FIELD NOTE//Mannequins for Friends, The Absent & 12 Stones at The Bottleneck | Lawrence, KS
Mannequins for Friends at the Bottleneck More room. More bass. An increasingly credible theory about friends. FIELD NOTE // The Mannequins Were Still Pointing the Way SUBJECT // Expanding habitat requirements and the discovery of friends HABITAT // The Bottleneck LOCATION // Lawrence, Kansas DATE OBSERVED // September 4, 2026 SPECIMENS OBSERVED // Mannequins for Friends, The Absent, 12 Stones, and the humans gathered around the merch tables FIELD CONDITIONS // Familiar noise. Encouraging costumes. Precarious scientific detachment. FIELD OBSERVATIONS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE COLLECTED BY Laverna the Rockin’ Raccoon WRITTEN & PHOTOGRAPHED BY Alethea F. Mehdipour — Slightly Feral Media PUBLISHED BY My Midlife Crisis Creative Inc. THE MANNEQUIN TRAIL CONTINUES The last time the raccoon followed the mannequin trail, she ended up at Soundbite Social with a camera, a fruit snack attached to her shoe, and considerably more interest in Mannequin...
