Hunter-Gatherer Wannabe With A Blog
Dear Diary,
Well, looks like the History Channel dropped my interview for their apocalypse show… I knew I shouldn’t have binged on all those frosted Circus Animal, animal crackers! Oh well. I keep getting bites from TV people, but no catches yet. I just don’t understand. When will I get my big break? Geez. I feel like such a whiny douchebag. Well, at least some nice folks put a few bucks in my tip jar. Thanks to Carrie and John.
Continue reading ‘W61,62,63: Reading, Writing and Rewilding’
My triumphant return to filmmaking.
The English language, quite literally, came from nowhere. No native people spoke it, not even the English. It works as a conglomeration of languages, a mish-mash made for one purpose; trade. If languages provide us with a context with which to see the world, than English programs people to see the living world through the lens of exploitation: trees as dollar bills or animals as units of meat, humans as slaves. English tells us from the moment we utter our first word to our last that the world exists for one purpose; commerce.
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My friend William made this after I told him about the ants that have started attacking civilization and I had to pass it on:
Who can live with a light heart while participating in a global slaughter that makes the Nazi holocaust look like a limbering-up exercise?
- Daniel Quinn in Providence
The more time I spend at my job, the easier it gets to ignore my pain. I can shut it off and let my body function. I can remove all external thought and simply become part of the machine, pushing a button over and over and over again, lulling my heart back to sleep with rhythmic clockwork.
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On Sunday I was interviewed on the topic of rewilding by Adam and Robert on their radio show Free Range Thought, along with my friend John Sweeney from Growth Is Madness, who is doing a population growth series with them.
This Lolcat idea came from my friends Jana, Willem and Mr. Sweetey.
That you so much everyone for your words of solidarity in my current state of depression. The best feeling in this state of depression doesn’t come from bullshit advice, but solidarity in feeling the pain of those around me. Thanks for that. It feels good to not feel this pain alone. So, thank you thank you thank you! And thank you to Jason, David and Christine for throwing some much needed cash into my tip jar.
You’re right. I’ve gotten really sick of writing, and this is just a ploy to pass the time until my writers block passes (probably four weeks from now when my job ends!). Write an essay under 500 words in length on your topic Vs. Rewilding. It can be sincere, ironic or absurd, just make it good!I will select my favorite three who will win an award or prize of some kind… Perhaps a lifetime membership to the Urban Scout Cool Kids Club. I’ll make little badges or certificates you can frame or something. You have one week! Please send them to urbanscout (at) gmail (dot) com with the subject “rewild challenge.” You have until Sunday May 4th.
Good ‘ay mate, if you live in Australia check out the new issue of Chain Reaction, the national Friends of the Earth Australia magazine. I adapted my Agriculture Vs. Rewilding chapter for an article in it called “Rewilding Food Systems.” If you can’t find a copy of the magazine you can read it online here.
I notice a lot of people from Austin, Texas check out my site, and I have a few myspace friends in Austin. I thought, perhaps, that some austinites would feel compelled to throw a weekend rewild camp? mikerock just formed an e-mail list in yahoo groups for those-rewilding-austin, so if you live there and want to connect with some like-minded folks, peep this list. If you want my help to organize a rewild camp in your area, first read my How To Run A Rewild Camp article and than tell me what you need.
I have so many design ideas and stupid slogans that I figure I should just get a bunch of them out there. I recently finished these three. Click the pic to go to my store:
I made this first one as a two part joke. One because a few hundred people have called me a douchebag and I need some love. Secondly because someone put my poster-boy picture from ReadyMade up at the Whole Foods in Austin with hearts all around it:
This next one I made after I realized that the anti-tractor sign may feel too confrontational for some types. I feel this one works as a softer more subversive alternative to that:
This last one I orignially made to bring people to the rewild forums, but I think it stands alone as a fun piece of art while making fun of classic propaganda:
WARNING: This film will either make you want to vomit (as in my case) or perhaps laugh yourself silly. It shows exactly the kind of future Science tells us to look forward to… the kind without any ecological systems thinking whatsoever. Please feel free to vent your comments.
In the spirit of Myspace, I wrote up a funny survey to give to you, readers. Please fill it out and post it in the comments below. Extra credit if you can answer using e-prime, but completely unnecessary.
Car culture signifies one of the most wasteful, violent and pollutive parts of civilization; from co2 emissions, fragmenting of habitat through road-building and poisoning of plants and water with toxic metals and the murdering of countless animals and insects. Dying by the wheels of an automobile has no humanity, no respect. Many animals experience a mortal wound from car accidents and die slow deaths in the gutter. I hate cars. I hate traffic. I hate this legacy of the last 100 years of car culture. I hate oil companies. I hate civilization. And I really fucking hate assholes like Tom Green who make a mockery of this tragedy (Poop on the end of a microphone? Funny. Humping the rotting corpse of a dead moose, who died a pointless death in the name of civilization’s progression, and in front of millions of people just for its mere shock value? Well… Not so funny).
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