Food


Grilled CheeseToday was the best day of my life. Not only did I have sex with my brother for the first time (he is BIG! — don’t worry, we used birth control), but I also made the perfect grilled cheese sandwich!

  1. Firstly, use one sheet of superfine sandpaper to scrub your non-stick frying pan until there is plenty of loose Teflon. This, my friends, is secret ingredient #1.
  2. Melt an entire stick of butter in the frying pan. Pour in one liter of corn oil. We are gonna deep fry that cheesy bitch.
  3. Secret ingredient #2, gasoline. Just a dash, for color.
  4. Let frying pan soak in the sunlight for five hours, while you surf internet porn in the other room. This will work up your appetite and get your pan ’sun-kissed’.
  5. Go to the store and buy a loaf of gluten-free bread. If they don’t have any, make a huge scene breaking things and screaming: “This would never happen in Seattle!”
  6. Throw that solar preheated pan in your pottery kiln, set the temp to: “Vase”
  7. When you see the pan begin to melt, add loaf of bread. Let bake for 2 seconds. Remove pan and repeat step 4. This time, save watery ejaculate in a measuring beaker. This is obviously secret ingredient number #3.
  8. In microwave, nuke String Cheese Incident vinyl records on top of loaf. Top with toe jam.

DDR

Yesterday I went to the Mall of America and was duly inspired. The heavenly MoA featured

  • more elevators than I have teeth (27)
  • three Orange Julius’s and six Cinnabons to provide unadulterated gluten and sugar coated dreams
  • a Sears the size of eight giraffes taped side by side and four hyenas on top of them, just laughing at you
  • a JC Penny bigger than the world’s largest breadbox (hot mannequinns too)
  • 42 magazine stores that sell pornography with enough porn magazines to stack to the moon
  • A full-time year-round Santa Claus! (good kisser, slow hand)
  • and a plethora of arcades, including one filled to the flask’s brim with only Dance Dance Revolutions!

Before I wandered in the the DDR Arcade I swallowed a four leaf clover.

Lucky little me, it just so happened that the St. Agnes School for Gout Ridden Girls’ cheerleading squad inhabited all but one of the DDR spots — and I got the last spot! Oh my god, it was like winning sixth place at the National Spelling Bee! I have to admit that I am a pretty bad mother on DDR, especially when they play country western or showtunes. I was nervous as hell — I couldn’t let those diabetic diabolical bitch-snatches beat me this time and what if they played rap, or worse yet post 1993 Madonna?

But thank you Virgin Mary, the stars aligned in my favor with the opening twang of John Denver’s “Please, Daddy, Don’t Get Drunk on Christmas” blasting throughout the arcade! I had first danced to this song when I was 6 during the Christmas that my dad switched over to barbituates and weed. The DDR machine was pretty well oiled up from the sweat of the adolescent she-beast before me so I powdered it up with talc, wheat flour and Gold Bond. I danced until 8 inches of colo-rectal came unfolding out of me.

I didn’t win, but I felt like I had won 6th place in a RuPaul “tuck off”.

The Mall of America is surely the best thing to ever happen to Minnesota. Before it, the only thing they had going for themselves was that they weren’t South Dakota.

semen

The French call orgasms ‘little deaths’ which means I’m committing a mass murder each time I spill my seed. But the accompanying shame and guilt have been overridden by the prospect of making some quick cash off my DNA ranch dressing. My most recent visit to the sperm donation clinic was met with the necessary physical.

“Pee in this cup.”
“That’s it? Just pee?”
“Just pee in this one.”
“Okay.”

bloog “Now we’ll have to draw some blood.”
“The ‘fun way’?”
“What does that mean?”
“Uhhh, I dunno.”

While I was being leeched of my precious lifeblood to be tested for HIV and madcow, I nearly passed out. This was not a little embarrassing and I hoped it didn’t hurt my image.

