hidey hole

HIDEY HOLE

You spoiled rotten whores, yet ANOTHER guest article today.  Posted before this one, scroll down.
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As you may or may not have noticed, today doesn’t have a “fundamental Friday” article. To be quite frank ( thank you, and don’t call me Frank ) I wasn’t entirely happy with last weeks attempt so I figured I better take a break this week and hope something better comes along next Friday. I think I’ve pretty much covered the basics, but please feel free to throw a suggestion or two my way. The whole reason I started the silly thing was that more than one person was asking me about buying and storing feed store wheat. I can live with or without the feature.

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Last weekend I went to the bookstore ( the library continues to disappoint, their budget spiraling downward with the latest employee cuts being 20%, and if the silly twats hadn’t wasted so many tens to hundreds of thousands on digital/computer crap perhaps they’d have a few extra books added every once in awhile ) and not only found a used copy of Dies The Fire ( I already have a copy but who knows when I’ll need to bride someone with it- for years, while cheaply available, I handed out copies of Ruff’s book and Lucifer’s Hammer to anyone showing interest in survival and pretty sure I ruined more than one life or at least marriage by turning those folks to The Dark Side ) but also a book I’ve been wanting to try, “Gary Jennings Apocalypse 2012”. It was on the cut corner, no return, discard for ten cent table. I enjoyed it well enough, on a public school ninth grade reading level kind of way. Mass market, obligatory two explicit sex scenes thrown in for cheap titillation, designed solely to get you to read the next book coming out. When I first noticed it months ago it was insanely priced at $13 IN PAPERBACK!!!!! Even at half price for used books, this was a Gott Damn rip-off to rival Obammy’s “read my big floppy lips, no new taxes if you elect me, but if ‘it’s for the children’ we can raise the ‘fees’ on tobacco three months after I take office because I’m a big hairy testicle licking toad”. Gary Jennings, eons ago, came out with a novel “Aztec” which had all kinds of ancient dudes practicing human sacrifices and weird and twisted sexual perversions described in graphic detail. I’m not opposed to mass market soft porn, unless that is the best part of the book, and then you’d do better just going with Penthouse Letters and saving the novel price for another book. I’m thinking that the publisher paid an obscene amount of money to bribe the estate of Gary, who being dead can’t feel as embarrassed as he should, just to splash his name on the cover to get sales, and enough flaming idiots bought into this deceit that they’re going to try it again. Let me just tell you, the book was a disappointment. If I’d spent more than a dime on it I’d really be hacked off. No doomer, survival/ apocalypse value whatsoever.

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I’m going to order a book next week, not because I want to read it you understand but merely to review it for you, my adoring minions. “Afterlife” by the guy that brought us “Last Light”. I really liked the latter, so I’m hoping the former is just as good. I didn’t even know the book was available, I suppose because all of you thought it wasn’t your day to look out for new doomer porn for me, until I say a review over at

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Okay, Last Light might have had a few flaws, but it was still pretty darn good. The characters return in this new book ( new to me, thanks a lot you slacking whores ) and are hiding out on an abandoned oil platform. This is their hidey hole, their place to safely hang out while they wait for the rest of the world to hurry up and kill each other off.

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For a nation of nomads, we sure seem to be overly attached to our home as security. So, not only do we pay out the wazoo unnecessarily for a sense of false security, we set ourselves for failure by doing so. If you can accept the need to move as events dictate, sacrificing the work that went into the last abode, treating that as part of the “rent”, you won’t sit around dumbly waiting to be slaughtered by the local government or brigands. I advocate junk land as a way to weather the economic collapse, but after the die-off you can move to better digs. History is all about one group of homeless refugees killing off the current residents of prime real estate. If you stay in prime locations during the collapse, you will probably be killed. But if you have a hidey hole to escape to, live off storage food, then move back after the mass casualties, your chances of survival increase. I’m not saying you won’t have to fight your way back in, but better that than defending the location initially against wave after wave of refugees. And I’m not talking about you Yuppie Scum that can afford to buy the bestest retreat. I’m talking about your average blue collar worker trying to get enough productivity out of his back yard garden to survive Oil Down. You don’t think you are a target, even with that small amount of growth? Come serious collapse, moving groups will need to hit just such places every day in order to survive. Your carrots and corn supplemented by your skinny ass in the stewpot.

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Off the beaten path, in, say, the desert, do you think anyone is going to come looking for your doomstead? If the area can’t support crops, it won’t be a target. After the die-off, take your well fed troops with most of your ammo left and go take the area you like, populated by famine racked troops with almost no ammunition left after continual fighting. Now, pay attention here. When an individual does this, he is a low down yellowbelly criminal. When a group does this, and wins, they are the new government. And the leader saved his people from starving. Except for the Oil Age ( and it still applied, but in barely noticeable form ) all of history of civilization has been a win/lose proposition. The winners did so at the expense of the dead or enslaved losers. Ignore this at your own peril, for you will be dead or enslaved and the attackers will be living in your former home. Pick a place to hide out, not to go grow organic radishes. Worry about radishes after the collapse. Just have plenty of storage food to get you through the waiting period.

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