This blog post was originally published September 18, 2018 on John Law’s personal blog. These photos were a re-creation of the final shoot out on an abandoned ship to shore fueling platform on a dead end street on Islais Creek just south of the intersection of Marin and Illinois Sts. The Suicide Club (1977-1982) would host…
Carrie Galbraith (1956-2018), Creator of the Cacophony Society ‘Zone Trip’
This blog post was originally published January 25, 2018 on John Law’s personal blog. Carrie at the 1st Atomic Cafe 1989 “Oh Death, where is thy sting?” This was the quote from Corinthians that was chosen out of dozens suggested by the 40 people crammed into Gary Warne’s Circus of the Soul bookstore on Judah…
New Life for the San Francisco Bay Area’s Mothball Fleet on Mare Island
photo via USS Hassayampa My friends Max and Josh Hunter at Western Dovetail have an amazing view of one of the most interesting events occurring in the Bay Area for the next several months. Max launched the new Drydock Blog sharing their unique vantage point on this amazing project with the world via a webcam…
Hats are Back at Paul’s Hat Works in San Francisco
Any fool knows that cool, smart guys wear hats in the rain. James Cagney as Tom Powers in The Public Enemy For a hot sunny day, a breezy panama is just the ticket for a steely gentleman. Sean Connery in Louis Vuitton ad When I first moved to San Francisco in 1976, as a 17…
Memorial Gathering for San Francisco Suicide Club Co-Founder David Warren (1935-2009)
photo by unknown Surviving members of the San Francisco Suicide Club are hosting a memorial event for co-founder David T. Warren (AKA: R.J. Mololopozy, Irving Glikk, Flammo LeGrande, etc.,) from 2-7pm on Saturday January 2nd, 2010 at Playland-Not-At-The-Beach in El Cerrito, CA. David Warren died in a East Bay hospital on January 2, 2009. This…
Goodbye To Tom Kennedy: Art Car Artist, Activist, Teacher & Prankster
photo by J. A. Ellingson We lost one of our very best. Tom Kennedy (1960-2009) drowned at Ocean Beach on Sunday, April 12th at 2PM. Tom was an artist, activist, teacher, prankster – a strong friend, bright spirit and true inspiration to each and every of the thousands of people he touched through his powerful…
Puzzling Evidence Releases His Video Archives To The World
guest post by John Law Church of the Sub-Genius High Priest (REALLY high!) and KPFA radio personality Doug Wellman or “Puzzling Evidence” as he’s known of to cultists and the power elite, has been posting edited videos from his backlog of tens of thousands of hours of the weirdest and most ridiculous events to take…
Bronx Flavor, A Video Encyclopedia of Fabulous Food & Culinary Excess
My friend Justin Fornal or Baron Ambrosia as he is known of to the gourmands and gangsters of The Bronx, NY is a walking breathing action figure. When he’s not filming sword battles by space alien pirates on the very top of the towers of some of NYC’s greatest bridge spans or saving damsels in…