Tag: rewilding
-
Apocalypse, So Hot Right Now
This week in apocalyptic celebrity… men.style.com e-mailed me for photos of the Post-Apocalyptic camp I ran last fall for a piece on their website involving the Post-Apocalyptic fashion trend in NYC (Who knew?). Well, the photos from the camp sucked, so I called my buddy Justin and asked him to snap some photos of me…
-
Ask Urban Scout #5: Assume Nothing A-hole!
Dear Scout, I’ve kept track of you for quite a while now, following along until tonight when I read that article about you and thought I was going to be sick. I would have been furious if someone wrote that shit about me, but instead you seem to be enamored with the size of her…
-
Relieve Stress, Stomach Cramps and… Herpes!
During the Portland Rewild Camp I felt anxiety about the ever-approaching nuclear disaster in Portland referred to as “Operation Noble Resolve.” Luckily Penny Scout; tracker of plants, showed me the great calming effects of Lemon Balm, a familiar friend you can find in practically anyones yard here in Portland. Doing my research on the plant,…
-
Week20: Risky Rewilding
This week Penny and I decided to scrap our list so we could scrape our hide. We let the deer hide soak in a bucket of water for a couple days, changing the water daily. This supposedly makes the hair come out easier when you scrape it. People also put ash in with the…
-
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.”…
-
How I Painlessly Lost My Road Kill Deer Virginity
-
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…
-
Week19: First Rewild Camp a Complete Success!
-
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…
-
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.
-
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…
-
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!