I hereby give notice that I am formally and publicly disassociating myself from Anonymous Hackers.

 I do not believe in nor do I support the disruption of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press when the exercise of such freedoms does not interfere with the rights of others.  I do not believe in the interference of fundamental freedoms in the guise of protecting those freedoms whether that interference is made by a governmental or non-governmental individual or organization.

 I am not by this notice disassociating myself from, nor am I acknowledging any association with, the Cult of the Dead Cow, Umbra Data and the Dark Side Intelligence, LulzSec, Twitter Anonymous, the Sinister League of Evil Badguys, Hacktivismo, the Illuminati, or Terrorists for Truth.

 Nothing in this declaration shall be construed as indicating participation in any illegal activity, whether in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, or any other country or portion of the world.

 I also hereby give notice that I do not intend to reveal the legal names, pseudonyms, locations, methods, or plans of any members of any of these groups, nor do I acknowledge having any such knowledge whatsoever.

Posted at 23:23 UTC on the 17th of April in the year 2012 CE/Discord 34, Year of Our Lady of Discord 3178

 ’Anonymous should take a leaf out of the IRA’s method of operation and use a cellular structure, with only 3 or 4 in each cell so if there is a snitch in the organization it has minimal damage.’

- Stephen, St. Ives, England, 07/3/2012 02:33

Quote from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2111020/Top-members-hacking-groups-Anonymous-LulzSec-arrested-leader-Sabu-turns-in.html

Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anonymous_at_Scientology_in_Los_Angeles.jpg

(Remember, this cellular structure is a fundamental part of the origin and success of Discordianism).

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"Blood Lust and Innocence" is a "poem in prose form" I wrote simply because I was inspired to write it.  Fortunately, it found a publisher.

As far as I know the story appears in Issue 13 of Hungur Magazine which just came out.  The issue also features ''"Luftgeist" by David Lee Summers of Tales of the Talisman; "Against The Fall Of Night" by Tyree Campbell; "Drifters In The Void" by Jay MacLeod; a poem and art combo called "Bad Alice" by the Marge Simon/Sandy DeLuca consortium; and interviews with Brian Lumley and the a4mentioned David Lee Summers.'  It's available at Sam's Dot Bookstore at http://sdpbookstore.com/hungur.htm.

Much of the magazine deals with vampires on other worlds, but also features some of the home-grown variety.

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Update: I received my copy of the issue and my story does appear as flash fiction.

The use of a small, low resolution of the cover of the magazine is intended to promote the publication and in no way its use be considered a threat to its copyright.

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I just got my advance copy of GURPS Social Engineering.  I was one of the playtesters of the book, which is primarily for the GURPS roleplaying system but has lots of useful information for any roleplaying game that deals with social interactions from intimidation to sex appeal.  Frankly, it's a good source book period.  The author, William H. Stoddard, has written several books and knows his stuff.  I appreciate him and Steve Jackson Games giving me credit in the book for my little contributions.

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A while back I was fascinated by this family photo of two young girls in fancy dresses with two artificial snowmen.  Somehow the image got transformed in my mind.  I imagined them wearing typical winter clothing as they built a snowman in the yard, and linked that image to how sexism begins at birth: "is it a boy or a girl?"

Yahoo was looking for poetry and asked for a poem that was inspired by a photo.  They just published my poem.  You can read it at www.associatedcontent.com/article/8309319/the_creation_of_snowman_in_two_parts.html

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I, Alden Loveshade, was made a Lord of Sealand.  That leaves the obvious question: what does that mean?  And is Sealand the world's smallest nation, or an unofficial micronation?

Does having a noble title threaten my American citizenship?  Could Prince Michael call on me to send in troops?  Could this happen to you?

See my article at http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8171691/i_am_an_official_lord_of_sealand_are.html

Map of Sealand by Chris 73 is under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

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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.

Continue reading "It's a Baby!" »

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I'm a Graduate! It took me five years but I finally got my degree. I majored in Education with a lot of English and some Psychology. I plan to teach elementary school if you didn't know.

But I still have more school to take. It seems like it will take forever!

Some people said I should graduate naked under my robe. I don't know about that. But I promise to graduate naked under my clothes! lol

Yay Class of 2011!

We had some techincal difficulties with posting comments on this entry. We apologize to our commenters and to Lorien. We believe we now have the problem solved so post away!

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I should be with Olivia right now but I had to leave the room and do something else. She's been in labor for two hours. She's handling it fine and I'm a wreck. It's our first baby.  Will keep you posted.

