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September 13, 2008
Less City, More Feral
Feral House has moved from Los Angeles near to the most Northwestern spot of the United States, just around the bend from Puget Sound and across the Juan de Fuca Strait from Vancouver Island.
It's called the "Quimper Peninsula" of Washington State, home to many interesting animals and vegetables, such as a bobcat Jodi found stalking rabbits in our backyard, and deer that shocked me when I found the four-legged creature staring into my office window one late night, its nostrils steaming up the glass.
Just outside we can see eagles chased off by angry crows and cargo ships chugging toward Seattle ports. The nearby town, Port Townsend, features many wild poppy plants (Papaver somniferum) that were, I was told, initially planted by a turn-of-the-century Chinese worker population. An antique store in town displays the 120-year-old opium pipes.
We miss Los Angeles, for our friends, its weather, and cosmopolitan distractions.
But we're happily reminded that there's more to life than the digital world, and I'm out in the garden, shoveling, planting, watering, weeding. And harvesting raspberries and blackberries, all producing like mad, their blood-red stains forever changing my khaki work jeans.
Though I read articles about Colony Collapse Disorder, where worker bees are not hiving properly for the agriculture world, we have lavender and berry bushes of intense interest to hundreds of honeybees, some of whom seem to be getting drunk from overripe berries. (Though a local beekeeper tells me at the local farmer's market that local hives are having trouble, too.)
Port Townsend: drunk bees.
Los Angeles and New York: drunks that pee.
New York City, a muggy and odiferous concrete jungle and recent destination for business matters, made me glad to have moved up to the cool Northwest.
In New York, we had a delightfully crazy dinner with our friends Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle and Psychick TV (and author of the forthcoming Feral House release, Thee Psychick Bible), Daniel Pinchbeck (of Reality Sandwich), and Spiro Antonopolous (of Soul Jerky) and his charming mate Erin.
We've got some impressive books coming back from the printer now (including Dope Menace, Packing Inferno, Secret and Suppressed II, Porn & Pong) and long-awaited gems (Love, Sex, Fear, Death: The Untold Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment, The Compleat Motherfucker, The 35 Articles of Impeachment by Dennis Kucinich), about which more soon!
Posted by feral2 at September 13, 2008 12:14 PM
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