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- IS THIS CREEPY REAL-LIFE SECRET SOCIETY THE KEY TO TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2?BY JOANNA ROBSONJULY 6, 2015A PRIVATE ROAD LEADG TO THE BOHEMIAN CLUB MONTE R.FROM BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE’S A STRANGE ALLURE TO TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2, EVEN FOR THOSE WHO AREN’T ENJOYG VERY MUCH. BEYOND THE FLEETG THRILL OF SEEG A MA CHARACTER POTENTIALLY KICK THE BUCKET (ONLY TO BE IMMEDIATELY RCATED), LI THE EPER FASCATN WH WHY SEASON 2 IS FAILG TO LAND WH MANY VIEWERS WHEN SEASON 1 WAS SUCH A CULTURAL PHENOMENON. IT’S BEGNG TO SEEM LIKE SEASON 1’S LITE, WNG BALANCE OF OCCULT MYSTERY AND HUMANIST PHILOSOPHY MAY HAVE E OM THE LIGHTNG--A-BOTTLE MIX OF MATTHEW MCCONGHEY, WOODY HARRELSON, DIRECTOR CARY FUNAGA, AND CREATOR NIC PIZZOLATTO. WH ONLY ONE OF THOSE FOUR PUZZLE PIEC BACK PLACE FOR SEASON 2, THE BALANCE IS OFF.BUT IF ’S JT OCCULT MYSTERY AND BREAD-CMB TRAILS YOU WANT, TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2 HAS THAT SPAS. AND THREE EPISOS TO THIS SEASON, EVINCE IS STACKG UP THAT ORR TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE ATH OF BEN CASPERE AND THE ROTTEN, TERNNECTED RPTN OF VCI, CALIFORNIA, WE’RE GOG TO HAVE TO LOOK TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND A REAL-LIFE SECRET SOCIETY THAT EXISTS THERE TO THIS DAY: THE BOHEMIAN GROVE. TUCKED AWAY THE REDWOODS OF SONOMA COUNTY, THE MYSTER SUMMERTIME RETREAT BOASTS A ROSTER OF POWERFUL, LAND-YOUR-PRIVATE-PLANE-AT-A-TY-LOL-AIRPORT, ELE MEMBERS AND HAS PROMPTED CUR SPECULATN AND TRATED VTIGATNS EVER SCE WAS FOUND OVER 130 YEARS AGO. HERE ARE FIVE WAYS PIZZOLATTO HAS MA A STRONG NNECTN TO THE BOHEMIAN GROVE AND HOW ULD HELP UNLOCK THE MYSTERI OF TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2.LOTN, LOTN, LOTN: ANY SHARP-EARED NORTHERN CALIFORNIAN WILL HAVE NOTICED THAT THE TY TOWN OF GUERNEVILLE (POPULATN 4,534) WAS MENTNED TWICE EPISO 2. ONCE NNECTN WH ANTIGONE’S FATHER’S CULT, THE GOOD PEOPLE (”COMMUNE AROUND GUERNEVILLE THE LATE 70S, 80S. HIPPIE SH.“), AND AGA AS THE LAST-KNOWN LOTN FOR THE MISSG GIRL SHE’S TRYG TO TRACK DOWN (”THE LL ME OM A GUERNEVILLE ADDRS,” HER PARTNER SAID). SORRY, PL, I DON’T THK ’S GUERNEVILLE’S GAY-IENDLY REPUTATN WE SHOULD BE LOOKG OUT FOR. BUT GUS WHAT’S JT 12 MUT OM GUERNEVILLE? THAT’S RIGHT, THE BOHEMIAN GROVE. THE MISSG GIRL’S -WORKERS TOLD ANI EPISO 1 THAT SHE LEFT TO WORK THE “CLUB CIRCU” SOMEWHERE SONOMA COUNTY. THE BOHEMIAN GROVE HIR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO STAFF THEIR SUMMER GATHERGS EVERY YEAR SO THIS ULD BE WHERE THE MISSG WOMAN WH OBV TI TO ANI’S FATHER HAS DISAPPEARED TO.FRIENDS HIGH PLAC: THE