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Title: Desert Soliloquy. A Perfectly Sane Misanthrope Hides in the Desert
"It is a cynical, fabulous, outrageous, politically incorrect, foul-mouthed and absolutely hilarious modern-day Walden." --- Douglas Preston
"It's original, fresh, full of humor and I'll be damned if there wasn't a moral in there, too. It's the kind of stuff the world needs." -- Jan Atle Ramsli
"Thoreau reincarnated as an emotionally disturbed comedian." -- Critique Circle beta reader
Synopsis: Twenty-nine months living alone in the desolate wasteland of the Avawatz Mountain Range, on the southeastern edge of Death Valley. The memoir includes humorous narratives about living in a hostile environment, the people the author met when venturing away from the cave he lived in, and assorted details about some of the historical people and events in the area in the past 300 years. The language is aggressive and yet intoxicating with its ability to keep the reader poised between offended outrage and full-throated laughter.
Manuscript has 99,600 words.
Genre: Memoir
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My Free Gold Maps web site. These are Google Maps that show gold mines and prospects in the USA (at the moment), grouped by county. There are many basic tools required to find and work mineral claims. The low-budget prospector only needs the three basics: a shovel, a bucket, and a gold pan (and a source of water) to get started; people who have been seized by the gold prospecting fever can end up buying, and perhaps even needing, equipment to work a prospect and turn it into a producing mine. To recover enough gold to make the labor worth doing, the three basics (above) are not enough. Some of the items used to recover gold are:
- Classifiers, Screens and Sieves
- Digging Tools - picks, rakes, shovels
- Gold Pans and Gold Panning Kits
- Dry Washers for desert areas
- Highbankers (Power Sluice boxs)
- Black Sand Concentrators
- Hand Dredge
- Rock Crusher / sample ore crusher
- Crevice Tools
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- Snuffer Bottles
- Miners Moss
- Sluice Carpet Mat / ribbed vinyl matting
- Metal detector
- Face mask / dust mask
- Digging Trowel
- "Gold Cube" Concentrator
- Automatic Gold Panners
- Books on how to find gold
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| My Home Brew 2011 wine-making web page. |
| The Brave Cowboy Book review for Edward Abbey's "The Brave Cowboy." |
| Boat Delivery. An aborted boat delivery from California to Hawaii. |
| Solar Oven. Desertphile builds a solar oven: here's how. |
| On the Duty of the Citizen. Written June 1 2003. It is the duty of every citizen to criticize, censure and scourge the government. |
| Desertphile's Poetry. And you though I'd let you off easy, without subjecting you to my poems and songs?! Ha! |
| Desertphile Images. By popular demand, I have collected a few images of myself. |
| Navajo Indians. Here I have collected various Navajo-related material. Here are images of Navajo rugs, hogans, and land. |
| Religious Intolerance. Where I address the need to ignore other people's religions if they do not interest one. |
| "Amerindians" #1: White 'Indianphiles' borrowing what they believe to be "American Indian" spirituality. Is this irreverent, just silly, or both? I consider it disrespectful. |
| Bush's "Homeland Security" Will America survive the Hitlerization that George Bush has in mind? And why is Bush terrorizing American citizens? |
| "Caught" looking?! Wherein I don't accept drug money, and a young spinster gives me hell before my driver's test. |
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Dam Nation! The flooding of Glen Canyon. Powell would kill at the abuse of his good name. |
| The National Parking-lot Service. Vacationing in a metal cage: how to be a traveling hedonist and never leave your bucket seat. Thank you, National Parks Service! |
| Bush and Hussein: Twins. Different countries, same mentality. Herein I offer suggestions on how to save America from low-IQ Presidents. |
| Hey Hey Yah-Tah-Hey Very much NOT the new Navajo National Anthem. Most Dine' would find this song unamusing. I wrote it after reading about current government abuse against the Dine' and against Dinetah. "Yah tah hey" means, more or less, "Welcome to my home." |
| Stupid Paleface Tricks. Many things about my society I object to; many things I love and cherish. In this essay I have written about the former. |
> People who wander the deserts tend to entertain themselves with musing about every conceivable topic, with thoughts of life and humanity's place in the universe dominating one's contemplations. This may be due to the fact that the environment they reside, work, and play in is trying hard to kill them. While no desert has ever been guilty of premeditated murder, deserts do seem to brood with a passive enmity for all living things; plants and animals, crows and kit foxes, coyotes and cactus, humans and honey bees.... the desert does not really play favorates. Deserts may be inhospitable, but they are never hostile; deserts may kill those creatures not fit enough to survive in them, but it is nothing personal. When one hikes across a desert, one takes one's chances, just like the buzzards and the jack rabbits.
If you are a hobo, let us suppose you are considering going to a house and asking for food. Is there an ill-tempered man living in the house? Well! If you see this glyph (to the left) written in chalk on the ground near the house, you'd know the answer is "Yes!" This link will show you nearly four dozen symbols you, as a hobo, need to know.