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A USER’S MANUAL FOR THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

by Michael W. Dean

Audiobook read and produced by the author.

SUBJECTS: Learn and apply THE ONLY TWO RULES IN LIFE. Delete any addiction (including addiction to government) without meetings. Learn to block idiots from your life. Learn to make a living doing what you love.

Paperback on Amazon (please review):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0970539231/www30dollarfi-20

Podoibook

Donations, PayPal to 99cent@kittyfeet.com

Website for book:

http://www.lifeamp.org/

Author’s blog:

http://www.stinkfight.com/

Author’s voiceover site:

http://michaeldeanvoice.com/

Author’s wife’s voiceover site:

http://www.debrajeandean.com/

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS BOOK:

“Part intellectual memoir, part self-help book. Michael W. Dean’s Practical Emotional Self-Defense (PESD) techniques flow from a wealth of life experiences, both positive and negative. ‘The Only Two Rules in Life’ have some radical, refreshing implications.”
–Jason Sorens, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY), founder of the Free State Project

“You owe yourself the opportunity to step outside your comfort zone and put yourself in the court with this modern-day Socrates.”
–Pastor Kenneth V. Blanchard, Sr., author of Black Man with a Gun

“I knew Michael Dean back in the day, when he was a 19-year-old punk rocker with an appetite for self-destruction. I honestly didn’t think he’d live to be 30. But guess what? It turns out that Michael isn’t just a survivor; he’s a survivor who’s learned how to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness after recovery. For everyone who wants to know how to stay sane, develop a great work ethic, and make a mark on the world, Michael Dean has a great story to tell.”
–Professor Michael Bérubé, Ph.D. (Penn State), author of What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? and Life as We Know It

Below: first-day Torrent seeders showing many many downloaders, in Finland, France, England, South Africa, and the United States:

(This one of Brian and me is a clear, printable poster sized pic if you click on the small photo. I’m the skinny blond boy on the right, playing guitar.)

Good review of my band The Beef People’s recent release of 24-year-old unreleased vault recordings. (MP3s here.)

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ARTCORE VINYL FANZINE VOL. 2 - BEEF PEOPLE – PAVLOV’S DOG 7” EP: The Beef People were a hardcore band from Virginia in the mid 80’s. They recorded one session in 1985 with Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA. Half of the session was released as the ‘Music For Men’ 7” EP while the other, stronger half, went undocumented, until now. Beef People played an inventive hardcore punk that took its influence from Washington, DC and other touring US bands of the early 80’s. You can hear echoes of Minor Threat, Faith, Black Flag, Negative Approach and other classic hardcore in this lost band. Late vocalist Brian Childers went on to NYHC band Crawlpappy, while guitarist Michael W. Dean went onto S.F.’s Bomb. The EP comes with a large foldout sleeve with lyrics, unpublished photos, a complete biography of the bands, seven songs, radio edits and of course, a polythene sleeve.

Obama in 2004, says he’s in favor of decriminalizing pot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQr9ezr8UeA

Obama in 2007, says he’s in favor of decriminalizing pot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9flhDmz7Kwo

After his election, he says he will NOT decriminalize, and makes fun of anyone who would want pot decriminalized:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YTrrqEdrI8&feature=fvw

Feds continue closing down medical marijuana centers to this day, going in dressed in full riot gear with “assault weapons” and taking the owners out at gunpoint. And “legally” stealing the pot and cash.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/01/local/me-marijuana1

Obama is also backtracking on “Don’t ask don’t tell.”

His mouthpeice says “Yes, Obama will repeal DADT”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP8lj2d_qrM&feature=related

He ain’t done it yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rfQDSal2sk
DADT, by the way, was formed by Clinton’s top lawyer. It’s the military equivalent of “Depends on what the definition of ‘is’ is.”
Same sort of Clintoneese as “I smoked but didn’t inhale.”

Here’s Obama by the way, saying “of COURSE I inhaled.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFRWbOkYvao&feature=related

If I were a pothead or gay who voted for Obama, I’d be feeling pretty betrayed about now.
The last straw will be all the blacks who voted for him just because he’s black, about the time Obama punishes smokers for smoking after he quits, by adding a five more dollars tax per pack to their Newports and Kools.

At 01:07 PM 7/26/2009, Justin wrote:

What exactly is tech writing?  I’ve heard you mention it, but I’m a little unsure as to what it is.

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I replied:
Tech writer = someone who does technical writing.

It’s the term I use for writing books like the YouTube book and $30 Film School.

Technically, those contain some tech writing, when there are sections with software screenshots, but they also contain a lot of pop culture, personal memior bits, and DIY punk rock cheerleading. There really aren’t other books quite like I write, so I just say “tech writing” when people ask me what I do for a living, and it becomes a habit.

“Tech writing”, in the broadest sense, covers everything from writing books like “Windows for Dummies” to writing the manual that comes with the DVD player or even the socket wrench set you buy at WalMart.

If I just say “I’m a writer”, people think I’m like Stephen King, and act fawning. And usually try to pitch their screenplay or novel, as if I can help them (I can’t even sell my own screenplays and novels).

If I say, “well, I write unique books that are a mixture of tech writing, pop culture, and DIY punk rock cheerleading”, they have too many follow-up questions. So I say “I’m a tech writer. ”

It’s what I list my occupation as on my tax returns. It’s honest, but not the full story, and the full story would not fit in the little box they provide.

MWD

So, we got our Wyoming drivers licenses today. Yay!
Here we are with them, also holding our new non-California mags (50-rd .22 rifle, and 15-rd 9mm sidearm mag.)

(personal info on licenses blurred out.)

Bought a bunch of ammo, cheap, at a garage sale. Private ammo sales (as well as private gun sales) are legal here, and illegal in California.