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I use the genderless "e" for "he" or "she," "emself" for "himself" or "herself," and "es" for "his" or "her" in this report.

There's a lot of debate about it; a poll taken yesterday by the Today Show found that about a third of respondents thought the hot sauce was appropriate punishment, while many others did not.  As someone who's worked with a great number of children, I have my own take on the matter.  But right now I want to focus on a different and very critical issue that threatens both parents and children and is being ignored.

Beagley wanted help to be a good parent.  The mother appeared on an episode of Dr. Phil in November 2010 and brought a recording made by es 10-year-old daughter that showed Beagley punishing es son.  Beagley wanted help.  The mother of six had tried using time out with the adopted son, but it didn't work.

According to the Today Show, using hot sauce as punishment is promoted in a book on parenting.  That's Creative Correction: Extraordinary Ideas for Everyday Discipline by Lisa Whelchel who starred in television's Growing Pains.  It's published by one of the most influential sources in America for Christian parenting, James Dobson's Focus on the Family.

Continue reading "Should a Parent be Punished for Asking for Help?" »

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This month on The Loveshade Family Blog, TawTew the Naturally Perfumed had a question.  'I have a question.'  See, I told you.  'I see two pictures of pregnant girls in a row on this blog and one on the loveshade.org home page.  I have to be curious why? Something going on? ;)'

Well...all right.  Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild member Olivia aka Ms. Candy Monkey aka Miss Monkey Candy is, according to a doctor and thesaurus.com, abundant, anticipating, carrying a child, enceinte, expectant, fecund, fertile, fraught, fruitful, gestating, gravid, heavy, hopeful, in family way, parous, parturient, preggers, productive, prolific, replete, teeming, with child.  That's right, the lad is harboring a growing parasite, probably of human origin.  In short, pregnant.

Of course that leaves the obvious question for the developing fetus, 'Who's your Daddy?'  No amniocentesis or CVS test has been performed, so I can't rule out the possibility of ALIEN IMPREGNATION.  Hey, I've seen it happen on The Sims.  And on X-Files.  And the founding vice-president and first Order of the Pineapple honoree is named Alien (hmm).  But there's an 85.37 percent chance the father is...well, let me put it this way.  I am currently known as Reverend Loveshade but am considering changing my name to Father Loveshade.

Goddess help us all.

Opinions expressed by a member of The Loveshade Family do not necessarily reflect the views or fecund state of the entire family.

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* The AMERICAN CONGRESS will work very hard to get very little done.

* Something long-lost by a MAJOR ARTIST will be revealed.

* A scandal will rock the BRITISH GOVERNMENT.  The color purple will be involved.

* The AMERICAN ECONOMY will show significant improvement; Democrats will claim it's because of their fine work, while Republicans will claim it's because of improvements made while George W. Bush was still president.

* BARACK OBAMA will once again be shown to qualify to be U. S. President.  Many people, especially those who watch Fox News, won't believe it.

* The BBC will have a major, career-destroying scandal.

* A male BRITISH ICON of purity and wholesomeness will be caught with his hand somewhere people don't think it belongs; i.e., in someone else's pocket.

* A female AMERICAN ICON of purity and wholesomeness will be caught exposing a portion of her anatomy that the prudish will not think should be exposed.

* Former American President BILL CLINTON will receive an award nobody in their right mind would have expected him to receive when e was president.

* The Law that DEATHS ALWAYS HAPPEN IN FIVES will once again be proven this year.  At least of those deaths will be unexpected, a famous singer, and a famous actor.

* A major figure in the MIDDLE EAST will be violently killed.

* A WORLD-KNOWN FIGURE will admit a Discordian connection.

* A long-awaited for DISCORDIAN TOME will finally be published.  There will be much rejoicing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR,

THE LOVESHADE FAMILY

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Back in the day when pterodactyls ruled the Earth, The Loveshade Family possessed the website loveshade.com. Then when The Agents of Greyface went after some of us in a very serious way, we lost it and someone else got it on 9 September 2002 (Discordians might recognize that as Cat Dancing & Foot Fetish Day).

You might know dot com domain names can usually be registered for between $10 and $30 per year in American money. But at first the domain was not for sale, period. Then as we developed loveshade.org, it was for sale--at $500! We didn't buy it, loveshade.org became one of the one percent most popular websites in the world, and then the minimum opening bid, not buying price, for loveshade.com was $1200! Sometimes popularity is costly. We even more didn't buy it.

