Today's Topics:
drink me
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Message-Id: <9210061716.AA06964@mahler.media.mit.edu>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: drink me
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 13:16:40 -0400
From: Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu>
From: emp@xgml.com (Eric Promislow)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Gavage (Don't read this during lunch)
Summary: Leave me alone. I'm just reporting it.
Keywords: Beer bile
Date: 2 Oct 92 09:31:55 EDT
Organization: Exoterica Corporation
This is a followup of interest only to those who were into the nose
jewellry a few folks were making out of surgical tubing in Montreal
last summer. I never saw it myself, only heard about it, so if I've
been taken by a net hoax, excuuuuse me.
I picked up the summer Nose magazine a few days ago for its article on
the Jim Rose sideshow. Jim Rose has taken the concept of the 19th
century traveling band of freaks and updated it to a post-modern 20th
century traveling band of freaks. Instead of setting up on a grassy
field at the edge of town, they tend to play bars, away from the
impressionable eyes of young children and Jesse Helms. But check this out:
One modern addition to the show comes from an oddball
pharmacists from Montana, who pumps a quart of beer,
ketchup, chocolate syrup and a raw egg down a tube into his
throat via the nasal cavity, using a device known as
_Gavage_ [Explanation that the Gavage was designed to
force-feed Irish hunger strikers; Crowley's is more
dramatic]...
Once the swirling fluid is pumped into his stomach, Rose
pulls the plunger and sucks it all back out, much to the
delight of spectators. He then pours off pint glasses of
the stuff, and invites guests to share swigs of it with
some of the freaks onstage.
"When I started this show", Rose concedes, "I couldn't
have imagined that I could offer people a glass of bile,
and that someday we'd be using crowd control to keep them
off the stage! I can't believe it."
At the end of the article Jim Rose mentions that a couple of new
freak acts will be joining the sideshow soon, including a chainsaw
juggler. Now that's gross.
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- -- Eric Promislow--emp@xgml.com--Exoterica Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario
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