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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Danny MacAskill – Inspired Bicycles April 2009
Danny MacAskill is a serious Trials (MTB) rider from Edinburgh (tartybikes.co.uk) and has been working on a new video for some time and it’s finally been released… We knew it would be good but nobody was prepared for this! Once you’re properly wowed, go check out his mates Sam Oliver and Joe… Read more
Vegan Hunting
Huh? “Vegan Hunting” you say? Isn’t that a complete misnomer. No, I haven’t become one of those horrid “flexitarian” wankers. I’m talking about foraging – the original vegan hunting, and a pastime I have recently become acquainted with, or at least re-acquainted with. Foraging has all the same thrills as animal hunting, at least for me, and yes, I was a hunter in a previous life. There is mushroom hunting; analogous to big game hunting where a wrong choice has a good chance of getting you killed. Berry-picking is sort of the canned hunt of the foraging world, with lots of ranger stations and Ag Extension agents willing to tell you exactly where to go to load up on blackberries, choke cherries, etc. Ginseng picking is the extreme end of foraging, analogous to stalking Sika or Leopard. In my neck of the woods, Sassafras is one of the main wild foods pursued by foragers, along with pot herbs and wild greens, making them sort of the Mule Deer of the foraging… Read more
Since Vermont and Cascadia are both ready to go it alone, with Texas not far behind, I think maybe it is time for a bio-regionalist nation of… Read more
Go Outside!
It’s Earth Day you know. That means you should step away from the computer, put down the cellphone,go outside and see what’s going on in the big blue room. Read what Gaylord Nelson has to say about the beginnings of Earth Day and then get out of the chair and out of doors. It will do you good. WHY APRIL 22? The huge amount of young activism in the United States in the 1960s caused leaders to choose April 22 for Earth Day. The story is that April 22 was chosen because college students would be likely to be available. It falls between spring break and final exams. Each year, however, somebody brings up the fact that April 22 was Lenin’s birthday. Senator Nelson’s response is pretty good, so we’ll leave it to him: “On any given day, a lot of both good and bad people were born,” he said. “A person many consider the world’s first environmentalist, Saint Francis of Assisi, was born on April 22. So was Queen Isabella. More importantly, so was my Aunt Tillie.” More Earth Day Facts… Read more
For those of you who are fans of Transcendentalist philosophy, you might be interested to know that the complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson are available online for… Read more
The river in my backyard is the 2nd most endangered river in the US. GA politicians want to build more dams on the only river in the US with 200 miles of unimpounded flow instead of stop watering their golf courses in Atlanta. Help us stop reauthorization of these needless and expensive… Read more
The toddler Superman of 2007 returns, having learned to do the Iron Cross and move furniture around. This poor kid is gonna be a lab-rat and sideshow attraction for the rest of his… Read more