BOHEMIAN GROVE’S MYSTIQUE IS DUE, LARGE PART, TO THE LIBER OF S FAMO MEMBERS WHO ARE UALLY RICH, WHE, AND REPUBLIN AND ALWAYS MALE. SOME NOTABLE BOHOS (AS THEY’RE LLED) CLU WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, GEE H.W. BH, GEE W. BH, DICK CHENEY, CALV COOLIDGE, WALTER CRONKE, BG CROSBY, CLT EASTWOOD, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, GERALD FORD, BARRY GOLDWATER, CHARLTON HTON, HERBERT HOOVER, HENRY KISSGER, JACK LONDON, STEVE MILLER, ROBERT MONDAVI, JOHN MUIR, COL POWELL, RONALD REAGAN, NELSON ROCKEFELLER, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, KARL ROVE, DONALD RUMSFELD, AND MARK TWA. TO JO THE BOHEMIAN CLUB, YOU MT EHER BE VED BY SEVERAL MEMBERS, OR WA FOR S. ONCE YOU’RE , THERE’S THE $25,000 IATN FEE AND THE HEFTY YEARLY DU.IN THE REALM OF THE FICTNAL TE DETECTIVE UNIVERSE, WE HAVE NOW SEEN PHOTOS OF MAYOR AT CHSANI POSG WH GEE W. BH BOTH HIS OFFICE AND HIS HOME. DEPENDG ON WHO YOU ASK, THE BOHEMIAN GROVE IS EHER A HOTBED OF PRAVED, OCCULT BACCHANALIA (MORE ON THAT LATER) OR THE ULTIMATE PRIVATE LOTN FOR BACK-ROOM ALS. (THE MANHATTAN PROJECT WAS ALLEGEDLY NCEIVED THERE 1942.) THE TTH IS PROBABLY SOMEWHERE THE MIDDLE, BUT SUFFICE TO SAY THAT THE GROVE IS FELY KNOWN FOR S PARTI. IN EPISO 3, CHSANI’S SON TOLD DETECTIVE BEZZERIS HE PLANS ALL KDS OF PARTI, AND HIS CURRENT WIFE TELLS OFFICER WOODGH SHE MET HER HBAND AT A PARTY. SO HERE WE HAVE A PARTY-LOVG MAYOR WH POWERFUL, WHE, REPUBLIN IENDS, A HISTORY WH MD-ALTERG DGS, AND TI TO VCE VGHN, COL FARRELL, AND NOW (BEE HE’S GOT A VENTTA AGAST HER) RACHEL MCADAMS. NO BETTER NDIDATE TO BE AT THE CENTER OF A BOHEMIAN GROVE–QUE MYSTERY.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHMARK RONSON CLAPS BACK AT BILL MAHER OVER BARBIE BY CHRIS MURPHYANIMAL IMAGERY: ONE OF THE MORE STARTLG PHYSIL FEATUR OF THE BOHEMIAN GROVE IS A 40-FOOT OWL STATUE THAT LOOMS OVER THE LAKE. THE OWL SHRE SERV AS THE BACKDROP OF THE YEARLY CREMATN OF CARE CEREMONY. AT ONE POT THE GROVE’S HISTORY, WALTER CRONKE REPORTEDLY RERD THE VOICE OF THE OWL FOR THE ANNUAL CEREMONY. ACRDG TO FAMED NSPIRACY THEORIST ALEX JON, WHO FILTRATED THE BOHEMIAN GROVE 2000 WH A MERA CREW, THE CREMATN OF CARE CEREMONY IS AN OCCULT EVENT HONORG THE ANCIENT GOD MOLOCH. HOWEVER WHILE DOCUMENTG JON’S VTIGATN FOR HIS THE SECRET RULERS OF THE WORLD SERI, JOURNALIST JON RONSON TERVIEWED EDIAN AND FORMER GROVE ATTENE HARRY SHEARER, WHO SAID THE CEREMONY WAS JT HARMLS THEATRICS. BUT EHER WAY, A REPLI OF THE FOOTAGE JON PTURED OF ATTEN DRSED ROB AND BURNG AN EFFIGY AT THE FOOT OF THE GIANT STONE OWL WOULD MAKE FOR STRIKG TELEVISN THAT MIGHT EVEN RIVAL THE YELLOW KG CARSA.WHATEVER THE TTH ABOUT THE GROVE MAY BE, A REFERENCE TO THE OWL STATUE ULD BE THE