jackassworld

It can be said, I suppose, that jackass is an informal Darwinian experiment of sorts, but on this particular day at a mushroom farm just outside of West Chester, PA, it looked—at least in photographic still form—that we were, for once, actually working our way up the evolutionary ladder as opposed to down. There appears to be some real “dawn of mankind” shit going on here with Steve-O, but the truth of the matter is that it really is just a big pile of shit that he’s scrambling out from under. Mushroom shit. No, not like poop that would come out of a tiny mushroom butt, but rather the fetid manure in which farmed mushrooms are grown and harvested. There were a few among us that day who weren’t aware of this dark side of the mushroom industry and I’m pretty sure they swore off consuming the fungi ever again.

(photo by Sean Cliver; Avondale, PA; 2006)