Summary: <a rel="attachment wp-att-2465" href="http://radiomisterioso.com/2014/09/14/adam-gorightly-historia-discordia/378439_247543825316749_1655655088_n/"></a>Gorightly’s back again with a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Historia-Discordia-Adam-Gorightly/dp/1618613219/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410761155&sr=1-1&keywords=historia+discordia">new book</a> based on his custodial ownership of the original holy documents of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism">Discordian movement</a>. The religion, founded in a Southern California bowling alley in 1957, was the first modern joke disguised as a religion, or was it?<br> We talked about the history of the Discordians, Gorightly’s interaction with Discordian-affiliated luminaries like Robert Anton Wilson and Bob Newport, and its influence on the counterculture.<br> Halfway through the program, I played the 1975 hit, “Convoy,” featuring Adam Gorightly singing under his CIA-assigned pseudonym, “C.W. McCall.”<br> Photo of Gorightly as Rodin’s “Stinker” by Barbara Harris.<br>
