A cacophonous world.

AuthorDoherty, Brian
PositionBriefly Noted - Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society - Brief article - Book review

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Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society (Last Gasp) is a copiously--almost obsessively-documented history of a gang of arty pranksters you've likely never heard of. They celebrated man at his most ludic, least workaday, using the detritus of urban life and popular culture as their playthings. The Cacophony Society inspired or created phenomenon ranging from the novel/movie Fight Club to urban exploration, billboard alteration, the Yes Men, flash mobs, and "Santa Rampages."

I was a member of the society's Los Angeles branch in the 1990s, and Cacophony's most popular cultural outgrowth, Burning...

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