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Image Vs. Rewilding
I get made fun of for looking like a hipster all the time. I care a lot about my image and I feel no guilt or lack of purity for feeling that way. I take showers, I shave, I dress in clothes that I think look cool and match the aesthetic I see as “hip.”…
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How I Painlessly Lost My Road Kill Deer Virginity
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If You Tip Me $1.33, I’ll Have a Million Bucks!
Margie Boule of the Oregonian interviewed me for her Sunday column of which she has over one million readers! It came out this morning and I can’t help but think, if everyone of them tipped me a measly one dollar and thirty three cents (Paypal takes 33 cents) I would have one million dollars for…
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Week19: First Rewild Camp a Complete Success!
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Film Review: What a Way To Go
For years now I have studied the problems we face in the next decade; peak oil, population growth, ecological die-off, climate change and economic collapse. I have filled many internet boards arguing with other collapse junkies over whether or not a single movie could explain it all in just two hours. While visiting Pennsylvania I…
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Rewild Camp Days 6 and 7
You know the drill. www.rewild.info. Also, crazy rewild potluck celebration tomorrow night at Darrens. Check the wiki for info.
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Urban Scout in Somnambulist #9
My friend Martha Grover publishes a zine called Somnambulist. In her most current issue she writes a piece about a conversation we had about the notion of “rejecting civilization.” For a copy you can find her booth this weekend at the Portland Zine Symposium. If you can’t make it to the symposium or you live…
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Rewild Camp Day 4 and 5
Rewild Camp keeps on truckin’ along. Stop by the website to see the latest. Some topics covered on days 4 and 5: *Archery *Theater Games *Yarrow Tincture Bug Repellent *Squirrel Hunt *Primitive Trapping *Discussion on the Power of Street Theater *Urban Tracking and Scouting *Rocket Stove Production Only two more days left to Rewild!
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Rewild Camp Days 2 and 3
Hey Folks, The Rewild Camp is smooookin’ …Animal hides that is!
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Week18 and Rewild Camp PDX Day 1
Day 1 was a success! What? You want to know what I did this last week? I can’t remember… too much planning for Rewild Camp and too much worrying over nuclear disaster.
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Survive Nuclear Fallout, With Your Balls Out
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Ask Urban Scout #4: Apocalyptic Toilet Humor?
Dear Urban Scout,I regularly think about every aspect of what my life will be like after the collapse of our civilization, and this is one of the questions that I have the most trouble with; when I’m done taking a big shit in the woods outside of Eugene, what do you suggest I wipe my…