| The UnConventional Issue |
| Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild Snooze Letter May-June 2008 |
| Ignore the fnords |
| Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild Snooze Letter March-April 2008 "No Time Like The Future" Double Issue discordia.loveshade.org This being the "UnConventional" Issue, in which we tell you about the in-person UnConvention KallistiCon 2008, the Discordian Cyberspace Masquerade where you can feel free to not be yourself, and the surprisingly real Smagmoid Kids Club. KALLISTICON 2008 Perhaps the best-known--maybe the only--regularly scheduled Discordian Convention (or UnConvention) is KallistiCon. St. Mae has held it in the San Francisco, California area every year of the 21st century. Only a few privileged individuals have attended, as all the convention attenders must fit into St. Mae's home! This year it's scheduled for June 20 to 22 and right now nobody knows what will happen. Previous activities have included playing 1000 Blank White Cards, visiting Saint Emperor Norton I's grave, getting complete strangers involved in Discordian weirdness, and other unmundane and fun stuff we aren't allowed to talk about. What will they do this year? Whatever it is, it's bound to be a lot of fun (this year the Summer Solstice occurs during the convention, and there's a rumor that, exactly on the Summer Solstice, St. Mae will be possessed by Goddess Discordia. After all, St. Mae is the reincarnated St. Minnie Rae. Of course we could be making this part up). A couple of our associates are hoping to go, and you just might want to join them. Among other things, one of them plans to look for a connection between the San Francisco prostitute Minnie Rae that Emperor Norton I declared "The Little Countess" and the character Wendy of Peter Pan and Wendy. For those who can't make it in person, you may be able to join the fun in cyberspace. After all, isn't sticking apart more fun if you do it together? For more info, visit http://www.kallisticon.com, or see our own ripped off version at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/k2008.html. DISCORDIAN CYBERSPACE MASQUERADE For those who can't make KallistiCon, and for those who can, put on your cybermask and come to a Discordian Cyberspace Masquerade. It's an irony that even us Discordians can get stuck in reality tunnels, where we see things the way we're expected to see them and make the usual inappropriate comments and opinions we're expected to make. And even Discordians have developed a sort of unwritten hierachy where some people's opinions are more listened to than others. You may have had highly heated discussions with other Discordians, and ironically been afraid to express how you really felt. Well get unstuck. Sign up now at http://we.dontexist.net and get ready for May 27 to 31 (Confusion 1 to 5 by the Discordian calendar). Make a handle you've never used, and be yourself in a way you haven't been. (By the way, it says you have to provide a real email address, but that's not true--it doesn't require verification to sign up, and your email can be bogus. Or you can get a free one you've never used before--check yahoo.com, lycos.com, hotmail.com, mail.com or whever for a new free email in case you forget your we.dontexist.net password or something. For the purpose of this event only, we can even provide you an email address at loveshade.org if you like.) Not even the organizers of this event are identified, but you can send in Discordian stuff by you or someone else (with permission) for a proposed book. Feel free to not be yourself. SHAMLICHT KIDS CLUB Like much of what's Discordian, it started as a joke but is growing from there. Shamlicht Girls and Shamlicht Boys "officially" merged on 3 October 2007 (the anniversary of the tragedy that ended the life of 15-year-old Luna Wilson, daughter of Arlen Riley Wilson and The Illuminatus! Trilogy co-writer Robert Anton Wilson.) Now, Shamlicht Kids Club has different local groups called nests, some of which have real people, or as real as Discordians get. People are taking not-being-serious seriously. Like it or not, if children are raised to believe there's only one right way to view life, they are likely to get stuck in that perspective. It's a primary point of Malaclypse the Younger's The Myth of Icabod (Starbuck) and has been continued by our own Reverend Loveshade's Five Blind Men and an Elephant and several other Discordian tales. There's a Biblical quote that says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." So which way do we want children to go? Stuck in some tunnel-visioned world for the narrow minded where their thoughts are spoon fed to them? Shamlicht Kids Club allows each individual nest of about 5 to 10 kids with a leader or two to do as they will. You don't have to get permission from the head office because there isn't any head office. Yes, we have a made-up hierachy but you think you really have to follow that? You can give out merit badges or not; have field trips or not; have planned activities or not. Already groups have had an Erister Egg Hunt, had an improvised Found Instrument Concert in a public park, had a Jake on the website http://gogoddess.com where they asked them to add Eris-Discordia to their pantheon (this one inspired by a posting by Professor Cramulus at http://www.23ae.com/index.asp?post=414) and had fun being creative in a way the outside world didn't expect. Some groups are even planning on doing community service, perhaps in a way the community doesn't expect. The one thing we do ask that groups follow is the motto, "Be Prepared for Anything." Yes, it's a ripped off verson of the highly organized Boy Scouts' and Girl Scouts' mottos, but we like it. If you're looking for a basic concept of SKC, merit badges, non-uniform uniforms, etc., check out http://discordia.loveshade.org/skc. NEW EK-SEN-TRIK DISCORDIAN SAINTS Yes, the votes are in, once again! Dorothy (of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), Wendy (of Peter Pan and Wendy) have been named Discordian saints along with the previously accepted Alice (of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). All three have been Disneyfied, so we've Discordianified them, which we feel is closer to their real selves. We can't take credit for bringing the three together, though--Watchmen creator and skirting-the-edge-of-the-mainstream Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie already did that in the highly controversial (c***d p*********y?) graphic novel Lost Girls. (We'll be contacting Moore and Gebbie to see if the real-life Minnie Rae, possible inspiration for Wendy, may have also inspired this book). Sadly, as a saint Peter Pan didn't fly. Some of us wanted to give sainthood to the "do as you will," anti-authoritarian, Discord-creating original Peter Pan of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy. But the Disney folks' cleaned up version of Peter is the one most people know, and e's about as Discordian as the comic book Archie Andrews. Now Archie's establishment-ignoring Jughead might be a little touched by Eris.... NEW STUFF ON OUR SITE Yes, we must admit much of what we've added recently are ripoffs--but they're good ripoffs (see original links above). Learn why Miley Cyrus aka Miley Ray Cyrus aka Hannah Montana may have moved from being a Disney Princess to a Discordian American Princess (term invented by good Icarus 23 i.e. Mark P. Steele of the Illuminatus comic books who provided art for Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht) To learn, see the Miley article ripped off from http://s23.org/wiki/Miley_Cyrus which we have at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/mileycyrus.html). Also see why you'll want to be involved in person or online at KallistiCon 2008 at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/k2008.html; learn how you--no, not really you--can participate online in the Discordian Cyberspace Masquerade by visiting our version at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/masq.html; and thanks to Lady Merve for the "I am the naked Goddess" photos (see above). MAY THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR 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) May 25 (72 Discord): Towel Day (O) 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) 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) THE USUAL ADVERTISEMENT If you haven't already, you might want to check out our online store at http://discordia.loveshade.org/store. We've got some great books listed there, and plan to add more books and other cool stuff. Remember, 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! And if you don't want to buy anything from us, you can sponsor a page on our site including our main page, or simply give us money. See Why Should I Donate? at discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/donate.html, or let us know if you'd like to sponsor a page or our site by sending an email to the address listed on our homepage. * * * * * 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 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. 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| Snooze Letter May - June 2008 |
| A Snooze Letter of the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild |
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