But with a little help from some friends (and just a touch of skull drudgery), we got it back! Right now go to loveshade.com and it will take you directly to loveshade.org. We couldn't be happier than if we'd won the National Lottery! Well, all right, that would have made us happier. But still, we're grinning like the self-congratulating cat that swallowed the annoying hamster!

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We don't like those things where you have to type in some illegible scribble or have a verified email address to post on a website.  But we also don't like getting lots and lots and lots of SPAM messages to screen every single day.  So, unfortunately, we're probably soon be using one of those annoying things.  The good part is we sometimes miss legitimate posts in the midst of all the spam, so that should be less likely to happen.  If we don't post your post, and it fits http://loveshade.org/blog/read_before_posting/ (read that before posting), send us an email with the heading Loveshade Family Blog.

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The red heart on a six-pointed sun (or whatever it is) is a Trademark of The Loveshade Family.  So don't you go using it without permission or Auntie Loveshade will come get you.  You don't want that.  Trust me.

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This from our most recent Ek-sen-trik Discordian Snooze Letter:

When I, Reverend Loveshade, recieved the vision to put together Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht on Mid Years Day, 2 July 2005, I was told it would take 5 years and 37 days, more or less. I didn't realize until very recently that 8 August 2010 was the 65th anniversary of the end of the war between Amierica and Japan in 1945....Nor did I know what would happen on that date.

Alden Loveshade tries as much as possible to stay out of our Snooze Letters, but we had to report this. On Sunday morning, 8 August, Alden was driving through Janus County, Texas (the county is real; the name isn't). Some of you may know many of our troubles happened in that very county. A truck that was at the side of the road suddenly started to make a U turn immediately in front of Alden. Our family member tried to avoid the truck, but as e said, "failed." Alden's vehicle was totalled, and e received bruises and such and a broken right finger. The deacon who was driving the other vehicle refused treatment (after a medic got the details from em).

Here's where it gets really weird and yes, this is true. Alden was driving to meet a woman who was doing art for Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht. This woman had a dream the night before of Alden in a traffic collision. Collecting art for Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht on the scheduled date for completing the book in Janus County Texas and being hit by a deacon of a conservative Christian church while meeting an artist who just had a dream Alden would be in an accident. Weird.

We wish Alden well.

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Israel Mireles, 26, the man convicted of killing and raping the 18-year-old Emily Sander, got life in prison without the possibility of parole.  Had Mexico not refused to deport him unless the United States of "We like to kill people in" America promised not to kill him, he probably would have gotten the death penalty.  Then he would have sat on Death Row for 20 years at a cost of millions of dollars.

Synchronistically, on the same day, 31 March 2010, Zoey Zane (the modeling name of Sander) was declared a Discordian Saint.  Emily Sander had already been named a Discordian American Princess.

As this may be our last entry on Emily Sander/Zoey Zane, I'll let you know we were the first website (other than that of the local Kansas paper) to report that Emily was missing before it was revealed she posed nude as Zoey Zane.  Our friend Perlie the Pony Girl was friends with Emily and knew about the double identity, but didn't want to hurt the family.  But the organized media called Emily a "porn star" and still insists on calling her a "pornography model," even though almost all her poses were relatively tame.

Had she not posed, almost everyone who's read the story would not have heard of her.  And that's a shame.

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LINKS

Emily Sander tribute: http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/emily.html

Israel Mireles' sentence: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20001552-504083.html

Discordian American Princesses: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Discordian+American+Princess and http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Discordian_American_Princesses

To see all our entries on Emily Sander, click on http://www.loveshade.org/blog-mt/mt-search.fcgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=emily+sander

Entries by persons who are members or associates of The Loveshade Family do not necessarily represent the views of the whole family.

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"After eleven months in office, Barack Obama has hardly revolutionized – or even altered – the major dysfunction that confronts our system. A man of obviously good values – read his books and speeches – he has yet to show convictions. He has tinkered to keep terrible problems from getting much worse – a kind of political plumber without access to equipment that would redo the entire system."

That is from the blog of Saul Landau, an Emmy-award winning documentary producer I had the priviledge to work under as head writer of a university-produced, English-language telenovela.  Landau, a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, is an internationally-known filmmaker, television producer and author who focuses on domestic and foreign policy.  Discordians might be interested to know he won a Golden Apple award for "The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas," a film that was a major inspiration to both myself and Reverend Loveshade.  Saul is also a man who, like many of us here, was thoroughly investigated because he knew the "wrong" people and asked the "wrong" questions.

