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New York Review of Books: Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht

Posted by  on 17 January 2013, 3:38 pm
One of these World Naked Bike Ride partiers is an offspring of an original Ek-sen-trik.

From Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht.

Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht is now listed in the New York Review of Books!  They list it as Philosophy/Humor, which is more-or-less accurate.  The book’s been listed elsewhere as Educational, New Age, and Personal Development, which are more or less accurate too.  Of course it could also be listed as backup toilet paper.

What book have Robert Anton Wilson (who saw an early draft), Rev. Ivan Stang, R. Crumb, Alan Moore, Sondra London aka The Erisian Elestria, Reverend Jason “Pee Kitty” Levine, Adam Gorightly, Johnny Shellburn, S. John Ross aka Pope Leo and Malaclypse the Younger aka Greg Hill (who never saw the whole book but read some selections) and others been talking about?  Feel free to find out!

You can see comments by the above, preview it or buy it at Amazon.  Or even better you can buy it at discordia.loveshade.org/store.

What’s that?  You don’t believe the New York Review of Books would actually list an independent Discordian tome?  Check http://assets.nybooks.com/media/ipl/independents.pdf  (Note this pdf may change with time).

Are You a Contributor?

You can still get an additional discount on the already discounted $20.00 $15.00 cover price but you’ll need to respond by 18 January 2013 date extended to 14 February 2013. Send an email identifying yourself to edcheap@loveshade.org by then and see yourself in print!

(Note: we’d give contributors one for free but we can’t get the books free either! Something about the book’s publisher Anaphora Literary Press wanting to make money or something).

One of these World Naked Bike Ride celebrants is an offspring of one of the original Ek-sen-triks. Original image by AlexaWooga with art by A. L. is under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License and/or the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 (your choice of usage).

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Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht ON SALE!

Posted by  on 18 October 2012, 11:49 am

Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of ShamlichtAfter legal complication, printing problems and other technical difficulties, Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht is now available!  And if you’re on our list of esteemed contributors (see below), you can get your copy at discount!

S. John Ross aka Pope Leo (GURPS, Cumberland Games & Diversions, Warehouse 23, Novus Ordo Discordia: The Gospel of Pesher the Gardener) penned the outstanding foreplay.  Our blurb writers include Alan Moore, Robert Anton Wilson (who saw an early draft), Rev. Ivan Stang, R. Crumb, Sondra London aka The Erisian Elestria, Reverend Jason “Pee Kitty” Levine, Adam Gorightly, and others.

 

Quotes about the Book

“This inspiring volume makes a splendid auric pippin to be lobbed amongst the bickering goddesses of our contemporary debate.” — Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Lost Girls)

“Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia may become to the 21st century what Principia Discordia became to the 20th.  Which means–I don’t know what the hell that means.” — Robert Anton Wilson (The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy, Masks of the Illuminati)

“Buy it and BURN THIS BOOK FOR ‘BOB’!” — Rev. Ivan Stang (The Book of the SubGenius, High Weirdness By Mail, the Church of the SubGenius)

 

Buy it and Burn It!

Feel free to buy two copies, burn one publicly, and hide the other!

The book is now available for $20.00 $15.00 American money at

http://www.amazon.com/Ek-sen-trik-kuh-Discordia-The-Tales-Shamlicht/dp/1937536181.  Or even better you can buy it through our store at http://discordia.loveshade.org/store/.

 

Esteemed Contributors

We would love to be able to give a free copy of Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht to everyone who contributed, but as you can see from the long list below that would not be practical.  However, if you are on the following list, you can receive a special discount for a book if you buy through Amazon.com!  Just send us an email with the name you used to contribute to:

edcheap@loveshade.org

We will assume you want your Amazon.com discount sent to the email you use to contact us unless you tell us otherwise.

If your name isn’t on this list, contact us anyway!  We might have accidentally left your name off and might even be feeling generous.  Unlike Pat Robertson, we aren’t perfect.

Adam Gorightly, Alan Moore, Al Barger, Alden Loveshade, Alien, Anonymous Lifeform, Ashibaka aka Shii, Bellydancer Upyours, Binky the WonderSkull, BloodStar, Brother Femtomoment, Brother Kob, Bumper Bunny, Captain ‘Sesame Seed’ Rogers, C. S. Martin & Steve Lewis, Danacasso, Dorian Jack (family), Dr. Isaac Clarke, Dr. Octopussy, Dr. Sinister Craven, Emily Sander aka Zoey Zane (family), Fairy Princess Yoshikyoko, Gamemaster Loveshade, Greg Hill (family), Herr Bookmonger, His Wholiness the Rev. DrJon, Icarus 23, John Wilkes Harvey Oswald, Kerry Thornley (family), Lani Lina Lian Lain, Max Flax Beeblewax, Miley Ray Cyrus, Miley Spears, Nixie Nurita, Nurse Devine Stripling, Paco the Fruit Bat, Perlie the Pony Girl, Pope Higgins, Pope Hilde, Princess Unicornia, Professor Cramulus, Professor Mu-Chao, R. Crumb, Reverend Loveshade, Rev. Ivan Stang, Reverend Jason ‘Pee Kitty’ Levine, Robert Anton Wilson (family), Saint The Mary, Sister Hooter, Sister Lorraine of Fairy Tree, S. John Ross aka Pope Leo, Sondra London, Sparky Newberg, St. Verbatim, TawTew the Naturally Perfumed, Toby Bruno, Untroubled Teen, Zeus, Xists.

