Dogs have dog years and Backwoods Hipster counts birthdays by the issue. Yea!
One wouldn’t normally associate the turning of summer into autumn with green, as in Green Is The Night, but we have our own way of reckoning around here, so if your own majinashuns aren’t up to task, go immediately to the corner […]

Happy Jefferson Day everyone! Finally, a holiday that celebrates freedom, plain and simple. No more 4th of July for the Backwoods Hipster, except to sit around, make a BBQ and get fat, because that’s about all the bloody thing is worth anymore. I’d say that the people of this great nation today suffer under more […]

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 than […]

Hey, I don’t know about you but I kind of dig the Ides of March. You know, before those kniving, scheming Roman senators ruined in for us, the Ides were pretty special. Based on the old Roman lunar calendar, they marked the full moon. Ain’t nothing wrong with that. But that doesn’t mean that there […]

Hey Friends, this issue marks the end of Backwoods Hipster’s first year and the beginning of the second. Auspicious? Beats the hell out of me. It’s something though, and it proves we’re not dead yet (at least I think it does) so we’ll keep on working.
It’s tough to sit here with the goal of writing […]

Dear Readers, I’m not in a time warp. I’m just posting past issues of BH in order, so I’m now posting print issue #5, which happened to be the Halloween 2006 issue. If you want to get back issues of the print edition (which is a cool little rag with pictures) email to admin for […]

Five years later and what do we get? The same old lies and a growing national debt. We’re bound to see the false president George Bush give a speech with a giant American flag behind him. We’re probably going to have our ears plugged with waxy rhetoric about the war on terror, a.k.a. the war […]

Sometimes even Backwoods Hipster has to take a break from conspiracies and other mind candy. When that need arises in the early summer, it’s fun to go out and preserve some grape leaves for making dolmas, aka stuffed grape leaves. They’re one of those things that are so easy to prepare, yet never fail to […]

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the world is really falling apart. I mean, since the beginning of civilization there have been queer little bearded men running around prophesying cataclysms up to and including the Big One. Plagues of locusts, Doomsday 1000 A.D. (or for the pedantic weenies, C.E.), Y2K, suitcase bombs, Peak Oil, Bird […]