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Marcel

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  1. That was great. What a varied and lovely bunch of nutters we are! So many great laughs.
    Lovely to see old friends and make some new ones.
    Sorry we had to bail so early. Work responsibilities and besides, I miss my wifey if we're apart for more than a few hours. I hope it didn't rain too much on Saturday night.
    See you all soon again, I hope!
    -M

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  2. Some of you may already know, but I am a video artist. I'm currently preparing for a short (<2 min) video for an exhibition later in the year. What it requires is a biggish bunch of people to pass a short bit of wood around a circle, and finally into a fire. Each person looks at the camera for about 10 seconds before the camera and the wood move on to the next person. Nothing weird. Nothing incriminating. No lines to learn. There'll be a text added over the top in post-production. I'll probably be shooting at the Oberon camp on the Saturday afternoon.
    Please let me know if you're interested in being in the video!

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  3. I'm bringing my friend, Mr Always-The-Guy-To-Have-With-You-When-Camping and he's always got wood chop tool-age and blowers and all the rest of it. That said, when we camped out there a few weeks ago it was all pretty damp which makes for an annoyingly smoky fire. All the more annoying when you're trying to get as close as possible to the fire to not freeze your ass off.

    I'm super excited! I'll bring lollies and chocolates and sweet stuff.

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  4. Maybe. I'm going back to study mid year, so I'm pretty swamped with applications and catching up and stuff. I'm pretty keen though. I miss all youse guys. And I wanna meet Watertrade. And if the Melbs people are coming, that would make it a freaking blast... I'm 80% confident that I'll be there.


  5. I had a hunt out there last weekend. Heaps of Saffies and Amanitas. Not so many Slipperies. And probably the biggest number of subs I've ever found out there. I imagine that it's going to really amp up over the next couple of weeks. G Spot (left side of the road when heading to Jenolan Caves) is especially messy and trashed at the moment. But there's that nice grassy field across the road that's pretty sweet for camping. Temps are reaching zero at the moment. Ouch. And in my experience, Oberon zero is colder than zero anywhere else...


  6. From experience, when organising an event on facebook, all you need to say is "THIS IS NOT A DOOF" and things will be just fine. :lol:

    I love the idea, but if it's a NNSW thing, maybe it could be timed with the cube season... And preferably during the school holidays so that I can make it a family holiday. :P

    It's a good idea. I miss eth and Amaz and all the other Victoria crew!

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  7. The future is here!

    I know it's probably not what you're looking for, but I fucking love my iOS music equipment. I don't use the iStomp thing linked above, but I use an iPad with JamUp and various other effects/loopers/synths/etc running through a high quality Focusrite i/o box. I have so much good equipment for live performance now, and each new thing at this point is only a few bucks, so I can experiment and play around with little regret.

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  8. For rhetorical clarity, Torsten, could you tell me: where do you stand on the "gun debate"? Do guns, as objects in and of themselves, have a role to play in gun crime? More specifically, do you believe gun ownership should be restricted in the interest of public safety?


  9. We're spoiled here in Australia. In Poland EVERYONE goes mushroom picking. During season, if you're not deep in the forest by sunrise you're probably too late to find much, and even then, a whole family hunting for a whole day is lucky to go home with one measly basketful between them.


    After 30 years here, my folks still can't get over the fact that even in a bad season with relatively huge crowds, there are still so many mushrooms in the pine forests.

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  10. I had a chat with a bunch of Ukrainians out Oberon way about a month ago. They had big plastic crates that they were filling up with Saffies, all quite professionally. They said that they sell them to grocery stores like Harris Farms. Apparently the tv show Masterchef has made several references to Saffies and they are in high demand, retailing for $16/kg. I was a little pissed, because they had picked quite ruthlessly, but I didn't give them too much shit. They were very defensive and apologetic and even embarrassed. It seems that every non-commercial hunter they cross paths with gives them an earful.

    The problem here is stupid fucking free-market capitalism, not the middle-aged Slav in the forest. It's a paradigm in which anything is permitted as long as it makes a buck.

    This May Day, march with fellow reds in memory of the workers AND the Saffron Milk Caps. :wink:

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  11. Nice finds, Room, but no, those are not Slipperies. They are a native bolete species which happily grows in a mycorhizal relationship with introduced pines. I know a lot of people that make no distinction between them and Slipperies, and pick them for eating, so they're probably edible (or at least not toxic), albeit not as tasty and tender as Slippery Jacks (Suillus luteus/granulatus). My call is to ditch them and keep hunting. Slipperies can still pop up in huge numbers quite late in the season. The biggest haul I've ever had was from mid June, down in the Southern Highlands.

    And it's not likely that anyone has cep prints here. Reports of Boletus edulis in Australia are limited to a dozen cases, if that. What's more, they're infamous for their reluctance to yield to the cultivator's attempts to grow them, so you'd have to be pretty skilled/lucky/blessed if that's what you're thinking!

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