Audio diary recorded on my 55th birthday in Kurohime, Nagano (for the record: born in Saskatoon Saskatchewan but left 10 days later and on the go ever since)



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Importantly, this is my soliloquy as a sign post of another checkpoint, with a bit of ukulele of course, expressing my gratitude for friends who stuck with me along the way, expressing a few sentiments about this year (broke so hard, fixed in ways I couldn&#8217;t imagine, tidied many life administration things up, built some large things or effectuated the building anyway) and riff about my slightly curbed ambitions yet still so many things to do, I have schemes &amp; list of course (zines &amp; books and songs)



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Expressing gratitude and gentle apologies for: <a href="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/choogle-uw55-greetzband-20251025-15.36.mp3">UW55: friendly birthday greetz for &#8220;double nickels on the dime&#8221; – Choogle On #127</a> (18:43, 28MB, stereo, mp3)



Plus sincere request for understanding and acceptance, maybe even apologies to anyone that I might have slighted, not shown up for, ran my mouth when trying to be cool or figure myself out, and otherwise not at my best. I&#8217;m trying, always&nbsp;



Finally, as an aside a spontaneous expression about this situation where I&#8217;m having really vivid dreams about sliding doors, parallel lives and a cognitive déjà vu… There&#8217;s a large vocabulary about the phenomenon or circumstance but I&#8217;m still sort of piecing it together as I love my life as it is, I&#8217;m so happy to be where I made it yet haunted by these various iterations&nbsp;



Do you have insight into this? More of a vocabulary? A way to frame this as a different mind model or something something? Sure, tell me about that if you like



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Anyway, I&#8217;m truly shocked you&#8217;ve read (or listened) cause it&#8217;s just me putting what should be in a diary and possibly private but that&#8217;s no fun and the heroes I look towards are the writers and artists who have found their true vocation by floating their deepest sentiments out to the world to spark others treading through this human existence by chronicling their own existence in a manner of speaking, choosing words and forms thoughtfully, tripping over roots, sitting on benches and seeking just the right implement.



Oh right, this has a special surprise at the end the video doesn&#8217;t. Not hint: Atlantic City snippet



Fondly, dvo&nbsp;



Birthday: 8/16 = 55



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Originally released as a &#8220;slide show&#8221; video: 8:16 long, patched together with a buncha photos, mostly around my birthday week but a few others in there to &#8220;make weight&#8221; and a couple of Easter eggs (keep your eyes out)…&nbsp;



Lots of peace signs, coffee cups, great hats, and cornball poses plus of course my darlings sneak in here along with a few powerful character characters met-up on this recent ramble



find video at <a href="https://youtu.be/-w2gMVtawIY?si=2h1RaRbIdQGGYcBN">youtube/uncleweed</a> or <a href="https://daveostory.com/daveo-dispatches/parties-invites/uw55-friendly-birthday-greetings-double-nickels-on-the-dime/">UW55 friendly birthday greetings – double nickels on the dime</a> 



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<description>A 55th-birthday audio diary from Kurohime, Nagano — ukulele in hand, heart on sleeve. Reflections on breakages and rebuilds, gratitude for friends who’ve stuck around, and apologies where due. Dreams of parallel lives, flashes of déjà vu, and notes of creative persistence through the years.
Originally released as a photo-filled slideshow from the past year </description>

A 55th-birthday audio diary from Kurohime, Nagano — ukulele in hand, heart on sleeve. Reflections on breakages and rebuilds, gratitude for friends who’ve stuck around, and apologies where due. Dreams of parallel lives, flashes of déjà vu, and notes of creative persistence through the years. Originally released as a photo-filled slideshow from the past year

UW55: friendly birthday greetz for “double nickels on the dime” – Choogle On #127

Chauffeuring admirals to revitalizing mountain villages with drum circles, counter-culture festivals with hemp history and poetic vibes — hitchhiking and hospitals in between — the Hermit Wizard of Nagano riffs stories from a unique half-century (so far)



[Oops a little editing problem with this pod, some of the audio drops out right after the intro, don&#8217;t worry all you eager folk, I&#8217;ll get it fixed]



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With campstove espressos in hand, cicadas in the mix, microphones tumbling down, way down a road that doesn’t appear on maps, i riff a epic catch-up with &#8220;Hermit Wizard&#8221; Steve — Navy sonar man turned mountain settler — ensconced in his Nagano valley after fifty-plus years in Japan which includes (at least) thirteen roofs, a few goats, a stash of bottled snakes, big car drives with Admirals and beach beers with Emperor&#8217;s bodyguards.



