By ANDY COMMONS
Make it Missoula has great content about Missoula , a cool Missoula news feed which highlights the news stories I seem to care about, and more, but the best part of “MIM” are the bloggers .
Each of the bloggers that submit to Make it Missoula have their own special flair.
One with a LOT of flair is the ever entertaining Paul Wheaton .
Paul has been getting more and more press lately, and even appeared on the latest cover of the Missoula Independent newspaper .
But he’s been writing for MIM for a while and during that time, I have learned a lot.
He writes about some pretty off the wall stuff… and often goes against the grain.
You’ve been told to cook with Canola Oil… but Paul claims “ organic lard is healthfood
“.
You try to recycle cans and plastic… Paul shows us “ how to recycle wood
” and reduce our need for water in a garden.
Think you want to raise chickens for eggs? Yup, Paul told us How NOT to raise chickens
.
But one of Paul’s biggest issues as far as I can tell is with the CFL Lightbulb. Want to unleash a string of four letter words from an otherwise mild mannered gentleman? Just tell him you love your CFL light bulbs, as I did once over lunch at his Favorite greek restaurant in Missoula. I almost choked on my baklava.
So when I heard Paul was starting a kickstarter campaign to test out his radical theories on how CFLs are costing us MORE in terms of both money, and health, I had to pitch in $10 to support him. I then alerted the Make it Missoula team, and they chipped in $100, and were promised a mention in the credits as “Executive Producer of odd smells”. (Did I mention Paul is very silly too)?
So, the results of his experiment are in, and he took all that kickstarter money ($1,045) and made a video as promised.
Here it is:
PS. Besides blogging for Make it Missoula, Paul is a prolific content creator. He runs the forums at Permies.com , he has a audio Permiculture Podcast , and a fantastic YouTube Channel full of all sorts of nutty ideas.
I don’t always agree with Paul, but I find him to be pretty smart, and worth a moment of your time, especially if you have an interest in the stuff he talks about.
To see his blogs at MIM, just visit Paul Wheaton Blog homepage.
-Andy