Slighty Feral Media: The Raccoon's Cabinet of Curiosities

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

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

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...