your #podcast for what feels like the end times
"How do we live in a world that might be ending? By preparing to survive that end and by working to prevent it. Live Like the World is Dying features interviews with people who think about how to prepare for and survive crises."
About the Host:
"Margaret Killjoy is an author, musician, crafter, and general jack of all trades. She has spent most of her adult life on the road, but is currently nestled into the #Appalachian mountains. Politically, she is an #anarchist: she believes that society would be better off without systems of #hierarchy and #oppression such as the state, #capitalism, #WhiteSupremacy, #patriarchy, and the like. She is a trans woman and her pronouns are she/her, but she also believes in the abolition of gendered language and has no problem with people using the singular 'they' to refer to her."
High School Kaiser (not my real name) and College Kaiser are staring in disbelief, jaws dropped as I say this - but I’m pretty excited to go spend a night in the hometown I grew up in. A lot has changed in 20 years, and the Spousal Unit and I have a hotel downtown (small town) so we can walk to shops and breweries.
It’s a short ride up the mountain from there into the Pisgah National Forest so I hope to be able to snag a few good pics at some overlooks too. #WNC #Appalachian #BlueRidgeMtns
Now listening: The Acoustic Halloween Special by #BloodyHammers
Nice dark acoustic songs in the vein of #MeAndThatMan and #Ghoultown .
https://bloodyhammers.bandcamp.com/album/the-acoustic-halloween-special
7 track album
West Virginia Snake Handler Revival
Like many former mining and industrial regions in the West, West Virginia stands as a symbol of the decline of the West like no other region. Production facilities have been relocated to Asia, and even Deepseek responded evasively to the question of whether power had also migrated to China along with the production facilities (Karl Marx and so on... you know), saying, “We're nice, you can trust us.”
The Appalachians are one of the most important cultural regions in the US, but today they are once again an area marked by extreme poverty and drug abuse. More than 80% of the population has left the area in recent years. In the 1970s, there was a bizarre cult of snake handlers, ultra-religious groups who took the Bible very seriously and almost became a Satanic cult. Their symbol is dancing with deadly poisonous snakes.
I would describe the music as hypnotic blues punk. Sublime Frequencies and the Zomba Prison Project, both known for bizarre folk music from around the world, found a still-existing snake handler community and recorded a church service on vinyl. Released today, October 3, 2025.
Thanks to @stug for suggestion.
https://word.undead-network.de/2025/10/03/west-virginia-snake-handler-revival/
#Appalachian #church #evangelikal #folk #music #religion #SnakeHandler
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