April 3, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. 1-888-669-2323
Fax: (216) 320-9528, stang@subgenius.com

UFO CULT GATHERS IN NEW YORK FOR APOCALYPSE

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 3, 2006: The Church of the SubGenius has announced 
that the end of the world will take place on Tuesday, July 5, 2006. In 
preparation for the fulfillment of this doomsday prophecy, the Church is 
requesting that all of its members participate in a bizarre religious 
ceremony taking place in upstate New York, during the final
weekend before the arrival of the apocalypse.

Since its inception in 1953, Church founder J.R. "Bob" Dobbs has predicted 
that a fleet of flying saucers will arrive at the beginning of July to 
destroy the worldwide Conspiracy against the Church of the SubGenius, while 
all ordained SubGenius ministers will be rescued by escape vessels piloted 
by the Alien Sex Goddesses, also known as the Xists.

The Church is inviting all of its members worldwide to gather together for 
the final hours in Sherman, New York from July 1 to July 5, at a 
clothing-optional outdoor campground called Brushwood Folklore Center.

The first gathering at this compound took place in 1996, and the event has 
increased in size and participants each following year. 1998 was designated 
the first true "X-Day," and each successive year has added one to the total. 
This year's celebration in 2005 is X-Day 8, or X-Day
VIII.

The Church has been engaged in a massive recruitment campaign to increase 
the numbers of its membership before the arrival of the Xists.

According to Church records, the organization currently has approximately 
100,000 members worldwide. SubGenius recruitment has been
especially dedicated among the ranks of people who refuse to conform to the 
norms of society, including disbelievers, blasphemers, pranksters, rebels, 
hackers, pornographers, geeks, and outcasts.

The Church is seeking performers and producers from the adult entertainment 
industry in particular, because sexual freedom has been an important part of 
Church doctrine from the start. X-Day will be a
celebration of pornography and adult entertainment, and certain parts of the 
event will be restricted to adults only.

Only ordained ministers of the Church of the SubGenius are allowed at the 
event, but the Church
is accepting memberships at its standard rate of $30 up until the final 
hours of July 4.

The Church of the SubGenius has been no stranger to controversy since its 
foundation, and the upcoming X-Day celebration promises to be no
different. In the late 1980s, members of the Church were accused of 
spreading a virus in Macintosh computers known as the "Peace Virus."

Numerous articles have been written on the Church in such noteworthy 
publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired Online, Boston 
Globe, U.S. News and World Report; and broadcast reports have been produced 
by CNN and NPR. In April 1999, officials of the city of
Cambridge, Massachusetts shut down an official SubGenius Devival gathering 
in the belief that the Church was affiliated with the Trenchcoat Mafia (the 
organization blamed for the Columbine high school
shootings), though authorities later realized the association was mistaken.

In its January 1, 2000 issue, a Time magazine poll declared J.R. "Bob" Dobbs 
the biggest fraud of the 20th century.

In addition, a new controversy took place in the early months of 2006 when 
one of the Church's highest level initiates, Reverend Magdalen, came into 
conflict with the United States legal system.  She found her religious 
affiliations questioned in court, and her case has become a cause celebre 
for free speech advocates nationwide.  This case has been covered in Boing 
Boing, Fark, The Wild Hunt, and Wikinews (Wikipedia's news reporting 
service).

Detailed information about X-Day can be found on the World Wide Web at the 
X-Day Web site:

 http://www.modemac.com/x-day

The official home page of the Church of the SubGenius can be found at:

http://www.subgenius.com


Updates to Reverend Magdalen's legal case:
 http://www.modemac.com/wiki/Reverend_Magdalen

Photographers, entertainers, production companies, radio broadcasters, and 
all media producers are encouraged to contact the Church at its Cleveland, 
Ohio headquarters at 1-888-669-2323.



-- 
" For thy doubts shall cause thy fundament to be smitten, and that with my 
foot, and soundly."
nenslo