REASON WHY WE KEEP SEEG BIRD IMAGERY POP UP EVERYWHERE THIS SEASON. IT’S NOT JT THAT RAVEN-HEAD SHOOTER OM LAST WEEK, THERE WERE BIRDS RICK SPRGFIELD’S OFFICE, CHSANI’S OFFICE, ON THE TOTEM POLE OUTSI THE PANTIPAM INSTUTE, AND THE BEN CASPERE SOUND-PROOF SEX BUNGALOW. IF WE’RE UNTG DUCKS, EVEN RAY VELRO’S DAD HAD A BIRD FIGURE HIS HOE AND HIS BTER LE OF, “NO UNTRY FOR WHE MEN,” EPISO 3 ULD EASILY BE MISTAKEN FOR THE BOHEMIAN GROVE MOTTO.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHMARK RONSON CLAPS BACK AT BILL MAHER OVER BARBIE BY CHRIS MURPHYIT’S ALL CONNECTED: THERE ARE A UPLE WAYS THE NNECTN ASPECT APPLI HERE. FIRST OF ALL, THERE ARE SOME CRICS WHO BELIEVE THAT THE SEASON 2 MYSTERY OF TE DETECTIVE MIGHT TIE BACK TO SEASON 1. (THIS KD OF SURPRISE NNECTN WORKED REALLY WELL FOR FARGO LAST YEAR.) IF THAT’S THE SE, I ULD EASILY SEE REVEREND TUTTLE OM SEASON 1 FOLDG TO A BOHEMIAN GROVE NSPIRACY.BUT MORE LERALLY, THIS SEASON OF TE DETECTIVE IS ALL ABOUT A TRANSPORTATN PROJECT THAT WILL NNECT SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. (THAT’S WHY BEN CASPERE’S G.P.S. REVEALS HE WAS SUTG OUT LOTNS UP NORTH NEAR MONTEREY, FRNO, AND GILROY.) PIZZOLATTO HTED TO VANY FAIR THAT HE BASED VCI, THE SOUTHERN ANCHOR OF THE STORY, ON THE REAL-LIFE LOTN OF VERNON, CALIFORNIA. SOME SPECULATE HE ALSO BASED THE MYSTERY OF SEASON 1 ON A REAL-LIFE SE OUT OF LOUISIANA. DON’T MAKE SENSE, THEN, THAT THE NORTHERN ANCHOR OF SEASON 2 WOULD HAVE A REAL-LIFE UNTERPART AS WELL? AND DON’T THE BOHEMIAN GROVE JT OUTSI OF GUERNEVILLE PERFECTLY F THE BILL?FSTRATED MASCULY: SO IF PIZZOLATTO IS TRYG TO EVOKE THE BOHEMIAN GROVE SEASON 2, WHAT’S ALL ABOUT? WELL, IF WE WERE TO PPOT ONE THEME THE SERI SEEMS TO BE HTG PRETTY HARD THIS YEAR WOULD BE TRATED MASCULY: OM FRANK SEMYON’S IMPOTENCE AND POSSIBLE FERTILY, TO PL WOODGH’S SELF-HATRED SURROUNDG HIS HOMOSEXUALY, TO RAY VELRO’S UTTER FAILURE AS A FATHER AND HBAND, TO THE PENIS ENVY ON ANI BEZZERIS (WHAT, YOU MISSED THE PART WHERE SHE SAID SHE ARMED HERSELF WH KNIV TO BE MORE LIKE ONE OF THE GUYS?). AND IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT BASTNS OR TRATED MASCULY, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE BOHEMIAN GROVE.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHMARK RONSON CLAPS BACK AT BILL MAHER OVER BARBIE BY CHRIS MURPHYTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN FOUR HONORARY FEMALE MEMBERS THE GROUP’S HISTORY (CLUDG THE CLUB’S LIBRARIAN!), NO WOMAN HAS EVER BEEN GIVEN FULL MEMBERSHIP TO THE BOHEMIAN CLUB. WOMEN ARE ALLOWED AS DAYTIME GUTS OF THE GROVE, BUT THEY’RE NOT ALLOWED TO THE UPPER FLOORS OF THE CY CLUB NOR ARE THEY ALLOWED TO ATTEND THE MA SUMMER ENMPMENT AT THE GROVE. THE BOHOS WERE SUED 1979 