They claim to be the original impetus for Burning Man, and they also started such important urban lore as the Urban Iditarod, the Salmon Swimming Upstream at Bay to Breakers, and, my personal favorite, Clowns on a Bus (where, as you might guess, they took over a bus, dressed as clowns).

The LA Chapter was overseen by none other than The Art of Bleeding’s Reverend Al Ridenour, and in true Reverend Al style, he took things to another level altogether. Eschewing the merry and boisterous vibe that SF cultivated, they embraced slightly more subversive, politicized, and dark happenings. Examples abound, but some of my favorites include the time they protested a G.I. Joe convention (which really pissed off the convention organizers), their ‘Nihilist Shopping Excursions’ where they looked for things that represented the worst of American society, the time they went for an Easter Egg hunt in a Nazi encampment in the Santa Monica mountains, or when Reverend Al served pages of a bible up in a fricasee. For human consumption, natch.

Rev. Al more or less shut down the LA chapter in 1999, but the society lives on elsewhere in the world, in glorious messiness.

http://www.cacophony.org/

I am thus calling out for your input! What should I do with 15 inches in Detroit?

Please answer in the comments below. The best idea (eg the one that’s the raddest, while still being the most executable) will get credit and be decreed – by me – co-inchvestor of the micro-plot.

Here is an image of the plot:

Which is part of a bigger plot, dubbed Plymouth.

And which is here, in real space:

More about Loveland:

“Buy real land in Detroit for $1 a square inch and join a network of inchvestors in the new 50,000 square inch Hello World microhood. This season we’re building a virtual Bridge To Everywhere and supporting other cool projects in Detroit.”

GIVE ME ANSWERS IN COMMENTS BELOW!

With the recent BP oil spill — quite frankly — freaking me the hell out, I am lending my support and donating my money to these activists by supporting their most recent crowdsourced fundraising campaign.

They are raising funds for The Yes Lab, which is a series of brainstorms and trainings to help activist groups carry out Yes-Men-style projects on their own. There are four Yes Lab projects already in production. With your help, there could be a lot more. The goal is to raise $30,000 by the end of the summer, and they’re already just shy of $12,000.

If you help out, they’ll thank you with some seriously weird things, anything from a thank you issued ‘in a form that may scare your mother’ to ephemera from around the office, to  ‘a thrift store suit worn by The Yes Men in one of their actions, or underwater.’

I feel like it’s a good time to take this mess the world is becoming into our hands. To do that we need to take action, and support those who already are. Donate today.

This was made in support of Reboot‘s National Day of Unplugging: 24 hours of turning off the old laptop, starting at sundown, Friday, March 19. That’s today.

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