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26X-DAY
Friday, June 30 - Wednesday, July 5 "2023"
Florida AND New York
This is THE SubGenius World Destruction Event and Annual Migration to our spawning grounds!
ARISE, MUTANTS!
X-Day will be VERY different this year!
1) It won't just be a Drill this time
2) The live in-person event has grown to TWO sites: a resort campground in Florida, and one in rural New York!
3X-Day is back with more vengeance than ever! Covid wrecked our annual Church Slack-In and camp-out in 2020, and our great 2021 venue had to move across Florida in 2022, but this year we resume with 20-23 X-Day Vision... and you don't even need X-Day Glasses!
Land o' Id
3610 272nd Street East
Myakka City, Florida (near Sarasota/Tampa)
This is a proper Stangian Orthodox Traditional X-Day Gathering of the Tribes in the tradition of the 24 or so X-Day Drills hosted by SubGenius Foundation, previously held at Brushwood, Wisteria and the first Land o' Id site.
Location: Near Sarasota/Tampa at the new 10-acre resort property of Rev. Xzanthia Octoshroom -- with riverside forested camping on site, a large indoor stage/studio, and many motels in nearby Sarasota. Clothing optional. SubGenius-owned and operated! Admission to the whole festival is a discounted $44.95. (Church Membership also required.) Camping and prices to be determined, but probably relatively cheap.
PRE-REGISTER HERE:
$44.99 Event Only
$89.98 Church Membership plus Event
Unnatural acts already expressing interest include:
Rubix Pube
Rev. Ivan Stang
Dr. Philo Drummond
Drs. 4 Wotan
Uncle Dr. Onan Canobite
Father Joe Mama
Time for the Show - Fidd-Faux-Peas
Fergin' Fridays
SubG Kids
Hypercube
This time we may unfortunately need a deep-pocketed believer to import Dr. Hal.
DONATE to help bring DR. HAL to X-Day so it doesn't all come out of Stang's pockets, which actually have a bottom:
OUR MOTTO: "WE PROMISE NOTHING!"
Here I sit
All broken hearted
On UFOs
I've not departed
This year was not
1998
I'll sit with you
Again we'll wait.
-- Onan
If Florida is impossibly inconvenient, some SubGeniuses may prefer the Northern alternative, "The Real X-Day" in Spencer, New York, in June -- details below. WHY NOT BOTH?
For motels near Land o' Id, mostly within 15-20 miles: https://www.reservations.com/Hotels/myakka-city-fl
Nearby attractions:
Myakka Elephant Ranch Zerbini Family Circus Sarasota National Cemetery Herrmanns' Royal Lipizzan Stallions Myakka River State Park The Cottages & Tiki Hut on Lake Manatee Outdoor Covered Venue Manatee Fish Camp Crowley Museum & Nature Center The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Manatee Village Historical Park
"The Real X-Day" (Their title)
Friday June 9 through Monday June 12
at
Fools Hill in Spencer, NY.
The land is completely forested except for a small clearing for the stage, which offers considerable shade and comfort. The venue offers tent camping in their gorgeous forest and provides a clean swimming pond wherein Dr. Hal shall perform a Naked Bobtism. There is also a bonfire area near the pond and stage area for burning "Bob" in effigy unless he makes good and destroys the Earth at precisely midnight on Friday the 9th.
The venue: FoolsHillFarm.com
Rev. Ivan Stang will be at the Florida one only (and possibly Dr. Philo Drummond and Dr. Onan Canobite). Also expected there: Hypercube Labs, TTN, Rubix Pube, SubG Kids, Negative at Night, Supershere Media Empire, Elvis Martini, Lord Ferg and the peas.
ALSO: Official X-Day Facebook Page
WISTERIA, OHIO POSSIBILITIES: KEEP SCROLLING!
So, far, no one has stepped forward to organize a Wisteria gathering, but then, this is the first time we've mentioned it. Basically all of the Ohio event info (so far) could be the same as in previous years. The decorations and the huge pulpit are already at Wisteria, locked up since 2019 with the Starwood Festival stuff. However, Stang won't be there to set up his ancient sound system or anything else. We're hoping some other X-Day old-timer can step up.
