I recently received an email from John Lumea, President of the San Francisco-based nonprofit, The Emperor’s Bridge Campaign, inquiring about an Emperor Norton poster that’s part of their digital archive. John discovered this poster at an online archive for The Rag, an underground mag published in Austin, Texas during the early 1970s. Among other things, […]
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The following article is yet another draft excerpt from my forthcoming book Chasing Eris. The book documents my worldwide adventure to experience modern Discordian culture, meet its personalities, and discover elusive Erisian mysteries. —Brenton Clutterbuck One of the Saints of Discordia (and saints do not have to be dead, agreed upon or even have […]
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The Passing of Empress Norton
As a follow up to young Clutterbuck’s post on Emperor Norton, I wanted to mention that last spring, St. Mae of Discordian.com treated my wife and I to a tour of the fabled grave site of the Emperor, which is located—as young Clutterbuck mentioned—at one of the many cemeteries located in Colma, California, otherwise known […]
Robert Anton Wilson (RAW) explored the UFO mystery over the years and one of his earliest writings on the topic appeared in the May 1975 Berkeley Barb entitled “Awaiting The News from Galactic Central” about a story then circulating which predicted ETs would soon be broadcasting over worldwide TV. Also included in the article are […]
According to John F. Carr, the following list of Discordian Holidays were part of a non-fiction work entitled How to Have Fun and Be Happy that Camden Benares wrote sensing a strong need for such a work. Unfortunately, his agent was never able to sell it. —Adam Gorightly Fun Friday Fun Friday occurs four times […]
An excerpt from my latest book Caught in the Crossfire: Kerry Thornley, Lee Oswald and the Garrison Investigation, available at Feral House and Amazon. Among Jim Garrison’s more colorful unofficial investigators (otherwise known as the “Irregulars”) was Allan Chapman who subscribed to the theory that the JFK assassination had been orchestrated by the Bavarian Illuminati, […]
Guest Post by Steven Adkins Prepare yourself(s) for an amazing interview with a largely unknown (until now!) Discordian named Hope Springs (real name Mary Wheeler) conducted by Steven Adkins of the Law of Silence blog. Mary—as you’ll soon discover—found herself smack dab in the middle of the Early Discordian scene along with her husband, Tim […]
Historia Discordia’s video maven Floyd Anderson has upped some rare viddy interviews of Robert Anton Wilson. Behold and enjoy and let us know what you thunk! Robert Anton Wilson on Anarchism Art Bell Interviews Robert Anton Wilson 7/17/1997 Rev. Ivan Stang Interviews Robert Anton Wilson on the Hour of Slack – Discordianism, Emperor […]
Follow the Illuminatus! Online Reading Group at RawIllumination.net. On page 274, a “grinning young man with a Frisco-style Jesus Christ hair-and-beard” welcomes Joe Malik and Simon Moon to the Joshua Norton Cabal located at “a normal but untypically clean hippie hangout” which perfectly describes Greg Hill and his San Fran abode during that late-60s period […]
Items from the Discordian Archives will appear on this historical timeline as they become available… —1959— Greg Hill – The Complete Art of Collecting Belly-Button Lint —1960— Apocalypse: A Trade Journal For Doom Prophets —1961— Recently Discovered Poems by Greg Hill: ‘TO THE HUMAN RACE,’ ‘SYNDROME,’ etc. —1962— Kerry Thornley and […]