Rare photo of all three cats in Catente (cat Détente ):

Peanut scared when the handyman came over to fix the locks:

(Also over to the right of main page as a page link)

Use this e-mail address only when sending me encrypted e-mail:

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(Thanks to MamaLiberty for the license plate idea)

We went shooting, about 20 miles out of town, on state land (it’s legal to shoot there.)
Shot up our California plates (since we got our Wyoming ones today), thus “renouncing our residency in the People’s Republik of Kalifornia.”

(Only took 20 minutes at the courthouse to get the new plates, and didn’t require a wait like in California, where they mail them to you six weeks later.)

We shot the Kail plates with .22, 9mm, .38 and .357 from about 30 yards, then got close up and finished ‘em off with a 12-gauge shotgun.

Sure is nice to live in America finally.

Sure is pretty out where we were shooting, and also on the drive back to town.

We hung one of the Kalifornia license plates in the living room, and one on our backyard tool shed.

Fun security idea: bullet casings in the Hide-A-Key holder (who in their right mind would put their house key in one of these? Not me. But our house came with one for some reason.)

We love the new place, and have really whipped it into shape. Hung up the security cameras and set up the alarms (even though the neighbors told us there was no need to.)

Then,…It took us six days to fully unpack all the boxes, and many trips to WalMart (and a trip to Sears, for new washer and dryer), and a lot of work, to really make it sing.

DJ loves the kitchen:

Our lovely back yard, with DJ and a rake under one of the two trees:

Me with the new weed wacker on our tiny patch of grass. It isn’t big enough to justify a lawnmower:

Me in the living room with Charlie cat:

More living room:

Wyoming flag and a cat house (”beast berry”) in the living room:

Me in the dining room:

DJ rakes some branches off the roof:

Dig the antlers on the shed:

DJ’s bedroom:

DJ’s office:

Spare bedroom converted into my office:

Basement shelves to display a few of my/our books, DVDs and CDs:

A revolver in the recording studio. (NOT an homage to Phil Spector):

(Next time I complain at some weenie on the Internet that he’s “being a prick from the safety of his mother’s paneled rec room”, I’ll be posting from my OWN paneled rec room!)

Great vocal booth I put together in a closet in ten minutes with ten nails (my old one in California was bigger, but took months and hundreds of nails, but who needs a big one for talking and singing?)

Hank Hill would be proud:

MEW! Kitties in Love:

We made it to Wyoming, and we LOVE it!

I can only post quick update (I’m at a copy shop, paying to use my laptop) until Wednesday (when DSL gets hooked up at our house) but wanted to say we made it.

It was quite an “Adventure in moving” from Los Angeles (more like three days of nervous hell, with very little sleep, in ghetto hotels, the only ones that will let you have cats AND smoke).

Driving big truck (wife did most of the driving) was scary, cats were traumatized by the move, they’re recovering nicely. We love our new place, the cats love it, and our neighbors are all nice and gun friendly.

It’s BEAUTIFUL in Casper. We’re loving living here already.

And the line at the DMV took 20 minutes in and out, with no appointment, to get Wyoming licenses (though a few long-time residents were complaining “it doesn’t usually take this long!”). And it was mellow, no one raised their voice, and the line was us sitting in CHAIRS. How sweet!

In Los Angeles, it takes a minimum of an hour and a half to do anything at the DMV, with an appointment, and it usually feels like a fist fight is going to break out.

Here’s DJ with what we drove here in:

Me kissing the ground in Wyoming just over the border (and a big blue beast swooping down to eat me.)

I love a lot of things about this place, especially the fact that they sell battle rifles (and .50 cal guns!) at sporting goods stores. Not just gun stores, but places that also sell fishing poles and baseketballs!

Will post more when we have home net access, and finish unpacking and settling in, next week some time.

All in all, moving to Wyoming is one of the best desicions DJ and I have made in our lives, together, or even before we met.

MEW!

MWD

July 4th, 2009.

We’re moving to Wyoming tomorrow. I plan to never set foot in California again.

Took a walk to the post office yesterday to mail a bill payment, walked through the field right before sunset. I’ve walked through this almost field every day for years. It’s really pretty. I got wistful, but didn’t mourn. The thought going through my head was “California sure would be a great place to live if it weren’t for all these damn Californians!”

But I didn’t see any Californians on my last walk ever through this field. Just me, the sky, and a bunny.

I’ll miss this oak tree:

There’s a bunny somewhere in this one:

Click for the big one, it makes great computer wallpaper:

Moon over The Valley:

“MASH Hills” in the distance:

What would Jesus do? He’d not forget his mailbox key at the post office like someone did.

The walk back:

Our house in site:

It was a nice trip to the post office, the last time I’ll ever take this walk in my life. I’ll miss it. But Wyoming is beautiful too, and doesn’t have many Californians. (Me and DJ are not Californians in our hearts, so don’t say “Well, Wyoming will have two more Californians soon!”)

Just a few more days until we leave. We’re mostly packed.

Here’s packed boxes and not-yet-packed cats in our livingroom:

I would LOVE to ride out of town blasting loud music and flipping the bird as I do it, with a banner that reads “SCREW Y’ALL, AND ENJOY YOUR FAILED SOCIAL EXPERIMENT” across the back of the bobtail truck.

But I think we’ll try to slip under the radar. We’re driving a big truck, towing a car, and driving through 4th of July weekend/Michael Jackson funeral traffic, on a day that might include riots and martial law, if the Gov. makes good on his threats to mail out IOUs to welfare recipients.

I’ll sigh relief when we pass into Utah, and kiss the ground when we hit Wyoming.

Here’s pix of the 2200 sq. ft. house we’re renting (and maybe buying) in Wyoming:

Finished basement:

back patio (dig the antlers on the shed)