Directions: Tear out a page of text from a book. The first player circles 2 or 3 words out of the text, starting a new sentence. The next player also circles 2 or 3 words, keeping in mind the previous ones, keeping the sentences grammatical. Continue passing until the page is filled. Add periods and commas where necessary.

1.
Tools of a skilled thermometer counterparts the diagnostician’s hidden signs. Each one lacks vision to peer into his hearing. On the other hand electrical signals wave unaided. Today tools are coming, and many vital seconds.

2.
After seven harvests too late and nova with the best, areas on a behind-architectural. Interest in interiors dominated Henry. The urgency to even best flour houses, historic. One of the state of language over Toronto speaks in a specimen of novel age.

3.
Something swirling seems to point me on across clear thunder’s source…Its churning screws downward slowly descending along the beneath. Fascinated like a bloom. The crater rubbing it out for me. Eight months have I suffered common treasure; the disease as myself…as old as a giant lodestone… rampant incurable endlessly searching…

4.
During the scientific dogma, dissection was god. People did facts in Eve. Nobody doubted men. One bible’ed the spirit of the hamper-human. Cholera swept to astrology as a method of abracadabra designs. Often treated? The fat. Outlandish stone intestines, as a cure. Test the stone condemned…

5.
The study of time was an odd subject, dealing exclusively with evolution. Of essential pontifical library, of wish sincere. Librarians assist New York State provided barns, on air lands. Head of special book centuries greatly indebted to threshing. Unique pleasure with the french language. Concept of conception, made by spite and advice.

Players: JF, HC, SC, AM, T

Everyone starts drawing a nonsensical diagram. At various points, any player can yell “pass”, causing all players to pass the diagram they are working on to the next person. Continue until the pages are more-or-less filled. Players: AM, SC, HC, T, JF

Have you ever been Bitten…

Grandma’s Truth

---

DIAGRAM OF DESIRE

INSTRUCTIONS FOR GHOSTS

NO YAWNING PLEASE

---

Directions: Take a standard joke structure (such as “What do you get when you cross a ____ with a ___”) and split up unto three lines. Write one line, fold and pass. The next person writes the next line in the sequence without seeing the preceding one.

What did the tree root say to the undertaker?
I think I’m at the wrong house.

What did the monkey who just learned sign language say to the NPR interviewer?
Licking the melting arctic ice is not the same as licking the ice cream cone.

Why did Jesus Christ go to the bathroom with no door?
Because his mother was forcing him to wear a fat sweater.

Why did the toothpaste factory abandon the hatchlings in the cemetery?
They were feeling outrageously horny and needed some privacy.

Why did Donald Rumsfield drop out of Kennesaw State University?
He was feeling lonely and just wanted someone to talk to.

Why did the auto mechanic buy the nun dinner at Sizzler’s?
To finally decode the mysterious signal sent to earth from the alien artifact.

What do you get when you cross a chocolate covered grasshopper with an obnoxiously loud raven?
A squash casserole.

What do you get when you cross a lettuce wrap with the new testament?
Course credit for the second semester of physics at an Alabama high school.

Why did the depressed professor of etymology pull a fast one?
A simple desire for companionship.

Why did Lucy (of I Love Lucy fame) eat a thousand and one sandwiches?
To finally catch a break instead of a cold for a change.

Why did the Bond villain lend his brother twenty thousand dollars?
To see if they had any snacks in there.

Why did the unhatched eggs stuff themselves with quesadillas?
The world may never know…

Why did the donkey’s mouth toil away in the fields until body and bone was used up and ruined?
Because his store on Etsy selling baskets wasn’t making any money, so his wife told him he needed to get a real job.

Why did the mayor of Stockbridge shit on the floor with embarrassment?
Because nothing is true and everything is permitted.

What did the smooth porcupine say to the blowfish?
It’s a bit cold out here to be doing something like that, don’t you think?

What did the pus-filled sore say to the statue of an orangutan?
You should always check your pockets before you put your hands in there.

