Posted by scooter on 01/16/64 11:53

"Alric Knebel" <alric@[cableone.net]> wrote in message
news:12c3d03a2bpa842@corp.supernews.com...
> scooter wrote:
>
> I was introduced to the Church of the Subgenius from a binaries
> newsgroup, where a woman steeped in the church, the meetings and so on,
> had a link to it in her signature. She posted photos like everyone
> else, but she had this signature and I followed it because she said such
> interesting stuff. She called herself Sister Decadence. She was smart,
> and beautiful, and she had her very own list devoted to herself, where
> to the delight of her fans she'd post pictures of her live sex shows,
> during which she exemplified sexual freedom. From her link, I found
> some of the funniest stuff I'd ever seen on the internet, presented in
> some incredibly skilled photoshop and artwork, bizarre composites that
> verged on meaning, but to cross the line would ruin it. One of the
> pictures proclaimed "Beautiful children for you to adopt," and it was a
> seamless composite with two figures evoking the creatures from "They
> Live" and something else even weirder. Another time, someone made a
> video using one of the films from the Prelinger Collection, the one
> about what to do on a date (if you haven't been to this site, I suggest
> you get to it; I download a lot of stuff from it). I had seen it, so I
> appreciated their edit even more. They had inserted a nicely actualized
> cartoon of Bob throughout the edited film, suggesting Bob was this
> sinister presence. I'm amazed by some of the imaginative stuff they
> produce. And while I appreciate it, I humbly have to admit I'm not up
> to creating it myself. I just have to stand back in awe, and appreciate
> the fact that SOMEONE can do it, making for entertainment that competes
> easily with some of the best stuff produced on TV.
>
> And just my analyzing it so gushily is against the Church principles, so
> I can never be a real member.
> --

Sister Decadence still posts to alt.slack

The visual artists are just a small contingency of alt.slack, like your pal
nenslo, BTW. There's also musicians, and audio folks, but mostly it's a
group of opinionated wise-ass jerks and misfits like you. So why don't you
go subscribe to alt.slack so we can kill this thread.

these other newsgroups in this crosspost cannot be trusted.

I'l explain later.

-scooter

Why don't you

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