I Cannot Yet Skin A Deer - Mark Morford

[kliljedahl]

I Cannot Yet Skin A Deer
Are you prepared for the Big Collapse? Peak Oil? Rural life? Can you pickle meat and eat bark?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Friday, July 15, 2005


Rare is the opportunity to use authentic, down 'n' dirty rural survival skills in the city. It's true.

You don't need to know, for example, how to skin a deer or pickle your own asparagus or nurture an understanding of which kind of deadwood is best for cookin' pig snouts over the fire pit, or how to shingle your roof with rocks and clay, or how to dig really large holes in the backyard for long-term storage of winter wheat and dead chickens and hoary annoying relatives.

City-bred skills and intuitions are, to be sure, unique. But there will apparently be very little call, after the Bush-branded apocalypse rains down, for knowledge of which seat in the café gets the best Wi-Fi signal or where to find the finest burrito after midnight in the Mission when you are post-coitally blissed and in need of refueling.

Very little call, after the Big Ungodly Crash, for knowledge of where to get the most amazing cheap dim sum, how much the large bottle of Astroglide costs at the local Good Vibrations, or which tiny parking spaces in my girlfriend's neighborhood I can sneak into for emergency booty calls without her uptight neighbors calling Bob's Towing.

Link: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/07/15/notes071505.DTL&nl=fix


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[northzax]

1. mark morford has a girlfriend?

really?

[kliljedahl]

3. Mentioned her before in other articles.

Don't know him, can't say. Never worried about it myself, but if that's all you got from the article.....


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[northzax]

4. there wasn't much there, actually

(I don't read Morford often, but for some reason I figured he was gay) I just don't buy into the 'end is nigh' scenarios very well.

[ewagner]

2. Really good article

Unfortunately, I actually know people who are hoarding food, guns, ammunition and fuel in their basements....

what's worse?

These people have NEVER EVEN HEARD OF PEAK OIL!

[Martin Eden]

5. There's only ONE THING you need to do ...

... to survive the coming collapse -- and it ain't honing up on yer survival skills.

All ya gotta do is become a Christian fundamentalist, so you won't be LEFT BEHIND !!!

The collapse has nothing to do with DEFICITS or PEAK OIL, and everything to do with ARMAGEDDON & the RAPTURE.

There's no need to concern ourselves with anything else -- like the health of the economy or of this planet -- because pretty soon the DEVOUT won't be needing either.