{"id":353,"date":"2009-07-29T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=353"},"modified":"2018-10-30T22:11:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T02:11:10","slug":"the-new-testicle-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"The New Testicle: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all began with the blizzard of 1993<\/a>.\u00a0 I was at a small college tucked away in the mountains of West Virginia, and we were stranded for about a week.\u00a0 No highways, and there were several days where nothing could get through the roads.\u00a0 A rare moment of isolation more in keeping with 1903 than 1993.<\/p>\n

It was a tiny little apocalypse, and, for a carefree college student, it was enormous, life-changing fun.\u00a0 The snow around our dorm drifted so deep you could (and I did) throw yourself from the third-storey balcony, plummeting safely into a sea of suffocating white.<\/p>\n


\nI lived on Kraft Mac & Cheese from Wal-Mart, cooking it on a hot plate that sparked and caught fire occasionally while I guzzled cheap beer and calmly controlled disaster.\u00a0 It was, probably, my best college moment.\u00a0 I had a single room and just sealed myself away at night.<\/p>\n

Boredom drove me to the Boble.\u00a0 For some time, I felt oppressed by the work.\u00a0 Not because it sucked and was insane, but because it was unfinished.\u00a0 I wrote that big fucking Old Testicle\u2026and yet it was only the halfway point.\u00a0 So I figured, what the hell?\u00a0 Time to take on Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

Since I was a kid, Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em> was my favorite take on the Jesus story.\u00a0 There\u2019s even a Super-8 video out there, somewhere, from when I was 15, playing a guitar, and stripping to songs from the cast recording of Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em>.\u00a0 This tape still exists, and I think it\u2019s somewhere in the UK.\u00a0 Every once in a while, a certain friend lets me know that he drunkenly showed it to his friends or co-workers or something.\u00a0 Creepy.<\/p>\n

I put the album on a loop and wrote for a week without taking any breaks, in between throwing myself 30 feet through the air into snow drifts, sledding down a hill into a line of unforgiving trees, drinking, and masturbating like a sailor trapped on the ice during an Arctic expedition.\u00a0 And for all that work, I only got 65 pages.\u00a0 And it\u2019s still not complete!\u00a0 I skipped the \u201cBobsel of Kram.\u201d\u00a0 No reason why\u2026 I was just suffering from the love-hate thing I\u2019ve always had for the Boble.<\/p>\n

Happily, you get to read the never before printed Bobsel of Kram.\u00a0 I returned to it in 1996.\u00a0 It\u2019s 12 pages, and unfinished\u2026 So there\u2019s a Dead Sea Scroll sort of feel to it.\u00a0 Which, at this point, is just fine.\u00a0 I don\u2019t intend to write any new content for the Boble.<\/p>\n

I definitely lost my mind a little bit writing the New Testicle.\u00a0 If you read it as originally printed (I will not post it this way) you get the straightforward Bobsel of Matdude, one page saying that I didn\u2019t feel like writing Kram, the Bobsel of Luke Duke written in half-assed Appalachian dialect (since edited back to normal, but some of it remains), and then the Bobsel of Nohj, which I formatted into columns to be more Bible-like.<\/p>\n

Nohj is deeply crazy, I think\u2026And I\u2019m not looking forward to plowing through it (as I write this intro, I have not yet opened my New Testicle file \u2013 last accessed on March 12th, 2001).<\/p>\n

After Nohj is \u201cExploits,\u201d where I reprint and answer actual letters I received during the life of the Boble up till 93, and also mix in a narrative with me and \u201cZosish\u201d \u2013 my old friend and Boble-enthusiast from England (who is the same friend in possession of the tape mentioned above).<\/p>\n

The letters from the apostles are all a mish-mash of near-stream of consciousness insanity, and then we get into The Trip.\u00a0 Fifteen pages of the New Testicle is turned over to The Trip, and it was fun to write.\u00a0 The perfect way to end the drunken, snowbound writing frenzy.<\/p>\n

After the Trip, we get some junk that\u2019s been tacked on over the years.\u00a0 I\u2019ll probably keep the 1997 epilogue from the \u201cSecond Revised Edition\u201d of the Boble, which includes an in-character (as Boble Translator) discussion on the previous editions preceding 1997.\u00a0 I\u2019ll also include the brief \u201cstudy guide\u201d that accompanied the \u201cModern Era Comet Catastrophe Edition\u201d (1998).<\/p>\n

The Comet Catastrophe Edition of the Boble was the last version to be sold (and make money).\u00a0 I released a special \u201cY2K\u201d edition in 2000, but it was just to send around to friends.<\/p>\n

Well\u2026next week, then.\u00a0 We’ll start with the original introduction pages…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It all began with the blizzard of 1993.\u00a0 I was at a small college tucked away in the mountains of West Virginia, and we were stranded for about a week.\u00a0 No highways, and there were several days where nothing could …<\/p>\n

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