Marcel

That's fucking hilarious. I've been laughing like a mofo for the last 20 minutes. Never thought I'd live to see the day that I miss living in an American ghetto. On my days off work, I used to spend a lazy arvo in the Brooklyn botanical gardens which was next to a big and neglected high school. I'd watch kids sneak out and hide in the gardens and make out and they'd often start conversations with strangers, including me. American kids are so different to Australian kids. They are confident and open and never too shy to talk to people with which they know they have nothing in common. Even when they're saying something dumb and ridiculous, you often get this punchy and peppy joy for life shining through. The same sort of thing that the Ghetto Hikes blog has. Thanks for the share, d00d.

Boys, boys, boys... No need to drive all the way to the Blue Mountains and beyond! Once we get a bit or rain under our belt, Sydney will be aglow with sub activity. I won't be giving away any specific locations (so don't PM me anyone! ), but suburbia is your friend. Especially when suburbia backs onto bushland. I live on the beach in metropolitan Sydney and there are at least 4 patches within 5 minutes of my house. There's another bunch near my mum's place in the inner-west. Some of these are producing already, even with these warm temperatures and without any rain all month. And when you have a bunch of local patches, then you can re-visit several times throughout the season and take all the photos you want of mushrooms at various stages of development. Open your street directory and scan around for the green parts near your street, and hit them, one at a time, on your way home from work, on your way to the shops, etc.

Wow, that's a pretty good deal, but it's still pretty expensive. I had nearly the full set in my shop the other day (second hand) and after they sold within an hour or so, I realised that I had desperately under-priced them.

Amaz: that's a terrible image. I think it belongs in this thread.

Amaz: they're gorgeous!

So very PM'd!

Every year at about this time, as the days get shorter, the rains build up and the temperatures drop, I realise that I often take for granted that which I have all around me. Here in the pretty glitz of Sydney, I look around and see the same look of easy happiness in the eyes of all the lucky folk I pass on the street and in the parks. And it's not just Sydney, but in Melbourne and Adelaide and Hobart. We're a fortunate bunch and I think it's important that we remember that. And more importantly, I think it's important to remember those less fortunate... I see the familiar signs already: The forum gallery full of pictures of disgusting and mostly inactive orange fungi... The broken-hearted comments left in the threads on successful sub finds... The desperate and devil-may-care plans to do midnight runs to Balingup... So, ladies and gents, this month, when you haul in your gazillionth kilo of subs for the season, spare a thought for those poor motherfuckers in Western Australia. Our forgotten brothers and sisters who for some perverted quirk of nature, have fuck all in terms of interesting fungi. Be strong, dear neglected ones!

What about a loph grafted on peres? How should one approach winter watering of such a thing?

GOT, I think you just inadvertently solved the riddle of why WA has no mushies... Fucking quokkas!

This is so beautiful and wonderful.

Dude, you are sooo cute.

They're seldom made from Datura, but they often have Datura in them. So your friend is partly true. My folks used to buy East German datura cigarettes in Poland. They were commercially manufactured cigarettes used to treat asthma and other lung ailments. I remember Planthelper mentioned that kids would make a tea from the cigarettes and go to "different places" (my quotes). But yeah, wow. The internet's a-buzz with talk of Brugs and Datura as "new danger drugs" at the moment. What gives?

So wish I could come up, Hawkie. Next time! Have a beer for me, people!

Useless nothing! All fungi have a role in our ecosystems and this little Cortinarius sp. is no exception. Sure, you can't eat it and you won't trip off it, but you can appreciate the fact that it helps decompose vegetative matter and keep our soils vibrant and rich! They're also very beautiful mushrooms, and to look and admire and feel the beauty of the world is nothing to shrug one's shoulders about. Have a look at others of this genus here. Amazing!

Good God. It's like a bunch of hipsters took over the Today Tonight studios. Same level of bullshit. Same level of sensationalism. Same level of research (that is to say, none!). Vice, you've dropped to a new low...

I brought under 2kg with me from Fiji last December. I declared it and the customs fellow said that it's all good.

Oh. That's not who I was thinking...

I wonder who the "applicant" for the entheogen discussion was? I seems like it could have been one of the people on this forum, in particular a certain outspoken Melbournian, who spoke at last year's EGA...

I'm Polish and during his presidency I was never a huge fan of Kwasniewski (but then, I've never been a huge fan of any politician, with the exception of that dreamboat Evo Morales ), but I must say that that is a nice bit of writing, not so much for it's call to end zero-tolerance policy, but for the fact that a politician is admitting to a mistake, and moving toward fixing that mistake. It's amazing how so many ex-politicians become likeable when they no longer have a party line to tow, or a fickle, media-drunk public to pander to. They often seem to start to think for themselves and have no fear of speaking out on an issue if they feel passionately about it. Here's another example of how representative, parliamentary politics - the sort that has taken over most of the world over the last 100 years - is a shitty system and will never do much more than put roses into the shit of human organisation.

That compliment, coming from this man, is like Mother Teresa telling you that you're a generous person. Consider yourself blessed!

You're my hero. Got them today! Bless ya!

I love this forum.

Come on, now. He's the son of God. He can look like any damn thing he pleases.

LOL!