago, the price after tax also came to $6.66. Or at least that's my memory of the event. Funny. When I bought a used copy of Cosmic Trigger many years ago, the price after tax also came to $6.66. Or at least that’s my memory of the event.

]]> By: TheOmbudsman http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1321130 TheOmbudsman Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1321130 I and some friends were the numbskulls behind PhenomiCon in Atlanta back in 91/92. For our first con, we all knew we had to get RAW to attend, and no thanks to some hurdles placed in our path by an unsavory character who ran another much larger con in town, we got in touch with RAW and he and his wife came out for what has to be one of, if not the, most surreal weekends of my life. I still remember him going on about pineal glands at one point. I do feel the need to point out that the video linked in the article above, with the Swingin' Love Corpses, was shot at our 1992 con - RAW was our GoH at the 1991 con (Stang was at both). Rev. Stang, good bumping into you (with Suzie the Floozie) in that elevator at DragonCon a couple of years back! I and some friends were the numbskulls behind PhenomiCon in Atlanta back in 91/92. For our first con, we all knew we had to get RAW to attend, and no thanks to some hurdles placed in our path by an unsavory character who ran another much larger con in town, we got in touch with RAW and he and his wife came out for what has to be one of, if not the, most surreal weekends of my life. I still remember him going on about pineal glands at one point.

I do feel the need to point out that the video linked in the article above, with the Swingin’ Love Corpses, was shot at our 1992 con – RAW was our GoH at the 1991 con (Stang was at both).

Rev. Stang, good bumping into you (with Suzie the Floozie) in that elevator at DragonCon a couple of years back!

]]> By: Michael Collins http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1321120 Michael Collins Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1321120 Praise Bob. Praise Bob.

]]> By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1321115 Cowicide Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1321115 Can we please extend this to RAW <b>Month</b>?  A week is too short. Can we please extend this to RAW Month?  A week is too short.

]]> By: Chuck http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1321099 Chuck Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1321099 Regarding the mischief on alt.slack -- I kind of perceived "The Mgt/Mgmt/Management" as more than one person, partly because I'd made a few "The Management" posts myself in either alt.slack, alt.discordia, or some other forums after I'd gone elsewhere.  For me, the game with "The Mgt" seemed like a good exercise in figuring out how easy it is to make unreasonable rules. I find it very amusing that RAW was involved. Regarding the mischief on alt.slack — I kind of perceived “The Mgt/Mgmt/Management” as more than one person, partly because I’d made a few “The Management” posts myself in either alt.slack, alt.discordia, or some other forums after I’d gone elsewhere.  For me, the game with “The Mgt” seemed like a good exercise in figuring out how easy it is to make unreasonable rules. I find it very amusing that RAW was involved.

]]> By: Pat Bruns http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1321081 Pat Bruns Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1321081 Bob gave me Bucky Fuller, (real, not bullshit business) synchronicity,Sufism, Tim Leary,John Lilly, quantum mechanics, neuropolitics, and a coping mechanism that just won't quit. Shortly before he left, Bob posted " I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. "  Wow. I think that Kurt Vonnegut and Bob are up in heaven now. Bob gave me Bucky Fuller, (real, not bullshit business) synchronicity,Sufism, Tim Leary,John Lilly, quantum mechanics, neuropolitics, and a coping mechanism that just won’t quit.

Shortly before he left, Bob posted “ I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. ” 
Wow.

I think that Kurt Vonnegut and Bob are up in heaven now.

