Avatars of Slack, SubGenius Book Release at City Lights

Church of the SubGenius

Sunday night, after the St. Stupid’s Day Parade, there will be monumental Church of the SubGenius literary convergence at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco.

“Avatars of Slack” celebrates the release of the Church of the SubGenius books “The SubGenius Psychlopedia of Slack, Vol. 1: The Bobliographon” & “Revelation X: The ‘Bob’Apocryphon”, as well as Hal Robbins’ books “Dinosaur Alphabet” & “The Meaning of Lost and Mismatched Socks”. SubGenii in attendance will include Dr. Howland Owll, Dr. Philo Drummond, Puzzling Evidence, Bishop Joey another others.

Avatars of Slack

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

07:00 PM – 09:00 PM

@ City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Avenue
SF, CA 94133

This Event is Free

City Lights & The Church Of The Subgenius present
AVATARS OF SLACK!
The Living Word of J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs & his Acolytes

ANNOUNCING THE LITERARY EVENT OF THE AEON!

With many of the original Doktors of the Church, including:

~ Dr. HOWLAND OWLL
Late of the ‘Ask Dr. Hal!’ show and master of subgenial ceremonies

~ Dr. PHILO DRUMMOND
Anointed to dispense ‘Bob’s’ wisdom as he sees fit

~ PUZZLING EVIDENCE
Broadcasting (on KPFA 94.1 fm) for 25 years

~ BISHOP JOEY
The First Church Of the Last Laugh

~ and many other SubGenius ‘Stuporstars!’

Celebrating the release of Two Sacred Books of SubGenius Wisdom:

~ The SubGenius Psychlopedia of Slack, Vol. 1:
The Bobliographon
Liturgies and Gospels of the Church of the SubGenius the Perfect Self-Validating Philosophy
published by Thundersmouth Press
&
~ Revelation X: The ‘Bob’Apocryphon
The Descended New Testicle of the Charismatic SubGenius Faith
published by Thundersmouth Press

Also celebrating the release of TWO books by HAL ROBINS

~ Dinosaur Alphabet
published by North Atlantic Books
&
~ The Meaning of Lost and Mismatched Socks
published by Frog Press

among other essential works.

HOW DID THIS COME TO BE? Know that you were born with Original Slack. But the Conspiracy, of whose overarching existence you are but vaguely aware, eternally seeks to steal this, the Precious Gift of J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs from you, and sell you, in its place a Worthless Mess of the Pottage of False Slack. The Conspiracy doesn’t want you to have True Slack. Oh, no– the Conspiracy wants you to work for a living. But we say:

REPENT! QUIT YOUR JOB! SLACK OFF!

SOUND COMPLICATED? IT IS!

SO COME TO CITY LIGHTS APRIL 1st

City Lights is located in San Francisco’s historic North Beach district between Broadway Street and Pacific Avenue on Columbus Avenue. 24 hour parking is available at the public garage on Vallejo Street between Stockton and Powell Streets, across from Central Police Station. MUNI access via No. 15 and 30 lines. The nearest BART access is MONTGOMERY station.

photo credit: Heart Ignition
Scott Beale
Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.