An Open Letter to the City Repair Project, from your not-so-friendly, collapse-wary, hard-up Urban Scout.
Dear The City Repair Project,
You don’t really know me, but I know you. I have to say, it took me a while to get up the nerve to write this letter. But after sitting for several months now and seeing your ugly cob structures sit empty of people, and watching my savings go faster than a cup of Stumptown Coffee, I finally feel filled up with an insane jealous rage as to why the fuck you get so much funding for your bullshit cob projects and I can’t seem to scrape up a single penny.
Continue reading ‘Swept Up In “Cob” Mentality’
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 and Penny Scout and my buddy Shaun. We got nice and dressed up in our usual post-apocalyptic wear and strutted around an abandoned train car. Justin took lots of pictures and although the site calls itself men.style.com, they chose the picture of Penny Scout… alone! Those bastards! Well, at least they mentioned rewild.info and my classes.
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 readership. “If you all just donate one dollar, just think of how many Rewild Camps I could do!” Do you really want to convert everyone to your ideology? Do you really want to change people, to IMPROVE them into someone more like yourself?
Have you truly become so enamored with your own self-image after a wee bit of publicity that you’ve lost all perspective? Where is the little boy you used to be? Where is Peter? Where is your humility, your privacy, your heart and your passion underneath this ridiculous persona that you’ve created?
Maybe we’re not as similar as I used to think. I don’t want to change people. Rewilding isn’t a fucking program and forcing it into one will fail. I don’t want to be anyone’s poster child — I’d rather be a real kid than a plastered public image. I don’t want to be Urban Scout, Guru or Urban Scout, Anarchist Pop Star. I don’t want to be Urban Scout. He’s not my hero anymore.
A-hole*
Continue reading ‘Ask Urban Scout #5: Assume Nothing A-hole!’
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, I found out that not only does it relieve you of anxiety and stomach craps but also works great for those who’ve acquired some civilized “fuck buddies,” …If you know what I mean.
Continue reading ‘Relieve Stress, Stomach Cramps and… Herpes!’
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 this project. Think how many Rewild Camps I could run! I doubt all one million of her readers will come to this site, so feel free to drop more than $1.33 in my tip jar; you can even write the donation off on your taxes!
Though I spend a lot of time learning to hunt and gather my own food, I admittedly spend more time writing, teaching, researching and spreading the word. This means I still buy the majority of my food from the store. In order to continue to spread the message I need a cell phone, office space with internet, office supplies, bike maintenance and so on. With your donation, I will continue to have the ability to write educational blogs on rewilding here at this site and also spend less time worrying about having to abandon this project for a different job that does not inspire me. Your donation will also afford time for me to plan and execute more Rewild Camps around the country, and possibly the world. It will allow me to teach the self-sufficiency of rewilding skills to more low-income people and in less reachable areas.
Please toss a tip in the tip jar by clicking the “Tip Jar” icon to the right of this text. And if you haven’t already, go pick up a Sunday Oregonian and check it out. Thanks so much Margie!
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 had the luxury of spending some time with Jason and Guili from Anthropik. We watched the recently released film What a Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire, and at long last a movie exists that tells it all, and more, in just two hours.
Continue reading ‘Film Review: What a Way To Go’
You know the drill. www.rewild.info. Also, crazy rewild potluck celebration tomorrow night at Darrens. Check the wiki for info.
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 elsewhere in the world, you can get a copy of number nine from her for three dollars plus postage by mailing her at :
martha grover
po box 14871
Portland, OR 97293
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!
Hey Folks,
The Rewild Camp is smooookin’ …Animal hides that is!
Continue reading ‘Rewild Camp Days 2 and 3′
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.
Continue reading ‘Week18 and Rewild Camp PDX Day 1′
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 ass with?
Continue reading ‘Ask Urban Scout #4: Apocalyptic Toilet Humor?’
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 a terror drill involving the detonation of a nuclear bomb will happen in Portland some time in the month of august.
But then I came up with an idea…
Continue reading ‘Operation Get the Fuck Out of Portland!’
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