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| Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild Snooze Letter January-February 2008 |
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| Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild Snooze Letter January/February 2008 "Good Look at Bad Books" Double Issue discordia.loveshade.org This being the "Good Look at Bad Books" Issue, in which we announce the opening of our online store, provide you with some cool free books, add some new saints, and induct two worthies into a great disorder. ORDER OF THE PINEAPPLE We are pleased to announce two new members of our oldest and one of our most prestigious Orders (or DisOrders), the Order of the Pineapple. This is given only once a year on January 18, which is the holy day of our Patron Saint, Pat Pineapple. It honors those who have made exceptional contributions of extreme discord and eccentricity in service to the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild and/or the historical/hysterical Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild. It was first awarded by the ECG on 18 January 1982, and is our second oldest order, after The Unknown DisOrder. In spite of our silliness, it is one of the few disorders we actually take seriously (at least more so than the Oscars). Fairy Princess Yoshikyoko, while relatively new to our ranks (beginning in 2005 CE / 3171 YOLD) and to our planet (born in ???? CE / ???? YOLD), has none-the-less proved to be an extraordinary member. Yoshi (as we sometimes call the diminuative princess) co-founded the Mythics of Harmony (with 2007 O.P. honoree Princess Unicornia) in 2006 CE / 3172 YOLD. Yoshi is also one of the main contributors to Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht, and was involved in the creation of the Order of the Cloved Lemon aka Cloved Lemon Kissers, in addition to being a prime force in our Summit Meeting to determine Rulership of the World (we think it was a tie). While Dr. Sinister Craven never joined the ECG and hasn't formally joined the D & D of the ECG, e had been a major contributor to the ED: TToS, our group, and a prime helper to es long-time friend Reverend Loveshade. The doctor wrote three fine pieces for our book, but actually contributed much more. E's been a force behind one of our saints, the plasmic rock band Orgasmic Death; helped set the direction for our Animal Sex series; is one of the few of us brave enough to have es picture included in the book; and is one of our site's most frequent sponsors. E's also an active protestor for freedom, and a frequent thorn in the side of The Agents of Greyface. Congratulations to them both as we add them to our Book of M.O.P.s! (That's for Members of the Order of the Pineapple. It's not a real book, but we had to somehow make this entry fit our theme). OUR ONLINE STORE We now have an online store! It's just begun, and you can bet we have plans for expansion with more great tomes and other mega-cool stuff. It currently features some of our favorite books, and we plan to feature only those books and other cool stuff that we find really, well, cool. The Prankster and the Conspiracy is Adam Gorightly's fascinating book about Discordianism co-founder and one-time President John F. Kennedy assassination suspect Kerry Thornley aka Omar Khyyam Ravenhurst. Our copy of Peter McWilliams' excellent book Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do, which shows the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free country, was ironically seized by the authorities and held by the FBI in an investigation of, yes, some suspected consensual "crimes." Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protection Children from Sex is an extremely controversial but enlightening book by Judith Levine that The Agents of Greyface would like to ban in your community. We have other great works, many of them controversial, including, of course, Principia Discordia. A portion of your purchase through our store can help keep our site up and help pay off our legal fees--but it costs you nothing more! Such a deal, what? FREE BOOKS Moosemas was begun by Our Lady of the Woods in some American state where you see moose (is the plural mooses or meeses?). Celebrate your inner moose, get more moose slack, and play Pin the Penis on Bullwinkle the Moose! A funny quasi-Discordian flavored book that's available on our site as a pdf file. Book of Eris is our Alternate Second Holy Book which we consider one of best Discordian tomes of the 21st century so far. Edited by St. Verthaine the Goth, it hs humor, philosophy, art, and other great stuff, including a bit by our own Reverend Loveshade. Available on our site as a pdf file. See these and our first Second Holy Book Apocrypha Discordia, perhaps the first Discordian tome of the 21st century. More great stuff coming! BIRTH DAZE