Bohemian Grove - summer camp for the alcoholic conservative elite or land of unspeakable evil

What activities take place at the grove? The grove is the site of a two week retreat every July (as well as other smaller get-togethers throughout the year). At these retreats, the members commune with nature in a truly original way. They drink heavily from morning through the night, bask in their freedom to urinate on the redwoods, and perform pagan rituals (including the "Cremation of Care", in which the members wearing red-hooded robes, cremate a coffin effigy of "Dull Care" at the base of a 40 foot owl altar). Some (20%) engage in homosexual activity (but few of them support gay rights or AIDS research). They watch (and participate in) plays and comedy shows in which women are portrayed by male actors. Although women are not allowed in the Grove, members often leave at night to enjoy the company of the many prostitutes who come from around the world for this event. Is any of this hard to believe? Employees of the Grove have said that no verbal description can accurately portray the bizarre behavior of the Grove's inhabitants.  

Besides this type of merriment. the annual gathering serves as an informational clearing house for the elite. The most powerful men in the country do their "networking" here, despite the Grove's motto "weaving spiders come not here" (don't do business in the Grove). At these gatherings men representing the government, military-industrial, and financial sectors meet and make major policy decisions. The Manhattan project, which produced the first atomic bombs, was conceived at the Grove in 1942. Other decisions made at the Grove include who our presidential candidates will be. There are speeches, known as "Lakeside Talks", wherein high-ranking officials disseminate information which is not available to the public-at-large.

That's on a different part of the Russian River.
I assume you mean Guerneville? I grew up in Sonoma County, and that would be the place for "Eyes Wide Shut but with nothing but fat hairy guys".

Guerneville/Petaluma/Bolinas are actually all quite the settled-down lesbian enclaves, in a Pynchon circa Vineland/Tom Hawkins circa Wanda Tinasky circa Anderson Valley Advertiser sort of way.

Sonoma County has a reasonable mix of gays throughout, together with some of the worst redneck homophobe types you'll meet in this part of the country. It balances out, I guess. I'm up in Mendocino for now, though.

I finished Helter Skelter over the weekend, and was surprised to find that a possible Manson Family murder was committed near Guerneville.

Also, gygax!, did you know that Charlie is thetan/clear or whatever?

killing spree, obv.

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Can I could see. Eric Matthews? haw, haw.

oh SexyD, I still have to get my big box of Jandek. I might do it this month or next, now that the new album is out. Should I write him a check? Will he (Sterling Smith) endorse it himself? I would so keep that as a souviner if he did.

Jack London (another imbiber) was an early member.

This is bullshit, something only a fool would believe. The majority of the original scientists on the project were people who would be of the most unwelcome sort at Bohemian Grove.

Sounds like this is a hunting group within the Bohemian Club:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-scalia-spent-his-last-hours-with-members-of-this-secretive-society-of-elite-hunters/2016/02/24/1d77af38-db20-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html

scalia probably died doing shitloads of blow and fucking trafficked pre-teens

with this Eyes Wide Shut lot

I sure hope there's more to come.

Kevin, who worked on the maintenance crew for two summers, remembered Henry Kissinger making a cameo in a play that featured a stoner character literally named Toker. “At one point, Kissinger, wearing a big, long-haired wig and a tie-dye shirt, comes stumbling out of Toker’s trailer followed by a huge billow of smoke. He says in a deadpan voice, ‘I never inhaled’. The audience laughed quite a bit.”

http://gawker.com/my-summer-job-at-the-bohemian-grove-serving-milkshakes-1763551409

Nice to read that Jeb Bush pulled the classic asshole move when told he couldn't get what he wanted when he wanted it: "Do you know who I am?"

I've been saying this for years: Ken Burns sucks and he always has

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/ken-burns-justice-clarence-thomas-photo-1235597073/

The photo appeared in a ProPublica article published Friday that described previously unknown details about the relationship between Thomas and Koch, claiming that Thomas attended at least two donor events for the Koch’s libertarian political network and was asked to speak to encourage donations. Burns is not mentioned in the article, other than appearing in the lead photo, which the article says was taken at the Bohemian Grove, an all-men’s retreat in Northern California.

Hard to wash that stench off.

I think most of my problem with Bohemian Grove is that I never get invited

Maybe the invitation got lost in the mail.

Isn't Ken Burns just an 'executive producer' now? I don't think he's done any actual work for years

I'm an actual bohemian, I should be a shoo-in

exactly, I can roll around naked in the forest at least as well as clarence thomas can, let me in

brb writing a short story called “Why hasn’t Bohemian Grove burned down yet?”