{"id":31193,"date":"2016-11-11T14:20:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=31193"},"modified":"2016-11-11T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T22:17:55","slug":"shroom-show-zine-a-few-more-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2016\/11\/11\/shroom-show-zine-a-few-more-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"~SHROOM SHOW – ZINE . . a few more pages"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘SHROOM SHOW – the zine’
\norganized by NICHOLAS MOENICH
\nwith special contributions from . . CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY, BEN KINSLEY & JESSICA LANGLEY, ALTA BURDEN and, LILA PEARL SHAPIRO.<\/p>\n

‘SHROOM SHOW’ – organized by NICHOLAS MOENICH
\nOCT 22 – NOV 19, 2016 \/ by appointment
\nHELPER<\/a>, BROOKLYN<\/p>\n

THE . . SACRED MUSHROOM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

SACRED:
\nconnected with God \/ or the gods. dedicated to religious purpose & so deserving . . veneration.
\nreligious rather than secular.
\nconsidered to be holy & deserving respect.
\ninspiring . . awe.<\/p>\n

I wonder what<\/strong> all those many many, countless !! (there are so<\/strong> many of them in the surrounding ‘nabe’, blocks and blocks of them. and even many on a block. google street view – it.)
\n . . . Holy Roller storefronts would think of this <\/strong>sacred show – that has landed, quite by random, right smack dab – in their ‘mighty’ midst ?<\/p>\n

\"shroom-zine-nicholas-moenich\"<\/a>
\nsay what ?
\nthat looks like ancient, if not COSMIC !! diagrams, on the left.
\nfrom COSMIC, to TOLKIEN . . to Aztec !!<\/p>\n

ps:
\n(that little ‘reference’ on my desktop in the background, is to PAT (McCARTHY) & his also totally totally awesome group show . . SATAN Ceramics. in which case, that is like saying ‘SICK’ . . for great.
\nso I decided to leave it in – thinking it was kind of profound to be writing sacred, and have the name that ‘cannot be spoken’ pop up, by random. even though it means good – in this case.
\nsacred\/good vs evil. can’t have one, without the other, apparently.)
\n(just like they always said – across the board, all cultures.)<\/p>\n

\"shroom-zine-title-page-nicholas-moenich\"<\/a>
\nWhoa. the title page is way<\/strong> strange !!
\na secret warning – lies before your very eyes.
\nthat’s a TOXIC . . mushroom !! forager \/ beholder . . beware !!
\nit’s an ‘amanita’ . . . I’m gonna eat cha \/ a man-eatah – man-eater . . !!
\nit’s a poison mushroom.
\n‘amanita muscaria’.
\nsee: Mushroom – wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

lord, lord, lordy rollers . . how such a small thing – can take a ‘big’ man, down.
\nbe humble. pride goes before a fall.
\nthe fragility<\/em> of mankind – in a nutshell, er .. tiny fungus.<\/p>\n

\"amanita_muscaria_fly_agaric\"<\/a>
\n‘AMANITA MUSCARIA’ . .
\nimage via wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

RED . . . means STOP.
\nRED means . . . NO.
\nnow you know where RED as a warning – comes from.
\nMother Nature beat ya to it.
\nwell at least, if you pick it up, and eat it RAW.
\nfunny, where a little hidden knowledge – will take ya.<\/p>\n

because,
\nif you read further<\/a> . . you will see:
\n “although classified as POISONOUS, reports of human deaths resulting from its ingestion are extremely rare. after PAR-BOILING<\/strong> . . it is eaten in parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. ‘AMANITA MUSCARIA’ . . is noted for its HALLUCINOGENIC properties.”<\/p>\n

is Sacred Knowledge . . only for the initiated ?
\nmedicine men, shamans.
\nNicholas Moenich . . . shaman ?
\n& in fact: “there has been much speculation on possible<\/em> traditional (translate: first native) use. <\/p>\n

\"shroomm-show-zine-nicholas-moenich\"<\/a>
\nit all sounds very ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
\nmushrooms are also called . . TOADSTOOLS, and probably for a really good<\/em> . . reason !!! <\/p>\n

\"shroom-show-zine-nicholas-moenich\"<\/a>
\nthis page begins . . .<\/p>\n

The MAN-child Born of a Virgin<\/p>\n

Describing the growth of the mushroom (boletos), PLINY says: ‘the earth . . . produces first a ‘womb’ (vulva) . . . and afterwards (the mushroom) itself inside the womb, like a yolk inside the egg: and the baby mushroom is just as fond of eating<\/strong> its coat as is the chicken. The coat cracks when (the mushroom) first forms; presently, as it gets bigger, the coat is absorbed into the body of the footstalk (pediculi) . . . at first it is flimsier than froth <\/strong>, then it grows substantial<\/strong> like parchment, and then the mushroom . . . is born.”
\nfrom: The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by JOHN M. ALLEGRO.<\/p>\n

A-LLEGRO \/ AH LE-GROW ??
\nare you kidding me.
\nthis zine is just so . . damn, o-r-g-a-n-i-c !!
\nsuch a magic text \/ like reading a . . written MAZE. <\/p>\n

mushroom \/ much – room ???<\/p>\n

the fizzy red . . view from my desk.
\nsomebody should spike<\/strong> – the food at the WHITE HOUSE !!<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘SHROOM SHOW – the zine’ organized by NICHOLAS MOENICH with special contributions from . . CHRISTOPHER KENNEDY, BEN KINSLEY & JESSICA LANGLEY, ALTA BURDEN and, LILA PEARL SHAPIRO. ‘SHROOM SHOW’ – organized by NICHOLAS MOENICH OCT 22 – NOV 19, 2016 \/ by appointment HELPER, BROOKLYN THE . . SACRED MUSHROOM. SACRED: connected with God […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31193"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31230,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31193\/revisions\/31230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}