You can read a short bio on Landau, who can be profound and entertaining at the same time, at http://progreso-weekly.com/2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=971:saul-landau&catid=42:our-columnists&Itemid=60

At that page you can click on "Show Other Articles By This Author" to read his blog entries, including the one on Obama quoted above, which is at http://progreso-weekly.com/2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1364:almost-one-year-assessment&catid=40:lastest-news&Itemid=59

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His homepage is at http://saullandau.com

For those who don't believe anything outside of Wikipedia, there's an article on him (which previously mentioned me but currently doesn't) at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Landau

The image of Saul Landau above is from http://progreso-weekly.com/2/images/semana0/landau1.png. No threat to its copyright is intended.

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I know you've all been waiting for this all year, so here it is.

Here are my predictions for 2010 (actually, other members of The Loveshade Family contributed to this; they just don't want to admit it):

* The HEALTH CARE REFORM so praised by Americans (that is, those who don't have health care), will pass, but will not work as planned.  Detractors will say it's a huge waste of money, and will put America in the toilet.  However, supporters will say it's at least better than it was, and it will continue to get better.  Rush Limbaugh will say at least I'm still alive.

* ELVIS PRESLEY will be spotted in a shopping mall in New Jersey.

* The AMERICAN ECONOMY will show significant improvement; Democrats will claim it's because of their fine work, while Republicans will claim it's because of improvements made while George W. Bush was still president.

* An American group will work very hard to prove that BARACK OBAMA DOESN'T QUALIFY AS PRESIDENT.  The group will be suspected of having ties to a dissident group overseas.

* The supposedly dim-witted PARIS HILTON will still maintain the facade of being dim-witted, but will none-the-less cleverly manage to get herself in the news for yet another scandal.

* A male AMERICAN ICON of purity and wholesomeness will be caught with his hand somewhere people don't think it belongs; i.e., in someone else's pocket.

* A female BRITISH ICON of purity and wholesomeness will be caught exposing a portion of her anatomy that the prudish will not think should be exposed.

* The Law that DEATHS ALWAYS HAPPEN IN FIVES will once again be proven this year.  At least of those deaths will be unexpected, a famous singer, and a famous actor.

* QUEEN ELIZABETH I will not die, but will have a significant medical problem.  (Sorry, your Majesty).

* A major figure in the MIDDLE EAST will be violently killed.

* In the United Kingdom, there will be renewed interest in an ANCIENT ACTIVITY.  It will be something that's been popular in North America for years.

* HIP HOP will still be popular with many, and still hated by many others.

* I will perform a legally-recognized DISCORDIAN WEDDING, and there will be much rejoicing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR,

THE LOVESHADE FAMILY

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We weren't going to even mention this, but....

All right, a couple of us (I'm speaking of both The Loveshade Family and the extended Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild) can be seen in the movie Taking Woodstock which just had its national release today.  Why didn't we mention this before?  Especially when I'm known for having an enormous ego and bragging about everything I ever did and even some things I didn't?

We didn't mention it because 1) we appear in a crowd scene buried in the midst of a zillion people; and 2) until we saw the film we didn't even know if we'd be in the final cut.  Movie makers always shoot a great deal more footage than ever appears on screen, and even a great deal more than ever appears in those expanded DVDs.

Even my ego's not big enough to stand up to "so you're bragging about being in a crowd scene that nobody will ever see?"  Frankly, it's barely big enough to "brag about being in a crowd scene that people will see."  But I'll step up to the challenge.

Some of you may have heard the rumors that I've appeared on film before, even if those films are, well, not available for general release.  (See how I manage to brag?)

But this was no work and lots of fun.  We got to see New York, wear the Sacred Chao on film (although you can't see it), see some very talented people, meet Jonathan Groff (very briefly), meet Kelli Garner and Paul Dano, roll in the mud, get chewed out for being in the mud when I wasn't supposed to be, and meet some Discordians (we met at least half a dozen).

I didn't get to meet the real-life Elliot Tiber, who with Tom Monte wrote Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life.  And I also didn't get to meet the director Ang Lee (you may not know that crowd scenes are often not directed by the listed director).  Would have loved to have met them both.

The movie's a comedy, plays very loosely with the facts, and is a lot of fun (Roger Ebert likes it).  So go see it, and tell them Reverend Loveshade and friends sent you.

Learn more about the film at http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/taking_woodstock/

(In the photo, left to right, that's Kelli Garner, Demetri Martin and Paul Dano doing cuddles.  Yes this picture's something of a clue.  It's from the website linked above and is © 2009 FOCUS FEATURES LLC.)

