Surviving Survivor School

This last weekend I took the Complete Survivor Class from Ancient Pathways.  I picked up a whole series of skills to practice. Notice I said “practice” because, good lord, just cause I did these things once doesn’t mean I am actually competent at any of them.   We set traps, snares, tracked, snacked on plants, [...]

Love thy neighbor in a time of Cholera

On the plane ride back from New York two weeks back I read The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson about an 1840’s outbreak of cholera in London, England. I had picked it up to see how a society deals with a widespread and mysterious threat. Of the multiple potential causes of the apocalypse I think [...]

The role of Oscar Wilde in a Mad-Max America

A couple of weeks ago I visited New York City to see my brother.  While there I visited the Met, because that is something one is supposed to do when visiting NYC. Of course, preparing for the Apocalypse was bouncing around in my head as I meandered through the exhibits.   The obvious question one tends [...]

How should I use my vacation?

Here is my list of events one should attend in order to prepare for the apocalypse. Burning Man – techno-nerds, socialmediaeanglists, pop-culture survivalists, and dancers.  Kind of an obvious first choice. The NRA Annual Convention If for no other reason, see what you might have to contend with later. Some sort of organic gardening convention [...]

birth control after the Apocalypse

Note: This posting was originally written as a submission for Pool Boy Magazine,  the independent adult lifestyle magazine for badass women, and clearly a NSFW site. Hollywood loves to play with how our sexual morals will change after humanity falls. In reality, some women living in the end times will not want to get pregnant from just any [...]

Lessons learned and thoughts pondered while watching “The Omega Man”

“The Omega Man” This movie was an earlier and much campier version of “I Am Legend” starring Will Smith. While campy, it’s not a halfway bad movie…. Thoughts pondered Would it really be that fun to be the last man on earth? Who knows what we will lament. The descendants of the ones who survive [...]

8 songs to listen to as you watch it all burn down

You know the scene from many  a movie.  The giant spaceship erupts the sky,  the gigantic wall of molten lava speeds towards you, or you watch a giant mushroom cloud raid neon green droplets.  You know the end is immediate so you might as well watch the last few fireworks. For a song to make [...]

How would our moral code change?

Most moral codes today revolve around the moral code or “Do unto others as you would have done onto you.” Would this be replaced with “You do what you got to do to survive?”