Into the Chat with a Smoke

just a little bit of it, otherwise it just puts me to sleep.

ativan, coffee, and weed is a great combination for me. i can get lost in a book for hours.

 

Only read one book in my life

 

^ Damn, you're missing out brother

I'm reading right now actually

I've got 6 new books of various (though mostly psychedelic) esoteric interests that I've been working my way through... just ordered a couple more off Amazon earlier too.. I've read a lot this summer, including some particularly powerful books which were a much welcomed surprise..

Reading in a hammock with a doob is the best... Though I have to be careful about my hash and oil smoking when I'm planning on doing some reading... too much concentrates will have me drooling all over the book too..

 

i love reading. sometimes to learn and expand my mind, and sometimes to just get lost in a good story.

i'm reading a couple right now:

dune by frank herbert
a short history of nearly everything by bill bryson

what are you reading chad?

 

i love those ribfests...one of the few events i will put up with the crowds......best ribs i have ever tasted at one of those fests in etobicoke on canada day,,,been there 4 times

also best candied yams i ever had too.....i bailed on a spaghetti dinner invite last night..so they had me come by today and grab a bucketful...also a big slice of cake...i love fresh made pasta of every kind

my sons mom worked at bobby rubinos place for ribs many many years ago....i used to to get her to bring me an order every shift

me and 3 dudes i grew up with all married waitresses from there and we are all now divorced drug addicts

i am the only one of us that is not or was never addicted to opies

 

opiates are scary

 

Chapter 1 - Explosives and Pyrotechnics

 

:leaving:

 

Run look away save yourselves AHHHHHH!!!!

 

I just finished Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets a couple days ago...



Absolutely phenomenal book on mycelium, and how much potential it holds... talks about fungi's enormous potential for mycorestoration (using mycelium to restore/clean/replenish depleted habitats).. Stamets breaks it down into 4 main categories

- Mycofiltration (using mycelial membranes to filter pathogenic bacteria, viruses, chemical toxins from water sources etc)

- Mycoforestry (using mycelium to preserve native forests, increase the quality of soils, increase biodiversity, recovery and recycling of woodland debris)

- Mycoremediation (use of mycelium to degrade or remove toxins in the environment including petrochemicals, radiation, pesticides, etc)

- Mycopesticides (replacing toxic pesticides with an effective natural control for insects/pests, protecting groundwater sources from toxic chemicals, minimizing harm to nontargeted insects, using certain species of fungi as attractants for pests, etc)

Best book I've read all year, hands down... Highly recommended for anyone with even the slightest interest in fungi.. you will be amazed with how much you never knew about the potential usefulness of mycelium in just about EVERY aspect of human life... It's NOT dry and technical reading either... tons of photos, diagrams, illustrations, etc, and the author is a true master of narrative... packing tons of scientific data into an easy to read and never tedious narrative...

Now that I'm through with that, I'm on The Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna... another great read if you're at all interested in psychedelics or are familiar with McKenna's work...It's just a compilation of interviews, lectures, essays, etc. I feel this one is a great place to start if you're unfamiliar with McKenna, as some of his other books are VERY dry and technical ... this is a great overview of his life's work and ideologies.

After I finished up this one, I'll be on to True Hallucinations (also by McKenna), and then a book about the climate crisis titled "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet" by Bill McKibben (often considered one of the worlds leading experts on climate change, and one of the first to bring it to national attention with his 1989 book "The End of Nature")..


Those are my literary interests as of late... sorry, I don't do much fiction at all...hell it's probably been years since I read a fiction novel or something.. most of my interests are pretty esoteric non-fiction...

How about you eggs, whats caught your eye lately in the literary world?

 

Your review made me want to read it!!

 

I just ordered echoes history of floyd from the library this will be my second book i ever read

 

i haven't read anything by mckibbon, but i've heard good things.

might read a malcolm gladwell book next. i've heard good things.

 

Do it! If you're seriously interested Nyxx (or anyone), check out this video of Stamet's lecture "6 ways mushrooms can save the world".. you will be totally hooked after watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY"]Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world - YouTube


I promise you won't be disappointed with the book though... like I said, its one hell of a page-turner which is quite a feat considering its packed to the gills with scientific data. There's also an extremely detailed (with tons of photos) how-to section on growing your own mycelia and mushrooms, and using them for things like mycofiltration, mycopesticides, etc. There's detailed sections on gourmet mushrooms as well as medicinal mushrooms, complete with scientifically analyzed nutritional profiles. There's also a section titled "the Mycelial Mind" which Stamets speculates on the conscious nature of mycelium, and the implications this has all across nature.

There is sooooo much to be learned about mycelium, I'm not even scratching the surface here... watch the video for a more fitting introduction to this topic :2thumbsup:

McKibben is definitely one of the worlds foremost experts on climate change... In "The End of Nature," (originally published in 1989) there's an updated foreword the author wrote for a new edition of the book sometime in the mid 2000's, in which he talks about how all of his original predictions in The End of Nature have not only come to pass, but are far, far worse today than he predicted twenty-something years ago... Like the rates of carbon, glacier melt, pollution, are all much, much worse today than he predicted in 1989..

truly scary read. His next book, "Eaarth" (published in 2007) is pretty much just accepting the fact that we are FAR FAR beyond a sustainable PPM-carbon level in the atmosphere, and aside from an earth-shattering paradigm shift in ecological practices and policies, there's very very little hope of getting the type of world-wide cooperation and participation that would be needed to reduce atmospheric cO2 concentrations to a sustainable level...

Instead, "Eaarth" focuses on how this is going to change life for everyone on this planet, and ways in which we can adapt and minimize the damage and negative effects, and get out of the carbon-heavy cycles that got us here in the first place...


Never read anything by Gladwell... I remember reading a piece on him somewhere though, name sounds vaguely familiar... what's he write about? Fiction/Non?

 

I totally sat in for a workshop that Paul Stamets did at the last fest I went to a couple weeks ago. He was talking about the different health benefits of a specific type of old-growth forest mushrooms. Really cool stuff that he is working on.


His workshop was the most popular and pretty much everyone at the fest was there to listen, and he asked us to raise our hands if we have ever eaten psilocybin mushrooms...literally EVERYONE rose their hand and I think he was a little surprised to be in the midst of that.

And then later that night, almost EVERYONE at the fest tried some psilocybin mushrooms again haha it was great.

 

Morning!

And chat later gotta get my ass to work.

 

rip..

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bp-7mXcE8Q"]Armageddon - Full Movie - YouTube

 

.....my thirst for knowledge on mushrooms equals my hunger for them...both nil

i'll leave it to you science nerd types to fix the world..i have 20 yrs at most and i dont plan on spending them in books..but you guys knock yourselves out and find a cure for old age

 

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