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The preliminary hearing for suspect Israel Mireles has been rescheduled for August 18, 2009. Mireles has been charged with the capital murder, rape and aggravated sodomy of Emily Sander.

Sander, who was a friend of our friend Perlie the Pony Girl, gained national attention when it was discovered she was a nude model who posed online under the name Zoey Zane. (Some have called her a "pornography model" or even "porn star," but most of her poses were relatively tame). Emily was only 18 when she died. The Kansas girl was a college student and secretary.

The case had previously been delayed when officials in Mexico refused to extradite Mireles until the U. S. agreed that, even if convicted, he would not be executed. Mexico does not accept the death penalty.

Now for a little editoralizing. Mexico, like most of the civilized world, doesn't believe in executions. If you lock an innocent person up, you've taken away their freedom and some of their life, but at least they can be released. If you kill them, you've taken away everything.

(See our report below on Troy Anthony Davis.)

Killing doesn't give "closure." Closure happens within the individual person and is not somehow magically created by outside events, as psychological studies have shown. And it's not always just. In America, "justice" usually means punishment, and punishment usually means revenge.

Perlie was torn apart by what happened to her friend. But she doesn't want to see the killing continue.

You can see Perlie's tribute to her friend at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/emily.html.

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Yes, it may sound like a bit of strange advice, but it's true.

Children who always follow the rules, who do what they're told, can grow up sadly unprepared for the realities of life. Not all rules are good, and not all good rules are good all the time.

And those who continue to follow the rules are the same people who support oppressive and unfair regimes. They are also the people who are oppressed by such regimes.

While we don't necessarily agree with everything in Craig Playstead's article, you might want to check it out at http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/family-parenting/article.aspx?cp-documentid=16949831.

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Hopefully, yes you can!  For some reason still unknown to us, people had trouble posting comments to our entries for several days.  We think, and hope, we have the problem fixed.  Even though we still don't know what caused the problem!

In any case, if you're still having problems posting comments, or just want to make suggestions, feel free to email us at the address listed on our home page at www.loveshade.org

Thanks for your patience!

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All right, so no one but us is likely to care that this is our 100th entry in The Loveshade Family Blog.  But it's a significant anniversary for us.

We've written and ranted about Crime and Punishment, Politics and War, Religion and Philosophy, Science and Technology, the Ek-sen-trik and Discordian, Family and Friends, and of course Love and Sex.  (We being Alden, Lorien and Reverend Loveshade and our good friend Danacasso).

Thanks to everyone who's posted comments (well, except maybe the spam bots).  We look forward to the next 100 posts, and hope you do too!

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There had been a problem with commenting on this post.  We still don't know the source of the problem, but hope we have it fixed.  If you still can't post comments here or have any other problems or suggestions, feel free to email us at the address listed on our home page at www.loveshade.org

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Gary Gygax, who with Dave Arneson created Dungeons & Dragons which transformed the worlds of both gaming and fantasy, died at age 69.  As Steve Jackson wrote, without Gygax and Arneson, the roleplaying game industry might never have happened, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy likely wouldn't have been made.

Alden and I have a personal interest here.  Years ago Alden got involved in a D & D group, which eventually led em to GURPS in Steve Jackson Games.  Most of es closest friends played one or the other game with em as either player or Game Master (GM).  During a very difficult phase of es life, es weekly GURPS game kept em going.  These also led em to involvement in the Society for Creative Anachronism, which lead to an interest in alternative forms of society, which led to...well, keep reading.

I, Reverend Loveshade, saw the Steve Jackson Games edition of Principia Discordia (the first edition that put the book in bookstores) when it came out in 1994.  Before that I didn't know of the book, but it led me to some very strange places.  Discussing it with my Mum led to my learning that my Mum had been friends as a teenage girl with Luna Wilson, who was murdered at age 15.  Luna was the daughter of Robert Anton Wilson who contributed to the Principia, and who wrote about the Illuminati.  I had learned about the Illuminati through one of Bob Wilson's books, but didn't know of es connection to my mother.  But learning this connection led to my contacting the borderline fringe-mainstream writer whom I grew to call Grandbob.

These various connections came together when I had a vision of doing a book, which became the still evolving Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht.  Alden brought es vision to it, as did Princess Unicornia, Fairy Princess Yoshikyoko, Dr. Sinister Craven, Untroubled Teen and many others.  Each of those mentioned above connected to the book either through fantasy or roleplaying.  It's likely that, without Gary Gygax and all the interconnections made through the creation of D & D, our book would never have happened, and likely neither would Apocrypha Discordia or several other great Discordian works.

