The Spectacle
an anarcho-geek power hour
6 months ago

Secret third places

Geekfest, a history of east bay punk, and notes on finding each other

We talk with old pal Dan Abbot of Bobby joe Ebola about Geekfest. The freaky music festival organized by literal children in the bay area in the 90s borne out of an increasingly insular punk subculture in the wake of Green Day blowing up the spot. We also discuss Temporary Autonomous Zones, what happened to make Burning Man go from something anarchistic to its current form, and how to find each other flesh-world style in arguably the most alienated age in human history.

Dan can be found on twitter and insta at @ProfessorPlague and you can check his band Bobby joe Ebola and the children McNuggets patreon https://www.patreon.com/BobbyJoeEbola/about Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find prints, shirts and stickers that they make on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung

This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness.

Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.