Showing posts with label genius. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genius. Show all posts
Monday, November 24, 2025
Monday, May 1, 2017
Church of the SubGenius

J. R. "Bob" Dobbs is the figurehead of the Church of the SubGenius. His image is derived from a piece of 1950s clip art. According to SubGenius dogma, "Bob" was a drilling equipment salesman who, in 1953, saw a vision of God (JHVH-1 according to Church scriptures) on a television set he had built himself. The vision inspired him to write the "PreScriptures" (as described in the Book of the SubGenius) and found the Church. The theology holds that "Bob" is the greatest salesman who ever lived, and has cheated death a number of times. He is also revered for his great follies and believed to be a savior of "slack". He was assassinated in San Francisco in 1984, though the Church states that he has come back from the dead several times since then.
The quotation marks in "Bob's" name are always included when spelling his name, according to the Church. According to Revelation X; The "Bob" Apocryphon, "Bob" was born in Dallas, Texas, to Xinucha-Chi-Xan M. Dobbs (a pharmacist) and Jane McBride Dobbs. At an early age he possessed a talent for making large amounts of money by playing the stock market over the telephone. He married his wife Connie in Las Vegas in 1955 and worked as a photographer's model while inventing and patenting novelty gag items. In 1957 he worked weekends doing Evangelical Christian preaching "strictly for the money". (read more)
Labels:
anarchy,
art,
conspiracy,
deviant,
genius,
humour,
philosophy,
religion,
revolution,
satire
Sunday, April 30, 2017
ARISE the SubGenius
Labels:
aliens,
art,
beyond,
common sense,
deviant,
freedom,
genius,
perception,
philosophy,
religion,
revolution,
sex,
truth
Friday, October 21, 2016
shoot the works
Labels:
death,
earth,
experience,
extinction,
future,
genius,
human condition,
logic,
responsibility
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Friday, June 3, 2016
The Revelation
Labels:
archeology,
audacity,
common sense,
deviant,
genius,
gods,
hubris,
ignorance,
paradox,
perception,
research,
spectacle,
wisdom
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Friday, August 7, 2015
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Friday, January 2, 2015
the time is now
Labels:
deviant,
genius,
human condition,
imagination,
love,
now,
philosophy,
time,
truth
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
the unknown genius
Labels:
earth,
future,
genius,
human condition,
humanity,
imagination,
sustainable
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
a possible world
Labels:
corporations,
corruption,
fascism,
future,
genius,
money,
sustainable,
vision
Friday, September 13, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Houdini

Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts. Harry Houdini died on Halloween. (read more)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
the persistence of memory

The Persistence of Memory
by Salvador Dali
1931
Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to a self-styled "Arab lineage," claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.
Dalí was highly imaginative, and also had an affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose behavior, in order to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork. (read more)
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