Ironically, Gary Gygax died on March 4, which has been called GM Day.

See an Associated Press story at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080304/ap_en_ot/obit_gygax and see Steve Jackson's tribute at http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archives.html?y=2008&m=March&d=5

(Alden Loveshade contributed to this report.  Details of photo are at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Gary_Gygax_Gen_Con_2007.JPG)

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See Dave Arneson goodbye entry at http://loveshade.org/blog/2009/04/dave_arneson_dungeons_dragon_c.html

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Tragically, authorities have verified that the body found was that of Emily Sander.

 And yes, we know Emily posed nude with other women and in solo shots under the name Zoey Zane. She just turned 18 years old this year and apparently saw it as a way to gain publicity in order to futher her career.

We, or at least her friend Perlie the Pony Girl, knew about her posing before we posted our first entry about Emily here.  But at that point, it wasn't publicly known, which is why we didn't mention it.

We know that some people don't approve of nude or sexually-oriented modeling.  But whether you approve or not, please don't let that get in the way of your seeing the tragedy of the death of someone described by a friend, Perlie, as a friendly, sweet and very lovable young woman.

Look for more updates on this blog, or see previous entries for more details.

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Tragically, authorities believe they've found the body of Emily Sander.  The body was found about 50 miles from El Dorado, Kansas, where Emily attended school and was last seen.

Police are still looking for Israel Mireles, 24.  Emily was apparently last seen leaving a bar with Israel, who is described as being 5 foot 6 inches and weighing 130 lbs.  He may be traveling with his apparently pregnant 16-year-old girlfriend Victoria Martens.  A car rented by Mireles was found in Vernon, Texas, and Mireles and Martens are believed to be heading to Mexico, if they haven't already arrived there.

In the photos, Emily Sander, 18, is to the left; Israel Mireles, 24, is at top right; and Victoria Martens, 16, is at bottom right.

Emily is--or, tragically, was--a friend of our own friend Perlie the Pony Girl.

If you have any information about Emily Sander, Israel Mireles or Victoria Martens that could apply to this case, please contact Detective Captain Justin Phillips at the El Dorado Police Department by calling (316) 321-9120 or faxing (316) 321-1456.  If you are uncomfortable contacting him by phone, you can email at jphillip @ eldoks.com (ignore the spaces in the email address--it's posted that way to reduce spam).

See another and possibly more current photo of Mireles at http://loveshade.org/blog/2007/11/please_help_us_find_missing_em.html

Look for updates in more current postings to this blog.

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Emily Sander, an 18-year-old student at Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas, is missing.  She was last seen  leaving a bar there with a man who may have been Israel Mireles, 24.  El Dorado is about 30 miles from Wichita.

Sander's car was found at the bar. Mireles was driving a grey or green Ford Taurus rental car with the license plate XUJ 487. He and his 16-year-old pregnant girlfriend Victoria Martens may be traveling to Texas or Mexico as Mireles has family and friends in those areas.

Emily is a friend of our own Perlie the Pony Girl, and we are very concerned about her.  She is 5 foot 3 inches tall, weights 105 lbs., has blue eyes, long brown hair, tattoos and body piercings.  She was last seen wearing low-rider jeans, a "Don't Mess with Texas" T-shirt, and skateboard-style tennis shoes.  Mireles is described as being about 5 foot 6 inches tall and weighing 130 lbs.

Police are looking for a white bedspread with a floral design that may be a clue. Unfortunately, foul play is suspected.

If you have any information about Emily Sander or Israel Mireles that could apply to this investigation, please contact Detective Captain Justin Phillips at the El Dorado Police Department by calling (316) 321-9120 or faxing (316) 321-1456.  If you are uncomfortable contacting him by phone, you can email at jphillip @ eldoks.com (ignore the spaces in the email address--it's posted that way to reduce spam).

A recent photo of Israel Mireles is to the right.

Look for updated postings on this blog as this case continues.

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Adam Newton, an educator and freelance professional writer who's done work for magazines, newspapers, radio and television, interviewed us! Why we don't know.

As of this posting, we're getting ready to start submitting Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht in an ignoble attempt to get it published. Learn about our book, animal sex, nudism/naturism, Shamlicht Kids Club, The Cloved Lemon Kissing Game, and how we were investigated for alleged possession of illegal drugs, promotion of child pornography, consorting with terrorists, and lots of other fun stuff.