FOR NOT HIRG WOMEN AND THE SE WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT WHO LED, 1986, THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO START HIRG WOMEN AT THE GROVE. IN SHORT, THE BOHEMIAN GROVE IS THE VERY FN OF THE OLD BOYS’ CLUB. HOW CLEVER, THEN, IF NIC PIZZOLATTO WERE TO E THIS LOTN TO ADDRS THE MALE-DRIVEN SS HE WAS ACCED OF DULGG LAST YEAR. IT’S CLEAR OM A FEW ROCKY L OF DIALOGUE THAT PIZZOLATTO IS TRYG TO DIRECTLY ADDRS THE GENR CRICISMS OM SEASON 1. COULD STRIKG AT THE HEART OF A FICTNAL BOHEMIAN GROVE BE THE ULTIMATE WAY TO SHOW HIS CRICS, ONCE AND FOR ALL, WHICH SI OF THE GENR WAR HE FIGHTS FOR? MAYBE, MAYBE NOT. BUT ONE THG IS FOR CERTA: THIS ISN’T THE LAST WE’VE HEARD OM THE MYSTER GOGS-ON NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. AS FOR THE GROVE SELF? I HOPE YOU HAVE YOUR BIRD FIGUR READY BEE THE 2015 SSN STARTS ON JULY 10.TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BOHEMIAN GROVE, READ ALEX SHOUMATOFF'S 2009 VANY FAIR VTIGATN.JOANNA ROBSON
- THE ‘FAGGY’ BOHEMIAN GROVE: SATANISM, RENT BOYS AND GAY I
IS THIS CREEPY REAL-LIFE SECRET SOCIETY THE KEY TO TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2?BY JOANNA ROBSONJULY 6, 2015A PRIVATE ROAD LEADG TO THE BOHEMIAN CLUB MONTE R.FROM BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE’S A STRANGE ALLURE TO TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2, EVEN FOR THOSE WHO AREN’T ENJOYG VERY MUCH. BEYOND THE FLEETG THRILL OF SEEG A MA CHARACTER POTENTIALLY KICK THE BUCKET (ONLY TO BE IMMEDIATELY RCATED), LI THE EPER FASCATN WH WHY SEASON 2 IS FAILG TO LAND WH MANY VIEWERS WHEN SEASON 1 WAS SUCH A CULTURAL PHENOMENON. IT’S BEGNG TO SEEM LIKE SEASON 1’S LITE, WNG BALANCE OF OCCULT MYSTERY AND HUMANIST PHILOSOPHY MAY HAVE E OM THE LIGHTNG--A-BOTTLE MIX OF MATTHEW MCCONGHEY, WOODY HARRELSON, DIRECTOR CARY FUNAGA, AND CREATOR NIC PIZZOLATTO. WH ONLY ONE OF THOSE FOUR PUZZLE PIEC BACK PLACE FOR SEASON 2, THE BALANCE IS OFF.BUT IF ’S JT OCCULT MYSTERY AND BREAD-CMB TRAILS YOU WANT, TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2 HAS THAT SPAS. AND THREE EPISOS TO THIS SEASON, EVINCE IS STACKG UP THAT ORR TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE ATH OF BEN CASPERE AND THE ROTTEN, TERNNECTED RPTN OF VCI, CALIFORNIA, WE’RE GOG TO HAVE TO LOOK TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND A REAL-LIFE SECRET SOCIETY THAT EXISTS THERE TO THIS DAY: THE BOHEMIAN GROVE. TUCKED AWAY THE REDWOODS OF SONOMA COUNTY, THE MYSTER SUMMERTIME RETREAT BOASTS A ROSTER OF POWERFUL, LAND-YOUR-PRIVATE-PLANE-AT-A-TY-LOL-AIRPORT, ELE MEMBERS AND HAS PROMPTED CUR SPECULATN AND TRATED VTIGATNS EVER SCE WAS FOUND OVER 130 YEARS AGO. HERE ARE FIVE WAYS PIZZOLATTO HAS MA A STRONG NNECTN TO THE BOHEMIAN GROVE AND HOW ULD HELP UNLOCK THE MYSTERI OF TE DETECTIVE SEASON 2.LOTN, LOTN, LOTN: ANY SHARP-EARED NORTHERN CALIFORNIAN WILL HAVE NOTICED THAT THE TY TOWN OF GUERNEVILLE (POPULATN 4,534) WAS MENTNED TWICE EPISO 2. ONCE NNECTN WH ANTIGONE’S FATHER’S CULT, THE GOOD PEOPLE (”COMMUNE AROUND GUERNEVILLE THE LATE 70S, 80S. HIPPIE SH.