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Good God, I've got the worst smell creeping out of my ass.  Never, EVER have Mexican for lunch and chili for dinner.

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Weapon Ideas

Fists of Fury - Hi-tech armored gloves that sprout knuckle spikes when you clench your fist.

Hi-Tech Stink Bombs - These paintball-like projectiles are fired by robotic compressed air canons at vehicles and pedestrians that trespass into your "Safety Zone".  The projectiles emit a caustic, disabling stink ONLY when in the Zone.

Masterkey Crossbow - This idea is growing on me. It's a small, hi-tech crossbow that mounts under the barrel of an M-4. It would fire a variety of small, silent darts that would variously function as radio beacons, infrared markers, explosive AP rounds, taser rounds, poison rounds, trip-wire fasteners,  remote-control cameras, sensor stations, etc.

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 Check out this really cool article HERE about the Open Source Ecology Project.  One of my favorite quotes ever is in this article:

"I believe that the heart of economic democracy is decentralized productive power spread throughout the populace."

- Yoonseo Kang from Mississauga, Ontario -

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Damn if I didn't have the coolest dream last night.  I was outside, trying to move an object with "chi" from my hand.  Next thing I know, my hand feels like it's super-pressurized, and some leaves on the pavement in front of me catch on fire.  I stamp them out, then aim my hand at them again, and concentrate.  That pressurized feeling again, and a thin, near-invisible ray comes out of my hand and hits the leaves, igniting them.  I stamp them out and keep practicing.  It was so real that I woke up thinking I could really do it.  Then I realized I hadn't lit my bed on fire in my sleep.

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I'm interested in guerrilla, do-it-yourself warfare, like the Pickup Truck Army in Libya or the Technicals in Somalia.  I guess I'm afraid that one day the good old United States might collapse, and, in its weakened condition, get invaded by foreign powers.  So I think to myself, what could regular people do to fight invaders, if they only had civilian armaments and supplies?  I'm no tradesman or craftsman, so I don't really know what anyone could do.  But I guarantee people would do a lot.  Look at what Charlie did in Viet Nam, and at what the militias did in Libya.  Then look at all the supplies, education, know-how, tools, manufacturing equipment and patriotic individuals we have in the Homeland, and you start to get the picture.  I wonder if PVC compressed air guns could have any battlefield applications, either as shotguns or launchers?  Or gas-ignited spud guns, or spring-powered guns?  Probably.  They'd be really quiet, too!

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OK, what about a whole slew of under-barrel attachments for the AR-15 platform?  Like, a survival kit stash tube, for instance.  Or, an ammo-storage tube.  Or, a small, functioning "Masterkey" crossbow.  Or a tiny, full-auto "Masterkey" submachine gun.  Or...a pistol mount.  Or...a .410 revolver shotgun - a modified snubby Taurus Judge, so-to-speak.  I could keep an aluminum tube attached to the under-barrel rail on my M-4.  It would be loaded with a survival kit.  If I ever had to GOOD or bug out, I could always remove the tube if necessary.  But it would make my bug out kit more compact.

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Some Cool Tools

The Japanese Hori-Hori garden knife: It cuts, it digs...it kills.

The Amish garden hoe: It is an outstanding, effective shape...and it's made in the USA.

The Craftsman Digging Shovel: It has a 14-gauge, serrated blade, a metal-reinforced fiberglass handle, wide "power steps" to facilitate cutting, and fer cryin' out loud, it's ALSO made in the USA!

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Today's bargains (above): 2 wine boxes and a crate from the East Bay Depot for Creative Re-Use, and a small but sturdy work table from Urban Ore.  Total cost: $35.00.  Not peanuts, but still a bargain.  Everything is in very good condition.  The table cleaned up nicely and the boxes will stain well.  The box on the right already has hinges on it as of an hour ago.

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Another low-rez camera photo, taken at "late dusk".  I love it, and: No cost whatsoever.

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Good evening, Frogs'n'Phillies.  So nice of you to stop by once again.  You'll be pleased to know that I just finished The Witch of Hebron, and it damn near made me cry, it was so good.  It filled me up the way good company fills me up.  And now, on with our adventure.

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By now you know me well enough to know that I admire survivors more than Jesus Himself.  And I admire innovation, re-use and thinking outside the box.  To that end, here are two photos exhibiting a bit of all these things combined:

Sheer genius, and probably the funnest pool table ever made.  It inspires me in many ways.  It's a freakin' work of art.

A keg-pisser, in case you can't figure it out.  I wish I had one in my apartment.  And was pissing in it right now.

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Want to learn how to make a beautiful, realistic rose out of tape and wire?  Check out this video!  This project is going on my crafty bucket list.  Gotta wait til I'm moved in to the new digs and get my new life ironed out, then I'll give it a try.

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Product review: The Biolite camp stove.  It's a twig-burner that generates electricity and powers gadgets via a USB port!  Check out a description of it HERE.  If I saw this at REI, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.  It would keep me warm, cook my food, boil my water AND charge my iPhone in a SHTF situation...or when camping.

Product review: The Backcountry Boiler.  It's also a twig burner -- or a chimney kettle as it were -- for boiling water.  Check it out HERE and HERE.  I own its predecessor, an aluminum Irish kettle that fires up with paper and scraps.  Very effective!  Can't wait to check these out up close once they hit the shelves.

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That's all for tonight, my fine-feathered Peeps.  The sun is down and the moon is up and I'm lit up like a Christmas tree inside.  My aura is lighting up the sky tonight.  Gotta go do all that silly stuff one does before one goes to bed, then hit the haystack and catch some Zs.  'Night!

