awwwwww i dug the superwonderfunker ass shakin', good vibe. i know that role well, what's involved with the Karma Patrol and it's WEF energy? isn't WEF just one event of superfunk wonder? WHAT'S GOING ON TyleR???? does KP involve patroling to find people that aren't feeling superwonderful and FunK 'em uP?

sorry for the confusion Chris, it's just Karma patrol.
This tribe was originally called superwonderfunkers.

Ok, as one of the founding members of the First Apostolic Church of Chaos Maybe (FACoCM), the originators of the Kiss Chaos theme in 1988, which was vetoed in an unpleasant way by the director only to resurface (unbeknownst to us it had become kind of an underground cause celebre) as a theme many years later, resulting in the renaming of KP to CC, which REALLY pissed off a lot of my fellow old timers who, thankfully, didn't really know my part in it so I escaped any haranguing, I'd like to clear something up.

When we came up with the theme, we did not mean Chaos in the sense of anarchy/disorder. The founding members of the FACoCM (Joseph Malki, Stephen Telm, Mark Krowdis and myself) were big fans of the emerging science surrounding what was called Chaos Theory, which was finding order in previously considered unorder/turbulent things. To us, and I can't really speak for anyone else, but since we were the originators of the theme which started this whole mess, our opinions might be of some interest, it was a statement of a higher order...a non-linear, dynamic order. Sadly many people, including the director that year who, after it won fair and square, threatened to resign if we chose that theme, didn't get it.

Furthermore, and I'm speaking just for myself, I think the whole idea of renaming the KP Chaos Control is absurd. Personally, I don't like the word Control and found it inappropriate in application to the cadre of people who do that voodoo we all know so well and bring forth that wonderful entity known as the Festival. I like the name KP, but I'm not wedded to it as others are...it's just kind of habit to call it that...and I'm not really against renaming it...in fact I kind of like Superwonderfunkin'. It's the whole Control wordage I couldn't stomach. It makes us out to be kind of like cops or some kind of BDSM thing (which might be kind of cool, if one year all KP'ers wore black latex and carried whips...oh, sorry...).

Anyways, I thought I'd put a little history behind the thing in case someone was interested.

And while I liked Superwonderfunk as a theme, my personal favorite was "Just Do it." in 93, when the Director let Nike sponsor the Festival.