“), AND AGA AS THE LAST-KNOWN LOTN FOR THE MISSG GIRL SHE’S TRYG TO TRACK DOWN (”THE LL ME OM A GUERNEVILLE ADDRS,” HER PARTNER SAID). SORRY, PL, I DON’T THK ’S GUERNEVILLE’S GAY-IENDLY REPUTATN WE SHOULD BE LOOKG OUT FOR. BUT GUS WHAT’S JT 12 MUT OM GUERNEVILLE? THAT’S RIGHT, THE BOHEMIAN GROVE. THE MISSG GIRL’S -WORKERS TOLD ANI EPISO 1 THAT SHE LEFT TO WORK THE “CLUB CIRCU” SOMEWHERE SONOMA COUNTY. THE BOHEMIAN GROVE HIR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO STAFF THEIR SUMMER GATHERGS EVERY YEAR SO THIS ULD BE WHERE THE MISSG WOMAN WH OBV TI TO ANI’S FATHER HAS DISAPPEARED TO.FRIENDS HIGH PLAC: THE BOHEMIAN GROVE’S MYSTIQUE IS DUE, LARGE PART, TO THE LIBER OF S FAMO MEMBERS WHO ARE UALLY RICH, WHE, AND REPUBLIN AND ALWAYS MALE. SOME NOTABLE BOHOS (AS THEY’RE LLED) CLU WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, GEE H.W. BH, GEE W. BH, DICK CHENEY, CALV COOLIDGE, WALTER CRONKE, BG CROSBY, CLT EASTWOOD, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, GERALD FORD, BARRY GOLDWATER, CHARLTON HTON, HERBERT HOOVER, HENRY KISSGER, JACK LONDON, STEVE MILLER, ROBERT MONDAVI, JOHN MUIR, COL POWELL, RONALD REAGAN, NELSON ROCKEFELLER, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, KARL ROVE, DONALD RUMSFELD, AND MARK TWA. TO JO THE BOHEMIAN CLUB, YOU MT EHER BE VED BY SEVERAL MEMBERS, OR WA FOR S. ONCE YOU’RE , THERE’S THE $25,000 IATN FEE AND THE HEFTY YEARLY DU.IN THE REALM OF THE FICTNAL TE DETECTIVE UNIVERSE, WE HAVE NOW SEEN PHOTOS OF MAYOR AT CHSANI POSG WH GEE W. BH BOTH HIS OFFICE AND HIS HOME. DEPENDG ON WHO YOU ASK, THE BOHEMIAN GROVE IS EHER A HOTBED OF PRAVED, OCCULT BACCHANALIA (MORE ON THAT LATER) OR THE ULTIMATE PRIVATE LOTN FOR BACK-ROOM ALS. (THE MANHATTAN PROJECT WAS ALLEGEDLY NCEIVED THERE 1942.) THE TTH IS PROBABLY SOMEWHERE THE MIDDLE, BUT SUFFICE TO SAY THAT THE GROVE IS FELY KNOWN FOR S PARTI. IN EPISO 3, CHSANI’S SON TOLD DETECTIVE BEZZERIS HE PLANS ALL KDS OF PARTI, AND HIS CURRENT WIFE TELLS OFFICER WOODGH SHE MET HER HBAND AT A PARTY. SO HERE WE HAVE A PARTY-LOVG MAYOR WH POWERFUL, WHE, REPUBLIN IENDS, A HISTORY WH MD-ALTERG DGS, AND TI TO VCE VGHN, COL FARRELL, AND NOW (BEE HE’S GOT A VENTTA AGAST HER) RACHEL MCADAMS. NO BETTER NDIDATE TO BE AT THE CENTER OF A BOHEMIAN GROVE–QUE MYSTERY.