Update on Rachel Bevilacqua’s Custody Case

Press Release

Prestigious Firm To Take Comic’s Legal Case

Performance artist Rachel Bevilacqua (of the Church of the SubGenius) is being represented by the law firm of Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria LLP.
[ClickPress, Thu Mar 16 2006]

The prestigious law firm of Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria LLP has agreed to take the case of controversial comic Rachel Bevilacqua. Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria LLP specializes in First Amendment cases and has defended such high-profile clients as publisher Larry Flynt, and performer Marilyn Manson.

Bevilacqua, who performs under the name “Rev. Magdalen,” was stripped of the custody of her 10-year-old son because of pictures found on the Internet of her performances with the satirical comedy group The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. The images were from a members-only yearly SubGenius convention in upstate New York.

Rachel Bevilacqua’s blog details the full story and is online at http://rbevilacqua.blogspot.com/ .

The SubGenius Foundation Inc. (www.subgenius.com) is a satirical comedy group responsible for many publications including The Book of The SubGenius, Revelation X, Arise – The SubGenius Movie, and the Hour of Slack radio show.

Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria LLP (www.lipsitzgreen.com) is the fifth largest law firm in the City of Buffalo. They are a diversified law firm with a wide client base that ranges from individuals to large corporations.

A Planet Where Crawfish Evolved From Man?

The Third First Annual SDMEDIA.NET crawfish boil was held this past weekend. What was supposed to happen at Mission Bay Park would up happening at a friend’s house due to rain, hail, sleet, snow, and freezing wind.

The boil was a rain or shine event, but hail and freezing wind? Well, that’s what happened. it turns out that I was not the only person crazy enought to be out in the weather at this time. There was a St. Patrick’s Day 5k and 10k run scheduled for 7:45am. This picture shows some of the folks huddled under the gazebo during a hail storm. They all left around 730am, ran for an hour or so in the freezing rain, and went home. I, on the other hand, was stupid enough to stay our there in the weather until 10:00am, when I finally said “f*** it” and went with the backup plan.

Well, a friend offered his house as a backup plan, and boy howdy was it needed. Still, I was in for more surprises, when it turned out that 96% of the crawfish I ordered turned up DEAD (You can’t boil dead crawfish, bad for your health ya know). Of the 110 lbs I ordered from a company which MAY be named later, only 5 lbs was cookable.

What WAS cook-able was very good, and there were some big ole crawdaddys in the mix. After a few rounds of Hot Buttered Rum, Cornbread, spiced veggies, more hot buttered rum, and a whole mess of crawfish, everyone was happy. Except that instead of being able to ‘feast’ 35 people, I was only able to provide ‘appetizer’ plates of mudbugs. Still, I’ll try again next year, maybe even at my house, if I can get all of the videotape and other gizmos moved around.

-arg