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Fishing, Hunting, Fucking

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That's what the good guys in The Road Warrior spent the rest of their lives doing when they made it to the beach and became the Great Northern Tribe, after the movie ended.  That is very clear to me now.

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I want to recommend Howard Kunstler's two post-apocalyptic novels, A World Made By Hand, and The Witch of Hebron.  They both take place in the same post-oil, post-industrial America, where life has returned to pastoral rhythms.  Both novels share a wonderful and warm atmosphere that is rich and ripe with a simplicity our own society lost long ago.  Thumbs up.  Boners up, even!

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Do you remember John Titor?  No?  WTF?  Why not?  He rocked.  He was the time traveling soldier-from-the-future who appeared briefly in internet chat rooms around the turn of century.  He had a great story to tell.  You really should check him out, his predictions were trey cool.  Well, the good news is that someone is making a documentary about him, called How To Build A Time Machine.  I cannot wait til it comes out.  Real or not, his story is every survivalist's wet dream.

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So, if you are like me and like predictions and prophecies concerning the fate of humanity, check out this audio interview HERE.  This psychic chick is pretty cool.  She says she senses a hard economic downturn hitting planet earth this coming Spring or Summer, with a 3-to-6 month bottoming-out period.  All I can say is, that's interesting timing.  I'll be interested to see what happens.

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The Walking Dead.  It's a great zombie TV series with incredible cinematography and acting, and moments of pure brilliance.  And yet I talk endless shit about how it could be improved upon.  That said, once in awhile it comes thru in aces, like it did last Sunday.  Way to go Rick!  Finally.  I'm hooked again!

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Good night byatches everywhere.  It's been real.  Wait, one last thing: Tonight, for the first time ever, I felt so good that the only way I could describe it was to compare it to being on drugs.  In fact, I had ingested a homeopathic remedy.  It was, and is, astounding.  Perhaps I will illuminate that story more fully at a later date.

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Sunday Evening Post

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“The future of civilization depends on water. I beg you all to understand this.”
— Jacques Yves Cousteau, 1997

Oops, guess we fucked up!  Sorry, Jacques.

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There is a warm, fluffy creature sitting on top of my arms as I peck these words out on the keyboard, and this warm, fluffy creature is purring away.  She must love her Poppa very much to purr so loudly.

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I was thinking that every hippie survivalist should have a few weapons for personal defense and food procurement.  Everyone has  their own needs, desires, predilections and ideas, but what do I recommend?  I like Close Quarter Battle (CQB) weapons, which tend to be compact and designed for short-range, indoor or urban environments.  The M4 with a .22 LR drop-in converter is a lightweight, proven assault rifle combo that solves two issues with one weapon.  .40 or .45 semi-auto pistols are compact, EDC man-stoppers.  12 gauge pump riot guns are very powerful, very loud and universally recognized and feared.  Also, they are inexpensive and their ammo is cheap.

Let us not forget low-tech weapons such as daggers, tomahawks and Spetsnatz fighting shovels.  Yes, hippie survivalists should consider traditional hand-held weapons as well as firearms, because bullets may not always exist and machines don't last forever.

One last thing -- I am preferential to a few black powder muzzle-loaders: the Howdah Hunter, the LeMat and the blunderbuss.  The Howdah Hunter is a double-barreled, 20-gauge, percussion pistol shotgun, with operating twin hammers.  The LeMat is a double-barreled revolver that holds 9 pistol rounds and a 20 gauge round.  The blunderbuss is a short, horn-barreled weapon meant for short-range defense.  All are devastating at close range.  Any one of them would be a fine home defense weapon or a perfect, compact companion to a modern firearm.

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A nice long list of books that contain compilations of collected prophecies can be found HERE, at the dreamscape.com website.  It's the most comprehensive list I have ever come across, and most of the titles are new to me.

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Some cool dude made an 11-minute Mad Max "fan" film called Mad Max Renegade.  The preview can be found on the website HERE.  This movie really captures the atmosphere and visual quality of the original Mad Max.  I think the budget was $1,000.  Kudos!

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The Vermin Have Inherited the Earth

A Few More Words By Meher Baba

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If memory serves me correctly, Meher Baba said that we live in the Kali Yuga, or the Fourth and Final Age, which is a time of universal pain and darkness.  It is the Darkest Hour of the Night, the time when Truth wanes, and Illusion reigns.  He called this Kali Yuga THE AGE OF MACHINES, and said that it would be characterized by SPEED.  His advice to humanity was "DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY".

Wow, do those last words scare the pee-pee out of me.  But I appreciate them.  They make no attempt to sugar-coat reality, and they leave the choice up to us: We can be worry-free and happy if we want to, no matter what happens to us or around us.  WE DON'T HAVE TO BE ATTACHED TO EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCE.

By Jove, that's a tall order, though!  It's a challenge, really, cuz becoming detached requires great effort.  The upside of the Kali Yuga is that it is a time of great growth, as Humanity struggles to overcome its own limitations and births a new, higher consciousness.  The brief and dark Kali Yuga is followed by an Age of Peace, which is heavenly and seems to last for an eternity.

Above: Avatar Meher Baba as a young man.  Those liquid eyes are filled with great longing.  I once dreamed I was standing on one of them!  I was small and that eye was huge.  Then, I was me again and Meher Baba hugged me, and my heart grew and grew til it seemed to explode, and I screamed out loud!  And He laughed and said, "It can be a bit overwhelming at times, can't it?"

How many lives still to go, Baba?

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