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHMARK RONSON CLAPS BACK AT BILL MAHER OVER BARBIE BY CHRIS MURPHYANIMAL IMAGERY: ONE OF THE MORE STARTLG PHYSIL FEATUR OF THE BOHEMIAN GROVE IS A 40-FOOT OWL STATUE THAT LOOMS OVER THE LAKE. THE OWL SHRE SERV AS THE BACKDROP OF THE YEARLY CREMATN OF CARE CEREMONY. AT ONE POT THE GROVE’S HISTORY, WALTER CRONKE REPORTEDLY RERD THE VOICE OF THE OWL FOR THE ANNUAL CEREMONY. ACRDG TO FAMED NSPIRACY THEORIST ALEX JON, WHO FILTRATED THE BOHEMIAN GROVE 2000 WH A MERA CREW, THE CREMATN OF CARE CEREMONY IS AN OCCULT EVENT HONORG THE ANCIENT GOD MOLOCH. HOWEVER WHILE DOCUMENTG JON’S VTIGATN FOR HIS THE SECRET RULERS OF THE WORLD SERI, JOURNALIST JON RONSON TERVIEWED EDIAN AND FORMER GROVE ATTENE HARRY SHEARER, WHO SAID THE CEREMONY WAS JT HARMLS THEATRICS. BUT EHER WAY, A REPLI OF THE FOOTAGE JON PTURED OF ATTEN DRSED ROB AND BURNG AN EFFIGY AT THE FOOT OF THE GIANT STONE OWL WOULD MAKE FOR STRIKG TELEVISN THAT MIGHT EVEN RIVAL THE YELLOW KG CARSA.WHATEVER THE TTH ABOUT THE GROVE MAY BE, A REFERENCE TO THE OWL STATUE ULD BE THE REASON WHY WE KEEP SEEG BIRD IMAGERY POP UP EVERYWHERE THIS SEASON. IT’S NOT JT THAT RAVEN-HEAD SHOOTER OM LAST WEEK, THERE WERE BIRDS RICK SPRGFIELD’S OFFICE, CHSANI’S OFFICE, ON THE TOTEM POLE OUTSI THE PANTIPAM INSTUTE, AND THE BEN CASPERE SOUND-PROOF SEX BUNGALOW. IF WE’RE UNTG DUCKS, EVEN RAY VELRO’S DAD HAD A BIRD FIGURE HIS HOE AND HIS BTER LE OF, “NO UNTRY FOR WHE MEN,” EPISO 3 ULD EASILY BE MISTAKEN FOR THE BOHEMIAN GROVE MOTTO.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHMARK RONSON CLAPS BACK AT BILL MAHER OVER BARBIE BY CHRIS MURPHYIT’S ALL CONNECTED: THERE ARE A UPLE WAYS THE NNECTN ASPECT APPLI HERE. FIRST OF ALL, THERE ARE SOME CRICS WHO BELIEVE THAT THE SEASON 2 MYSTERY OF TE DETECTIVE MIGHT TIE BACK TO SEASON 1. (THIS KD OF SURPRISE NNECTN WORKED REALLY WELL FOR FARGO LAST YEAR.) IF THAT’S THE SE, I ULD EASILY SEE REVEREND TUTTLE OM SEASON 1 FOLDG TO A BOHEMIAN GROVE NSPIRACY.BUT MORE LERALLY, THIS SEASON OF TE DETECTIVE IS ALL ABOUT A TRANSPORTATN PROJECT THAT WILL NNECT SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. (THAT’S WHY BEN CASPERE’S G.P.S. REVEALS HE WAS SUTG OUT LOTNS UP NORTH NEAR MONTEREY, FRNO, AND GILROY.) PIZZOLATTO HTED TO VANY FAIR THAT HE BASED VCI, THE SOUTHERN ANCHOR OF THE STORY, ON THE REAL-LIFE LOTN OF VERNON, CALIFORNIA. SOME SPECULATE HE ALSO BASED THE MYSTERY OF SEASON 1 ON A REAL-LIFE SE OUT OF LOUISIANA. DON’T MAKE SENSE, THEN, THAT THE NORTHERN ANCHOR OF SEASON 2 WOULD HAVE A REAL-LIFE UNTERPART AS WELL? AND DON’T THE BOHEMIAN GROVE JT OUTSI OF GUERNEVILLE PERFECTLY F THE BILL?FSTRATED MASCULY: SO IF PIZZOLATTO IS TRYG TO EVOKE THE BOHEMIAN GROVE SEASON 2, WHAT’S ALL ABOUT? WELL, IF WE WERE TO PPOT ONE THEME THE SERI SEEMS TO BE HTG PRETTY HARD THIS YEAR WOULD