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29th Re-Rooters Ceremony: Super PAC Rats (repuS CAP staR)

// January 8th, 2012 // No Comments » // My Blog, Re-rooters Day Ceremony

January 7, 2012, Provincetown Harbor

And the Lord appeared to Moses in the form of a burning bush + gave him…

The Ten Commandments of De-Mortaged Free Shipping

1. The Untaxed Overdogs are the Lord Thy God and thou shalt not have animal migration engineers propotoled by multi-bang bromosphere’s Sperminators;

CHANT after each: repuS CAP staR

2. Thou shalt not self-track radiated global pulse swolls pepper sprayed by on-demand glitter bombing galactic architects;

3. Thou shalt not bilk extra cellular matrix assertions re-performed by phone-hacking luxury rappers retail campaigning for bath salted otherings;

4. Thou shalt keep holy morally injured stockless organ designers repurposing the fusion centered sequestered home zoo movement;

5. Honor thy father and mother: Pee + Party;

6. Thou shalt not kill right to oblivion Neatnik Bees with eternally inflated brain recording devices dreadlocking sustainable pre-existing draughts;

7. Thou shalt not commit fracking unknown known pizza cartels dancing on free shipped speculative urine energy;

8. Thou shalt not steal actionable pharm-fresh warmists’ sentiment analysis hashtags zoned out by caffeine inhalered declinists;

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against surveillanceless offshore balancing inflated by de-mortgaged convenience reading child molesters;

10.Thou shalt not covet hypermiling baby bumped audit trailing clown fish paywalling cuddleless muddle class immolation;

Let it be known that the devils and sinners who deceive us shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beats and false prophets are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Amen

Re-Rooters Day Ceremony-Cape Cod Times-Eric Williams

// January 15th, 2011 // No Comments » // My Blog, Re-rooters Day Ceremony, Uncategorized

Here is the video from the Cape Cod Times of the 2011 Re-Rooters Day Ceremony

Re-Rooters Day- Laura Shabott

// January 11th, 2011 // No Comments » // My Blog, Re-rooters Day Ceremony

Notes from Land’s End: Jan 10
The 28th Annual Re-rooters Day Ceremony
By Laura Shabott
January 9th, 2011

Jay Critchley is certainly Provincetown’s most esoteric town treasure. He has encrusted motels with sand and created the Provincetown Community Compact which includes the famous Swim for Life and Paddle Flotilla. With a mix of performance, art and philanthropy, Critchley’s work is legendary.

His most unique event, however, takes place at the beginning of each new year. This past Friday, over twenty of Provincetown’s artists, natives and townies attended the 28th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony across from Provincetown’s Cape Inn at sunset.

People brought a symbol of release; lists of unwanted conditions, a letter expressing loss or a pack of cigarettes. The papers and unwanted objects are stuffed into the used Christmas tree, like ornaments, sitting on a raft next to the harbor’s edge.

We wait in the stillness of a winter afternoon as Jay comes out of the dunes wearing a remarkable hat and waterproof costume. Part mask and part Bishop’s hat, this headdress was crowned with a blinking light and a weathervane topped with a bird.

A handout has the words to songs like “Obama Night”, adapted to the arrangement of “O Holy Night”. We sang until Jay starts to chant his poetry stream. At the end of each impassioned paragraph, the crowd responds with “piD-elbuoD tuowolB, the pig Latin for “Double-Dip Blowout”, this year’s theme. The chorus gets louder as this Dadaist responsorial hymn transforms from nonsense to its own version of “Alleluia”.

The tree is lit and the raft pushed into the harbor by Jay and his assistants. It reminds me of the ancient Norsemen’s ritual of burying their deceased on a burning ship going out to sea. In the dark, the chilled group sings a Dickens version of “The Twelve Days of Stockpiling” set to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. We become witnesses to our cares and concerns burning up and floating away.

The Re-Rooters Day Ceremony was wildly healing. It’s remarkable to have these wondrous rituals in our fair village.

Laura Shabott, washed ashore in 1992, loves to write about Provincetown: its happenings, events and people.

28th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony

// January 8th, 2011 // No Comments » // Re-rooters Day Ceremony, T.A.C.K.I.

Cape Cod Times, Jan 8, 2011, Ron Schloerb, photographer

28th Re-Rooters Day Cerermony – Double-Dip Blowout (piD-elbuoD tuowolB)

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28th Annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony − Jan 7, 2011− Provincetown Harbor*
Double-Dip Blowout
piD-elbuoD tuowolB
And the Lord appeared to Moses in the form of a burning bush + gave him…

Ten Commandments of Pre-hab Neanderthals with Benefits
1. Textify! Textify! says the Lord Thy God and thou shalt not have visibly-oiled power beaming glass
frogs demotivating double rainbow sofalizers;
Chant after each: piD-elbuoD tuowolB
2. Thou shalt not teleport nonversational Rare Earth staph infections fakecationing as emotionally
spellchecked Gleeks;
3. Thou shalt not patdown deal-prone emergency bras cybercomming digital genetic-sequenced
volcanic ash exports;
4. Thou shalt keep holy slow driving carbon penance interbreeding with split-cam recessionista
Palin-tologists;
5. Honor thy father and thy mother: Price Bubble – Butt;
6. Thou shalt not kill unredacted porno-scanners trending up cyber-psycho New Normals
bullying probiotic celebriholics;
7. Thou shalt not commit Chi-com aftercrimes underemploying bilked Beaked Toads halfaloguing
in refudiated Pontiacs;
8. Thou shalt not steal flash crash blowout preventers Facedumping pre-hab cyberchondriac
Mama Grizzlies;
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against anti-mattered cybergenic pathways sexercising the
put-back armor t-shirted wealth divide;
10. Thou shalt not covet unputdownable mutant protein drones double dipping near future volatility
pauses on-demand.
Let it known that the devils and sinners who deceive us shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beasts and false prophets are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. AMEN.

Jay Critchley, President, International Re-Rooters Society, IRS
* In honor of my sister Eileen (1945-2010)

Re-Rooters Ceremony, 2010

// April 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Re-rooters Day Ceremony

Here is the video from this year’s Re-rooters Celebration: