Incidentalist Dead Flesh Bonanza

From Plastic Tub

Annual Incidentalist Barbecue held since the late Sixties. No one is sure when the first was held, but it was almost certainly a way to chill out in the wake of the strife resulting from the 3rd AA International Conference. Currently cookin' up the goods every last Saturday in August, it attracts up to 500 visitors each year. Mazzistow Carrington edged out Verna Cable at last year's chili cook-off, but the competition is as hot as the chili.

The sack race, egg toss and pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey are still popular activities, though since 1990 they've been held earlier in the day to combat the effects of drunkenness.

Stimes Addisson fell of a dock at the 1990 Bonanza and fractured his hip. The hip, though one of many ailments which plagued Addisson in his later years, never seemed to slow him down. "Make way for the gimp!" was his favorite expression when confronted with a queue, usually accompanied with a brandished cane.

The Bonanza was last held in August 2004 in Tampa at the residence of early AARG cohort Douglas Coyle. Current AA partisans Tim Wilson, Steven Vogeler, Krystine Monitzer and Steven Adkins attended the shindig with bells on, literally. Shaped like little dreidls, these playful objects spun like the beards on a belly dancer--that is to say, counter-clockwise. The bells, in addition to warding off mosquitos, commemorated the creation of the golem as described in the Poobinomicon, and added a delightful jingle-jangle to the rough and tumble of the three-legged race and the wheelbarrow. A watermelon weighing 13 pounds was ritually consumed.