Dude lays it out: from Vietnam gun-lines to off-base life in the loooong-gone 70s, MARS-grams on teletype, to a diner where a lady grabbed his heart, riding out the &#8220;bubble&#8221; as far from Ginza as ya can get, rebuilding an abandoned hamlet one bath and kitchen at a time before &#8220;akiya&#8221; was a hashtag. Stories wind through Black Ship festivals, Miasa&#8217;s hemp fields, and poetry nights where Gary Snyder read and Nanao Sakaki translated (and who he later picked up on the road with thumb out) by way of counter-culture festivals with tipis and drum circles, Matsumoto craft fairs, chasing snakes, wrangling dogs and foraging for mountain vegetables and mushrooms in a Buddhist-Brigadoon which technically doesn&#8217;t exist. Through it all, remember &#8220;don’t believe everything you hear&#8221;.



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Mountain air and fifty years at human pace when all you want is to be left along to read a book or pick at a guitar. 



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Bring a lighter for: <a href="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/choogleon-126-hermit-wizard-steve-japan-life.mp3">Hermit Wizard&#8217;s 50+ years in Japan – Choogle On #126 (.mp3, stereo, 98MB, 1:06:41)</a>







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From the archive: <a href="https://daveostory.com/audio-pods-songs/choogle-on-uncleweed/japan-cannabis-travel-podcast/" data-type="link" data-id="https://daveostory.com/audio-pods-songs/choogle-on-uncleweed/japan-cannabis-travel-podcast/">Japanese Mountain Satori Time – Choogle On! #48</a>



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More Nagano and Steve in Cannabis Culture &amp; Journal of Internation Hemp Assoc magazines, elsewhere in this archive



And a song &#8220;Sam Stone&#8221; for Steve when laid-up in infirmary: 



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<description>Chauffeuring admirals to revitalizing mountain villages with drum circles, counter-culture festivals with hemp history and poetic vibes — hitchhiking and [&amp;#8230;]</description>

Chauffeuring admirals to revitalizing mountain villages with drum circles, counter-culture festivals with hemp history and poetic vibes — hitchhiking and [&#8230;]

Hermit Wizard’s 50+ years in Japan – Choogle On #126

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Beginning with a static-y 1996 AM radio interview during a power outage on the island of Guam Micronesia, then checking in from a goat farm in Japan decades later, then again from tiny isle in Indonesia, Uncle Weed weaves hempen stories and personal anecdotes about life on this remote USA “territory” including: selling hemp bags at Jeff’s Pirate Cove, advocating for legalization of cannabis in all forms, weird jobs (and quitting same), and current situation as Grassroots activists seek to fulfil will of voters for medical and recreational uses.
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Ensure you have batteries for: <a href="https://archive.org/download/choogleon-125-deep-cuts-weed-guam/choogleon-125-deep-cuts-weed-guam.mp3">Deep Cuts of Weed in Guam – Choogle On! #125</a> (.mp3, 192k stereo, 97MB, 1:10:33)

Notes:

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Namechecks include:





<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>DJ / gracious hostess Kelly Craine (Crane?)</li>
<li>Industrial Hemp and Hemp Horizons (books by John Roulac)</li>
<li>Hemp for Victory (book by Kenyon Gibson)</li>
<li>Cannabis Culture magazine</li>
<li>Heads Lifestyle magazine</li>
<li>Journal of International Hemp Association</li>
<li>King Tana of Samoa</li>
<li>Hempstead</li>
<li>Hempy’s</li>
<li>Grassroots Guam &amp; exec director Andrea and Let’s Be Blunt</li>
</ul>



Jobs at: SS Neptune, JFK High School, Star Sand Private Beach Club and Uncle Weed’s HempenWare



Anecdotes about cannabis use in: BC, Netherlands, Japan, Palau, and Federation States of Micronesia/Saipan (or is that Commonwealth of…), cloth from China and Hungary



Plus call-in question by: my Mom, Lauralee Elliottt (RiP)



Snippets of music from: Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, Bad Religion, Black Crowes, Talking Heads
Original music by boat captain Chris Jacobsen (Spilt Milk Music) and a story about Shabba Ranks and greetz from Black Ras in Westmoreland, Jamaica&#8230; and bespoke outro music by Bex (Lonesome Lost Traveler).

