Welcome to the web page for the Society for Outlandish Thoughts (SOT). We have been serving the outlandish community since our inaugural conference on October 17, 1999 in the Castaways Lounge in Edmonton, Alberta. At this original meeting, we elected Samantha Hedgerick as our president for the coming year and developed three subcommittees: Groundlings and Gross Disparities, Eventual Spontaneity, and All Things Culinary. We also voted on the SOT charter and established a timetable for the organization of our next meeting (time and location TBA).
Please return to this web site for future updates concerning various beSOTted activities throughout the year.
Outlandish Thoughts from the October 1999 Meeting
What is behind the door? The SOT should initiate a series of installations behind blank doors in various large and small metropolitan areas. The GGD committee is putting together a plan.
(YES--8 votes, NO--0 votes, ABSTAIN--6 votes)
Pneumatic tube networks were crushed by a conspiracy among the railroad companies. This is technology with great potential--a sad casualty to corporate whimsy.
(YES--10 votes, NO--2 votes, ABSTAIN--2 votes)
Waste is only a problem when it falls outside of ritual.
(YES--11 votes, NO--1 votes, ABSTAIN--3 votes)
Computers have changed nothing.
(YES--1 votes, NO--0 votes, ABSTAIN--13 votes)
Structure exists only in the figments of our collective imagination. Actively seeking out structure can only result in its premature demise and accelerate entropy. We must culivate a subconscious collective experience.
(YES--5 votes, NO--4 votes, ABSTAIN--5 votes)
- Everybody wants to write a novel.
(YES--8 votes, NO--6 votes, ABSTAIN--0 votes)
- "Nature" is inextricable from its ill-defined opposite.
(YES--4 votes, NO--0 votes, ABSTAIN--6 votes)