June 13, Optimist Game

1. Grab your stuff.
2. Run down the stairs.
3. Run through the rain.
4. Push people over.
5. Wave your arms.
6. Shout.
7. Miss the bus anyway.
8. Go back home.
9. Wait for half an hour to RESTART the game.

May 26, Weathering Game

1. Fight your urge to run,
but don’t hide it
2. Kiss your worries goodbye,
but don’t let go of them.
3. Spend your last penny,
but not on anyone else’s thoughts.
4. Come to the end of your rope,
but don’t stop there.
5. Bite the cheek, the collarbone, the wrist,
but not the dust.
6. Hang in there.
7. Hang in there.
8. Hang in there.

May 19, Field Game

1. Run into a bank.
2. Shout: “Put your hands up!”
3. Whisper: “For science…
put them up for science.”
4. Count how many hands are put up
5. Write that number down.
6. Run.
7. Score yourself based on how the jury responds
to the following defense:
“For goodness sake, you absolute cretins,
I’m not a criminal! I am a sociologist!
A soooociiioooloooogiiiist, okay?
Do you know what that means?
No! No, you don’t, do you?

May 8, Comfort Game

1. Run in circles.
2. Call people you know
won’t pick up.
3. Paint you face red.
4. Head over to the wall.
5. Sit down on the floor.
6. Grip your knees tight.
7. Rock back and forth
for a very long time.
8. Tap yourself on the back.
9. Leave the ring.
10. Declare yourself the new
heavy-heart champion of the world.

March 8, Sunday Game

1. Raise your fist.
2. Wave it around.
3. Scream and shout.
4. Bang your drums, the walls, and the backs of other people’s heads.
5. Run down the street with your fist still raised.
6. Smash a TV using your fist.
7. Smash a window using your fist.
8. Don’t use your mouth for anything.
9. Oppose your eviction and fight the system.

January 15, Time Travel Game

1. Draw a small amount of blood from your chest.
2. Keep it safe from bad spirits and worse weather.
3. Bring it to a place where you used to play as a child.
4. Pick one spot there to act as future and one to act as past.
5. Stand in silence between these spots for at least 20 minutes.
6. On the count of three, run back and forth between the two spots.
7. Every time you reach the past or the future, sprinkle some blood on it.
8. Tell the police it’s for an art project.

Ready?
1,
2,
3!