From wonko@yar.cs.wisc.edu Sun May  9 12:33:50 1999
Date: 24 Jul 1995 19:24:46 GMT
From: Eric Oehler <wonko@yar.cs.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.gothic
Subject: Goths and Street Preachers

This was amusing.

I'm walking down State Street (Madison's emi-infamous downtown shopping 
district) and as there is every summer, there's a fundamentalist 
bible-banger preaching away on a corner.  This corner is where 
traditioanlly a lot of the little punks and thrasher-urchins gather, so I 
think the guy's audience was just lost, but that's sor of unimportant.

This was a prepared little show, an argument between the Preacher and a 
guy dressed in (get this) all black, an opera cape, white face paint, 
black hair, and sort of egyptiany jewelry.  In other words, this guy 
looked pretty goth.  But it was obvious that he wasn't because he was 
wearing black reeboks and not any form of boots. (well DUH.)

So here's this street preacher, looking like Ned Flanders (the 
goody-goody form the Simpson's, for those who don't know) speaking into 
his little Karaoke-amplifier thing while this false-goth swoops around 
and tries to act demonic.  The false-goth had a helluva lot more charisma 
and a better speaking voice, I'll say that much for him.

And up wander my friends and I, dressed in black and boots (although 
dammit, I was wearing jeans).  The preacher looked a bit nervous.  I had 
just passed one of the SunPrarieGoths(tm), one who looks quite vampiric, 
particularly when he's wearing fangs (which is most of the time) and was 
tempted to go find him and get him to join us and maybe intimidate the 
guy some more.  

Next time I'm going to be prepared...I'll have my friend Peter wear his 
full death-cloak with the hood up, and have him swoop in and tell teh 
preacher that death is coming for him or something equally silly.  
Probably flip the guy out.  Heh heh.

Worship not the false goths. :-)
 
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