I’ve been thinking about the Singularity lately. And I’ve been anticipating the arrival of my favorite strange holiday, Cinco de Mayo. Curiously, the two concepts dovetail more neatly than this conspiranoid mind would care to admit. But first a little background. The Singularity is the theoretical point at which humans create technology that is smarter [...]

If you’re reading this because you’re a Bob Seger fan, get lost. No “tight pants points hardly reknown� here. We’re talking about the art of moving silently and cunningly through the night, undetected. The most important considerations in night movements are psychological in nature. During daylight, one can see something and make judgments on it [...]

Here is another installment of our book Preparedness Primer-What To Do When The Shiznit Goes Down! Preservation by Fermentation Fermentation comes right after dehydration as a low-tech preservation method. It also yields some of the most nutritious and valuable food and drink. Often fermentation processes are initiated with salt in the case of food and [...]

In the place where I live, we have a cabin down by the creek. That’s where we sleep and cook. There is also a mobile home up the path from the creek. That’s where our office and bathroom are. One night I was leaving the trailer to go to the cabin. The moon was full [...]

From Green Anarchy Spring/Summer 2007 #24 I usually find this mysterious little photocopied zine on the bench out in front of our local cultural center, the general store (sometimes next to a big stack of Green Anarchy. It is published fairly regularly and offers a puff of refreshingly stimulated air to the otherwise mostly politically [...]

In the 4th of July issue of Backwoods Hipster we reported on our experience in communicating telepathically with Sasquatch. Then the above clip came across our desk. We are pleased that the trend is spreading and that now you can chat with Sasquatch too! Following is the text of the print ad from Sentient Times, [...]

Food There are those who eat to live and those who live to eat. I fall decidedly into the latter category. I love thinking about food. I love cooking food. I love eating food. I’m lucky, because I like doing something that I have to do anyway. Regardless of which category you fall into, I [...]

“We begin with the waves in the ocean, the softly hissing and low-slung sheets of salty water racing up the beach, the ululations of vastly enraged pounders, the soothing white noise of orderly chaos at the edge of a watery world. The waves sort out my raw material. As I comb the beach I can [...]

We regret to inform our dear readers that this will be the last installment of The Little Green Book, the perspicacious philosophical treatise by Mexican Poet & Philosopher Alberto Revés. During the night of September 16, intruders destroyed the offices of Señor Revés in Mexico City, taking the hard drives from his computers and setting [...]

Presently, we are pleased to bring you the third installment of the opus by Mexican Poet & Philosopher Alberto Revés. In the last issue, Señor Revés adroitly illustrated the five reality filters of the self-organizing brainwash machine. We now continue with his perspicacious treatise. Within all of the above realms, an overlying tactic is to [...]