Midnight Riverside Joint with the Dopefiend - Choogle on #51

With a enormous joint of Kemo bud, Uncle Weed hauls his UK counterpart The Dopefiend into the woods on Vancouver’s North Shore to talk about stoner travel delights in BC, break down the cult of the Purple Kush and explain the true meaning of chooglin while the the river rolls by while the stone mason rambles a tune from the woodshop.

Toke up Midnight Riverside Joint with the Dopefiend - Choogle on #51 (15:09, 13MB, .mp3)

Bonus:
Lynn Valley Park Suspension Bridge pics:

Interrogating a Russian over Drinks - Choogle on #50

Over martinis at a fancy Covent Garden bar in London, a charming Russian student indulges a somewhat flustered Uncle Weed’s questions about Siberian winters, police corruption, fixers and bribes, communist nostalgia, gulags, late-night disapperences, hockey teams plus his comrade quearies into the effectiveness of her tactical KGB skills.

Pay your bribe for Interrogating a Russian over Drinks - Choogle on #50 (.mp3, 13:24, 14MB)

original photo by UW, art’ed up by Bread the producer

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Music:

“Lawyers, Guns and Money” Warren Zevon via Archive.org
February 11, 1988, Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark

Japanese Mountain Satori Time - Choogle on #48

A hemp-ed up guide to conscious travel in Japan as Uncle Weed (on the hoof) waxes nostalgic about backcountry squatting in abandoned villages with graves with offerings, wild mushrooms and counter-culture festivals. He relays practical tips on getting around the islands, finding hidden cannabis culture and exploring the natural beauty from sacred sites and hemp fields in Shikoku to high in the Nagano Mountains to wild ganja harvest in Hokkaido - features some unique Okinawan folk music.

Ikimasho! Japanese Mountain Satori Time - Choogle on #48 (.mp3, 15:34, 14MB)

snaps by Uncle Weed, Tottori and Nagano, Nihon 1992

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More on this topic:

Taima.org - Clearinghouse of Hemp in Japan info
Hemp Culture in Japan - Hemp in Japan Photo Gallery

Hemp Culture in Japan (.pdf) - a 1992-7 ground-breaking treatise on the history and cultural significance of hemp in Japan. Hemp Culture in Japan is available in .html or .pdf. For alternate versions, visit Taima.org, a site dedicated to Hemp in Japan.

Published in Cannabis Culture magazine (#13 & Best of …), the Journal of International Hemp Association (V.4 N.1) as well as excerpted in several books including Hemp Horizons, Hemp for Victory and “Hanp” from Norway.

Zen Rambling in Japan in Heads (VOL.6 ISS.04: The Travel/Japan Issue)

Uncleweed on Dopefiend’s Dopecast #80 (spieling on more about Japan and other countries)

London Town Wander Night - Choogle on #46

An extended length (ideal for summertime listening) features a late night walk around the heart of London Town with rambling topics from public drunkeness, Cleopatra’s Obelisk, party boats, Shakespeare’s Globe theater, Internet kiosks, Sir Drake’s Golden Hind, The Clink Jail, Millennium, Black Friars and Tower bridges, Cornish pasties, take away falafels, cellar temperature ales, Dali art, Falklands naval veterans, CCTV cameras, miscellaneous wars, royal largess, overfilled hotel baths and a spontaneous fire in Piccadilly.

Grab ahold of London Town Wander Night - Choogle on #46 (.mp3, 54:39, 50MB - and worth it!)

Photos by Victoria Potter - art’ed up by Uncle Weed

Music: Two Gallants “Feels Like Home to Me”

NYC Speakeasy Stroll with Bubble Bands and Falafel Bars - Choogle on #45

Rolling on in NYC, Uncle Weed gets the full Manhattan street-level tour from the Meat Packing District stumbling upon a band in a bubble to Greenwich Village for tasty falafels with savory accessories, a haunted speakeasy with rich literary history plus the only house on the island. Finally, thoughtful comparison on CBC’s The Trailer Park Boys (caution Flash) as the modern-day equivalent of (classic Canadian TV programme) Beachcombers.