“I feel like I’m gonna pass out.”
“Put your head between your knees. You’ll be fine.”
“I’m potent.”
“Yes, Ryan. I know.”
“Seriously. I’m a man…. And I’m tough.”
“The blood has left your head, Ryan. Put it between your knees.”
“Braagh thraath uriiian prrrrrrr.”
“Yes, Ryan. I know.”

I was made to lie down in one of the collection rooms.
“Just rest here for a minute. I’ll get you a juice.”

Almost dying from blood loss is kinda erotic. So is quickly looking through pornographic magazines on the sly when you’re supposed to be ‘resting’.

Ryan McGivern

cactusOkay, I did yell at your mom last night, but I promise by the Statue of Liberty’s right foot that it is not what you think. The evening started well enough, meeting your parents for a candlelight dinner. It was perfectly kind of them to give me that twelve foot cactus; I’ll put it in the dining room next to my Audubon Society “pelican” plate collection. I didn’t realize your dad was so drop dead good looking. I don’t think I’ve seen a man that handsome this side of Mexican telenovellas!

Given my dietary needs, I was thankful that three of the four courses were served in tin foil and contained only organic saffron, and I have to say I’ve never had free range Welsh rabbit before. Those curried floppy ears were delish! On all accounts, this would be the best dinner since Jesus’ last one.

I should have known that reanimating a corpse would come back to haunt me. I just never thought that it would occur during dinner. Now, grant me this: I stayed calm during the forced anal penetration. And to think I had planned the whole evening to propose a hetero-normative marriage to you in front of your made-to-order sexpot Mom and lustfully huggable Dad.

It had seemed so romantic when I got the idea from an episode of “Charles In Charge”. I don’t blame you for saying no. I would probably have done the same if my boyfriend of 2 months was calling my Mother an “idiot’s wetdream” and a “cumdumpster” while my Dad was in fisticuffs with a Zombie Corpse and my cactus.

I think the only mature thing to consider is a polygamous relationships between your dad, yourself, and I. We could try threesomes if you are game wherein we both give fellatio to your father while your mom breaks plates behind us to provide emotional support, or perhaps we should save some face and start slow with you and I getting all sexy like on Monday evenings with the rest of the week reserved for your hot pop and I to try out puppy love, 69 at the aquarium, and, of course, tied up inside your grandparents’ sarcophagus.

ridingYou know the scene in Goonies where Sloth rips open his shirt revealing a Superman shirt underneath? That’s how I feel right now because I have viable sperm.

I went to Encino Reproductive Services Inc. today for another donation and a report on my sperm count.

As I gave today’s collection to the very kind and discreet nurse/sperm wrangler, she held it up to the lights and gave the same look someone might if they were to sample a surprisingly good clam chowder at Red Lobster.

“Great!” She said. “Ryan, we have the results from the first donation. And it came back very good.”

This was the best feedback I ‘ve got since my mother told me I did a good job “making a ka-ka all by my myself like a big boy”.

sperm ben“Your volume was well over normal and usually with high volume, the actual sperm counts will come back lower. But yours stayed quite high so it was a great sample and we froze it.”

I was later told that freezing the sperm is like putting Snickers bars in the freezer. I was beaming. I did a couple of victory laps around the lobby, nearly knocking over the coffee table.

“I did it! In your FACE! In yo face!” I punched a hole in the dry wall.

fireworks“I feel such power. Yesssss. Yes. I am God here! In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!” My head revolved 180 degrees and then I puked green pea soup in the nurse’s
face.

Well ladies, if you’ve doubted my ability to give you an abundant Irish brood, think again. Ryan McGivern’s got the sweet, sweet magic in spades, baby.

It’s too bad women are only fertile once a month.