Thanks to John Bollwitt (audio tuning), David White (photo collage) and mysterious Japanese surfer girl 
Bonus photos: 
<figure id="attachment_340796" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-340796" style="width: 880px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-340796" src="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-cola-bonus.jpg" alt="" width="880" height="1200" srcset="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-cola-bonus.jpg 880w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-cola-bonus-235x320.jpg 235w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-cola-bonus-220x300.jpg 220w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-cola-bonus-768x1047.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-340796" class="wp-caption-text">Guam home grown massive cola</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_340797" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-340797" style="width: 758px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-340797" src="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-flowersticks-bonus.jpg" alt="" width="758" height="1200" srcset="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-flowersticks-bonus.jpg 758w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-flowersticks-bonus-202x320.jpg 202w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-flowersticks-bonus-190x300.jpg 190w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-340797" class="wp-caption-text">Flower Sticks at Star Sand Beach Club, Guam</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_340798" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-340798" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-340798" src="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-medical-bonus.jpeg" alt="" width="1200" height="650" srcset="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-medical-bonus.jpeg 1200w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-medical-bonus-320x173.jpeg 320w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-medical-bonus-300x163.jpeg 300w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-medical-bonus-768x416.jpeg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-340798" class="wp-caption-text">Handy medical kit</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_340799" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-340799" style="width: 1419px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-340799" src="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-starsand-truck-bonus.jpg" alt="" width="1419" height="982" srcset="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-starsand-truck-bonus.jpg 1419w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-starsand-truck-bonus-320x221.jpg 320w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-starsand-truck-bonus-300x208.jpg 300w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-starsand-truck-bonus-768x531.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1419px) 100vw, 1419px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-340799" class="wp-caption-text">Star Sand Bach Club group promo photo with 6 wheel British Amphibian vehicle</figcaption></figure>
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<description>Beginning with a static-y 1996 AM radio interview during a power outage on the island of Guam Micronesia, then checking [&amp;#8230;]</description>

Beginning with a static-y 1996 AM radio interview during a power outage on the island of Guam Micronesia, then checking [&#8230;]

Deep Cuts of Weed in Guam – Choogle On! #125

<figure id="attachment_355704" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-355704" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/choogle-on-tattoo-culture-of-hori-smoku.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-355704" src="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/choogle-on-tattoo-culture-of-hori-smoku.jpg" alt="Tattoo Culture of Sailor Jerry – Choogle On #124" width="1200" height="1200" srcset="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/choogle-on-tattoo-culture-of-hori-smoku.jpg 1200w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/choogle-on-tattoo-culture-of-hori-smoku-300x300.jpg 300w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/choogle-on-tattoo-culture-of-hori-smoku-320x320.jpg 320w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/choogle-on-tattoo-culture-of-hori-smoku-768x768.jpg 768w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/choogle-on-tattoo-culture-of-hori-smoku-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-355704" class="wp-caption-text">Tattoo Culture of Sailor Jerry – Choogle On #124</figcaption></figure>
From SXSW 2008 – amidst sirens and Austin, Texas 6th St. street noise – comes an interview with filmmaker Erich Weiss premièring “Hori Smoku, Sailor Jerry” about the originator of contemporary tattoo-ing – and iconoclastic libertarian American – Norman Collins who combined Japanese technique, Polynesian traditions, and American motifs in Hawaii during WW2.
The interview delves into the the “screwed, boozed (blued), and  tattooed” wild culture as a million sailors and soldiers descended upon the idyllic islands (especially Hotel Street), plus Mr. Collins’ complex life, the artistic lineage of Sailor Jerry, rivalries and legacies of various tattoo artists/legends, mentorships of Don Ed Hardy and others, and the remarks about “fad” tattooing and (lack of) regret. 
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Might hurt a bit: <a href="https://archive.org/download/choogleon-124-tattoo-culture-sailor-jerry/choogleon-124-tattoo-culture-sailor-jerry.mp3">Sailor Jerry Tattoo Culture – Choogle On with Uncle Weed #124</a> (.mp3, stereo, 30MB, 14:44) 
View the film (c/o Sailor Jerry Rum et al) at: + <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQdn9uwS1do">Sailor Jerry brand Youtube</a> (via <a href="https://sailorjerry.com/en/blog/post/watch-the-full-length-hori-smoku-sailor-jerry-documentary-streaming-for-free-for-a-limited-time">Sailor Jerry blog</a>) + <a href="https://vimeo.com/24969100">title art sequence on Vimeo</a> / <a class="js-user_link _1urEL _1KVNy" href="https://vimeo.com/rkyleshoup" data-fatal-attraction="container:clip_page|component:user_profile_link|keyword:video_creator">R. Kyle Shoup</a> + IMdb for <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185598/">Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry: The Life of Norman K. Collins</a> (2008) + Buy on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hori-Smoku-Sailor-Jerry-Hardy/dp/B003AQUV3W">Hori Smoku on Amazon</a>
<figure id="attachment_334330" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-334330" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-hori-smoku-sm-1.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-334330 size-full" src="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-hori-smoku-sm-1.png" alt="Choogle On with Uncle Weed - Hori Smoku" width="1200" height="1200" srcset="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-hori-smoku-sm-1.png 1200w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-hori-smoku-sm-1-320x320.png 320w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-hori-smoku-sm-1-300x300.png 300w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-hori-smoku-sm-1-768x768.png 768w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/couw-hori-smoku-sm-1-150x150.png 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-334330" class="wp-caption-text">photo by DaveO</figcaption></figure>
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From SXSW 2008 – amidst sirens and Austin, Texas 6th St. street noise – comes an interview with filmmaker Erich [&#8230;]