Roll on with NYC Speakeasy Stroll - Choogle on #45 (21:10, 20MB, .mp3)

Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback - Choogle on #44

While camping at Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island last summer, Uncle Weed launches into a lengthy discourse about noted logging blockades in 1993 and talks about meditations on hemp, non-violence, compassion, clearcuts, ecology and economics of forestry and comments on a looming water shortage in Tofino (to be continued …).

Get your hands on Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback - Choogle on #44 (39:03, .mp3, 54MB)

Anarchy and Fungi in the UK - Choogle on #42

Out n’ about on London double-decker buses and underground tube to hook up for tea and joints with ethneo-pundit Max Freakout in counter-culture haven Camden Town to chat about markets and psychedelics (salvia divinorum, DMT, psilocybin) and reminiscing about two glorious summers of fungi legality in the UK.

Plus Brighton flashbacks with The Dopefiend discoursing on royals and morals and Max’s accounts of anarchist rallies and heavy handed actions by the coppers and parliamentary war-mongers.

Roll along with Anarchy and Fungi in the UK - Choogle on #42 (.mp3, 24:28, 22MB)

[pic and art by UW on flickr]

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Tripper’s Paradise: Hampstead Heath - Wikipedia, Hampstead Heath - City of London, Hampstead Heath - enthusiast site

Music:

“High Times” (.mp3) from “New Moon” by Elliott Smith - Kill Rock Stars
Buy at Kill Rock Stars Pre-order More On This Album

Father Yod, YaHoWha 13 and the Source Family
See: Process Media - Source Family music

Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the UK”

The Ukrainians “Anarchy in the UK

Sex Pistols “L’Anarchie”

Stoney Streets of San Jose (with California Medicine) - Choogle on #41

After a pleasing smokedown of California medical marijuana, Uncle Weed wanders back to his luxury hotel - passing San Jose’s domed, modernist, fountain-laden City Hall - and rambling about New York City neighbourhoods, smells and pubcrawls plus grouses about stinky hotels, late flights, sleeplessness and democractic candidates while sneaking tokes as cops roll by in quiet Silicon Valley.

Stoney Streets of San Jose - Choogle on #41
(.mp3, 26MB, 19:00)

[album art by Bread the Producer, photo by UW - on Flickr]

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Music:

Silverhawk - “Kalispell” (Sam Densmore and John C. Densmore) from Westward
(see also mastanmusic.com)

Unknown - “The Things You Can Think” (T. Geisel)

Clayton (the Seabus Busker) - “Tonight” (Ramones)

City Hall rotunda and Downtown skyline, November 12, 2005
by /\/\ichael Patric|{

Greenwich Village Rooftop NYC Diesel Smokedown - Choogle on #40

Late night hoots on a historic Greenwich Village rooftop with Uncle Weed talking with a Canadian friend about NYC scenes and buildings plus 9/11 recollections, vacuum tubes, ferries, oreo cookies, the last ink factory, Hudson fireworks, hockey lock-out, law school ideas, propane tanks and lawnmowers, 2002 Cannabis Cup (see pics if you are Uncle Weed’s ‘friend’ on Flickr) and minor police incidents plus a few confessions (lousy joint roller and typist) and a self-aggrandizing plug for Zhonka Surfbreaks free wi-fi for the people!

Greenwich Village Rooftop NYC Diesel Smokedown - Choogle on #40
(.mp3, 23.3MB, 25:19)

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Music:

Billy Bragg “Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key” words by Woody Guthrie, music by Billy Bragg (and Wilco?)

Delfar 7 (Bread the Producer) “The Ferry Changes Tack” words by D.T. Olson, music by B. Rees

Joints on Brighton Beach with Dopefiend and Freakout - Choogle on #38

From SouthEast London, Uncle Weed hooks up with The Dopefiend for a wake n’ bake Volcano session and recounts culinary exploits then they join Max Freakout for a day-trip to Brighton Beach with cellulose joints of Jack Herer and engage in political discourse from England’s role in the world to tasty hemp snacks.

