TotD has been banned from any and all academic conferences concerning the Grateful Dead. I was already on probation after summoning Abbadon the Unforgiving to the Marriott ballroom a few years ago, so the kidnapping of David Lestellablieux was not seen in the humorous manner it was intended.
(It’s rather easy to kidnap a Canadian. Saying “Come with me: I’m kidnapping you,” in a stern voice almost always works. They’ll stay put until you release them or they get shot in a botched rescue attempt.)
But I needed access! How else to hear the presentation of such papers as “Calliope Wail: A Second Look at TC” or “The Work of Man: A Queer Reading of the Weather Report Suite” or “Mirror Shatters: The Intersectionality of the Dead, Size-ism, and Body-Positivism?”
Luckily, the Museum of Modern Terrible Dead Art (Mom: ta-DAA!) had agreed to loan the Conference one of their most terrible pieces:
I came up with a brilliant plan: I would secret myself within the statue of a ‘Squatch dressed like Garcia. Then I would–under cover of darkness while the academics slept with one another–sneak out of my hiding place. It was such a good plan, I couldn’t understand why no one had tried it before.
What underhanded plots did I ferret out? What nasty secrets did I dig up?
TO BE CONTINUED!
You never continue stuff, though.
I will this time.
Really?
…
Sure.
PS Thanks for the pic go out to a person who lives nowhere near Seattle, Mr. Completely.
Go to slide 4 in the slideshow below. Cathryn Bales? That’s Billy in makeup and drag, right?
http://activate.metroactive.com/2014/11/grateful-dead-symposium-jams-out-at-sjsu/
And slide 5. Did you you know the plural of “poster artist” is “posters artists”? It’s kind of like “sergeants-at-arms” or “mothers-in-law” only it doesn’t make sense.
I also like the reference to NRPS on the poster for the closing of Winterland. You know for a fact that the person that wrote the blurb has no idea what the acronym is for.
I wish they would have included more photos from the “What Jerry Would Look Like Now if He’d Lived” contest.
http://photos.metroactive.com/Events/Grateful-Dead-Symposium-at-SJS/i-GCnNbNX/A
Who is that and why does he think he’s allowed in public like that?
Ha! I would set the morning line at 99-1, 20-1, 12-1 and 1-9. No place and show wagering available.
I’m taking Valentine on the morning line.