Me and Mark the Butcher were hot, sweaty and spattered with blood. Killing, plucking and gutting 27 chickens will do that to you. We started at 5 AM and were finished by noon. The mid-July sun pounded us as we cleaned up. We needed a drink to cool our core temp and set us right [...]

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 [...]

We caught up with Sandor, fittingly nicknamed Sandorkraut, this past July just hours before his sold out class. He and his small retinue were ensconced in the mobile abode of some local friends. Arriving late morning, we wandered in with a gallon jug and air lock to loan them for one of their recipes, passing [...]

I really like canning jars. I’m no collector, mind you, just a fond user. I’m not quite sure what to think of those who collect jars and put them on shelves. Can a vessel be divorced from its purpose and still retain its soul? Usually, I find out when a jar should have been shelved [...]

Sure, the title sounds like a piece of revolutionary propaganda. Maybe it is. Let’s assume that the tyrant and the chains are both literal and metaphorical. You decide who your tyrant is and what the chains consist of. Following are a handful of possible links in the chain that the tyrant uses to keep you [...]

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 [...]

This is an excerpt from the upcoming book Preparedness Primer-How To Prepare For Disaster Introduction This book is organized into sections that correspond to the main components of a solid plan for yourself and your family. As you begin thinking about these categories, you will notice that they influence each other, and decisions you make [...]

In the last issue of Backwoods Hipster we introduced the first installment of the Little Green Book, the seminal work by Mexican Poet & Philosopher Alberto Revés. Assiduously translated from the Spanish for your rumination, we now bring you installment number two. In it, Revés continues his mind-shattering dissertation. Enjoy. The first thing you do [...]

Throughout the ages, the working man and woman have sought ways to ease the financial burden placed on their lightly endowed pocketbook. This slightly nutty guy in Ashland told me that mortgage means “on death’s terms� in French. Maybe so. I’m sick of articles that say “Schmucko’s Dictionary defines such and such a word as…� [...]

You gotta love the guy; cool red and white striped pants, satiny blue coat, nifty top hat, and that impeccably groomed white beard. But let’s face it. He’s been naughty for a long time, and lately he’s been acting downright nasty. So this year, in addition to barbecuing and getting loaded (any occasion is a [...]