As requested, here are some addresses of sources of bizarre religious satire and commentary...  Plus some bijou book reviewettes.  ---  Loompanics Unlimited PO Box 1197 Port Townsend, WA 98368. USA.  Publishers of one of the most infamous mail-order book catalogue in the  world.  Anarchism, Discordianism, Libertarianism, cryogenics, money-making (legal and illegal), privacy and security, self-defense, and all kinds of other stuff that keeps Christians awake at nights.  ---  The Church of the SubGenius PO Box 140306 Dallas, TX 75214. USA.  The original end times church for post-human mutants; a high temple for  scoffers, mockers and blasphemers.  Be one of the few to board the X-ist  saucers in 1998 and escape Space God JHVH-1's stark fist of removal.  J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, God of Sales, is waiting to take your money and ordain you.  Magazines, sick audio cassettes, and assorted offensive cynisacreligious  material.  Periodic lists of addresses of Pink religious cults and contact points for the world wierdo network.  Expect a slow response to mail.  Only conspiracies are well-organized.  You will eventually get what you pay for if you give them some slack.  ---  Counter Productions PO Box 556 London SE5 0RL UK  A UK source of obscure books.  A wide-ranging selection; Surrealism,  Anarchism, SubGenius, Discordianism, Robert Anton Wilson, Lovecraftian  horror, Cyberpunk, Forteana, political and social commentary, Wilhelm Reich, Orgone tech, obscure rock music, SF, and so on.  Send an SAE (and maybe a bribe, they need your money) and ask for a catalogue.  Tell them mathew sent you.  I've ordered from these folks three or four times now, and they're about as fast and efficient as you can expect from this sort of operation.  ---  Forbidden Planet Various sites in the UK; in particular, along London's New Oxford Street, just  down the road from Tottenham Court Road tube station.  Mass market oddness.  SubGenius, Robert Anton Wilson, Loompanics, and of  course huge quantities of SF.  Not a terribly good selection, but they're in the high street.  ---  REVIEWETTE: "Loompanics' Greatest Hits" ISBN 1-55950-031-X (Loompanics)  A selection of articles picked from the books in Loompanics' catalogue.   Subjects include:   * Christian Dispensationalism -- how right-wing Christians encouraged     the Cold War  * Satanic Child Abuse myths  * Religion and censorship   Plus lots of anarchist and libertarian stuff, situationism, computers and  privacy, and so on.  Guaranteed to contain at least one article that'll  offend you -- like, for example, the interview with Bradley R. Smith, the  Holocaust Revisionist.  A good sampling of stuff in a coffee table book.  (Of course, whether you want to leave this sort of stuff lying around on your coffee table is another matter.)  QUOTE:  "The fundamentalists leap up and down in apoplectic rage and joy.  Their  worst fantasies are vindicated, and therefore (or so they like to think),  their entire theology and socio-political agenda is too.  Meanwhile, teen-age misanthropes and social misfits murder their enemies, classmates, families, friends, even complete strangers, all because they read one of Anton LaVey's cooks or listened to one too many AC/DC records.  The born-agains are ready to burn again, and not just books this time."  ---  REVIEWETTE: "The Book of the SubGenius", J.R. Dobbs & the SubGenius Foundation ISBN 0-671-63810-6 (Simon & Schuster)  Described by 'Rolling Stone' as "A sick masterpiece for those who can still laugh at the fact that nothing is funny anymore."  The official Bible of the SubGenius Church, containing the sacred teachings of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.  Instant answers to everything; causes catalytic brain cell loss in seconds; the secret of total slack; how to relax in the safety of your delusions and pull the wool over your own eyes; nuclear doom and other things to laugh at.  QUOTE:  "He has been known to answer questions concerning universal truths with  screams.  With suggestive silence.  By peeing down his pants leg.  His most famous sermon was of cosmic simplicity: "Bob" standing on the stage with his hands in his pockets, smoking, looking around and saying nothing.  Heated arguments still rage among the monks, often erupting into fatal duels, as towhether the Master consulted his wristwatch during this divine period of Grace."  --  REVIEWETTE: "High Weirdness by Mail", Rev. Ivan Stang ISBN 0-671-64260-X (Simon & Schuster)  An encyclopedia of wierd organizations you can contact by mail.  Space  Jesuses, Christian vs Christian, UFO contactees, New Age saps, Creationists, Flat Earthers, White Supremacist churches, plus (yawn) CSICOP, Sceptical Enquirer and stuff like that.  Not just a list of addresses, though, as each kook group is ruthlessly mocked and ridiculed with sarcastic glee.  If you like alt.atheism's flame wars, this is the book for you.  Made me laugh until my stomach ached.  Revised edition due some time in the next year or two.  SAMPLE ENTRY:     Entertaining Demons Unawares    Southwest Radio Church    PO Box 1144    Oklahoma City, OK 73101     "Your Watchman on the Wall."  Another flagellating, genuflecting     fundamentalist outfit.  Their booklet "Entertaining Demons Unawares"    exposes the Star Wars / E.T. / Dungeons & Dragons / Saturday morning    cartoon / Satanic connection in horrifying detail.  Left out Smurfs,    though! I especially liked the bit about Wonder Woman's Antichrist origins.    Keep in mind that once you send for anything from these people, you'll be    on their mailing list for life.  ---  REVIEWETTE: "The Abolition of Work", Bob Black ISBN 0-915179-41-5 (Loompanics)  A selection of Bob Black's painfully witty and intelligent anarchist tracts collected into book form.  If I were this good I'd be insufferable.(*)  Probably the only thought-provoking political book that's fun to read.  QUOTE:  "Babble about 'The wages of sin' serves to cover up 'the sin of wages'.  We want rights, not rites -- sex, not sects.  Only Eros and Eris belong in our pantheon.  Surely the Nazarene necrophile has had his revenge by now.  Remember, pain is just God's way of hurting you."  ---  REVIEWETTE: "Principia Discordia", Malaclypse the Younger ISBN 1-55950-040-9 (Loompanics)  The infamous Discordian Bible, reprinted in its entirety and then some.  Yes, you could FTP the online copy, but this one has all the pictures.  Explains absolutely everything, including the Law of Fives, how to start a Discordian Cabal, and instructions for preaching Discordianism to Christians.   QUOTE:  "A Discordian is Required during his early Illumination to Go Off Alone &  Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday; this Devotive Caremony to  Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of Beef), of Buddhists (no meat of animal), and of Discordians (no Hot Dog Buns)."  ---  REVIEWETTE: "Natural Law, or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy",             Robert Anton Wilson ISBN 0-915179-61-X (Loompanics)  The author of the Illuminatus trilogy rails against natural law, natural  morality, objective reality, and other pervasive myths.  Witty and  thought-provoking work from someone who actually seems to know an argument from a hole in the ground.  QUOTE:  "Since theological propositions are scientifically meaningless, those of us of pragmatic disposition simply won't buy such dubious merchandise. [...]  Maybe -- remotely -- there might be something in such promotions, as there might be something in the talking dogs and the stocks in Arabian tapioca mines that W.C. Fields once sold in his comedies, but we suspect that we recognize a con game in operation.  At least, we want to hear the dog talk or see the tapioca ore before we buy into such deals."  ---  All of the books mentioned above should be available from Counter Productions in the UK, or directly from the SubGenius Foundation or Loompanics Unlimited.   mathew [ (*) What do you mean I am anyway? ]