Shaven Apes
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Shaven Apes is an all volunteer, booze-powered department of Burning Flipside responsible for lifting, moving, grunting and fixing. They are incalculably valuable. The Apes are Flipside's DPW. They run around setting up structures, fixing things and generally being on call to help out where needed. Shaven Apes make things happen at Flipside. From moving equipment to helping with individual projects, they are the essence of volunteerism. And they get to wear really cool T-shirts.
The Shaven Apes are led by Randy Zagar!
You can contact Randy by email as apes10 at burningflipside dot com.
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Shaven Ethics
On the Shaven Ape ethos, Unkie Neal (AKA Bubbles) wrote:
"A Shaven ape is a person who rises above themselves. In a world of self-centering and greed, amongst the unshaved masses of conventional society, a person steps up and rises to the need of others. The Greeks use the word AGAPE for unconditional love. Shaven apes use the word KANIHEPYA as their unconditional love for the temporary community we all have come to love and call Flipside.
Where the human condition is instinctively set for self-preservation and "it isn't my job," Shaved apes have shorn their hair and walk erect looking for places to lend a hand or ear with a strong heart. Reward in the act of helping is a bonus that serves the Shaven ape in their respective heart.
Physical rewards (i.e. beer) sweeten the deal and lead to the best of possible situations...new fellowships and sublime intoxication. The true ethos of the Shaven apes is to take their mantra KANIHEPYA with them past the event and into their daily lives. We used to wear a banana around our necks as a uniform and a symbol that an ape (we all are primates) can rise above their own desires (eating the banana)."
The Shaven Apes are affiliated with the Site-Ops department. The Shaven Apes lead works in concert with the Load-Out Transportation lead to make sure infrastructure leaves the Warehouse and gets onto the InfraTruck and out to Pyropolis.
How to Know a Shaven Ape
Chances are very good you've met one. Dressed in a yellow t-shirt with the neologism KANIHEPYA on it, or perhaps walking with a yellow banana around it's neck, they are everywhere. And yet, there are never enough of them.
