Anecdotal festival story involving Amish sect, biker gang drugs, and fringe religious leader

distributing cocaine they bought from a biker gang, the Pagans, one of whose members was a police informer. The two men were from a particularly conservative Amish sect, where not only electricity and tractors were forbidden, but even zippers. Did the sight of those Amish-tempting zippers on the Pagans’ leather motorcycle jackets serve as a gateway drug to cocaine? Speaking of illegal drugs, at the festival | came across the only individual I’ ve ever met who had actually hallucinated on toad slime. | pictured him as a young lad with a tadpole in his pocket, and now as a grown man with a frog in his pocket. | also met Reverend Ivan Stang, leader of the infamous Church of the SubGenius. He talked about “how to milk the Internet for all it’ s worth, and get away with murder, before the Conspiracy figures out how to spoil it for us.”. But Stang was in deep embarrassment mode, since this was only a couple of weeks after the failure of his widely circulated prediction that, on July 5th at 7 a.m., Pleasure Saucers would descend to Earth as part of the great “Rupture” and take away all those SubGeniuses who had paid $30 for the privilege. The festival climaxed with its traditional 50-foot-diameter, 25-foot- high bonfire, constructed during the week with the aid of a derrick. On HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015222