Recent Posts Tagged With 'north carolina'

• A reader writes: How much does it cost to travel the way you do?

  Posted on Monday December 8th, 2008 at 00:26 in pictures, food, DIY, north carolina, living in the woods, reckless advice

  That depends.That depends on what you’re willing to eat. I have a gluten allergy and being obsessed with nutrition is sort of my second secret calling in life, so I work really hard to eat super hippy food even when I’m sleeping in a vacant lot o...

• Here I go again

  Posted on Thursday November 20th, 2008 at 14:47 in travel, reality, north carolina, racism, environmental toxins, living in the woods, riding freight trains, sometimes shit sucks

  I'm leaving North Carolina tomorrow, TOMORROW, via hitch-hiking to Tennessee. Once I'm good and in Tennessee, there's a freight train, apparently, that will take me all the way to LA. I just have to go to this train yard my friend told me about and h...

• Making Injera

  Posted on Saturday November 15th, 2008 at 17:45 in pictures, food, north carolina, gluten-free recipes

  Thursday night I got a little drunk on Ethiopian honey wine. It doesn’t take much to get me drunk, because I never ever drink. I made Ethiopian food for my friends, which I’d never done. It all started with a little teff flour, this dark sort of ...

• the INVISIBLE drum machine and the Selectric Piano

  Posted on Friday October 31st, 2008 at 22:59 in DIY, north carolina

  My friend Mark Dixon is a genius. For every genius you have heard about, there are a dozen geniuses hidden away in a quiet North Carolina town somewhere, and Mark Dixon is one of those.Mark Dixon built a drum machine. For years, Mark Dixon built a dr...

• Asheville

  Posted on Wednesday October 29th, 2008 at 13:07 in travel, pictures, north carolina

  I went to Asheville last weekend with Eli who’s a lawyer. She’s an anarchist, first, but wanted to do more good so she became a lawyer. Now she’s got major college loans to pay off and a job at a non-profit supporting prisoners who get assaulte...

• Adventures in the Piedmont- Making Acorn Flour

  Posted on Tuesday October 28th, 2008 at 13:22 in pictures, food, DIY, north carolina, the apocalypse, gluten-free recipes

  So Sam and I wanted to make Acorn flour, because doing things like that makes us feel tough. It turns out, making acorn flour is hard. That’s proly why most people don’t do it. Heck, people don’t even eat the walnuts on their walnut trees, and ...

• I skinned a squirrel, and I liked it

  Posted on Thursday October 23rd, 2008 at 23:17 in DIY, north carolina, the apocalypse

  Speaking of fish, let’s talk about squirrels for a minute.-----warning-----this story is pretty gross---------------------------------I found the squirrel a block away from the house. Lying in the sun, dead.“A squirrel!” I said, leaning over my...