]]> By: Genre Slur http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320965 Genre Slur Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320965 BOB+RAW=++WOW BOB+RAW=++WOW

]]> By: Victor Abad http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320962 Victor Abad Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320962 discordian poem machine by oddcity. (push F5 for a new one) http://oddcity.net/ultimadiscordia/   discordian poem machine by oddcity.
(push F5 for a new one)

http://oddcity.net/ultimadiscordia/
 

]]> By: dok zirroneous http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320896 dok zirroneous Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320896 Were it not for the late Pope Bob, and later the Rev. Stang, I may never have made heads or tails of a very confusing and signifying incident in my early teens, wherein I was drugged and kidnapped by J.R. "Bob" Dobbs himself, to be transdermally i.d. tagged for future use as human currency in the great war against the conspiracy of normalcy. I would have likely catalogued the event as some kind of alien abduction phenomenon, or even worse, kept the experience repressed and gone on to buy a minivan. Praise Stang and Praise Bob and Praise "Bob"!!! SLACK! dok z Were it not for the late Pope Bob, and later the Rev. Stang, I may never have made heads or tails of a very confusing and signifying incident in my early teens, wherein I was drugged and kidnapped by J.R. “Bob” Dobbs himself, to be transdermally i.d. tagged for future use as human currency in the great war against the conspiracy of normalcy. I would have likely catalogued the event as some kind of alien abduction phenomenon, or even worse, kept the experience repressed and gone on to buy a minivan. Praise Stang and Praise Bob and Praise “Bob”!!!

SLACK!
dok z

]]> By: Senor Schaffer http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320805 Senor Schaffer Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320805 ITT: A bunch of pinks.  ITT: A bunch of pinks. 

]]> By: Ian Wood http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320781 Ian Wood Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320781 By: Ender Wiggin http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320754 Ender Wiggin Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320754 Hail Eris, Eternal Discordia! Hail Eris, Eternal Discordia!

]]> By: JIMWICh http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320746 JIMWICh Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320746 Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii Eeyii

]]> By: Freddie Freelance http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320722 Freddie Freelance Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320722 As the one true and original Pope let me state that RAW is the one true and original Pope, and I'm sure that Ivan Stang, as the one true and original Pope, will agree with me. As the one true and original Pope let me state that RAW is the one true and original Pope, and I’m sure that Ivan Stang, as the one true and original Pope, will agree with me.

]]> By: Cudgel Clever http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320718 Cudgel Clever Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320718 He will be missed. Already is. He will be missed. Already is.

]]> By: Randy Walters http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320713 Randy Walters Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320713 Holy moley! What a week it's been. I'm so grateful for Rev. Stang's work, and for this piece. Talk about collision of the galaxies...  We need RAW and "Bob" more than ever – the perfect counter-measure to the clown-car of Republican candidates, and every other clueless pol working to increase the state of entropy in human society. Holy moley! What a week it’s been. I’m so grateful for Rev. Stang’s work, and for this piece. Talk about collision of the galaxies… 

We need RAW and “Bob” more than ever – the perfect counter-measure to the clown-car of Republican candidates, and every other clueless pol working to increase the state of entropy in human society.

]]> By: Gary Singh http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320712 Gary Singh Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320712 Still disappointed that I never got a chance to meet him, even though he was just down the freeway a bit. I did, however, recently purchase a replacement copy of Cosmic Trigger from Amazon and the total came out to $6.66. I have since forwarded the image all over the world, as Bob might have wanted. Still disappointed that I never got a chance to meet him, even though he was just down the freeway a bit. I did, however, recently purchase a replacement copy of Cosmic Trigger from Amazon and the total came out to $6.66. I have since forwarded the image all over the world, as Bob might have wanted.

]]> By: pahool http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320697 pahool Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320697 Robert Anton Wilson and the Church of the Subgenius have been a life support system for me since my teens. I may not have made it to (or through) my twenties without both of them. Praise Bob and "Bob"! And praise Rev. Stang! Robert Anton Wilson and the Church of the Subgenius have been a life support system for me since my teens. I may not have made it to (or through) my twenties without both of them. Praise Bob and “Bob”! And praise Rev. Stang!

]]> By: Frank W http://boingboing.net/2012/01/15/raw-week-pope-bob-remembrance.html#comment-1320689 Frank W Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=138475#comment-1320689 Praise Saint Bob! Oh, and praise "Bob", for good measure. Praise Saint Bob! Oh, and praise “Bob”, for good measure.

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