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April 18, 2008 |
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Get Zack to Buy Some
FOUND by Daryl
in Portland, Maine
This was found sitting under a desk at the local community college.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
This is a great use of the scratch-out; I love how it takes the note from a collaborative suggestion of "we should get zack to buy some tonight," to an order, "get zack to buy some tonight." Decent drawing, too, I guess.
Duuuuuuuuude.
hahhaha good idea. let's.
if you look closely, between the words "some" and "tonight" it says "buy" again. why?
and i agree with ian, i'm impressed with the drawing.
so this is totally judgmental, but my first reaction was:
and THAT is why you are at a community college.
yes, yes, i know they turn out really smart graduates and decent people go to community colleges. and at least they're not wasting their lives away on drugs, at least they're upwardly mobile. this is certainly more sophisticated than any notes i've passed in my note-passing days - though that was 5th grade. Okay... enough for now. back to work... maybe i'm just jealous that as I am wasting away in grad school, others are enjoying life. something to be bitter about, perhaps?
ahaha..
it looks like something from the smurfs..
.. haha.. a tool of Gargamel
Warning: Not a psilocybin mushroom. Note the skull and crossbones. This mushroom is poisonous!
is the mushroom sitting on eggs? did it land on the wicked witch and those are little round furry ruby slippers ?
pills and booz ?
@ grad school in somniac: I eat shrooms and I don't go to community college. Don't plan on going to grad school - peace corps for me, but don't hate. pick a weekend, go camping and shroom away. I promise it won't interfere with your graduate degree.
Smallbear should have an interesting comment on this. Of course we "herbal types" know that not every shroom is a passport to Shalimar, but a lot of them sure make good pizza!
I use a drawing of a shroom reading a book as my avatar on another website; someone kindly pointed out to me that it is, in fact, an amanite..quite poisonous! I guess that does describe me...friendly-looking, bookish, fond of bright colours, always to be found in one place (we herbs aren't very mobile)...but don't mess with me!
Fresh basil, as you may know, is a mild stimulant, but only in the energy sense, not even as much as a cuppa coffee.
There's a little erased heart behind "some" as well. Maybe it was the first draft of the note, and on their second go, they were too high to erase any more and just scratched it out.
Amanita Muscaria (red cap with prominent white flecks) is indeed both poisonous and hallucinogenic. R. Gordon Wasson famously speculated in "Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality" (1967) that A. Muscaria was indeed the enlightening intoxicant described in the Rig-Veda, one of the oldest Sanskrit texts of ancient Hinduism. He hypothesized that the priests ate the mushrooms to filter out the toxins, while the participating devotees partook of the priests' highly psychoactive urine, which was probably mixed with water and honey.
In about 1973, a friend of mine, tired of hearing about all this theory, decided to try them for himself. His wife came home after work one day to find all the doors and windows open, all the burners on the stove turned on, and her husband in convulsions on the front lawn, foaming at the mouth.
He was rushed to the hospital and remained in a coma in intensive care for a few days, teetering between life and death as his organs struggled to keep from shutting down. When he finally awoke, his first words were, "Wow! That was great!"
His doctor and his wife were not amused.
Damn. One too many "indeeds." Sorry.
Death-cap Mushrooms? Wow!! In Maine, they even lay eggs!?!?!! Or are those spores super-sized!?!
Dear @ grad sch:
How can you be ‘wasting away’ when you’re reading Found!?! (Actually, one of my favorite graffitis, spotted on a bathroom wall, is: Time is never wasted / When you’re wasted all the time.
(my daze like that are looong over, thank heavens!)
And @ grad – here on Found, we aren’t ‘judgmental’ – we are (or aren’t, as the case may be) – judgenmental. (This term is usually followed by a 5-ltr word, starting with ‘b’, and rhymes with witch – he he)
HELP! Where is the reference link for “judgenmental bitch” peoples!!
Wow @ Midlife – what a story!! Takes me back to the same time – lots of tales from THEM daze! (your post DID start out looking like a master's thesis, or term paper at least!)
No, that's not eggses the shroom is sitting on. I'd say it's baby shrooms, like here:
http://www.boreallinks.com/images/F1000019.JPG
Maybe some students are following a course in shamanism and need a hands-on experience of the trance?
I'd like to be the first to say:
Welcome back, Midlife!!!!!
Oh, Chromey, remember what I said a little bit back about where mushrooms grow? (I still mean it BTW.) At that time I was actually thinking of the kind that are raised for public consumption by the general population. There is an actual mushroom farm not too far from here and you can actually buy from them mushroom compost for the garden. I have no idea where the kind of shrooms mentioned in the Find might grow.
I just wish that the poisonous fungi out in the field and along the Trail had that little skull and crossbones on 'em.
Or -- second thought -- maybe that indicates that these particular mushrooms are "safe for pirates"??? "Pirate tested and approved"?? Something like that?
Arrrrgh.
I wanted to be the first too, but Kat got in there --
Hi Midlife! Welcome back!!
Who is Zack, and why is he the one who has access to fungi?
That mushroom is wearing Rita Rosenberg's hat:
http://telluride.plumtv.com/videos/
mushroom_festival_chef_rita_rosenberg
Well at least it wasn't Found in a High School. In retrospect, there was nothing fun about thinking the cat was playing the bass guitar, or that moss was growing on the car.