Tattoo Culture of Sailor Jerry – Choogle On! #124

<figure id="attachment_355707" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-355707" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/Postcard-73.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-355707" src="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/Postcard-73.jpg" alt="Eyes Towards Europe – Postcard #73" width="1200" height="1200" srcset="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/Postcard-73.jpg 1200w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/Postcard-73-300x300.jpg 300w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/Postcard-73-320x320.jpg 320w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/Postcard-73-768x768.jpg 768w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/Postcard-73-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-355707" class="wp-caption-text">Eyes Towards Europe – Postcard #73</figcaption></figure>
On a forgotten forest walk, Dave riffs a story about first trip to Europe – starting with trying not to puke over an Amsterdam bridge after a meeting new temporary coffee shop pals – with flashback to Mexican desert trips with Grandpa, LSD trips with VW bus-fixing pals, and family Grateful Dead road trip to in Arizona.
Foreshadows future stories of an rapid exit from London to Florida then a (rather dangerous) driveway car to Dallas, bus to SLC, flight to Vancouver, then to Japan…
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Stuff your rucksack for: <a href="https://archive.org/download/postcards-73-eyes-towards-europe/postcards-73-eyes-towards-europe.mp3">Eyes Towards Europe – Postcard #73</a> (54MB, 37:18, mp3, stereo)

Features music by <a href="https://archive.org/details/gd1994-03-06.AKG451.Darby.119560.Flac1648-2448">Grateful Dead in Phoenix, Arizona, March 6, 1994</a>, (Desert Sky Pavilion) playing &#8220;Eyes of the World&#8221; and &#8220;When I Paint my Masterpiece&#8221; via Archive.org, (taped by Mike Darby, transferred by Keo).
<a href="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/hitchhiking-signs-05-holland.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-332968" src="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/hitchhiking-signs-05-holland.jpg" alt="Hitchhiking-signs-05-holland" width="1800" height="1172" srcset="https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/hitchhiking-signs-05-holland.jpg 1800w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/hitchhiking-signs-05-holland-320x208.jpg 320w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/hitchhiking-signs-05-holland-300x195.jpg 300w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/hitchhiking-signs-05-holland-768x500.jpg 768w, https://daveostory.com/wp-content/uploads/hitchhiking-signs-05-holland-1600x1042.jpg 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px" /></a>
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<description>On a forgotten forest walk, Dave riffs a story about first trip to Europe – starting with trying not to [&amp;#8230;]</description>

On a forgotten forest walk, Dave riffs a story about first trip to Europe – starting with trying not to [&#8230;]

Eyes Towards Europe – Postcard #73

Dispatching from Jamaica to Japan and points in between, Dave “Uncle Weed” Olson riffs with remarkable characters on art, travel, work, and wonder — all tangled with music, misadventure, and the occasional roadside philosophy. Recorded loose and lively, with hi-jinks and verve, sending communiqués since 2005.

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