Download Joints on Brighton Beach with Dopefiend and Freakout - Choogle on #38
(32:40, .mp3, 30MB)

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Music:

Black Tories “Lazurus” - Kill Kool Records

Clayton the Seabus Busker - “Rocketman” (Taupin/John)

International Heads and Hemp Oil - Choogle on #34

Uncle Weed works through a pile of interesting mail including recent Heads magazines, hemp essential oil from Switzerland, shocking letters from Iranian academics, indecent US border guards ands sends a call out for show topics and offers bribes for show reviews plus a contest, …

Download Choogle on with Uncle Weed #34 (43:24, 40MB, .mp3)

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Trivia Contest: What is the Canadian town where Ross Rebagliati and Uncle Weed were born? Listen to Clubside Breakfast Time for answer- and yes, proper spelling counts!

Post answer to this blog post or send e-mail to uncleweed {at} uncleweed {d0t} to win a copy of the winter sports issue of Heads magazine (seen below) with article on Ross Rebagliati … signed by the writer!

Music Roster:

1. Black Tories - Flightpath
2. Drive by Truckers - World of Hurt
3. Chris Sullivan - Rainin’

Link Stash:

• Heads - the marijuana lifestyle magazine
• Olison - Swiss Hemp essesntial oil makers
• Iranian letters to Hemp in Japan research site, Taima.org

feedback uncleweed {at} uncleweed {d0t} net
note to self: find busted Surrey US border guard article
new note to self: talk about info received from Chad in Surrey

Buena Joint with the Lucky Bastard - Choogle on #33

Aspiring actor and noted carouser O-dawg tells Uncle Weed about his hi-jinks starring in a French reality TV show called “The Lucky Bastard.” He recounts the production foibles, drunken debacles and beach fire exploits of hanging out with African immigrants, smoking hash and scoring with international lassies at the bar and spreads rumours of a existing video tape.

Then, after rollling a joint of outdoor Mendicino Sunshine and Mango in fascinating clear cellulose papers, they head up to San Francisco’s historic Buena Vista Park to dig the view, roast out and continue the story about security nonsense and NYC funtime.

> Download Choogle on with Uncle Weed #33 (32:36, 29.9MB, .mp3)

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Mission to the Homestead and Himalayas - Choogle on #30

Exiting the Castro chaos in geta sandals, Mad Dog and Uncle Weed stroll through San Francisco’s eclectic Mission district talking about urban planning and related social conundrums and sorting out tense Nepalese political negotiations en route to a fine neighborhood pub called the Homestead with a bench full of hidden wine, naked wimmin on the walls and men with old-timey hats.

Download Choogle on with Uncle Weed #30 (21:26, 19.9MB, .mp3)

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Bonus Resources:

Homestead pub map and review

NepalPolitical news on BBC (tentative peace agreement)

Homeless protest documentation from Indy Media

Downtown Eastside Enqurier article on the homeless sit-in/protest

CBC (protest coverage)

Music from Jerry Garcia Band (duh ;-))

This episode produced by Bread the Producer from recording made by Uncle Weed on Oct. 31st, 2006

Laughing Buddha, Chocomel and Belgian Hash - Choogle on #27

Slightly past 4:20, Uncle Weed and amigo Cousin Herb roll up fat doob of sticky Sativa in a Vancouver park and talk about Herb’s recent trip to Netherlands and Belgium.

Weed recounts a few of his exploits in the low-lands (as a backpacker in 1992, a Cannabis Cup judge in 2002 and passing through in 2005). They talk about Barney’s killer breakfast and award worthy ganja, fave coffee shops, the Van Gogh museum and Anne Frank house, bike rides plus anecdotes about hash-bearing friends in Brussels, great Thai food and addictive Chocomel.

Listen up to Choogle on with Uncle Weed Episode #27 (.mp3, 23:10)

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Music (in order of appearence):

• John Sinclair (wikipedia) “It’s All Good (Cannabis Cup)”
  From John Sinclair Show #100 on Radio Free Amsterdam (podcast feed)
• Marvel “Amsterdam” (MP3, 192kbps) from album Unleased!
  Released by Blue Pie Productions Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic
• David and the Citizens (from Sweden) “Graycoated Morning” (mp3)
  Found From KEXP SOTD podcast (feed, iTunes)
  • Buy at iTunes Music Store from “Until The Sadness Is Gone” by David & the Citizens on IODA Promonet on Friendly Fire Recordings

Special kind tokes to the Dope Fiend and Queer Ninja for inspiration and enthusiasm!