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Operation Get the Fuck Out of Portland!
For those hip to conspiracy theories, you know that “terrorist attacks” happen most often at a “coincidental” moment when the government just so happens to run a training drill for the exact kind of terrorist attack that occurs. Knowing this, I have to say I felt scared and paralyzed with fear when I heard that…
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Week17: “The First Rule of Archery Club Is…”
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The Poster Child of Rewilding
As you can see from the above photograph, this week ReadyMade Magazine has turned me into the poster child for rewilding. Check out the latest issue (Aug/Sept) for a centerfold you can all hang on your walls. Have I made anarcho-primitivism cool yet?
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Rhus Juice, the New Lemonade
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Terms of Subsistence
I recently joked with Penny Scout about how the term, “scavenger hunt,” sounds like an oxymoron; a scavenger doesn’t hunt… they scavenge. This joke inspired me to write a little about the terms of subsistence strategies.
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Ask Urban Scout #3
Dear Scout, what is your native american animal totem?
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Week16: Making Plans With Penny
So, as you may have read in my last post, I came home the other day to find Penny Scout sitting in my kitchen shooting the shit with my roommates after driving some 2000 miles for a surprise visit.
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Week15: High Spirits or Hungry Ghosts?
When we no longer maintain a relationship with the spirits, the spirits have to eat our psyches. And when the spirits are done eating our psyches, they eat our bodies. And when they’re done with that, they move on to the people close to us. –Martin Prechtel
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“Green” Vs. Rewilding
I recently saw a comic (thanks Anthropik!) that inspired me to articulate some things about the notion of “green-washing,” and other terms floating around in mother cultures myth-space/meme-pool.
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Noble Savage Vs. Rewilding
John Zerzan did a talk at (The Dreaded) Reed College a while ago. One of the Reed professors accused John of idealizing indigenous peoples, in the age old tradition of the “noble savage.” I hear this one come up often, and it feels just as boring and reactive and lazy every time.
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Mad, Maxed Out
I’ve had a bad week, psychologically. My money has begun to dwindle and I have to face the reality; I live as a slave in a hierarchical system. It makes me terribly depressed to imagine myself behind the counter, serving up another latte to another slave as they head to their slave-job.
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Week14: Real Archers Wear Short Shorts
