| Exposed! Exposed! Exposed! Exposed! Exposed! |
| Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild Snooze Letter February 2007 |
| Greyfaces at Wikipedia are still threatening to delete and/or gut the article on Discordian Works! Help there before it's too late! |
| The Exposure II Issue See Part I |
| Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild Snooze Letter February 2007 discordia.loveshade.org The “Exposure” Issue II This being part two of the two-part Exposure issue, in which a daughter of Robert Anton Wilson comments on "Grandbob," a weird synchronicity with The Book is discovered, we announce the latest inductees into The Order of the Pineapple, and we discuss the FBI's written confession on our investigation. THE ORDER OF THE PINEAPPLE This order began 25 years ago on 18 January 1982 (which someone pointed out was coincidentally Robert Anton Wilson's 50th birthday) when a pineapple was presented to the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild co-founder, Vice President Alien. Pat Pineapple later became the ECG's mascot (and our Patron Saint), and since then, 18 January (Chaos 18) has become known as Pat Pineapple Day. This is the only day an honoree can be inducted into the highly exclusive Order of the Pineapple. The Order (or DisOrder, if you prefer) honors those who have made an exceptional contribution in promotion of individualism, creativity, and eccentricities. Only the ECG as a whole, or a member of the order, could nominate a new member, and as the original cluborguild faded into history and the order's members scattered to the five winds, no new inductees have been made for many years--until now. On 18 January 2007 (Chaos 18 3173), the disorder gained two very worthy members for its 25th anniversary, whom we are now exposing to you. First is Mythics of Harmonia co-founder Princess Unicornia! Unicornia not only co-founded the Mythics, but has been instrumental in gaining art work and in writing and researching original articles, stories and poetry for our evolving book, Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht; in recruiting members and supporters (including most members of both the Mythics and Discordians for Jesus); in sponsoring our site; and in some cases being Reverend Loveshade's third hand (yeah, I itch right there). Congrats, a fnord, two smagmoids, and three fanny slaps for Unicornia! The second member is one who, by rights, should have been honored years ago. This is none other than Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild founding President Zeus! Somehow Zeus, whom ECG co-founder Alien had credited with doing most of the work in getting the original club going, never got awarded. The club was a haven for people who were creative and different, which is exemplified by Zeus. Zeus led them to sponsor school dances when no one else would, arrange field trips, put on coed sleepover parties that exemplified responsible chaos, and receive both an award as best new club and legal trouble from the college administration. All great reasons for giving Zeus a fnord, two smagmoids, and three wedgies! ROBERT ANTON WILSON FOLLOWUP Reverend Loveshade got a very nice email from Christina Pearson, one of the two surviving daughters of Robert Anton Wilson. While Christina still asserts that RAW had no biological grandchildren, Bob's daughter said to Reverend Loveshade, "By all means, bob is your Grandbob!" So there, disbelievers! Pfffft! You can still post comments about Reverend Loveshade's Grandbob (and see comments by Christina Pearson, Illuminatus! comic book artist Mark P. Steele aka Icarus 23, St. Mae and others) at loveshade.org/blog/2007/01/goodbye_raw_robert_anton_wilso.html, and learn about RAW events and more RAW stuff at discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/raw.html. Many of them are planned for 18 February, which is both the Chinese New Year and Saint The Mary Day. WIKIPEDIA WARS: DISCORDIAN WORKS SAVED! (For Now...) That's right, the second attempt to delete the Wikipedia article Discordian Works failed--thanks to those who gave support! Although in spite of that decision, somebody deleted the part on Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht and on A Discordian Coloring Book. But somebody else added them right back. Are they still there right now? You'll have to check to find out. (If anyone thinks this whole anti-Discordian thing smacks of pettiness, we won't disagree.) See the article at http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_Works and the discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Articles_for_deletion/Discordian_Works_%282nd_nomination%29. There's also a page on the continuing controversy at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2007-02- 10_Discordian_Works SYNCHRONICITY WITH EK-SEN-TRIK-KUH DISCORDIA: THE TALES OF SHAMLICHT When Cherub Princess Shamlicht gave the revelation to create the ED: TToS on 2 July 2005 (Mid Year's Day), the princess said the work would take "5 years and 37 days, maybe more, maybe less. I am not an accountant.." Of course 537 is our primary number. As we announced in our last Snooze Letter, the rough draft of the written portion was completed on 21 December 2006 (Winter Solstice/Summer Solstice, depending upon hemisphere). We thought it was pretty cool that it both began and ended on a holiday. Well Sister Lorraine of Fairy Tree (with a little assistance from An Anonymous Source) proved to be not only a poet and co-founder of Discordians for Jesus, but a young math whiz as well. Lorraine discovered that between 2 July 2005 and 21 December 2006 is precisely 537 days! Bizzare! We find it fascinating that during that 537 days: FBI'S INVESTIGATION RESULTS: EXPOSED No, we aren't about to reveal the entire report the American Federal Bureau of Investigation made on us. First, it's much too long; second, we haven't yet seen all of it (one of our legal advisors said we likely never will); and three, it contains some personal information on some innocent individuals that we don't want to expose to the public eye. But we will tell you that it states that the FBI returned everything that was given to them in our investigation. For those who know how U.S. Government investigations go, this means that they found nothing illegal. For example, if a law enforcement agency investigates you for possessing cocaine and then later concludes you thought it was a plastic bag of innocent powered milk, they still won't give you back the cocaine! Princess Unicornia has kindly suggested that we request donations to help with our still overwhelming legal expenses (one of our friends was financially ruined because of it). While we certainly appreciate the suggestion, we and our friend are loathe to beg. But we have compromised, and do plan to put up Pay Pal buttons that will let people easily support the work and help with the expenses of the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild and/or The Loveshade Family and/or legal expenses. Thanks for your support! COMING HOLYDAYS ((See a list of all our holydays with a link to full descriptions at discordia.loveshade.org/ek-sen-trik-kuh/holydays) February 18 (49 Chaos): The Mary Day (ED) February 19 (50 Chaos): Chaosflux (PD) February 20 (51 Chaos): Pet Loving Day (O) (NEW!) February 29 (St. Tib's Day): St. Tib's Day (PD)/Leaping Birth Day (ED) February 30 (?????): The Unknown Holyday March 10 (69 Chaos): Head Chicken/Chicken Head Day (MH) March 19 (5 Discord): Mojoday (PD) or Lingananday March 25 (11 Discord): Discordians for Jesus/Love Your Neighbor (DJ) (NEW!) April 1 (18 Discord): April Fool's Day (O) April 2 (19 Discord): St John the Blasphemist's Day (ED) April 6 (23 Discord): Jake Day (O) PROPOSED STUFF FOR THE BOOK We have several submissions for Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht that we'd like to hear your opinion on. Some of these are "Animal Sex: Furry and Feathery," "Five Basic Beliefs: A Discordian Version," "The Golden Apple," and "The Lawn." Please let us know what you think by 1 March 2007 by sending an email to the address below. 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| Snooze Letter February 2007 |
| A Snooze Letter of the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild |
| CENSORED! |
| CENSORED! |
- The Mythics of Harmony and Discordians for Jesus were conceived, and several articles and
references about our work appeared online.
- The FBI gave written confirmation that the agency found no seized material to be illegal (see
below).
- Planet X was named after our Goddess Eris.
- And 53 days after the end of that period, which is approximately 7 weeks, Robert Anton Wilson
passed away (moved to Planet Eris).