Japanese Mountain Satori Time – Choogle On! #48

Japanese Mountain Satori Time – Choogle On! #48
Japanese Mountain Satori Time – Choogle On! #48

A hemp-ed up guide to conscious travel in Japan as Uncle Weed (on the hoof) waxes nostalgic about backcountry squatting in abandoned villages with graves with offerings, wild mushrooms and counter-culture festivals.

He relays practical tips on getting around the islands, finding hidden cannabis culture and exploring the natural beauty from sacred sites and hemp fields in Shikoku to high in the Nagano Mountains to wild ganja harvest in Hokkaido – features some unique Okinawan folk music. 

Ikimasho! Japanese Mountain Satori Time – Choogle on #48 (.mp3, 15:34, 14MB)

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US/CAN border line-ups – BC to Washington cameras

Borders are a drag and I often travel o’er the USA/Canada territorial line in the sand via Peace Arch, Pacific (aka Truck) or Lynden cause sitting in a long border line is an exercise in boredom and inefficiency.

I always mean to add these hand resources, so here they are: cameras, wait times, back routes and more.

http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/general/times/menu-e.html

http://www.borderlineups.com/

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/border/

Rearview Mirror at the border with Hand
photo Lee LeFever

Dopefiend Forums now Choogle-fied

Zandor of the Grow Report along with Dopefiend and the tribe over at Dopefiend.co.uk are barn raising a big, shmancy forum at the Grow Report for the cult-like fanbase to unite in conversation around the world. They set up me up with my own big tent for the Chooglers to hang out in.

Still life with weed In case you haven’t noticed, the Dopefiend Network are rolling out the podcast goodness like a veritable indie-BBC with an international mix of top-notch shows from the op-ed, news-i-fied Dopecast, giggle-fied Queer Ninja, the psyched-pundit Max Freakout, your instant barstool buddy Lefty plus the aforementioned Zandor’s Grow Report (key for med growers) plus Black Bettie’s show on the way.

‘Tis fantastic to see Dopefiend’s earnest vibes people catalyze the chatting and interacting – his shows allows a sterling means of expression for many enthusiastic stoners and i am glad to be along for the ride.

So you’d best choogle on by and offer your opinions on whatever you got to spiel on.

Vapo-Hookah Royal Sampler – Choogle On! #47

Vapo-Hookah Royal Sampler - Choogle on

On a rainyday porch, Uncle Weed and Herr Funboy field test and rate a Vapo-Cannon Vaporizer, pimp Heads magazine and UW’s Tokes on the Porch blog and offering bribes and shout outs to iTunes reviewers before moving onto a session with a prancing horse hookah from Baghdad while sampling Renee, Lui, and Sugar Mango, Bubble Gum and other fine BC ganja. 

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London Town Wander Night – Choogle On! #46

London Town Wander Night – Choogle on #46Photos by Victoria Potter – art’ed up by Uncle Weed Music: Two Gallants “Feels Like Home to Me”

An extended length (ideal for summertime listening) features a late night walk around the heart of London Town with rambling topics from public drunkeness, Cleopatra’s Obelisk, party boats, Shakespeare’s Globe theater, Internet kiosks, Sir Drake’s Golden Hind, The Clink Jail, Millennium, Black Friars and Tower bridges, Cornish pasties, take away falafels, cellar temperature ales, Dali art, Falklands naval veterans, CCTV cameras, miscellaneous wars, royal largess, overfilled hotel baths and a spontaneous fire in Piccadilly. 

Grab ahold of London Town Wander Night – Choogle on #46 (.mp3, 54:39, 50MB – and worth it!)

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Waiting (and Resisting) in Baghdad – Postcard #47

Pod cover - Postcards from Gravelly Beach - Waiting Resisting in Baghdad
bunker photo by Lt. Magnum, USN

A story about Iraqi resistance fighters and their personal motivations by a young writer called Waiting in Baghdad is the crux of the next White Poppies for Remembrance episode – read from the homeporch with a Welsh mining lantern and firetrucks rolling past. Written by Chris K, a player on a dave-coached in-line hockey team in Olympia Washington in 2002.