BE TRATED MASCULY: OM FRANK SEMYON’S IMPOTENCE AND POSSIBLE FERTILY, TO PL WOODGH’S SELF-HATRED SURROUNDG HIS HOMOSEXUALY, TO RAY VELRO’S UTTER FAILURE AS A FATHER AND HBAND, TO THE PENIS ENVY ON ANI BEZZERIS (WHAT, YOU MISSED THE PART WHERE SHE SAID SHE ARMED HERSELF WH KNIV TO BE MORE LIKE ONE OF THE GUYS?). AND IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT BASTNS OR TRATED MASCULY, LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE BOHEMIAN GROVE.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHMARK RONSON CLAPS BACK AT BILL MAHER OVER BARBIE BY CHRIS MURPHYTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN FOUR HONORARY FEMALE MEMBERS THE GROUP’S HISTORY (CLUDG THE CLUB’S LIBRARIAN!), NO WOMAN HAS EVER BEEN GIVEN FULL MEMBERSHIP TO THE BOHEMIAN CLUB. WOMEN ARE ALLOWED AS DAYTIME GUTS OF THE GROVE, BUT THEY’RE NOT ALLOWED TO THE UPPER FLOORS OF THE CY CLUB NOR ARE THEY ALLOWED TO ATTEND THE MA SUMMER ENMPMENT AT THE GROVE. THE BOHOS WERE SUED 1979 FOR NOT HIRG WOMEN AND THE SE WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT WHO LED, 1986, THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO START HIRG WOMEN AT THE GROVE. IN SHORT, THE BOHEMIAN GROVE IS THE VERY FN OF THE OLD BOYS’ CLUB. HOW CLEVER, THEN, IF NIC PIZZOLATTO WERE TO E THIS LOTN TO ADDRS THE MALE-DRIVEN SS HE WAS ACCED OF DULGG LAST YEAR. IT’S CLEAR OM A FEW ROCKY L OF DIALOGUE THAT PIZZOLATTO IS TRYG TO DIRECTLY ADDRS THE GENR CRICISMS OM SEASON 1. COULD STRIKG AT THE HEART OF A FICTNAL BOHEMIAN GROVE BE THE ULTIMATE WAY TO SHOW HIS CRICS, ONCE AND FOR ALL, WHICH SI OF THE GENR WAR HE FIGHTS FOR? MAYBE, MAYBE NOT. BUT ONE THG IS FOR CERTA: THIS ISN’T THE LAST WE’VE HEARD OM THE MYSTER GOGS-ON NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. AS FOR THE GROVE SELF? I HOPE YOU HAVE YOUR BIRD FIGUR READY BEE THE 2015 SSN STARTS ON JULY 10.TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BOHEMIAN GROVE, READ ALEX SHOUMATOFF'S 2009 VANY FAIR VTIGATN.JOANNA ROBSON
Some years ago a gay wrer lled Ron Blute scribed his stt waerg at the Grove a very funny pamphlet, “A Wars Bohemia, ” which he evoked the below-the-stairs homosexual culture fostered by a workforce mostly reced om San Francis. Some anthropologists of Boho culture even believe that the Grove is now encircled wh gay ri-ntial suburbs that have evably spng up to ac-modate the migrants. Of urse there are gay waers and gay bohemians too, discreetly cisg River Road, but seems that was back the 1970s thgs got somewhat out of hand.
THE ‘FAGGY’ BOHEMIAN GROVE: SATANISM, RENT BOYS AND GAY I
Sorry, Pl, I don’t thk ’s Guerneville’s gay-iendly reputatn we should be lookg out for. To embrace drag shows, an element of gay culture for s, is…cur.