Adventure


Some people never learn.
They think that the world is ruled by ‘math’ and ’statistics’.
For example: you can’t predict the outcome of a baseball game because there’s WAY too many factors involved-i.e. screamed chants from the fans, the prayers of a sick boy in left field nose bleed seats, etc.
Haven’t you people heard of “chaos theory” and “random acts of kindness”?

Besides, isn’t it a little misogynist to completely rely on the masculine assumptions of rational reductionism? The modern project of control and oppression through the privileging of narrowly defined “acceptable knowledges” is bullshit man, so when Nate Silver tells me that there is nearly a one hundred percent chance that my next fart will result in a teaspoon of anal leakage, I tell him that I’m gonna trust my gut.

Sure, I’m in the middle of making out with that girl I met at Friday’s last week during my cousin’s work party and she’s just gone down to the kitchen to grab another beer and will be back in a second, but I think that this is a perfect time to just let out this fart that I’ve been holding all night.

It will probably be a nice little silent and mostly odorless fart. She’s been drinking a bit and won’t even notice if there was a smell anyway. Probably. That’s my guess.

Nate Silver’s breakdown of my bowel situation might have a cool statistical accounting for every factor including columns labelled “Nachos”, “Seven Beers”, and “Two Gin and Tonics”, but you know what? I failed
college algrebra and I’m still doing pretty well for myself.
Oh! And guess what? When I said that the new James Bond movie “Quantum of Solace” would suck before seeing it, I didn’t need no stupid pie chart. I trusted my intuition. And who got the last laugh on that one?

So, as I begin to push and bear down on my sphincter, I do so knowing that humanity will never be programmable, predictable, compartmentizeable, for the human soul is a mysterious thing beyond knowing.

We’ve been deluged with money saving tips here at MindFlowers.
Are we that obviously broke? Well, with arrugula and gas prices out of control, I thought
I’d post some of the great ideas that will go down easy on the pocketbook.

“My husband and I take a bath together and tell the kids to play outside for an hour.”
-Tess B.

“These gas prices are just horrendous! So, instead of taking a long driving trip, we load up our Yukon and hitch our Focus on the back, tow it up to the cabin and then take mini driving trips around the lake. We also like to save money by buying our top hats in bulk.”
-Lily W.

“Usually, to save money, my wife and I will get in a fight about finances, lack of sex, or whether to raise our kids Jewish or Catholic and I end up staying a few nights at my buddy Jared’s. Its pretty cool: he’s got XBox and doesn’t care if I pray the Hail Mary over his toddlers.”
-Sean MacMalhoney

“To me everyday is a Staycation.”
Grandpa Theo, Oak Haven Senior Care Housing

If you appreciate sensory experience, I recommend this article published in last Wednesday’s New York Times.

They were among 40 or so people who were tasting under the influence of a small red berry called miracle fruit at a rooftop party in Long Island City, Queens, last Friday night. The berry rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors for an hour or so, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.

Weeks ago, on a Sunday, a few friends and I wandered in the forest to spend a day basking in a sulfuric hot springs near Vancouver, CA. As you might imagine, the pleasant smell of the sulfur-laced water was reminiscent of that dream everyone has of wading through a plethoric concentration of rotten eggs, but somehow it was a pleasant experience for me. The natural warmth of mother nature contrasted sensually with her chilled air, and the putrid smells eventually became us because — as is well documented by Cambridge ass-tro-physicists — our own shit don’t stink.

Soon after we arrived a second group joined us consisting of five folks coming from a Renaissance Fair, folks who reminded me of the 80’s video game Golden Axe. They quickly and obnoxiously asserted an uncomfortable social domination over our group, spicing our conversation with shouts of non-politically-correct vulgarity. They got naked (as were most of us), drunk (a cold beer in a hot spring is delightful idea!) and overly-stoned, and then they began literally overly-stoning each other, throwing rocks at each others’ faces and ignoring us, the innocent bystanders. There was one female included in their coterie and it became apparent that an orgy would occur the moment we left. Our presence was a cockblock.

At dusk they brought out a box of 200 glow sticks which lit up the water like a radioactive lightning bug factory. The rock war turned into a glow stick war. “With the rockets green glare, the bongs bursting with THC fortified air, gave proof through the night that empty beer cans were bound to be left there.”

We made our exit as darkness made its entrance, to permit our companions privacy to relieve their blue balls (and the female equivalent) and because there seemed no time limit to their violent ballistic battles. The drunker they got and the darker it got were Oxy clear factors in rapidly declining aim. Oh yeah, and two of their guys were already making out French style.

Most of my group was dissatisfied with the day’s happenings but I was fascinated with this display of raw, timeless human nature. We are all animals, dude. Hear me roar.

By the way, what do you think of “Blue Ovaries” as the name for my autobiography?

All Spice and Periwinkle,
j.j.

5:00 am: JJ awakes to baby birds chirping on his window sill.
He uses an eyedropper to feed them mashed up mealworms.
6:20 am: Ryan wakes up wet again.
6:28 am: Ryan goes back to sleep.
10:30 am: Ryan visits the Encino Sperm Bank and is happy to find the new issue of High Society is in.
10:31 am: Ryan sheepish hands over an empty collection cup to the kind Nurse/Sperm Wrangler, shrugs and says, “Uhh, you’ll need to change the bed sheet in Collection Room Two.”
10:32 am: JJ tells a co-worker, “Sure I can refill your stapler!”
10:33 am: Ryan wanders round the corner from Encino Sperm Bank to Starbucks. He orders a cheesecake danish, knowing he is allergic to wheat and dairy and would experience diarrhea in a few hours. He swallows the pastry in two bites.
10:36 am: Ryan gets in line again and orders another danish.
10:36 am: JJ helps an old woman across the street.
10:42 am: Ryan sees a woman sitting at a small round table by the front door. He stares at her breasts, muffin top, back breasts, and hamhocks as he stuffs the second danish in his mouth.
10:42 am: JJ picks up some litter and places it in its proper recycling bin.
11:03 am Ryan gets caught staring at that woman. She says, ” Can I help you?” Ryan says nothing and stands up, revealing an erection.
11:04 am: Ryan jerkily walks over to the garbage can and looks inside. He pulls out a soggy newspaper and leaves, muttering something about “teases”.
11:04 am: JJ calls his grandmother to remind her to take her medication.
JJ and Ryan McGivern

