[TheDude]

[smallpoxgirl]

I hear ya Dude. I was having one of those kind of nights too. I went to Fred Myer to buy some groceries. It's so bright and clear. People were picking through the beautiful unblemished produce from 1000 miles away. I just couldn't get out of my mind, What's this place going to look like once the lights go out and the looters come. Then you look at all the people, as Tyler Durden would say, calm as hindu cows. It's just to much. It's like you've stepped into a first person shooter game or something.

[TheDude]

Never thought of BAU as strolling through Castle Wolfenstein before, good one!

I sometimes do business with Evil Fred too, listen to Matt Simmons interviews on my iPod for that true feeling of the surreal. Throw one wrench into the works, flickering lights, no cabbages, limits on customer purchases...

Before I caught onto peak oil I was driving friends up I5, gridlocked traffic, and I just blurted out "This just can't go on, you know." Little over 8 years ago. Didn't have a reason, it was just insane to let it go on piling on car after car after car, the vaunted light rail lines Portland built didn't seem to stop it one bit.

Tommorow eastbay and I (and thuja? Ian? Others?) will have our get together downtown in the big bookstore. That should be altogether Twilight Zone, muttering on about supply/demand imbalances and overshoot while people read JK Rowling and sip lattes.

[kpeavey]

Buy yourself a woodstove, and do your breathing exercises.