This offer will expire at the End of the World at midnight Dec. 21, 2012!  If the world doesn’t end then, you have until midnight Pat Pineapple Day, Jan. 18, 2013!  So claim your discount now!

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Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht has a Publisher!

Posted by  on 22 November 2011, 6:19 pm

Don’t ask how it happened, but we have a signed contract for Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht! The book has been proofread and not-yet-final advance copies are being looked at by, well, some people whose names you would recognize.

This is not self-publishing, as great as that can be, but a legitimate professional publisher. Well, as legitimate as anyone could be who’d take our book.

The book is controversial even for a Discordian work–portions of the book were seized and examined by the FBI and other government agencies, adapted from seized material, or written behind bars (yes this is true).

With luck Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht could be in your hands sometime next year! Look for more details by subscribing to our free Ek-sen-trik Discordian Snooze Letter.

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It’s a Baby!

Posted by  on 11 June 2011, 10:58 am

photo by Ken Hammond for the USDA, thus public domain

Yes, Olivia aka Miss Monkey Candy aka Ms. Candy Money pushed out a baby girl at 05:28 local time on 11 June 2011.  The baby weighed in at 3676 grams (8.1 lbs), and was 51.4 cm long (20.23 in).

 Labor took 12 hours, which I’m told is short for a first vaginal birth.  That’s counting from the first “I think that was a labor pain maybe.”  For some reason she didn’t want to watch Knocked Up.  So we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Confessions of a Shopaholic.  You can guess which one I chose.

Hard labor, the 10 cm mark, was much shorter.  Seemed like forever to me.  Now it’s about a week before I, Reverend Loveshade, have my first Father’s Day.  Unbelievable.

 I don’t know how I feel.  Happy, nervous, overjoyed, and scared as hell.  And newborn babies?  Talk about wet and messy.  How can something be so ugly and so beautiful at the same time?  Face red and scrunched up with a cone head.  That was me.  Seriously, I know that’s natural for a newborn, but damn, birth is messy.  But it’s a life, a human being that grew from almost nothing.  Amazing.

Olivia handled the pain well and used natural methods (and safe natural substances) to reduce it.  I couldn’t handle the pain and had to walk out three times.  One time Olivia walked with me and held my hand.  And Olivia’s sister Amelia who’s only 12 kept reassuring me everything’s fine.  Incredibly sweet for them, incredibly pathetic for me.  The midwife, thank Goddess for the midwife, we erisened with a Discordian name of Nurse Velvet Hands.  E was amazing.  I think the girl started studying midwifery with es aunt when age 15 or so and I suspect Velvet could have handled births when Amelia’s age.  A complete natural.  They said the birth was textbook perfect.

All right, the baby girl’s name.  We had asked for suggestions for a name and got several at 23ae.com and by email (namethebaby@loveshade.org will no longer work).  We narrowed it down, and thought we’d do like Pope Hilde and Fundament did; say our favorites and wait for the girl to touch Mommy’s breast to choose.  But the girl didn’t wait for us to start the names, so that didn’t work. 

So let’s open the envelop, please: the name goes to Lexena Rae.  Lexena was suggested by DrOwl and Minnie Rae by Miley Spears.  We actually wanted a unisex name, but Olivia liked the look of Lexena Rae better than Lexena Ray, and anyway “Lex” is unisex.  As Miley Ray Cyrus is a Discordian American Princess and Minnie Rae is a Discordian saint (and an ancestor on my Mum’s side), it seemed like a good choice.  It’s also a little nod to Corinne Bailey Rae and Jason Rae.  Anybody know what Lexena means?

Other names we strongly considered were Alice (my initial first choice), Drew, Dylan, Emma, Erisia, Hilary, Holly, Jamie, Shamin, and Puffle Toes Twinkelton.  Well, maybe we weren’t that serious about the last one.

 Lexena Rae wouldn’t wait another 9 minutes past 5:28 to be born at 5:37, which is the number of the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild.  But we figured 2 +1 = 3 and 8 – 1 = 7, so it still works out.

And yes Amelia the computer whiz did the math.  Olivia’s the one who gave birth, but I’m the one who couldn’t think straight.  I still can’t.

Photo from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breastfeeding_infant.jpg

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Name the Coming Baby Girl!

Posted by  on 10 May 2011, 12:16 pm

As Olivia aka Ms. Candy Monkey becomes increasing and fecundly impatient to get the baby out (it’s due next month), it occurred to us maybe our lovechild should have a name.

For some reason Olivia has been somewhat hestitant to accept any of my wonderfully touching suggestions for the name for our coming baby girl.  You know, really special names gained directly from our random name generator.*  So far the Baby Mama hasn’t accepted any from my list of to-be-legally-recognized baby names such as Princess Pineapple, Godling Minnie Cheerleader, Sister Mary Discord, Pope Baby, and Empress Baby Poop.

So we decided to turn to others for name ideas.  Pope Hilde did the same thing, and es and Fundament’s baby touched Mommy’s breast to self-choose the wonderful Discordian-but-not-too-Discordian name Erisa (suggested by Princess Unicornia and Nurse Eggscream as announced in our July-August 2008 Snooze Letter).

Submit as many names as you like either by posting here or sending them to us by email at namethebaby@loveshade.org.  (The email addy will be discontinued after a name is chosen).  The winning name and winning name suggestor will be posted here and in our Snooze Letter.

Thanks for your suggestions and have a day!

*which we completely ripped off and tweaked from Professor Mu Chao’s.

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