Subculture Vulture

A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics Anonymous, by the hilarious stand-up comic Moshe Kasher After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: what's next? Over the ensuing decades, he found his way to the answer: a lot. There was his time as a boy-king of Alcoholics Anonymous, a kind of pubescent proselytizer for other teens getting and staying sober. He was a rave promoter turned DJ turned sober Ecstasy dealer in San Francisco's techno warehouse party scene of the 1990's. For fifteen years he worked as a psychedelic security guard at Burning Man, fishing hippies out of hidden chambers they'd constructed to try and sneak into the event. As a child of deaf parents, he became deeply immersed in deaf culture and sign language interpretation, translating everything from end of life care to horny deaf clients' attempts to