Alpha Los Alamos
From Plastic Tub
Precursor to the AARG. Circa 1993. A social club centered around the now razed Suitcase City bar Mustang Sally's in Tampa, Florida. Most of its members went on to form the AARG after it became clear that the burgeoning scope of AA research merited a more scholarly approach to its structural apparati. David Payne was a member, but his unexpected and swift flight to avoid prosecution precluded his participation in the later group. It was only through the serendipitous "love-wire" (Frazer, 62) known as the internet that he was later reunited with his now full-bore AA-soaked colleagues and was able to begin--some might say resume--his participation in the AA via Plastic Tub.
Members of the ALA lived at Prince Manor, an elaborate set-piece which, although a fully-functional apartment complex, was in fact designed to hide a Dakota Meeting Room, unbeknownst to the ALA until many years after all concerned had moved on to different locales.
Meetings mainly involved heavy drinking, fisticuffs and decoding messages from Associationalist hobo-core flag-bearer IG Farbin and the Trigger Finger Band, Mustang Sally's house band. The band, incidentally, served as couriers for the bar's rarely-seen owners. These in turn were said to represent an even more mysterious party headquartered in the Boston area.
When the bar was levelled a concrete-sealed vault was found in the foundations. After much romanitic speculation the vault was opened with some difficulty. After a twelve-hour rigamarole, broadcast live on local TV, the vault's contens were laid bare: a silver wristwatch and a rubber mask depicting Richard Nixon with a face like an owl. The meaning of these curious artifacts has never been determined, despite several scholarly articles on the subject. University of South Florida expert Martin Jewels has indicated a book on the matter is forthcoming. Excerpts leaked to the internet feature spectacular claims of devil worship and Mafia connections.