The interview is unique: where else would you find people of various species being interviewed naked in a naturally formed hot tub on planet Eta Mu Pi?

To see the interview, go to Ek-sen-trik Discordian Interview

Also see our September-October 2007 Snooze Letter

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As of this posting, Quantcast.com ranks http://www.loveshade.org as the 77,534 ranked Internet site based on the number of unique visits.  That's out of 20,267,977 sites, which puts us in the top half of one percent!

No, this says little about our quality or quantity of pages, but it does say something about our popularity.  Not bad, considering we currently have no paid advertising (other than being hosted by ourselves and our friends), don't pay to advertise ourselves anywhere else, and are well off the beaten track.  Is it OK if we pat ourselves on the back?

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See our March 2007 Snooze Letter, in which: 

• Adam Gorightly, author of The Prankster and the Conspiracy, The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture gives us a suggestion.
• Love Your Neighbor/Discordians for Jesus Day may be recognized in church?
• Reverend Loveshade and other "prominent individuals" are being interviewed for a book.
• Wikipedia Wars on Discordian Works heats up--again.
• And much more Insanity!  Check out our Snooze Letter HERE!

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We expose even more Bizarre stuff in our second part!

• Christina Pearson, Robert Anton Wilson's daughter, acknowledges that RAW is Reverend Loveshade's Grandbob!
• We announce two new inductees into the highly exclusive (only given one day a year, on Pat Pineapple Day) Order of the Pineapple!
• We discuss the result of the FBI (American Federal Bureau of Investigation) report on our group!
• We reveal new submissions for our book, Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht!  (To see the submissions, you have to subscribe to our free Snooze Letter--instructions are at the bottom)

See the February 2007 Snooze Letter by going to discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/snooze0702.html

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The Exposure Issue Part One, Discordian Snooze Letter for January and February 2007, is revealed at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/snooze0701.html

In it we expose:

• Our Robert Anton Wilson page and share a post about Grandbob made on our Blog about RAW by daughter Christina Pearson.
• Regress made on our work Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht
• The Wikipedia War over the article Discordian Works

And more!  See it all exposed at

http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/snooze0701.html

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I've been trying for three days to come up with something poignant, clever, insightful, and moving about the passing of Robert Anton Wilson. For three days, I've failed. But I would be remiss if I let another day pass and posted nothing.

To es fans, Robert Anton Wilson was the co-author, with Robert Shea, of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and the author of many other great books that challenged our perspectives and perceptions of society, human relations, and even reality. E was a free-thinker, a friend of Dr. Timothy Leary, and, with Shea, the popularizer of Discordianism, the religion-joke began by Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. According to Wikipedia, e was "a prolific American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist, futurologist, anarchist, and conspiracy theory researcher." E worked to be an agnostic in all things, taking nothing for granted or at face value. To the Church of the SubGenius, e is possibly the model for their "God" Bob Dobbs. According to es former co-workers at Playboy magazine, e was an associate editor with a fresh sense of humor. To es friends, e was a gentle spirit who cared about others. You can read more about RAW at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson, or at es website at http://www.rawilson.com.

But what was e to me? I cannot answer. Es passing is still too close.

I like to imagine that BloodStar, our missing friend who "left Earth" following the paranoia and Government abuses following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States, returned. I can see the space alien picking up Bob on the StarShip Lorelei, and taking Bob back home to planet Eris. There they can discuss conspiracy theories, sex, humanity, the Illuminati, our crazy planet Earth, and, of course, fnord.

But what have I to say about Robert Anton Wilson? I have no pithy comments, no great witticisms. I have just one, very simple, thing to say. Goodbye, Grandbob.

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(For information on Memorial Events and other RAW stuff, go to http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/raw.html)

Photo by Robert Altman from http://www.altmanphoto.com/robert.anton.wilson.jpeg

You can still leave comments on this entry.  We left comments open for this entry for a long time.  Unfortunately, we got hit with so much spam that we had to stop the usual method.  But if you want to make a comment, send your comment (required), name you want to use for your comment (required), email address (optional), and website (optional) to the email address at http://discordia.loveshade.org.  Do that and we'll try to post it.

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I hope everyone has a blessed Yule and a Merry Christmas!

This is a time for family and sharing love. Some of us don't have our whole family together but everyone is a part of our family. Remember that if you want to be important, help someone else.

You can read my Yule Letter at http://lorien.loveshade.org/diary/2006/yule06.html

Merry Xmas!