(At 69, Rev. Stang can still travel, and run his mouth, and run a holy mail order business, but after 27 X-Day Drills and countless devivals, he can no longer TOTE, or drive long distances.)
If SubGeniuses were Normals, X-Day Drills and such would be held in Holiday Inn conference rooms. Like the gamers do. Like the sci-fi fans and the comics fans do. Like the Scientologists, Mary Kay sales people and the Grace Glory Baptists do.
But we are SubGeniuses, and X-Day is not a convention. IT IS AN ADVENTURE. A SURVIVAL TEST!!
It might be brutal at times. CORRECTION: it WILL be brutal at times.
But those times are exactly what make for the CONTRAST. They make the heights ever so much HIGHER. And, sometimes, when two SubGeniuses get stuck under a borrowed tarp in a rainstorm, and fall in love, and get married, and have kids, and get a divorce, THEY STILL COME BACK TO X-DAY.
Sure. You might meet your True Yeti Mate or have your peak experience at a comics con in a motel. But it will not be an ADVENTURE. It will not be THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE OF MAN AGAINST NATURE, AGAINST THE VERY ELEMENTS, AGAINST, YES, GOD ITSELF!! JEHOVAH ONE! ARE WE TRULY BUT SPACE PUPPETS?!? NAY, "BOB" SAYS, NAY!!!
"The brutal times form a protective barrier around all the SLACK at X-Day. You have to go through the brutality-field to get to the pure, rich, ambient slack that suffuses the event, but when you leave the Slack comes with you." -- Dok Holocaust
SEE THE VIDEOS! 22 X-DAY PART ONE and 22X-DAY PART TWO
MAIN WISTERIA INSTRUCTIONS/FAQ
VETERAN ADVICE FOR NOOBCAKES for X-Day
X-Do's and X-Don'ts by Dr. Onan Canobite
19X-DAY 2016 DOCUMENTARY VIDEO
X-DAY GAME DEMO from HYPERCUBE! Download for PC!
Bizarre Dobbshead Meditation Screen by Rev. Andreux to KILL YOUR CONSCIOUS MIND!
"PADDLEBOB" Game by Rev. Sinphaltimus ExMortis!
art at top: Dr. Sinsomniac; above right: Dr. Hal Robins
Nearest Liquor Stores, SHOPPING
X-DAY SUPPLIES
X-Day Souvenir Propaganda Garments and Other Products
Wonderful souvenirs to cherish! -- Touching reminders of the last days of your life on planet Earth and your liberation by Dobbs. Shirts, hoodies, kids' clothes, mugs, steins, Liquid Frop Bottles, all emblazoned with the new X-Day art by Dr. Legume and/or this year's antique bug porn "squirrel shots.".
WHAT IS X-DAY? Read the SubGenius Pamphlet #1
and see the extensive illustrated reports and videos on the previous X-Day Drills above and below.
"Nothing exceeds like Xs!" - The late Rev. Just John
It's time to KISS ALL CALENDARS GOODBYE!
There MAY be:
Full Immersion Mass Bobtism!
SubGenius Themeless Costume Ball / Beer Tasting / Party!
SPOUTING! with spewing
THE BULLDADA AUCTION! Bring weird stuff to be sold!
MASS SHORT DURATION MARRIAGE
and maybe a real marriage or two
FIND the PHILO
LOUDEST YETI CONTEST
MASS EATING! Scrapple Toss, Pancake Orgy, 'Frop Beating, Time Killing!
All SubGenius Concepts that are Banned Elsewhere!
SPONTANEOUS DOKTORBAND COMBUSTION!
TRAINED PRAIRIE SQUID GIGGIN'-PARTIES!
(Free Debeaking Tools to first 5 giggees)
THAT ONE GUY WILL PUKE AND PASS OUT IN THE ROAD AGAIN!
SPORTS FIGURE BODY PART LAUNCHING!
'FROP ENHANCEMENT WORKSHOPS!
ACUBEATING!
PSYCHIC SURGERY!
HUMANFIGHTS!
