Alden Loveshade contemplating Binky the WonderSkull.
Alden Loveshade is a professional non-fiction and fiction writer, journalist, educator, animal caregiver, director, poet, illustrator, and photographer. In addition to his other work, he has contributed Discordian reviews, writings, illustrations, and/or photos to Yahoo, Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht, and Intermittens Magazine. As co-creator and head writer of the award-winning Same River Twice, he adopted the real-life model for The Midget. He headed the writing of the unfinished Discordian play with music West End Trash which was seized in a government raid in 2002.
Personal Life
It is traditional in The Loveshade Family to change names of places and institutions.
Alden was raised by his mother and father in California. He had two younger brothers and an older step-brother known in Discordian circles as Dr. Sinister Craven. After graduation from Gilbert High School, he earned a college degree at the University of California, Sanderson. He was married to Brianna, and the couple later moved to Texas.
Same River Twice
Alden Loveshade was co-creator and head writer of the university-produced Same River Twice, an English-language telenovela produced by Emmy Award winner Saul Landau. Alden and his team of writers adopted the character Wandering John from Fargo the Homeless, a persona used in the 1990s by Michael Arthur Quinn, real-life model for The Midget. Both the character and Quinn were wise homeless African Americans who possessed a physical abnormality. The pilot episode written by Alden was shown from the east to the west coast in America, and was made with assistance from Oscar winner Haskell Wexler.