Fellow Travelers
A parody religion invented by two men in Dallas should not have this guest list. It does. Below is who shows up inside this archive and how often — page counts, not vibes. Anyone can claim an influence; these are countable.
The Orbit
MEASURED IN PAGESCounted across the 8,329 archive pages by name match. Every count opens the list of pages it counts.
DEVO
Mark Mothersbaugh scored the Church's 1991 MTV commercial and drew for its publications. DEVOtional, the annual DEVO convention, appears in this archive as a SubGenius event in its own right.
The Firesign Theatre
The surrealist radio comedy troupe whose tape-collage method is the direct ancestor of the Hour of Slack's entire approach.
Robert Anton Wilson
Co-author of Illuminatus!, ordained a Pope of the Church, and author of The Horror On Howth Hill — 7,379 words of it sitting in our Library.
Paul Mavrides
Underground comix artist, co-creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, and one of the visual architects of the Church's look.
Negativland
Culture-jammers and copyright martyrs. Same tape-splicing instinct, same enemies, frequent overlap on the radio.
Frank Zappa
Cited constantly as a patron saint of contempt for normality.
Discordianism
The older parody religion — Principia Discordia, Eris, the Law of Fives. The SubGenius is its loud commercial younger sibling.
R. Crumb
The underground comix lineage the Church's artwork grew out of.
Timothy Leary
Turned up, as he did everywhere.
William S. Burroughs
The cut-up method, running underneath all of it.
Still Going
BUY IT FROM THEMEveryone above is dead, retired or a legend. These people are making SubGenius work this year. Nothing of theirs is copied here on purpose — the covers are thumbnails and every link goes to their own shop. If you like it, pay them for it.
Slack Radio
Where most of the living shows air now, next to the Hour of Slack reruns: Puzzling Evidence, Slacktime Funhouse, The Quivering Brain, Negative At 9, Slander Bob, The Prophet Lilith and more. Listener-supported.
X-Day
The end of the world, held every July 5 anyway. The 29th was July 2026 in Greenfield, Indiana. The Foundation's devivals page has the next one.
“Bob’s” Slacktime Funhouse
Weekly audio collage, Sunday nights at 1am on WREK, running since the 1990s and past episode 875.
Ask Dr. Hal!
The Sub-Genius who answers any question put to him, still doing it live. Third Sunday of most months, 9pm Eastern, on Twitch. Dr. Hal has been at this since the Church had a mailing address and no website.
Vault of Slack
A SubGenius zine, and the answer to anyone who says the Church stopped. Twelve issues since December 2023, with contributions by many Yetikin — rants, Time Control magic, weird products, spiritual advice. Issues 1–5 are free PDFs; 6–12 are in print. He sold out the first run and gave the PDF away anyway: “if you send money, also send some to ‘Bob.’”
Time for the Show
Hypercube Labs’ weekly comedy podcast, their “Official Hypercubist Radio Ministry”. Past 220 episodes since 2017.
National Cynical Network
Bay Area media-collage radio: Midnight VoiceJail and Needle in the Red, new shows this month.
Sub-Genius Church of Colorado
A Mile High clench with its own teleministry on YouTube: the Sub-Genius Broadcasting Network and the 13013 Club.
Zontar Venus
A longtime SubGenius and his channel of Martian B-movie weirdness, “The Marauding Martian Menace” among it. New uploads this month.
DOBBS.TOWN
The Church’s own social network, a thousand-odd ordained members and Rev. Stang among them. Registration is closed; ordain first.
Puzzling Evidence still airs too — KPFA 94.1 Berkeley, 3–5am Friday mornings, streaming at kpfa.org, and on Slack Radio.
The Ones Who Tried
GONE QUIETStations, shows, newsgroups and clenches that did it for a while and stopped. Some are archived and still worth an afternoon; the rest survive as one saved snapshot of a homepage.
- The Hour of Slack 1985–2022 Rev. Ivan Stang
The flagship. New episodes stopped with #1890, “The Last Hour of Slack?”, in July 2022; reruns still air on WREK and Slack Radio. Every episode is logged here. - Over the Edge 1981–2015 Don Joyce & Negativland, KPFA
Negativland’s live collage show and a constant SubGenius source. The archive is on archive.org. - alt.slack 1989–2024 everyone
The Church’s Usenet newsgroup, plus alt.binaries.slack, until Google Groups went read-only. - Ministry of Slack 2008–2011 Reverend Xister
A live online multimedia show; seven Ministry of Slack TV episodes followed in 2017 for OSI 74 on Roku. - The SubGenius Digest c. 1988–1995 MIT mailing list
The Church’s first decade online, as an email digest. - The High Weirdness Project 1994–2000s E.W. Modemac
The First Online Church of “Bob”: a SubGenius wiki and archive built on High Weirdness by Mail. - We Slack Radio 2011 Rev. Slanderbob, via KAOS Radio Austin
A 24/7 free-form SubGenius station, about 80% Church programming. - ESO Radio, Prozac Free Radio, PsychoAccoustics 2000s WCSB Cleveland · WMUH Bethlehem · WORT Madison
College and community shows that carried the Hour of Slack with hosts of their own. - Puzzling Evidence TV to 2017 the Puzzling Evidence crew
The video arm of the KPFA show. The radio show is still going; this is not. - General Public to 2020 General Public
A prolific SubGenius video channel, quiet since 2020. - Seattle SubGenius Union of Clenches & Crackpots c. 1999–2008 Seattle
Seattle’s umbrella clench and its annual devivals, the last billed as final in 2008. - Clench of the Dragonfly 2000s San Marcos, Texas
“Official Clench of The Church of The SubGenius”, with its own internet radio. - Queers for “Bob” 2000–2001 the Tampa clench
Ran the Tampa devivals, vacation packages included. - Phoenix SubGenius Clench #1 2001 Phoenix
A clench homepage that serialized a SubGenius novel. - Igreja de SubGenius do Brasil 2005 Brazil
The Church in Portuguese.
The Actual Church
The people who built it, in case the famous names distracted you.
Rev. Ivan Stang
Co-founder, Sacred Scribe, and the man who actually did the work for forty-odd years — the books, the radio show, the films.
Dr. Philo Drummond
The other co-founder. Present from the very first tape, and still turning up on the show.
Dr. Hal Robins
Voice actor, artist, walking encyclopedia, and the Church's finest orator.
Puzzling Evidence
Radio, tape and noise from the Berkeley wing — still broadcasting on KPFA.