What do you get when you cross a cheese pizza with a melting clock from a Salvador Dali painting?
Ghost clown appearing before your very eyes.

What do you get when you cross a water-logged marshmallow with a wise man’s blanket?
The craziest New Year’s Eve party I’ve ever been to.

What do you get when you cross a nightmare your cat had last night with a very empty bird nest?
The U in UFO.

What did the transcendental meditation guru say to the expired cadaver?
Do you ever wish you’d never been born?

What did the white rapper say to the depressed pair of jeans?
I think I’m gonna need another drink.

What did the robotic feline say to the ghost of his childhood pet hamster?
I think we have a lot in common. Want to go out with me?

What do you get when you cross a lion with a Jack-O-Lantern?
Your own demise.

What do you get when you cross a melting phoenix with a wishy-washy antelope?
Unbearable, eternal pain.

What did the politician say to the mirror in his studio apartment?
You will not know peace until you have tried my new amazing lotion.

Players: AM, SC, HC, T, JF

Players: AM, SC, HC, T, JF

A Treasure Wrest from a Dragon

Tell me not from which direction to turn

The librarian no longer catalogs her smooth dreams

I looked again and saw the name, Beloved, which was mine and always had been

Look on ahead and you will see the mountains whose open arms welcome you

I promised that day to never look back on any of my yesterdays

Dog Days of Jupiter

Away! At a loss for seashell peregrines, the fool stood waiting at the door

And I suddenly felt at peace

Himalayan crescent moons reside within

Don’t go too close to the edge unless, that is, you want to

Give a little purple time… gain a little ghost

Geriatric Gastronomy Lessons (from a friend)

Oh, clock on the wall, tick with merry chatter

The fire shattered into pieces 

Maybe it would have been better in the sea

A new blackened land, sans keyboard

And with it, the radiance of the sun

My Time on the Moon

The weaponized veterinarian speaks in tongues

Awash… in a multitude of limbs and shellshocked fantasy armor…It was useless from the start

Suddenly I thought of what that meant

Sorry, I forgot what I was saying. Sorry.

But in the end, if this is the end, I miss it.

An Eternity in the Underground Places, a poem by Alvaro

Last night, I think I lost my mind briefly

That makes me proud to call this bunch my compatriots

The holding out of hope of some November morning

If a door opens, one must always fall through it

Ah, at last, a rose and an empty tortoise shell, the world in bloom

The Myth of the Foot

Away beyond the mountains of my youth, my looming tomb

As we lay half asleep, Mother came to us and whispered:

I’ll confess the secrets of truth and love to nobody in particular

An unbridled watershed of crayola firmament

The turtle’s park remains open from 9-11 always

The Moral of the Story

An oyster opens to catch its own soul

A disco ball in a lightless cave, my spirit

I don’t know. You used to be so loving, but now – 

I tell that to myself in a bad storm at sea, as well as this

And on (or beneath) the ground… a song long sought

A Candle of Iridescent Glass

Along the path I heard my companion call to me and say:

Why hold back the onion –  colored leopard from its prey, alas…

Butcher’s hat floating in the ether

But what of all discarded bones? We could build of them a castle

Years ago, years ahead, vibrations in the mist.

All of my Feelings Today: a poem by Alvaro

The blind king turned to me and said

A shimmering promise that “You won’t have to do it after all”

Space craft sheds its hope

To tell that final derelict fornicator to absorb its final fruit

It was a total disaster but I don’t mind trying

Suffocation of Diamonds

A winter dawn in the heartstone

Blue desire without any origin

The time has come again, so green and fair, to wait the changing hue of evening treeline

Then I resolved to never eat at that restaurant ever again

The ancients made mistakes, and so can I

Write one ingredient to a spell, fold the paper over. The next person will write the next ingredient without seeing the preceding line. The last person writes the title of the spell.

Players: AM, SC, HC, T, JF

A Spell to Turn Night into Day and the Dark Moon into a Vibrant Sun

1. Seventeen salamander toes

2. A VHS tape you watched all the time as a kid

3. Three old drawings you made in kindergarten that your mom saved for some reason

4. A spoonful of undeserved ecstasy

5. Two pinches of soot from the inside of a chimney of a house that has burned down

A Spell to Achieve Knowledge and Conversation with the Insect World and its Denizens

1. And untouched aardvark egg

2. The second disc of season 3 of Friends on bluray

3. A rather raucous rat rectum

4. Walnuts that have been in a chipmunks mouth (17-23 in number)

5. An invisible hand

A Spell for the Transformation of Asphalt into Clean Water

1. Scarecrow epithelials, one pound

2. Fourteen brown mustaches torn from the faces of high school gym teachers

3. A page of automatic writing from a burn victim

4. The other half of this broken coin

5. Forty allegories of the cave

A Spell to Allow you to Hear Words Spoken Behind your Back

1. Three carbuncles of wine

2. Three snake skins, willingly given

3. Three cups of sewer water from Chicago

4. Oyster shells filled with sawdust

5. The complete discography of Michael Jackson

A Cure for Shellfish Allergy for Anyone within 10 Feet of Me

1. Two teaspoons of vanilla extract

2. A dozen ripened donkey eggs

3. Seven fleeces, one of each color of the rainbow

4. An eyelash from a goat born on Christmas

5. A live cat

Directions: Crumble up a piece of paper. Uncrumble it. Start drawing, using the crumble lines as a guide. Pass periodically in a circle. When finished, explain to the perplexed audience what exactly is happening in said image…

Players: AM, SC, HC, T

Directions: Write a sentence. Pass. The next person writes a symbol in response. Fold the words, but keep your symbol visible. The next person writes a sentence in response to the symbol, and so on.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

Players: AM, T, SC, HC, AK

The Sound Questioned:

A didgeridoo hum

Initial Response:
-Seven circles circling time’s orifice.
-A dream humming, the deep humming breath of the desert as she dreams.
-Tremelo tremolo tremolo. The voice that seeks to make way through narrow splinters of dark, trembling with planetary rings, turning slowly.
-A repeating droning, burping, water sound of new life and opportunity.

What color does it correspond to?

• Red
• Black
• Black
• Teal

What is its astrological sign?

• Capricorn
• Capricorn
• Scorpio
• Pisces

What part of the universe is it associated with?

• The singularity
• The shallows just under the ice of that moon of Jupiter with water.
• Black hole
• Jupiter

What year was it discovered?

• 1927
• 1
• one year before the Big Bang
• 7000 BC, forgotten 5000 BC, remembered again 700 AD

What could it do?

• Sprout a lily pad
• Tell you peacefully how you will die
• Roll down a hill, laughing
• Make the movers move

What does its future hold?

• Black hole
• Will crack the surface of the ice to make way for the space pilgrims to colonize mars.
• A state of unchangingness, caught in the amber of the present
• Lands inside a wall of ice, transforms it into dirt

Is it male, female, neither?

• Male, it is the seed of a new civilization
• Male
• Male
• Both

Why did it find us?

• It birthed us
• It made itself known when it thought we were ready. And we were.
• To teach us a new language
• To tell us a story

What does it taste like?

• Salt water
• Unsalted vacuum
• Liquorish
• Jagermeister

-Players: T, AM, SC, HC

Directions: Take a concept. Collectively decide its tactile traits, color, feel, smell, etc. and write them down. Once you have collected a list of traits, decide what physical object the concept corresponds to

Concept: independence

Independence tactile trails: Moist, Beezy, Silky, Furry, Metallic

Therefore, Independence is either;

A) A robot dog giving birth.

B) A buzzard

C) A colander full of angel hair pasta

D) An automated carwash

E) An alcoholic seltzer inside of a furry koozie

D) An airplane covered in moss, abandoned in a forest

Players: JF, SC, HC, AM, T