Interview With Eris

[hooplala]

BARON VON HOOPLA:  I am very happy to be interviewing today the Goddess of Chaos, Confusion, Calamity, and dinky cars: Eris Nancy Discordia.  Welcome, Eris.

ERIS NANCY DISCORDIA:  Thanks, Hoops.

B.V.H.:  Eris, doing my research I found that there weren't really a lot of ancient legends which depicted you.  In fact, I could only find two.  Why do you think that was?

E.N.D.:  I could put the blame on Athena or Aphrodite, but we all know the real blame goes on Pan.  He got all the gods and goddesses to convince the Greeks that my stories were too fascinating and witty, so they destroyed all copies.  Eventually only a couple Bazooka Joe comics were left discarded in Dionysus's temple which depicted the two legends now available.

B.V.H.:  Seriously?

E.N.D.:  Nope.

B.V.H.:  Ah, right.  Ok, do you think it has anything to do with Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley's idea that the Greeks had a warped idea of what Discord is?

E.N.D.:  No, they knew exactly what Discord was; they just didn't like it.

B.V.H.:  Seriously?

E.N.D.:  Maybe.

B.V.H.:  Ok.  There is a lot of arguing with modern Discordians as to whether or not what you are currently representing is true Discordianism.  Some think that modern Discordianism is all clowns and roller-coasters instead of violence and bloodshed and rioting.  Which is true?

E.N.D.:  You're still caught up on true?  The problem is that you all think there is a difference.  Comedy is Discordianism because it is discordant.  Comedy ruffles feathers.  And besides, all the other stuff which you describe as violence and bloodshed is always funny to someone.  I see no better symbol for Discordianism than a roller-coaster derailing.

B.V.H.:  What about the enormous disasters which have been plaguing the world in the last few years?

E.N.D.:  What about them?

B.V.H.:  Well, I see a lot of Discordians reacting to the disasters in a rather negative way . . . it seems almost like a lot of them forget that the disasters are pretty much Discord in action.

E.N.D.:  What do you expect?  A party?

B.V.H.:  No, but it seems strange to me that people who consider themselves followers of Discord being upset or surprised by these disasters.

E.N.D.:  People will always be dismayed by large displays of Discord, if only because humans are naturally adverse to change of any sort.  I see no reason why a so-called Discordian should embrace disasters; acknowledging that they are natural and necessary is much more than most others ever do.

B.V.H.:  Many consider the central lesson of the Principia Discordia to be that we are truly free; but there are some who seem to take this lesson as permission to act like a completely selfish prick, do you regret that lesson now?

E.N.D.:  First, it wasn't my lesson; it was Mal2's filtered through Greg Hill's brain.  I just gave Mal2 the idea.  At any rate, those who take the lesson as permission to be a selfish prick are at best being lazy, and at worst being intentionally deceptive.  The freedom is freedom from your standard conventions.  For example, paper is a reality, would you agree?

B.V.H.:  Yes.

E.N.D.:  And printing presses are a reality.  BUT, and here is the important part, money is a social fiction.  You are enslaved by money only if you choose to be.

B.V.H.:  But, isn't the only way not to be enslaved by money to be homeless or to move to a deserted island?

E.N.D.:  That is not for me to say.  That's where the freedom enters into the picture.  You are only repressed by your own mind.

B.V.H.:  What acts of Discord are you most proud of?

E.N.D.:  When frozen shit from airplanes falls from the sky to crush people.  It's lowbrow, but it gives me fits of giggles.

B.V.H.:  And what pisses you off most?

E.N.D.:  The depiction of me on the television show Xena.  I'm still thinking of a really good vindictive way to smite the people who created and worked on that show.  Look forward to the 'Curse Of Xena' soon.

B.V.H.:  Speaking of Xena, that reminds me of Hercules, which reminds me of the only other legend I could find about you, it concerned a conversation you had with Heracles.  It seems that you offered him to travel down your path and lead a life of strife and struggle, or he could go down the path of Sloth and lead an easy and lazy life.  He picked the path of Eris.  Why do you think that is?

E.N.D.:  You already know the answer to that question.

B.V.H.:  True.  Well, I thank you for the opportunity to let me ask you these questions.  Anything else you want to add before we finish?

E.N.D.:  I just wanted to say hi to Athena and Aphrodite, and ask them to ponder how many followers they still have these days.

B.V.H.:  There you have it kiddies, Eris Nancy Discordia, still petty after all these years.

[Zurtok Khan]

Nancy?

[Fizzwitz Glorypoop]

E.N.D.:  I just wanted to say hi to Athena and Aphrodite, and ask them to ponder how many followers they still have these days.

I love that part.

As for 'frozen shit', does that refer to 'stuff' or to actual frozen shit?

[the other anonymous]

B.V.H.:  And what pisses you off most?

E.N.D.:  The depiction of me on the television show Xena.  I'm still thinking of a really good vindictive way to smite the people who created and worked on that show.  Look forward to the 'Curse Of Xena' soon.

I thought Meghan Desmond did a half-way decent job, considering what she was given to work with by the writers (some eps of Xena make Charmed look like Shakespeare).




(...and, yes, I watch Charmed. 6 tits and 3 asses. Wheeee!!)

[hooplala]

Nancy?

Wait! One last question! Why Nancy??

WHAT?

Why Eris Nancy Discordia? I asked. Why Nancy?

NANCY'S A NICE NAME.

[hooplala]

E.N.D.:  I just wanted to say hi to Athena and Aphrodite, and ask them to ponder how many followers they still have these days.

I love that part.

As for 'frozen shit', does that refer to 'stuff' or to actual frozen shit?

I believe she was referring to actual feces.

[Cain]

Frozen shit falling from planes gives me meaning in life and justifies my view that the Universe is generally malevonent.  I mean, are there many ways to die that are worse then being hit by a giant cube of shit on the head?

[hooplala]

Frozen shit falling from planes gives me meaning in life and justifies my view that the Universe is generally malevonent.  I mean, are there many ways to die that are worse then being hit by a giant cube of shit on the head?

Exactly.

Gruesome and funny as hell.  That's Eris at work to me.