Let’s have a mind and raise flowers.

Previously on Mindflowers I’ve discussed the magic of ImprovEverywhere. This time IE recruited eight pairs of identical twins to ride together in a NYC subway car.

BERKELEY, CA-Last week the Berkeley resident and longtime environmental activist known as Pinecone left her roost high in the Cal Oak Grove after nearly ten months of her arbor dwelling protest.
“When I left my mother womb [tree], I did not see it as defeat. I felt my earth song [protest] had fulfilled what I set out to do. It was the right time to come down.”

Pinecone was greeted with a smattering of applause from the gathered crowd of jobless vagrants who counted themselves her supporters. She was immediately biked to the Berkeley Bowl where she bought organic sunflower seeds.

Pinecone then shifted tactic slightly as she home invaded a Claremont residence and held the family’s attic as a geographic hostage or, as Pinecone calls it, “Initiated a love/symbiot sensuality expression of universal heart.”

The home’s residents, the Reinholdt family calls it “a stinky sqatter who’s squatting in our crawl space.”
One of Pinecone’s supporters who blogs under the name KucinichLuva wrote on the blog

www.LimbsOfLove.net, “This Attic Protest is the next logical step. Anyone can tell you residential single family structures are the equivalent of nature’s Professor Moriarti. By taking a stand against single family households in middle upper class America, Pinecone will save untold numbers of unnecessary toilet flushes.”
Pinecone added herself in a press release that was handed through a heating vent in the Reinholdt’s second floor ceiling, “Stop urinating in the toilet. Piss in the sink and then the next time you do your full body Dr. Bronner’s body wash with a natural sponge in your sink, you can wash down whatever urine is still there. P.S. Please send up vegetarian pizza, water, and cannabis.”

As of earlier this morning, the Reinholdts have still refused to allow Pinecone’s followers to give her food and water and Humbolt County Purple Daze.
“We invited her to come down and share some of our cassarole, but she’s vegan and told us we were fascists. And then she threw the contents of her bedpan at us.”

In response to Pinecone’s Attic Protest, Chevron executives have said they’ll consider shutting down. Said an anonymous Chevron boardmember, “In light of Pinecone’s suggestions, we think its just the right thing.”

I believe an ethically sound person would be offended by this video. But truthfully, I have the ethical sensibilities of a cucumber and this video sure feels like fun.

The MindFlowers editorial staff didn’t (and couldn’t) make this up. Here’s the article from
www.azcentral.com

LOS ANGELES – A 42-year-old chimpanzee who is toilet-trained and can eat with a knife and fork is believed to be at large in a Southern California forest after escaping his cage.

A weekend search in the San Bernardino National Forest 50 miles east of Los Angeles came up empty.

“I yelled his name out for hours, for hours, with no one else around. Nothing. Not even a hoot,” said LaDonna Davis, who owns Moe with husband St. James Davis.

St. James Davis brought Moe home from Tanzania in 1967 after the baby primate lost his mother to poachers. He and his wife treated Moe as their surrogate son, toilet-training him, teaching him to eat with a knife and fork and letting him sleep in their bed and watch TV.

But local authorities didn’t view Moe in the same light. For years, the Davises waged a legal battle to keep Moe in their home.

They finally lost in 1999 when Moe bit part of a woman’s finger off when she inserted her hand in his cage. The Davises said he mistook her red-painted fingernail for his favorite licorice. The incident also came after Moe mauled a police officer’s hand.

Over the Davises’ protests, Moe was taken to an animal sanctuary. But in 2005, when they took a cake to celebrate Moe’s birthday with him, the couple was viciously attacked by two other chimpanzees who had escaped their cages.

The chimps nearly killed St. James Davis, chewing off his nose, testicles and foot and biting off chunks of his buttocks and legs, before the sanctuary owner shot the animals to death.

“He’s a very personable, sweet, nice chimp,” McCasland said. “He’s not going to be aggressive unless he’s provoked.”

The couple, who have no children, broke down in tears at a press conference in Los Angeles.

“What am I going to do?” sobbed LaDonna Davis.

“He meant the world to us,” said St. James Davis. “He was the best man at my wedding.”

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2008/07/01/20080701chimpescape01-odd.html