Posers bore me. Show me a moment in time not orchestrated by preconceptions of normality (unless the intention is irony). I want to explore what I’ve never seen before. I want story. I want unpredicted context. Check out these works by Aron Wiesenfeld of innocent-appearing young women in the midst of their provocative narratives. These pieces send my imagination on a road trip across Australia in the sidecar of a motorcycle. To see more of Wiesenfeld’s art, click here.

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The Delegate’s Daughter, oil on canvas, 56″ by 32″

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The Falls, oil, 24″ by 24″
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Pot Luck, charcoal, 25.5″ by 19.5″

Are you one of those who goes to uneasy sleep each night wondering when Jesus is going to come back? Do you want to enjoy a whole expo of world beers as He floats down from heaven? Here’s all the info you’ll need to get ready for MAY 21st, 2011, the day Jesus’ll come back.

  • Matthew 24:37 “As were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the son of man.”
  • Genesis 7:4 “For yet seven days and I will cause it to reain upon the earth.”
  • II Peter 3:8 “Forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as
    a thousand years.”
  • It is known the exact year of the flood in Noah’s day was the year 4990 BCE. Thus, seven days, 7000 years. Thus, if you add 7000 to Noah’s flood date, you get 2011. The extra year is accounted for in the ‘zero’ year between BCE and CE.
  • Hence, May 21st 2011 is the day Jesus is coming back.

For more information on Jesus, email davidto216@sbcglobal.net

I say let’s all plan on spending the day of infamy at the Frankenmuth World Expo of Beer, in Frankenmuth Michigan, taking place during May 20 and 21 2011.
http://www.frankenmuthfestivals.com/?subpage_id=2009
http://www.frankenmuth.org/
http://beer.about.com/od/beerfestivals/gr/FrankFest2007.htm

Frankenmuth Michigan: the only place to be when Jesus comes back.

Ryan McGivern
www.myspace.com/mckibbon

Jamba JuiceIt was a darkening and drizzy evening when a gunshot disrupted the normal L.A. night sounds of Mojitos being sipped, Scarlet Johanssen’s butt being lipo-ed, and the echoes of porn production from the valley. I got the call from Sgt. Mahoney down at precinct at 4:00am when I was half way through a whiskey pint and a pirated DVD of Ghostbusters 2 that had Mandarin voiceover and Thai subtitles.

“We’ve got a grisly murder down at the Jamba Juice on Beverly Drive.”
“Again?” I growled. It was the fourth and a half murder there in the span of a week.
“That’s right. It looks like me might have a sultry Latina R’n'B singer who’s dating a Baldwin brother who’s been on ‘creative hiatus’ as a suspect,” the Sarge said.

A wide open case with no good leads to go on, hmm? Damn.  That was the last thing I wanted to hear. Another murderous creatively-blocked loon on the loose was sure to put Tinsel Town on edge. Los Angeles likes its crime sexy, coke driven, and easily adaptable to a screenplay. But this murder was one of the rare unentertaining ones, and one that in the end gave me a broken rib, a default on my home loan, and a chancre sore the size of an Olympic medal.

On my way to the crime scene, I picked up a hitchiker who just needed a ride. Suddenly I was pulled over by LAPD.
“Sir, may I see your I.D.?”
“Listen, flatfoot: I’m a private eye, see? The name’s Nils Kuhlstadt, P.I.”
“Can you get out of the car sir?”
“I’m on my way to investigate a murder. A gristly, albeit not very entertaining one. I’m sure its a case that will lead me to brake a rib, and default on my home loan.”
“Do you know this hitchiker?”
She had paused from giving me a wicked ‘Carolina Swamp Fox’, if you get my meaning, and was touching up her makeup.  I told the officer to mind his own business and slipped him a Benjamin and a mickey.

To make a long crime noir story short: The hitchiker and I fell in love and ironically enough, she was the killer. And her Baldwin brother boyfriend and I had a daring fight atop the Beverly Wilshire hotel. And I shot somebody. And there was a brief but entertaining false lead which caused me to investigate the seedy underbelly of Chinatown’s mafia. So that’s about it. Case closed. Oh, and I got that chancre sore.

Ryan McGivern

stop time

Dear Standard Time,

I know you like to act all like you are the “real” or “foundational” time – as if there is anything “real” about “time” - but I just wanted you to know how much you make me want to die. Sure, there have been a lot of things that I actually like that make me want to die, but I liked them. You are in no way worth it. So now I have about 5 months of putting up with you and your world-hating self where I have to force myself to do groceries and swim and care about anything at all.

This letter is a few days late, but I was drunk for the first one and hung over for the second, so that now it is the third day since you’ve shown up this half of the year and I barely want to move. And perhaps the only good thing Bush has ever done in his entire life is to shorten your yearly existence.

Love, Lori

P.S. – Any idea as to why I woke up with a swollen ankle the first day after your activation? I was blaming it on other things, like the drunken sex I was having with a stranger, but he was only choking me, there was no ankle play involved at all - I am convinced that it was all because of you!

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