Slighty Feral Media: The Raccoon's Cabinet of Curiosities

FIELD NOTE// DARKSIDE// The vampires came out to play  KANSAS CITY GOTHS WELCOMED THE VAMPIRES

SPECIES IDENTIFICATION: Diagnostic Criterion for Identification of the Drummer.  A comparative field study from metal to jazz.

FIELD NOTE// THE KAW TIKIS MAY BE SECRET AGENTS Surf music without an ocean. Preliminary evidence was insufficient.

FIELD NOTE// THE DRIFTER PHENOMENON THE OPENING OF THE VOID AND SUBSEQUENT DESCENT INTO THE ABYSS VIA DRIFTER, SEASON TO RISK, AND UNSANE AT RECORDBAR IN KANSAS CITY.

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...

FIELD REPORT// HATEBREED AND THE FIRST PRESS PASS THE RACCOON ENTERS THE PIT WITH HER FIRST OFFICIAL PRESS PASS AT HATEBREED AT WAREHOUSE ON BROADWAY

FIELD NOTE// BETTYS IN THE MIST BETTYS IN THE MIST: A SLIGHTLY FERAL EXPEDITION INTO THE DEAD BETTYS’ NATURAL HABITAT.

FIELD NOTE // THREE SPECIES OF NOISE AT SOUND BITE SOCIAL

FIELD NOTE // GRAVITY IS NOT FOR EVERYONE Violenteer, Circling Over, Burn Barrel, and Drifter at miniBar in Kansas City Written and photographed by Alethea F. Mehdipour — Slightly Feral Media

FIELD NOTE// THE FUNCTION OF THE BEHAVIOR Mannequins for Friends, Cold Sweat Cabin and Reptile House at Soundbite Social Warehouse on Broadway Kansas City, Missouri August 5, 2026 Written by: Alethea Mehdipour- Slightly Feral Media  Humans are forever building rooms and then filling them with things the walls were clearly not designed to contain.  Bass. Sweat. Grief. Joy. Somebody’s entire personality expressed through a guitar pedal.  She likes humans this way. Not polished. Not especially sensible. Gathered together in the dark making something temporary and loud and impossible to keep.  The photographs are the data.  The evidence something happened.   On this particular Wednesday, the raccoon arrived at Soundbite Social inside Warehouse on Broadway carrying a camera, several lenses, and the remains of a very long day. The earlier professional habitat remains classified. The small human involved deserves privacy.  The only relevant field note is this...

The System Behind a Million-Dollar Fireworks Show | Pyrotechnics The System: Why a Million-Dollar Fireworks Show Begins with a Piece of Tape Behind the Scenes of the Million Dollar Fireworks Festival and America’s 250th Celebration in Frontenac, Kansas Backstage Pyrotechnics | Camptown Event Center | Frontenac, Kansas Written by: Alethea F. Mehdipour- Slightly Feral Media Most people who attended the Million Dollar Fireworks Festival – America's 250th Celebration Bash in Frontenac, Kansas will remember what happened after sunset. Nearly 10,000 cues, fireworks rose into the Kansas sky in perfect synchronization with music. Colors bloomed exactly when they were supposed to. Every shell appeared on cue. Every effect became part of a much larger story written across the night sky.

FIELD NOTE // METAL IS NOT A SPECIES Metal Mayhem Meltdown at Warehouse on Broadway with Third Wounded Man, Pure American Filth, Into Existence, and Waking Demons By Alethea F. Mehdipour — Slightly Feral Media METAL IS NOT A SPECIES Metal is such a vague statement. Metal means many things. There are thrash metal creatures fueled by speed, sharp edges, and repetitive neck injuries. Doom metal sounds like an ancient structure collapsing during a thunderstorm. Death metal growls. Black metal appears to have emerged from a cold forest deeply disappointed in organized religion. Sludge metal is something extremely heavy dragging itself out of contaminated water. Industrial metal located machinery and intends to use it. Nu metal returned wearing very large pants. Groove metal made movement heavier. Metalcore brought breakdowns. Power metal brought swords. Possibly metaphorical swords. The raccoon does not assume when it come to these things.   Each subgenre tends to draw a slightly differ...