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Subject: jello: an antique document From: anon-10131@anon.twwells.com (Beauty) Date: 1997/03/13 Dear Folks - In looking through the written records of past years, I discovered the appended document which I thought might be of interest given the recent group revelation of the therapeutic significance of jello. I regard this as a fourteen-year-old's thought experiment, in the very late 60s, in psychedelic psychosis, performed in public isolation, probably during an enforced study hall, inscribed in burnt orange ballpoint ink on a sheet of lined loose leaf paper. Enjoy - if that's the word I am looking for. Jello      Jello. That's what it was. Just mushy, goopy, gloppy jello. "I hate jello," she thought.      She hated jello. She had always hated jello. But here she was eating it anyway. The goopy shivery jello shook on her spoon. "I can't taste it," she tried to convince herself. The jello slipped down her throat before she could change her mind about eating it.      "I think I'll go out of my mind," she thought finally. Then aloud she said, "I *think* I'll go *OUT* of my **MIND**!"      The jello grinned at her. "The jello is grinning at me," she thought.      She looked at the obnoxious jello and contemplated its every facet. She watched the light shining on its foolish face. She poked it with her spoon twice and watched the light change.      "It looks very much like a diamond ring," she thought in wonder. Then she smiled.      It did look like a diamond ring. It lay there in the bowl and sparkled and sparkled. It stopped grinning. It frowned. It frowned and frowned and frowned.      Again, she frowned, too. "I hate jello!" She really hated jello. [Copy sent directly to {cherish}, archivist pro tem for the jello research project, asd, 1996-97] Beauty - ca. 1969

Re: jello: an antique document From: anon-11955@anon.twwells.com (cherish) Date: 1997/03/13 Well, I am going to jump right in here and assume that this unlabeled document was posted and emailed even though not labeled because I am not here where I am and am suppose to be there, where I am not. so this will be posted and emailed... yell at me later if I got this wrong, okay? *caution* use of a maternal parental unit word in this message* Dear Beauty, This was great.... how did you know I wanted to write you? And since I am in the "responsive" mode right now, I can only respond, and not initiate correspondence. So I sit staring at the computer screen hoping some thought will cross someone's mind, and they will think, "Aha! cherish" and send me an email, and then I can respond. But if everyone out there is sitting there waiting for me to write, well, all I can say is "Happy staring!" But, cherish, you may ask, what about the 150 unanswered emails you have already... well...er.... I like hearing the Eudora email chimes, too. So I am the "archivist pro tem for the jello research project, asd, 1996-97]", huh? It's about time I got a job. Does this job pay any money? I have a lot of those other kinds of jobs already, you know, where you work your head off, and they say, "thanks," but there's no paycheck at the end of the rainbow. Actually, it crossed my mind last night to start my own institute. I have worried my whole life about being locked up, institutionalized you might call it, and it just occurred to me. If I was my "own" institute, I could just stay locked up at home, and it wouldn't be such a scary thought. And now that I am archivist pro tem for the jello research project, asd, 1996-97, I actually have a project while I am confined in this new institute of mine. So welcome, Beauty, you are the first "official" visitor to the cherish institute, inc. (no capitals, please, this is a very informal place... and I am an affectionado of e.e. cummings who I think has a lot of guts to write without capitals, and expect his poetry to get published.) Unofficial visitors will not be acknowledged publicly. Someone also called me "Mother Cherisha" lately.... hmmm... there might be some grant money in this after all. :) Other projects currently under consideration at the cherish institute, inc. the rhyme game The Swiv Phenonmenon The *Sigh* dictionary s*ic*de in the family Jello- a question archives How to Handle Negative Emotions Call for Papers for the next asd convention The Life and Times of Myrna Nelson of Toledo, Ohio German socks 101 (and be sure to duck, pink bunnies) red and blue level shifts from the German perspective litels are cool party ideas, and other fun things to do cherish's book of nursery rhymes, the ninety's edition (we aren't taking any more of that victim crap anymore, etc.) Jello - and other love/hate relationships (ca. 1969) any other ideas? {cherish} running down to the store to get another file cabinet for the institute... a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z p.s. Beauty, I still have some orange jello left over from the Jello party. It's a bit furry, want it? It makes good therapist couch flipping material....just wondering.

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