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We were experiencing "Technical Difficulties" and couldn't access the controls for our website, loveshade.org, or change any part of it.  That's why as of this posting it still says it's October.  We finally got things worked out, so will be updating very soon, hopefully by November 17.

 We're still dealing with the problem that someone has been using our domain name for return addresses for spam.  If you've received email from us in the past two weeks from this domain that wasn't a personal message to you, it was not sent by us.

 We also apologize for not getting your comments posted in a timely manner, but it was due to the same set of problems.  We are working to get things fixed very soon, and should have most of them up today.  Thanks for your patience.

Beware the Elppin!

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Please read the Warning at the bottom of this entry before clicking on any links.

On August 23, 2001, a 13-year-old California teenage girl, later known as Lorien Loveshade, started posting her online diary.  It was more in the intimate style of "The Diary of Ann Frank," or even "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer," than a typical 21st Century teen blog.  Lorien, who then wrote under her real name, shared her feelings and thoughts and the personal life of a young teenaged girl.

But things changed.  Fear seized America, and the paranoia that infected America and much of the world reached Lorien as well. She stopped posting her diary online. But she continued writing it on computer privately, and this secrecy enabled her to write even more openly about her personal life and her feelings as a young teen girl.  Later, she began posting it again, but this time only on a private site for members only.

Continue reading "Lorien Loveshade's Secret Teen Diary: Age 13 to 18" »

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That’s right, friends and enemies, I have returned. Thanks to everyone who posted kind messages for me here and at www.23ae.com and wherever else they posted them. Also thanks to those who sent me emails, not to mention those who visited. And thanks even to those who posted nasty messages, who said "good riddance" or "who cares?" or even "isn’t he dead yet?" Whether you like it or not, taking the time to post shows you care *grin*.

It’s been quite a trip the past few years--embroiled in secret conspiracies they won’t explain, investigated by agencies that haven’t told me why (at least not the real reasons), living in hiding from The Agents of Greyface (whoever they really are), and spending time in hospital being chased by doctors and nurses who put things in me almost as quickly as they took things out. What’s next?

Reverend Loveshade

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According to our latest information, Reverend Loveshade, our trouble-making Discordian, may be out of the hospital as early as Sunday, August 6.  The Rev. appears to be making a full recovery. Depending upon whom you ask, R. L. is either amusing the hospital staff with refreshing wit and charm, or peppering them with arcane commentaries and double entendres.  If we know the Rev., and we do, it's probably a little of both.  In any case, we look forward to seeing Reverend Loveshade return very soon.

If you haven't read R. L.'s tongue-in-cheek letter to friends and family, it's at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/rlsick.html

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For those who don't know, Reverend Loveshade is currently recovering in a hospital.  The Rev. is Episkopos of the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild and editor of Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht.  If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it.  It's one of those Things Humanity was Not Meant to Know, Fnord.

But for those who know or would like to, you can read the letter for you at Reverend Loveshade in Hospital.  We wish the Rev. the best, and hope for a full recovery so we can continue to be blessed with Devine Madness.

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We figured it was time for The Loveshade Family to join the 21st Century and have a blog like everyone else. So why should you care?

Because we can give you:

1) VARIETY. Our posters have a wide variety of beliefs and lifestyles. Religious beliefs range from Christian to Wiccan, from Ethical Culture to Discordianism, from Theist to Agnostic to Atheist, and several philosophies in between. But they all believe in Personism, that an individual should be treated as an individual, and not as a race, age, sex, etc. Those are concepts used to form groups, but an individual is still an individual. This is a fundamental part of our Five Basic Beliefs.

2) INSIGHT. Some of our members have access to Things Humanity Was Not Meant to Know. This actually means we have sources who give us information on trends, social movements, and other goings on that you won't see exposed on your local news.

3) HUMOR. Some of our people have a sense of humor. Some of our people had their humor professionally published. Some of our people have been investigated for being involved in things they found funny. Which we find humorous (now that the investigations are over).

4) ACTIVISM. We encourage people to get involved in their world, and to work to make it a better place. You don't have to have an elected position or a college degree or even be an adult to do this. Some of our members participated in political protests, social movements, and letter-writing campaigns when their society said they were still children. We find that involvement healthy. And adults can, believe it or not, work to make this a better world too.

5) WE DON'T KNOW. There are things we might talk about, discuss, and reveal for the first time that we have no idea of now. Who knows? But you can come back here and find out. Come back for some surprises from Reverend Loveshade, Lorien Loveshade, Alden Loveshade and more. Who knows?

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