High Weirdness by Mail: A Directory of the Fringe-Mad Prophets, Crackpots, Kooks and Tr

by Ivan Stang

Book Overview

This hysterical hobbyist's guide belongs in every hip library. Coot cat Reverend Ivan Stang, high holy of the Church of the SubGenius, has compiled a bestiary of American creeps and crazies so that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067164260X
• ISBN13: 9780671642600
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Offline Bulldada Snapshot

You should know, The SubGenius Must Have Slack. This includes temporal slack. These days, "High Weirdness by Mail" wallows in temporal slack. It fattens itself upon such anachronistic dissonance and preens and poses and presents itself as a pristine document soaking in such temporal slack. A snapshot worthy of fascination. Play-by-snail-mail wackiness. Some circa 1988 pre-eMail deliciousness that turns in time...highlighting its fading wacko personal touch against the coming e-fection we continually breathe today. A timestamp document, at the dawn of the bulldada of the web -- about the bulldada off the web. Which seems a purer form of bulldada, yet watch out for nostalgic self-deception. Bulldada = Bulldada. It's a constant. (See George Carlin's work, the master of observation, RIP, damn.) Oh, brave new world. "The Whole Earth Catalog" has a similar effect today. Yet not so slacky and less fascinating. Too crunchy, less funky. You know. You do. And it can be had for cheap so get some High Weirdness now. You'll wish it was 20-years ago and you had a lot of stamps and time to spare. And an anonymous PO box.

The Land of Fruit and Nuts Directory

Yes, the above title is what many readers would call this book after perusing its fascinating and repelling pages. I got my copy soon after publication and was tempted to contact some of those groups, but demurred at the prospect of recieving shovel-fulls of mail and packets as related by the author. I have browsed through this book from time to time, and I recommend it as a natural depression cure-all: if after reading a few pages, you're not laughing hysterically, there's no hope for you. What's truly weird is some of the wackier groups sound suspiciously like our current Administration nominees - well, YOU be the judge. Well worth checking out, readers.

uniquely weird

an amusing compedium of chaos that, although now dated, makes for a highly entertaining, informational read.Very original stuff!

Hilarious, eye-opening, out of date but still worth reading

The true SubGenius Holy Books are "The Book of the SubGenius" and "Revelation X: The 'Bob' Apocryphon," but "High Weirdness by Mail" was the book that truly opened my eyes for "Bob." Published in 1988, it was a groundbreaking book that opened the door to the widening field of crackpotology, and a number of more "serious" books looking at the fringe elements of society have all credited High Weirdness as their inspiration. The addresses in that book are now more than ten years out of date, but the book is still worth reading for the vicious, hilarious, and outrageous reviews of all of the addresses contained therein. The writing reveals a great part of the true purpose of the Church of the SubGenius, and it was the writing of High Weirdness that inspired me to send my money to "Bob" and become a fully ordained (and paid-up) SubGenius minister.

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