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Crédit image: The portrait of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is a trademark of SubGenius Foundation Inc. and is used with permission.

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Semiotext(e) SF (1989) — Contributeur — 248 exemplaires
The Big Book of Conspiracies (Factoid Books) (1995) — Introduction — 232 exemplaires

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This might be more relevant now than it was before 1998.
 
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scumdogsteev | 7 autres critiques | Nov 22, 2022 |
Whenever I meet a literary person who hasn't read this bk & isn't even familiar w/ the Church of the SubGenius, I realize that their lives are so incomplete that I turn them sideways to see if they're still there in profile.

To set the record straight (an 8 letter word w/ only 1 syllable): being an ever-so-slightly-infamous person I sometimes run across (I try to run them over but it never works) mentions of me on the web by people who apparently "think they really know me" (reference to Gary Wilson). Such mentions might overcredit me for my involvement w/ this bk; some might speak of my contempt for the Church of the SubGenius. They're both RONG (deliberate misspelling).

One of the biggest regrets in my life is that I didn't get involved in the Church until January of 1981. If I had only been a mnth earlier, I wd've been listed as a member of the "Board of Directors of the SubGenius Foundation appointed in 1980". Instead, I'm just listed as having made "Additional Sacrifices" in 1981. At least I was immediately sainted. It's obvious that the other churches give a bum deal to their saints by waiting to exploit them AFTER they're dead. This regret haunts me to this day. No matter where I move, no matter where I hide, it haints me.

My actual contribution to the bk is small - a foto of me that someone else took of me painting a stencil that someone else made & a foto that I had taken of sd stencil not-very-convincingly seeming to form my own head. Nonetheless, I actually GOT A ROYALTY CHECK FOR $12 from the 1st edition of this. & THAT, my friend (or whatever) is as good a sign as any that the Church of the SubGenius is rooted in integrity.

This bk is SHEER (Sub)GENIUS. Let me repeat that: This bk is (Sub)SHEER GENIUS. To poorly paraphrase an interview that I gave that's in my movie entitled "B.T.O.U.C." that you'll probably never, EVER get a chance to see, "The Church of the SubGenius is out to save yr soul even though it doesn't BELIEVE in souls." & this bk does it so well that you only need to read one word of it (wch there's no need for you to even BELIEVE) in order for you to go straight past hell, purgatory, AND heaven into the far-flung reaches of the imagination.

& the GRAPHICS! I mean, HOLY SHIT!, the editors of this bk gathered together the finest talents that "Bob" cd bribe or rib or offer slack to & put them to work 24/7/20-20/20-odd-sex. This is the FINEST representative of the under-uber that most of you will ever see. & I NO what I'm talking about.
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tENTATIVELY | 7 autres critiques | Apr 3, 2022 |
There’s long been a rumour circulating on the Web about this book: that both it, and the SubGenius Foundation which produced it back in the 1980s, were in reality the handiwork of the CIA on behalf of the shadowy “elite” the book itself talks about. I mean, how better to conceal The Truth than by lampooning it?
   The Foundation was a new cult, deliberately incorporating every nutty idea you’ve ever read about or just heard of—from crank diets to UFOs from the Hollow Earth—and its rather ambiguous Messiah was J R “Bob” Dobbs, formerly a salesman. In a nutshell (so to speak) “Bob” informs us that: the Earth and its inhabitants are under the control of an alien entity; that there’s a global Conspiracy among the world’s “elite” to keep this fact from the public; but that, by following “Bob”’s teachings (and, of course, sending him money) we can (and I quote) learn to “pull the wool over our own eyes” at last. The first thirteen chapters are a round-up of “Bob”’s revealed “wisdom”; the remaining ones tell us what to actually do (and where to mail the cheques) now we’re enlightened.
   This was all good clean fun too back then, getting a rise out of the Scientologists and Moonies—a great idea. The downside is that, inevitably, the actual text of this book becomes every bit as boring after a while as the relentless outpourings of the cults and religions it’s satirising. On the other hand though, it’s lifted by the hundreds of clip-art illustrations, done like the small-ads in magazines and some of which are hilarious. What’s most striking of all perhaps, reading it in the twenty-first century, is how prescient it now looks—you find exactly these sort of “global conspiracy” ravings all over the Web.
   And the true message of SubGenius? It was (and still is) telling us humans, “Will you please, PLEASE, just stop taking yourselves so damn seriously.”
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