{"id":193,"date":"2008-09-03T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T13:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=193"},"modified":"2018-10-31T11:12:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:12:13","slug":"the-boble-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"The Boble: Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, I decided to put up some regular features<\/a> on the front page. So far, the only thing that\u2019s materialized is the \u201cSunday Archive<\/a>\u201d, which I really got into as I dug crap out from my Gmail archives.\u00a0 Currently, there\u2019s shit programmed up through the end of the year\u2026then, in 2009, I\u2019m going to pull out the really old rejected articles from the Dirtyfreaks.com days \u2013 and a few that predate my web presence entirely.<\/p>\n


\nSo here we are with Boble Wednesdays, where I will once again try to post the entire Boble.\u00a0 At this point it\u2019s more of a challenge than anything else.\u00a0 I can\u2019t say that I particularly enjoy the Boble.\u00a0 It is, after all, the weird ramblings of a tenth grader.<\/p>\n

The Boble started in the 1989\/90 school year.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really know what inspired me to do it, but I started rewriting the first five books of the Bible in my little notepad of doom (which still exists in my bedroom closet).\u00a0 I then read aloud from my notes in front of my theater class each day.\u00a0 I sucked at theater, but I was really in my element reading sections of the Boble.<\/p>\n

The Boble is, simply, an irreverent, childish take on the Bible, with God BOB (no relation to the Subgenius) as our somewhat distracted creator.\u00a0 Throughout high school, I fleshed out the work to include the entire Old Testament (or \u201cOld Testicle\u201d) and actually made a small amount of money ($500) selling chapbooks through my little \u201cpress,\u201d which I called Purple Publications.\u00a0 That was mainly me and the library\u2019s printers and Xerox machines.\u00a0 Oh, and a stapler.<\/p>\n

In 92, bored during my freshman year at college, I went nuts and listened to Jesus Christ Superstar over and over for about three weeks, whipping out most of the \u201cNew Testicle.\u201d\u00a0 Then the Boble, pretty much, sat untouched for a few years.<\/p>\n

I picked it up again in 96 during a long, slow night shift job and added a few \u201cliterary\u201d threads, getting more into God BOB\u2019s background and, ultimately, putting together a backstory where we discover that he stole the universe from our actual creator \u2013 the Blood Mistress Kraal (with whom he was romantically involved).\u00a0 The day to day operations in Bob Heavens (where there is great sausage) also got some more detail, as the final pages of the Old Testicle became less parody of the Bible and more a build-up towards the Bob Jr. Scheme, which launches the New Testicle.<\/p>\n

I gave the Boble yet another re-edit in 2000 when a few excerpts showed up at 3AM Magazine<\/a> and, of course, the April 2001 launch of Dirtyfreaks.com featured the \u201cBoblehub.\u201d<\/p>\n

By 2002, though, I\u2019d lost interest, and The Boble has been untouched since.<\/p>\n

I am, of course, forced to re-edit again.\u00a0 Though, like the Sunday Archive entries, I\u2019ll only clean up obvious typos and glaring errors that happen to catch my drunken eye as I casually put the files together.\u00a0 Still, you\u2019ll notice the various stages of development.\u00a0 The first five chapters are, generally, unchanged from 1989.\u00a0 After that, the evolution of the Boble through the 90\u2019s will be clear.\u00a0 With the ability to program ahead, I\u2019ll just get the whole damn thing and get it up in the system.\u00a0 Then I can forget about the project again for five years!<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll start next Wednesday with the copyright page and introduction from 1991.\u00a0 And I may take breaks throughout to share Boble-related stories, like how I mailed it off to Pope John Paul II in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, I decided to put up some regular features on the front page. So far, the only thing that\u2019s materialized is the \u201cSunday Archive\u201d, which I really got into as I dug crap out from my Gmail archives.\u00a0 Currently, …<\/p>\n

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