So, what's the lesson there, Crisis? Don't mix honey and water with your urine? Indeed!
8-)
Hey Camelia, I've got your link saved on my profile:
A Proper Book http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/901
Reading Midlife Crisis' post reminds me of the good old days of Found Comments. We've missed you, man.
Beware of poisonous squash wearing terrible hats.
Maybe there is pirate treasure under the 'shroom.
grad school in somniac, your community college comments reminds me of Frazier saying "Damn me to a junior college!
Given the cross and bones on the shroom it look like a plan to kill Zach.
This is the scariest looking cock-and-balls I have ever seen.
It seems that they are planning a severe prank on those who eat the pepperoni and mushroom pizza at the next campus event...
as a native portland mainer... i'm not surprised.
:)
good find! I wonder if the quality of the drawing has anything to do with the use of these entheogens?
if you do shrooms to get wasted, you get wasted. if you shrooms to improve your spirituality, you'll do that. It's all about intention. (just had to say it)
I have heard that the white "dots" on that mushroom actually contain the hallucinogenic agent, while the flesh of the mushroom contains the deadly poison.
I'm too unmotivated to verify or refute this theory, either by researching, using the boundless internet, or by empirical study.
I wonder why the Found Powers didn't couple this one with the tye dye Find.
I wonder why they have to pay for them... Are there not fields in Maine? Trudging around in wet grass for two hours helps you justify sitting on your ass for the next 2 days recovering.
Btw, my days of things like this are loooooong over, but I don't have any regrets. I thoroughly enjoyed every last minute.
"at least they're not wasting their lives away on drugs,"
Uh,..hello?
Happy I'm not the only one who pointed out how phallic this is :)
There are light bits of the drawing on the right side. When you look closer at the second "buy" you can see it's the same writing as the first,..same with the drawing. Maybe when Daryl scanned it, or whoever scanned it for that matter, it shifted in the process or something. I don't think it was erased, especially when you see how perfectly shifted a bit to the right the lighter stuff is.
@gradchool: I was just thinking how much I missed my undergraduate days. Remember? When we could have fun without feeling guilty?
the nonsequitur: Victorian women were forbidden to eat white (but not green) asparagus because of it's resemblance to 'a certain member'. I wonder if they would have been allowed to eat phallic 'shrooms?
Grad - if recreational drug use in youth is indeed predictive of one's future academic or professional attainment, then I am afraid our country would not be functioning right now. Besides, who's to say this wasn't written by an high-functioning dual-enrolled high school student?
@midlife- they only said indeed two times and in the scientific description part.
I wonder if they thought they were being discreet by just drawing the mushroom and not actually writing it out?
I think the "heart" behind the word "some" is actually another "to" -- It looks like s/he wrote "to buy" too far to the right, erased, and went to the left edge to give more room for the rest of this important message.
Man, I can't find that freakin number anywhere!
the top of the shroom looks like... a thumb!
Anyone else remember the commercial jingle for that instant chicken sauce (from the makers of Ragu or something..) It's running through my head:
I feel like shroomin' tonight, like shroomin' tonight..
Just because the note-writer drew a 'shroom with white dots doesn't mean those are the ones he wants Zack to buy. Those mushrooms are so distinctive - you see them in children's art and coloring books all the time. I think the artist drew it to represent 'shrooms in general. He may have felt that if he drew one without the white dots, it wouldn't look like a mushroom. Same with the skull and crossbones - it doesn't mean they're actually meant to kill someone; its the artist's way of saying "duuuude! these are intense!"
Setting the record straight on the "erased" stuff... it's not erased stuff. The original note is pristine lined paper, as was my scan. Something sort of ghosting, smudging, pixel-shift must have occurred in the Found production dept.
"duuuuude let's eat some poisonous mushrooms, man!"
Re: the "erased" stuff: I blame James. But I love it, nonetheless!
That 'shroom looks just like the ones I ate when I had those weird visons the other week....Ohhhh my head hurts just looking at them. (Or maybe it's just the result of flying "Cattle Car" class
earlier today. 4 1/2 hours, two planes and no padding in the seats!)
i think whoever wrote/drew this is trying to murder zack (the shroom is obviously poisonous)
Midlife, that was not too many "indeeds." A story like that requires many indeeds indeed. Scary.
@ M*tthew – Thanks for the link to the “real-thing” picture.
…But, eggs… hmm… looking at the drawing again… perhaps this is a personified-type character mushroom… And, maybe we are looking at it side-ways; mushroom is sitting on its butt, and those are FEETS sticking out!?!?? [no, Joey Kanga… not somebody else’s ruby slippers, they’re the mushroom’s slippers!]
@ Librarian – I *love* image of “pirate-safe” product, “Pirate tests & approved!”
Thank you Agent Ling (HI)… It sure is a classic!
Flargy & Turbo – you always make me giggle!
@ Sissy Hankshaw(?) – I never heard the jingle you’re referring to… but when I was in high school, at our local drive-in movie, the intermission ad/promotion that encouraged everyone to go to the snack bar always included the intellectual line “and PIZZA – with mushy-roomy-roomies.” OMG I have remembered that in—well, in forever!!
@ Clover & Midlife – Indeed!