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NYC Speakeasy Stroll with Bubble Bands and Falafel Bars – Choogle On! #45

NYC Speakeasy Stroll with Bubble Bands and Falafel Bars – Choogle On! #45
NYC Speakeasy Stroll with Bubble Bands and Falafel Bars – Choogle On! #45

Rolling on in NYC, Uncle Weed gets the full Manhattan street-level tour from the Meat Packing District stumbling upon a band in a bubble to Greenwich Village for tasty falafels with savory accessories, a haunted speakeasy with rich literary history plus the only house on the island.

Finally, thoughtful comparison on CBC’s The Trailer Park Boys (caution Flash) as the modern-day equivalent of (classic Canadian TV programme) Beachcombers

Roll on with NYC Speakeasy Stroll ~ Choogle On! #45 (21:10, 20MB, .mp3)

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Heading to Gnomedex 07 – Third timer!

I’m heading to Gnomedex shortly … here’s how you can play along at home with this special board game edition which wou’ll receive along with your year supply of Rice a Roni!

I won’t be doing on-site blogging this time (no laptop) but am taking recorder and camera and plan to document a bit but mostly soak all the fuzzy knowledge in to hone my ability to see into the future of media, communication, activism and efficiency. Excited to hang out with more amazing folsk brewingup crazy goodness and catch up the club at this geekfest summer camp. Fortunately non-A listers like me are able to attend to keep it real ;-).

Maslow take note of all these fufilled and almost actualized people!


photo by KK (of course)

Gnomedex video and audio live: http://live.pirillo.com/

Gnomedex 2007: http://www.gnomedex.com/2007/


always fun to hear what Marc Canter yells aloud (careful sitting next to him!)

Gnomedex attendees aggregator: http://www.gnomedex.com/2007/attendees/

Gnomedex “it’s geeky fun” song by DKM Penmachine: http://www.penmachine.com/2006/06/free-mp3-theme-song-for-gnomedex-for.html

Gnomedex Flickr tag: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/gnomedex/

Uncle Weed tag’d Gnomedex pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncleweed/tags/gnomedex/


Thrasher fan Mark, Cosmo Unabonger and Cap’n Ajax

Gnomedex Technorati tags: http://technorati.com/posts/tag/gnomedex/

Gnomedex 06 posts on Get Elastic:
http://www.getelastic.com/gnomedex-rolls-on-with-day-25/
http://www.getelastic.com/conversations-from-the-gnomedex-stage/
http://www.getelastic.com/gnomedex-is-underway/

Gnomedex 2006 Videos:
Kickin’ Back at the Hotel Room
Video Funtime at Gnomedex
Science fiction and Impressionalists
Kickin’ Back at the Hotel Room
Gnomedex Recap with EMP Action

Gnomedex Entomology: http://www.thenameinspector.com/gnomedex/

Gnomedex is a funny name. There’s something absurd about the word gnome, and using it to replace the first syllable of a stuffy, corporate-sounding acronym really makes Gnomedex work. Gnome makes you think of garden gnomes. And the Underpants Gnomes of South Park.They have a three-point business plan that may seem eerily familiar toyou VCs and angels out there, and cut a little close to the bone foryou web entrepreneurs:

  1. Collect Underpants.
  2. ?
  3. Profit!

    by niallkennedy

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Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback – Choogle On! #44

Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback – Choogle On! #44
Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback – Choogle On! #44

While camping at Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island last summer, Uncle Weed launches into a lengthy discourse about noted logging blockades in 1993 and talks about meditations on hemp, non-violence, compassion, clearcuts, ecology and economics of forestry and comments on a looming water shortage in Tofino (to be continued …). 

Get your hands on Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback ~ Choogle On! #44 (39:03, .mp3, 54MB)

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