Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Church of the SubGenius may not be a household name across the country, but beginning in the early 1970s, a pair of ...

Sandy K. Boone tells the surprising tale of a Texas-born fake religion in 'J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius.' By THR Staff I first learned of the Church of the SubGenius in a small ...

“The World Ends Tomorrow and YOU MAY DIE!” So begins SubGenius Pamphlet #1, the mysterious missive that launched J.R. “Bob” Dobbs into the cultural consciousness. The story of the unlikely creation of ...

Editor’s note: Take a look back in The Dallas Morning News Archives. “If you don’t already have Bob in your life — or if you’ve never even heard of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs — then concentrate real hard on ...

Exclusive: Sandy K. Boone's new film looks at how a fake church in Texas became way more real than anyone involved could have possibly imagined. The Church of the SubGenius may not be a household name ...

This diverting enough documentary focuses on the parodic religious "cult" that reached peak hipster awareness in the 1980s. Like 8mm films of 1960s “happenings” or videos of 1970s performance art, ...

The Church of the SubGenius may not be a household name across the country, but beginning in the early 1970s, a pair of enterprising Texas-area satirists turned one wildly overt religious experiment ...

You couldn’t escape his ubiquitous mug back when Austin was truly weird. It appeared on bumper stickers, bulletin boards, telephone poles, streetlights, bathroom walls, and more: A perfectly coiffed ...