Life in the Empire
Comin' home
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Permalink Reply by curt on
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Just now presented my halfcocked plans to my boss. She had this to say to me.......
"Hello, is there anybody in there?"
to which I replied.........
"There is no pain, you are receding...........a distant ship's smoke on the horizon....."
That song is almost biographical for a few of us, I'm sure.
"When I was a child, I had a fever. My hands felt just like two balloons."
It was a very high fever. The kind you can die from. The strangest thing happened....I lifted up and hit the ceiling, slipped out the door and through the parlour. Saw Mom standing in the door tellin the neighborlady I was sick and she couldn't come over for tea. I told her it was okay, I was okay, I could fly!
Still haven't come down from that trip.
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Permalink Reply by BO on
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I remember having one of those high-fever delusional experiences. I was asleep and having a dream where I was being bombarded by all sorts of geometric shapes and fractals. I woke up in the middle of it but the dream wouldn't stop. I went into the bathroom to look in the mirror hoping that seeing my own image would end it. It didn't. I was fucking hallucinating. I banged on my parents' bedroom door and told them I had gone crazy.
Turns out I just had a very high fever--like 105 or so. A couple of aspirin and five minutes later it ended. A very scary experience for a child.
David Gilmour is a fucking God. Too bad he let Bowie sing.
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Bowie did kinda slack on it. That's just how kind the music God is. He's so damned good with the guitar.......it all makes up for everything else.
Them high fevers....or even the hot baths, some of us are walking burnouts, living on another plain, in an adjacent reality.....on borrowed time.
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Permalink Reply by waldopaper on
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Hooo-wee! ye'll get to see somma them big TREES! Check em out while they still there. Now... I hadn't even thought of "kick dissenting azz by turning off they gazz" (as in the posted Russia story). We USns gonna have to look at other parts of the world to see how theys dealin with it... and what kinda shits hittin THEIR fan... cos even the brightest minds here dont have a fookin clue.
There are bright spots... like Geoff Lawton who says, "...all the world's problems can be solved in a garden." (whythehellnot... they started there, right?) And people are doing it here... like the Bullock Bros. in Cascadia. So Rossi... ye might be scoutin for sites where this can be done... far from the madding crowd.
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good links! "sites where this can be done".......not southwest USA. Well, some areas, yes. Perhaps.
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Permalink Reply by Cal on
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I'm doing it in my own backyard. So far I'm losing most of my fruit to marauding vervet monkeys ... but it's great to see them enjoying themselves in the garden. I have a nice crop of oranges on one tree, limes on another and more cherry tomatoes and spinach than I know what to do with. Neighbour can't believe that I don't own a hosepipe for watering the garden. No lawnmower either. Just a shredder for making mulch from the bushes I prune. Permaculture is a lot of fun.
Irrelevant joke that amused me today ... "Don't criticize someone until you've walked a mile in their mocassins. That way you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes when you do it." ....
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Cal... put some tips here about your permaculture experience. Trouble with me is, I bought into that "knowledge worker" shit... and now I'm useless as a cement frog. I donI't know how to do anything "real" except build a fire. I got this Ural Motorcycle a few years back so I could get back into wrenching on stuff. Got in a crash and got screwed six-ways-from-tuesday by the dealer. So I cant grow nothin... cant fix nothin... cant build nothin. Tryin to get one of the lads in my fam to assist with structure, design, planting... but they keep askin "how ya gonna make money..." and i never want to deal with that question again ever.
Been hypin permaculture... but aint done it yet. As box says, "denial is dickless" that's fer shure... all the girls in the fam aint the LEAST bit interested in this "collapse" shit... and now they is away at an Indigo Girls concert. Meanwhile, I just shooed away some young hooligans that came to visit the boy... and I seriously thought I was gonna have to use my asp baton... and if the initial strike wasn't successful... I'm too fucked up and weak to defend myself. Haven't shot my bow in nearly 2 years... not sure I could even draw it now. Don't know if I can still shoot otherwise cos o my fucked-up vision. As collapse gets closer, I'm gettin more weak and useless... and that aint good.
Right now my "mission" is to get as many people as possible to stop wasting time with this celebrity-cult people-magazine "election" shit so more bright minds can focus on the real nitty-gritty. Aint no problem with the younguns... cos they aint interested in "politics" even on the most superficial level... it's all sports and glamor... and even THAT is only on the celebrity-cult level. Meine Junge (Vatti's kleine Eule) is doin some cool shit artistically... I think. He's playing all his instruments well and drawing some really cool shit. Problem is them galoots and dope and hooligans. I get the feelin they're casin the joint. BO... I hear ye about the "third worlders." I hope I got the sauce and skill left to deal with them fucks if / when it comes down to that.
Yep... yer a mile away... and you got their shoes.
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Permaculture 101 ... I am also of the 'cement frog' brigade (except I can sew clothes) so my permaculture has always been of rudimentary basic principle-minimum effort nature. I've also never had enough land to do the serious layout bit. I was fortunate enough to buy a house here that belonged to an old lady who would have felt right at home on this 'tribe'. She started the permaculture going here and had the drains changed so that all grey water drains out into the garden where the fruit trees are. I am looking around here for some more energetic less 'practically-challenged' people here to help me take things further. But permaculture is not yet a big thing here.
In the mean time my basic principles are ...
1. All organic matter is 'green gold' ... I dispose of no biodegradable stuff ... I shred it all and lay it out on top of the soil around my plants. I even collect stuff from neighbours and have them throw their bush clippings etc over my fence so I have more.
2. I never water anything unless it's in a pot. If a plant is in the right place it will survive ... if not it will die.
3. I use no insecticides or fertilizers
4. I use ground covers - no lawn and no lawnmower. Big paving stones checkered with herbs in the spaces for heavy use areas.
5. I plant indigenous trees & shrubs ... takes a while to know what's indigenous to an area, but they are the most hardy and encourage all sorts of natural wild life in the area. I aim at having a mini forest garden with other plants being the understorey or edging. Got lots of birds, and monkeys ... and snakes which seem to pretty much keep to themselves.
6. I fence off an area for fruit trees and collect seed of 'heirloom' vegetables ... those that seed themselves and come up seasonally by themselves or perennial bushes (like peppadews). More delicate vegetables I grow in large pots near the kitchen door ... lettuce, spinach stuff like that. Beans do well against the orchard fence.
It's not going to win any kind of garden competition but it's all lush and alive and feels environmentally sound. My neighbours think it's untidy and that I am a kook ... but when some building work started on the hill next door they were really pleased that my trees sheltered us from the dust and noise of the operations.
I'll post some pictures when I have any to be proud of.
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Actually, here's BO's formula for either the death or survival of the planet. I'm sure you guys don't realize how privileged you are to be the first ones to see it. I thunk it up last night...
TC= CC/H+A+I
(Tragedy of the Commons = Carrying Capacity over Hubris plus Avarice plus Ignorance)
Pretty good, eh?
It's basic animal psychology. Applies to ants as well as humans. No diff.
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