Last night at Mikl & Danielle’s annual Christmas party, renown SubGenii Michael Peppe channeled People’s Temple founder Jim Jones from their backyard as a dry run of a performance that he was doing later that night at the First Satanic Church’s Black X Mass hosted by Karla LaVey (daughter of Anton LaVey) at the Elbo Room in San Francisco.
When Michael first arrived at the party he was telling me about his Jim Jones gig and the research he was doing for it. During our discussion I reminded him that it was not Kool-Aid that they were forced to drink in Jonestown, but rather the less popular Flavor Aid, a common misconception.
photo by Scott Beale
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Thank you for the Kool-Aid correction….that makes me crazy.
The speech involves a fair amount of back and forth and discussion– did they have someone set to play the woman who questions Jim?
..and yes- the Kool Aid vs. Flavor Aid correction is always appreciated.
the morons talking in the background sucked
On the one hand, it would make sense that people would use the semi-genericised brand name Kool-Aid by mistake and it would also make sense that the Jonestown people would save money by using a cheaper (or more available brand.
On the other hand, the Flavor-Aid postulate is just what the people at Kraft/Kool Aid would want you to think.
http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/food/kool-aid-faq.html
And here’s the kicker: There’s video around of Jim Jones giving an interview at Jonestown with three giant bags (or cases or whatever) of Kool-Aid visible over his left shoulder. I knows. I seen it.
So if they had both products at Jonestown, it doesn’t really seem knowable whether one the other or both were used. Based on what I’ve seen…
Michael Pepe rocks my sox
Hey Peppe! OHHHHYEAHHHHHHHHH!!!
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