Those celebrating now or very soon include: Rosey Tiger, who is a founding member of both Shamlicht Kids Club and one of its local chapters called Purple Ferret's Nest. Rosey recently earned es third SKC merit badge, this for a performance piece created with Coco Kitty called "Magical Coffee." Saint The Mary, who celebrates on, not surprisingly, The Mary Day, which is February 18. The Mary is Patron Saint of Bearers of Erisian Tattoos; displays our Holy Symbol, the Sacred Chao with Killiifish on es belly; and is a Divinely Revered Object of Obscene Lust. Princess Unicornia, who is a co-founder of Mythics of Harmonia. Unicornia is Assistant Editor/Groupie for our own Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht, is a M.O.P. ( Member of the Order of the Pineapple) and has many other cool titles. Five Fanny Slaps to each of them. If you have a birthday, anniversary, holyday celebration, convention, death of your Norwegian Blue parrot, or other event you'd like us to mention in a Snooze Letter, send us an email to the address below. JANUARY THROUGH APRIL HOLYDAYS (See a list of all our holydays with a link to full descriptions at discordia.loveshade.org/ek-sen-trik-kuh/holydays) January 1 (1 Chaos): New Year's Day (O)/Nude Year's Day (MH) January 5 (5 Chaos): Mungday (PD) January 10 (10 Chaos): Backwards Day, Reformed (O)/(ED) January 10 (10 Chaos): Binary Day (ED) January 18 (18 Chaos): Pat Pineapple Day (ECG) January 21 (21 Chaos): Hug Day (O) January 26 (26 Chaos): Backwards Day, Traditional (O) February 18 (49 Chaos): The Mary Day (ED) February 19 (50 Chaos): Chaosflux (PD) February 20 (51 Chaos): Pet Loving Day (O) 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/Neighbor Loving Day (DJ) 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) NEW EK-SEN-TRIK DISCORDIAN SAINTS We have more saints and more proposed saints! Log Lady, eccentric Twin Peaks' prophet, got a lot of support as a saint, but we realized that the real prophet was Log Lady's Log! And we figured, if you honor the log, you honor the lady. Plus we didn't want to be accused of discrimination against body parts of dead plants. Enough people liked, "What's up, Doc?" to support Bugs Bunny as a saint! But it's been suggested that St. Bugs, St. Perri the Squirrel (of The Illuminatus! Trilogy), and proposed saint Bullwinkle the Moose (see Moosemas above) share a sainthood. Bullwinkle performs magic tricks that don't work, hangs out with a squirrel, asks really stupid questions that are very hard for smart people to answer, and personifies slack (even though that's somewhat Subgenius). Princess Unicornia and Fairy Princess Yoshikyoko have suggested Ophelia (from the play Hamlet by Billy Wigglestick, who's known to non-Discordians as William Shakespeare). Ophelia gets jilted by lover Hamlet as the prince pretends to go mad, "madly" gives out flowers to royalty and nobility that just happen to symbolize some truths about their deeds (truth hidden as nonsense), and then plays sink with "I sunk myself." Send us your opinions on these to the email listed below by 15 March 2008. THANKS FROM PERLIE Perlie the Pony Girl wants to thank everyone who gave support, encouragement and condolences by email, posting on The Loveshade Family Blog at www.loveshade.org/blog, and at 23 Apples of Eris at www.23ae.com. For those who don't know, Perlie was friends with Emily Sander, 18, who died by violence. Under the name Zoey Zane, e modeled on the Internet dressed in various forms of garb and "as nature intended," i.e., sans clothing. You can see our tribute page at discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/emily.html. WE CAN USE YOUR SUPPORT HOSE Actually, it's your support we can use. Feel free to donate, or consider it, by going to Why Should I Donate? at discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/donate.html. You can also go there to learn how you can sponsor a page on our website. We'll post a link or banner of yours to a link you choose (some exceptions apply--email us at the address listed at www.loveshade.org for details, or send us a message to the address listed on our homepage.) We could really use your help and support, and it will solve your problem of what to do with your income tax refund. * * * * * If you or someone you know wants to begin getting our absolutely free Snooze Letter and other cool emailings (we usually send about one email a month), send an email to to the address listed on 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 vote on proposed saints or anything else other than submissions 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 the address lised for submission on our homepage. Please see submission details at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/xssubmit.html before you submit. Thank you and have a day. |
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