| Ain't We Holy? |
| Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild Snooze Letter May-June 2007 |
| Ignore the fnords |
| Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild Snooze Letter May and June 2007 The "Ain't We Holy?" Issue discordia.loveshade.org This being the "Ain't We Holy?" Double Issue, in which we ask you for more holy stuff like artifacts and saints that we can keep in our temple's basement; search for a copyeditor; teach you more about Eristotle and ask you to teach us; and tell you progress on our book and about an exciting group interview! OUR SITE AND OUR BOOK AND OUR INTERVIEW You may have noticed that there hasn't been much new stuff posted lately on our site, discordia.loveshade.org. We would apologize, but we have good reason--we're in the final stages of the book, Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht. The writing is, as we reported before, nearly finished, at least in semi-final form, and we're rushing to get more done. We've received some cool art--thanks!--but still need more. See What We Need Right Now for details. We plan to look for a publisher soon, which is actually rather backwards--usually you do that earlier on. But hey, who says we can't do things backwards? In other news, our book's major writing contributors are being interviewed! Freelance writer Adam Newton, who did a series of interviews with Reverend Loveshade that we hope to gain the rights to post soon, has agreed to do it. Newton has been published in newspapers and magazines, and has written for radio and television. Unfortunately if understandably, we can't include every one of our 50 or so contributors. So we are concentrating on those who had three, four or more pieces accepted for the book. If that's you, you've likely heard from us by now about our plan to have a group interview. The tricky part is going to be getting us all together.... COPY EDITOR We need a copy editor! This is someone who can look over our stuff for Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht, point out speling and errors grammar of, and suggest improvements in wording. We prefer someone with a degree in English/Communications, or at least someone with editing experience. But we're also looking for anyone with basic experience to help out. Like everyone on this project, you likely won't get paid, but have bragging rights! If you're interested, send us your resume to the email listing below. MORE ABOUT ERISTOTLE We got some cool info from Sister Hooter and the sister's assistant Pope Hilde about this holy Discordian philosopher-prophet Eristotle in a piece called, well, Eristotle. And alert reader Telarus sent us a copy of the Five Ages of Man, found at http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/five_ages_of_man.html and soon to be found on our site. These sources seem to disagree, which we have no problem with. The Sister and Pope's version identifies the prophet as a wise, blind, cross-dressing, lesbian, slave-fathered dwarf girl born on September 13, 1752. But at least one version of the Five Ages identifies Eristotle as a wise-cracking male. Well, a cross-dressing female would appear to be male, wouldn't e? In any case, we're slightly revising the nearly-famous story Five Blind Men and an Elephant (it's in or proposed for several collections so far) to show the identity of the story's blind oracle. We plan to post all these on our site soon. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUIT DAY Several members of the Ek-sen-trik Discordians (Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild), Discordians for Jesus and Mythics of Harmonia are celebrating birthdays in May and/or June. We don't know if we got everybody, but these include the co-founders of DJ, Nixie Nurita and Sister Lorraine of Fairy Tree; Mythics co-founder Fairy Princess Yoshikyoko; and ED member and contributor Perlie the Pony Girl. Should we make this Birthday Suit Month? Congrats and a holy fanny slap, or five, to them all. Until the beginning of July, you can send birthday messages to them through temporary emails (if you want these emails, add your name to our emailing list as described at the bottom). We trust you can figure out which email goes with which person. If you have a birthday, anniversary, or other event you'd like us to mention, send us an email to the address below. NEWD MEMBER The Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild has a new member! Give a warm welcome to Nurse Eggscream. We aren't sure if the nurse's name means egg scream or eggs cream, but we'll accept either one. The medical member was recruited by Mythics co-founder Princess Unicornia, then stolen by us, which we think is fair. After all, they stole Bellydancer Upyours! So a smagmoid, two fnords, and three fannyslaps to welcome our nudist member. Oh, we mean newest member. Sure we do. WIKIPEDIA WARS: DISCORDIAN WORKS DECIMATED Last we checked, the article Discordian Works from the Wikipedia was torn to shreds with little left in the midst of name-calling, pettiness, and other nasty habits. We don't plan to continue to do reports on this, as frankly, as Rev. DrJon Swabey pointed out, it's probably not worth it. But still, isn't it just like Eris to make this much discord? You can see what's left, if anything, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_Works. MAY THROUGH AUGUST HOLYDAYS (See a list of all our holydays with a link to full descriptions at discordia.loveshade.org/ek-sen-trik-kuh/holydays) May 3 (50 Discord): Discoflux (PD) May 23 (70 Discord): Jake Day Jr. (DJ)/Day of the Elppin (MH) NEW! May 25 (72 Discord): Towel Day (O) NEW! May 31 (5 Confusion): Syaday (PD) or Gulikday/Fearless Fred Day (ED) May 37 (11 Confusion): 537 Day (ECG) June 10 (15 Confusion): Mad Hatter Day (O) NEWLY PROPOSED AND ACCEPTED! June 21 (26 Confusion): Imaginary Friend/Captain Tuttle Day (ED)/(MH) July 2 (37 Confusion): Mid-Year's Day (ECG) July 15 (50 Confusion): Confuflux (PD) August 10 (3 Bureaucracy): Multiversal Underwear Day (O)/(MH) August 12 (5 Bureaucracy): Zaraday (PD) August 25 (18 Bureaucracy): Festival of Hanky-Panky Spankies (MH) DISCORDIAN SAINTS As Dixie Dixon pointed out, the vast majority of the saints we have chosen so far have penises. Dixie didn't say it in quite those words, but you get the point. We are still revising our Saints' list, so if you know of some deserviing saints with vaginas, let us know. See our page on FAQs about Saints to get an idea what we're looking for. DO YOU HAVE A DISCORDIAN ARTIFACT? We gotten several submissions for Ek-sen-trik Discordian artifacts--thanks! Some of these were sent directly to us, and some were posted on the 23ae.com website. Remember that descriptions for the book must be extremely short (two to maybe five short words), but ones we'll post on the site can be much longer. Send us a description of your relic! PROPOSED STUFF FOR THE BOOK As we mentioned, from now on we're only sending proposed material for review to those who specifically request seeing it. If you want to see the submissions we're seriously considering using for Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht, send us a request to our email address listed below. * * * * * If you or someone you know wants to begin getting our absolutely free Snooze Letter and other cool emailings (we usually send about one or maybe two emails a month), send an email to xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx (for the current email, see our homepage) with the subject Add Me. If you want us to take your name off of our emailing list (which means you will remain unilluminated), send an email to the same address with the subject Unsubscribe. Send your comments on our Snooze Letter or proposals or opinions on submitted pieces or a request to review future submissions or your birthday suit day or your copy editor resume or whatever to the same address, but put something Discordian (ED, ECG, Eris, etc.) in your heading so we'll know it's not spam. (We get a lot of spam, and don't want to unknowingly delete something from a Discordian). If you want to make a submission for our site (or the book, which only needs art submissions), email it to xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx (for the current email, see our homepage). Please see submission details on our site before you submit. Thank you and have a day. |
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| Snooze Letter May-June 2007 |
| A Snooze Letter of the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild |
