Embrace The Mundane

[Moot]

Recently I lifted the quote "Embrace The Mundane" from mrgoodtude. While feeling that it applied to my life I have had second thoughts after reading this piece from news of the weird.


NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Update: The man noted in News Of The Weird in 1996 for keeping an almost unbelievably detailed personal diary died in October at age 89. For 25 years, the Rev. Robert Shields of Dayton, Wash. had chronicled his life in five minute segments of banalities, leaving 37 million words on paper filling 91 boxes. His self-described "uninhibited, "spontaneous" work was astonishing in its mundaneness.

Examples: July 25, 1993, 7 a.m.: "I cleaned out the tub and scraped my feet with my fingernails to remove layers of dead skin." 7:05 a.m.: "Passed a large, firm stool, and a pint of urine. Used 5 sheets of paper."

Aug. 13, 1995, 08:40. I filled the humidifying basin mounted over the Futura baseboard heater." 08:45 I shaved twice with the Gillette Sensor blade and shaved my neck behind both ears, and crossways of my cheeks, too."

 

[Packmule]

Moot,
Is'nt it amazing how some people can just go on and on about nothing?

Danny

 

[Moot]

Danny, I've noticed that also.

 

[mrgoodtude]

>NEWS OF THE WEIRD
>Update: The man noted in News Of The Weird in 1996 for
>keeping an almost unbelievably detailed personal diary died
>in October at age 89. For 25 years, the Rev. Robert Shields
>of Dayton, Wash. had chronicled his life in five minute
>segments of banalities, leaving 37 million words on paper
>filling 91 boxes. His self-described "uninhibited,
>"spontaneous" work was astonishing in its mundaneness.
>
>Examples: July 25, 1993, 7 a.m.: "I cleaned out the tub and
>scraped my feet with my fingernails to remove layers of dead
>skin." 7:05 a.m.: "Passed a large, firm stool, and a pint of
>urine. Used 5 sheets of paper."
>
> Aug. 13, 1995, 08:40. I filled the humidifying basin
>mounted over the Futura baseboard heater." 08:45 I shaved
>twice with the Gillette Sensor blade and shaved my neck
>behind both ears, and crossways of my cheeks, too."

Dayumm reads like a members blog I have perused...
Mundane is being nice (nuckin futz comes to mind)...
Well gotta go find me some paper and a pen as I feel an off schedule BM coming on and I hate to get behind.
Mike

 

[Moot]

Shoot, there goes my eggnog!

 

[Packmule]

Moot,
How long did it take you to learn to blow it out your nose like that?? Great trick!!! Not mundane at all!!!

Danny

 

[Moot]

I have a couple of friends that are commercial artists. When they were in school, between classes they would gather with other commercial artist types. They would sit around a table in the commons and drink coffee and eat Hostess Jimjams. These were slabs of yellow cake with strawberry jam in the middle. They would tell jokes and try and make each other laugh and spew hot coffee and pieces of Jimjam out one another's noses. The ultimate goal was to get someone to pass a whole, intact Jimjam out their nose.

The act of passing a fluid or solid food substance out one's nostrils is known as jimjamming.

Ah shoot, I just jimjammed my eggnog.

As far as I know this reference has no association with jaminjim.

 

[Packmule]

Uh yeah Moot, Uhh thanks for that interesting tidbit of info. I'm going to archive that for future reference.

Danny

Now I understand how you got through school!!!

 

[cheri1122]

Creativity & jimjams sounds a lot better than creativity & celery - but that's cause I'm not a skinny chick, I guess. Bonus points for Mouton!