LIVE FREAKS OF NATURE and ACID CASUALTIES!
BOBBIE ROPING!
PRIVATE ADULT SEXHURT SEMINARS!
SELF-MUTILATING PREACHERS!
ODDLY NORMAL-SEEMING PEOPLE!
SEX GODDESSES, ELDER GODS, and XISTS!!!
IMAGINE -- the SHEER POWER TO BE BULLIED BY FAMOUS SUBGENIUS ZEN MASTERS FOR THE LAST TIME!!
IMAGINE -- YOUR BIG CHANCE to BUY EVERY SUBGENIUS TRINKET, ARTIFACT and GEEGAW EVER MADE by ANY SUBGENIUS at the "Final Fire Sale Black Fleece Market of Slack SALES SHACK".
IMAGINE -- YOUR BIG CHANCE to meet those amazing, intriguing individuals you've heard on the radio, seen onstage, or read in Subgenius forum and the holy Church books -- AND, POST-RUPTURE, ATTACK THEIR ESCAPE VESSEL BATTLE PLANETS WITH YOURS!
IMAGINE -- YOUR BIG CHANCE to WIN BACK YOUR SOUL!!!
You'll be able to tell your great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandkids, "I was at the X-Day Final Gathering... Yep! 'Fropped up with the great Dr. Hal hisself there... even fucked Connie Dobbs! And "Bob" fucked me -- right good, I'd say!"
"The X-Day house party and fin d'seacle freak show "parade" is something even the back-to-gabbers do, with a pumped up number of beats per minute, ten pils down your gob for 20 hours of chomping your bit, no ambience save for a couple of yellow cube lights haven't been able to kill.
"Also consider the fact that bouncing around on bad 'frop (probably Lunk, if nothing worse) or bad Church Air (probably jenkem, if nothing worse) is considered a definite no-no, never mind what you heard. And then, is it really your idea of fun to stand around some crossroads with no clue as to your whereabouts, with an Ohio map in hand which has snakes for roads crawling about, because you're hallucinating like an oilslide? Well then, simply get to know a few people first, which is not such a hard thing to do at X-Day Drill, and all kinds of possibilities will, if need be, arise by their own accord. In the meantime, remember: there's much more to be discovered!" - X-Day Guidebook (well actually from an Amsterdam guide book, but it works)
IT HAPPENED BEFORE!
Some of it, anyway
Check out these in-depth adults-only photo and text reports, by the SubGeniuses who lived through it
1999'S XX-DAY (NOT FOR KIDS!!)
4X-DAY- HUGE PHOTO REPORT, MASSIVE NEWSGROUP FEEDBACK
6X-DAY - ADULTS-ONLY PHOTOS, ART, MOVIES!
PHOTO & ESSAY REPORT on X-DayX -- by actual reporters on a legit news site!
X-DAY 11 REPORTS FROM ALT.SLACK -- The Testimonials of The Survivors
Special Nude Pictorial on Vintage Early X-Day Drills (ADULTS ONLY!!)
Yet More Adults-Only Vintage X-Day Drill Shots (HOT!!)
This Space Reserved
DOWNLOAD LAST YEAR'S 21 X-DAY SCHEDULE BROCHURE PDF (for 11x17 print-and-fold)
VIDEO FROM PREVIOUS X-DAYS:
X-Day's A-Comin' - Music Video
Planet X or Bust - Music Video
Giant List of YouTube X-Day Videos by Various People (many are quite crappy quality)
X-DAY COMMERCIAL in RealMedia format or this 1.2 mb download (Zipped RM file)
NEW! 19X-Day - THEY COME! and go
An X-Day GAME! - "X-Day: Anonymous Vs. Scientology"
MAGDALEN'S SEXY XXX-DAY MOVIE!
THE AMINO ACIDS entire live 11X-Day concert, plus UFO sightings
Lonesome Cowboy Dave's Double Mean Baby Head
EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE @ 14XD
ALSO: The entire edited 6X-Day documentary is available in our catalog AS A FINISHED DVD
WILL YOU SUCK THE FINGER, OR GO WHERE IT POINTS?