Ryan McGivern

birds

I have an eating problem. There, I said it, and admitting you have a problem is the first and only step, yes? I am a fine eater when I cook myself, when I plan ahead, when I venture to restaurants and order with my own free will. Within my design, I consume enough broccoli and spinach to construct a solid green bridge across Minneapolis, enough quinoa to fill your bathtub each morning, and enough beets to have a decent career as a professional boxer.

bakedThe problem arises with the seductive concept of free food — perhaps at a Super Bowl party, an employee staff meeting, a hotel continental breakfast. Those unguarded coffee cakes, muffins, potato chips, croissants, cookies, cereal, pasta — a thousand shades of empty brown carbs, sawdust disguised as food. I stuff my face and belly galaxies beyond their capacities on my way to feeling heavy, bloated, and exhausted. Inside my binges, I don’t actually taste or enjoy the food so much as shovel it repetitiously inside me. And my only stopping points are when the food is gone or when someone provides me that sexy look of disgust.

If you are what you eat, I’m over-refined, baked and superficial. Link

Cheese dreamsCheese contains tryptophan, an essential amino acid that aids with production of serotonin and melatonin, natural chemicals that regulate sleep and brain patterns. A study by the British Cheese Board surveyed the effects of varieties of cheeses on types of dreams. For example, it reports that of eaters of Red Leichester (nibbling an hour before bedtime), “over 60% of participants … revisited their schooldays, or long-lost childhood friends, or previous family homes and hometowns.” I’ve experimented with Stilton four times now and have been blessed with purely whimsical fantasy sequences that Roger Ebert would give three thumbs up to the moon, grasping its craters like a bowling ball, and aiming for Saturn’s moons. Cheese dreams might be a fine reason for vegans to reconsider the rigidness of their dietary belief systems and permit their lives a bit more color. Link

In the mold of Found Magazine, passiveaggresivenotes documents those messages from your upstairs neighbor about the fact that you have to make noise to live and maybe sanity depends on a bit of music, or to the roommates who never wash their dishes, or from the politically correct anal-toads who decry the flushing of toilets unless they are full and brown. These notes remind me of my time in residence in cooperative living situations. I apologize for the third one in advance. Link

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Passive Aggressive

bathroom

Rootbeer Float CupcakeAs I’m sure you are well aware, August 6th was National Rootbeer Float Day. To celebrate, let your lovely eyes and tongue tango over this recipe for a Rootbeer Float Cupcake. I probably won’t make it anytime soon — I theoretically attempt to avoid sugar, dairy and wheat, which, along with travel, love, and dreaming are pretty much the ingredients to most of the delicious things in life — but a Rootbeer Float Cupcake does sound tempestuous, a tasty Delorean race back in time to a magical world of elongated stripy bendy straws, when I was under 4 feet tall and all smiles all the time. Other cupcakes to contemplate include Pear and Blue Cheese Cupcakes and Lychee Lemon Coconut Cupcakes!

BugsI saw you standing across the cafeteria, all prettied up in your onesy jumpsuit, oily hair slicked back in a delicious pony tail, grinning like you just peed yourself and you just don’t give a damn. If you like mayo, you would love what then happened in my pants as I saw you graze through the “Dress Your Baked Potato” line.

Never had I seen so much goddammed chives on one plate! You were different than the others. I’ve been around the block a couple of times, and it takes a lot for me to get my hot dish hot anymore, but you had some tricks up your sleeve when you made your third appearance at the “Dress Your Ice Cream Sundae” table.

I hid under my table, watching, waiting for the boiling point, for something to happen, for you to make your move. I know confidence is attractive, which throws me in the same salad bar container as deviled eggs. I want you babe, and you’ll just have to recognize that in the midst of my peeping at you like Uncle Tom. Look around and down about 30 degrees. True love awaits like a crisped ham and cheddar hot pocket in the microwave.

Wait! What’s this? Your eyes trace over my quivering hamhocks and lilliputian skull to rest uneasily on my man beef, squeezed like caramel cream into my size 58 waist polyester track suit. I saw how carnal knowledge flashed behind your wandering eyes, one of which is wandering. I saw your nose whistle with delight through your deviated septum and our septic tank sized breasts heaved with girlish, churlish, and wild awakening.

Like a coffee enema, I had found my way into your heart, or had I?

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