I give him two weeks before he's back in Sacramento.
Casey's next wild ride is partnering with an investor who owns a gold mine. He has invested in equipment that can extract fine gold and has put a claim on 60 acres of government land nearby to search for more. His more basic aim is to live off the land. Citing Thoreau's Walden and Sean Penn's film version of Into the Wild as inspiration, Casey is well-versed in the time-honored dream of living off the grid.
Update: He's back in Sacramento and leeching off Mom and Dad again. Right on schedule.
I give him two weeks before he's back in Sacramento.
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Two weeks? You're being generous. This is a nearly 27-year-old man who complains if his Mommy doesn't make his breakfast every morning.
This is just a half-hearted attempt to avoid dealing with the pounds of collections mail and the constant phone calls he must be receiving.
I'd bet that he's wildly exaggerating his plans, if not overtly lying, as usual. Face it, Casey's mind already went "off the grid" a long time ago. :-p
Thoreau was a trust fund kid, who basically lived in his back yard for a bit. Naturally being a proto lefty, he threw out and made homeless an Irish guy. And, while walking home for dinner or to his friends houses for breakfast, wrote a book telling everyone else how to live their lives.
Expat? Casey?
A young Uzbekistan expat who grew up in Sacramento eyeing the American dream
An expat is someone who goes to another country temporarily and intends to return. But Casey? We could only be so lucky.
He's turned away from blogging and instead is immersing himself in meditation, yoga, and Eastern philosophy -- all components of his recovery.
I can't find the word "job" in there. Nor the term "hard work". Maybe if I keep looking.
His more basic aim is to live off the land. [...] Casey is well-versed in the time-honored dream of living off the grid.
ROFLMAO! Well versed in... Bwwwaaaahhhaaaa!! I can hardly wait to see that fool's attempt at growing food.
Anon is right about Thoreau. I broke down and read Walden cover to cover and I really grew to hate the guy. Talk about a trustifarian that was full of crap. He desperately wanted to be something more than he was so he pontificated on things. Emerson saved his tuckus and I got the impression he wasn't really that grateful.
Still, it could be said that anyone who writes 1,000,000 words doing observations will observe something that will be important to someone in the future. Man, people give him way to much credit.
Thoreau's article on wikipedia has strange parallels to Casey Serin, in particular
1. "Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson judged Thoreau’s endorsement of living alone in natural simplicity, apart from modern society, to be a mark of effeminacy"
2. "Thoreau's 'Walden, or Life in the Woods' deserves its status as a great American book but let it be known that Nature Boy went home on weekends to raid the family cookie jar. While living the simple life in the woods, Thoreau walked into nearby Concord, Mass., almost every day. And his mom, who lived less than two miles away, delivered goodie baskets filled with meals, pies and doughnuts every Saturday..."
No wonder Casey sees himself in Thoreau. As for McCandless, another mentally ill fruitcake, Casey may very well end up like him. :-p
"He sure do have a purty mouth."
And the Sacramento FBI continue to sit on their laurels, despite the recent SacBee article on mortgage fraud in which more than half of the comments were from people demanding that they prosecute Serin.
And don't give me the "he's a small fish" stuff... as an individual, he committed one of the largest single frauds on record as far I can tell. Any other state except California, and he'd be rotting in prison as we speak.
Yeah, I think that movie is one of my biggest inspirations in my life, since the day I watched it for the first time I learned that being against certain things is something you can do without feeling bad. that movie was simply beautiful
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