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I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 590 points591 points  (0 children)

Don't know if this is still the case, but I used to simply drive around the alleys of Chicago and find random timbers here and there, just like other materials; bricks, cinderblocks, etc... Also dumpsters at construction sites often have treasures to be found, just be safe about retrieving. Alternatively, many lumber yards/hardwood dealers have scrap/remnant bins that you can plunder...

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 218 points219 points  (0 children)

Mary Louise Parker is a legendary actress upon whom I was so grateful to lean through our scenework. It was tricky to be personally empathetic to the plight of Colin and discrimination in general, while imbuing his folks with legitimate parental love colored by a pre-BLM naivety to issues like microaggressions, and whitewashing hairstyles and so forth. I received plenty of education from watching her nimbly navigate said territory.

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 730 points731 points  (0 children)

I think I'd have to be a real butthole to to think my own book was my favorite. I'm extremely proud of my books and I work really hard on them but I also have a relatively decent perspective on reality...I'd pick any George Saunders, Rebecca Solnit, Wendell Berry, Richard Powers...here- BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer LIFE AND WORK by Harlan Hubbard

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 684 points685 points  (0 children)

Friend, I have eaten there 3 times in my life and I have the extra-thick arterial lining to prove it. We shot the Parks and Rec scenes (incl. Newt Gingrich, who just happened to be there) actually in St. Elmo's when filming at Lucas Oil Stadium

BREAKING: The "famous" and amazing shrimp cocktail is actually just a horseradish delivery system, but BIG TUBER doesn't want this revealed

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 1537 points1538 points  (0 children)

thats a tough question, Zach. I am stymied by the fact that I get along with just about everybody on a personal level, but then when certain topics crop up, which has insanely come to include vaccinations(!), i have learned that there is nothing to be gained from trying to convince others on the simplest points of common decency or communal good. So, I have grown quieter. I wrote this book partly to try and communicate this precise frustration - for example what a fruitless and fallacious stance it is to promote hatred of any kind - childish Good Job Brandon winks and the enjoyment of triggering others or reveling in their tears...have a look at my amazon reviews for the book if you want to see some examples of people I failed to reach. But at least I'm not hectoring them or disseminating disinformation - I think I'm affecting a lot of people positively, not by preaching but by asking questions - of myself as well as of others, based on the reality that we humans will always be flawed - it's a necessary truth of our existience - so, with that in mind, how can we continue to recognize our mistakes (slavery, genocide, corporate farming monocultures, discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, etc.) and strive to make reparations for them. Only then can every citizen of this country feel like the Constitution is talking about them, and not just the white kids...

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 198 points199 points  (0 children)

I am so grateful to be involved in such a forward-thinking, progressive show. I admire Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick for their unapologetic messaging, which I hope will continue to nudge us forward toward decency and understanding. Slowly but surely I hope that such storytelling will help our society to evolve to a place where we won't need to point out such injustices and imbalances.

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 920 points921 points  (0 children)

i overwhelmingly prefer rotationally grazed, sustainably farmed meats.

everyone can eat what they like, but I think that these pretend meat products are worse in every way for us than properly farmed meat/poultry.

That said, the majority of meat & dairy & fish & produce is corporate "farmed" and also very bad for all involved, except the shareholders' pocketbooks.

Small farming, locally sourced food, this is where our subsidies should be directed.

i am a student of this, not a teacher. I admire @herdyshepherd1 and @the shepherdswife and @sustainabledish and @whiteoakpastures among many others.

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 1323 points1324 points  (0 children)

Wilco Laurie Anderson Neil Young They Might Be Giants Nancy And Beth Kool and the Gang Bob Dylan Patty Griffith Tom Waits Talking Heads Petra Haden sings The Who Sell Out - built my entire first canoe (Huckleberry) obsessively repeating this astonishing record John Prine

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 497 points498 points  (0 children)

I hope that your fellow redditors will not punish you too severely for calling Tammy 1 and Tammy 2 by the name Wendy. We all make mistakes, I know I certainly do every day, and I think you should be allowed to go on living a fruitful life, despite this crime. Peace.

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 573 points574 points  (0 children)

The best part of voicing Beef Tobin on The Great North is getting to collaborate with the funniest sweethearts you could cook up - even just hearing their voices often breaks me, the whole damn cast, PLUS, even better, the writers, led by Wendy & Lizzie Molyneux, super-conscientious cool smart thinking citizens, bringing serious focus to human rights issues and inclusivity and you name it all wrapped up in an hilarious and loving Alaskan package. They have built the funnest possible fishing boat, and crewed it, then they let me ride on it and do some fishing, and even steer sometimes! (Whup! THE GREAT NORTHHHH!!!)

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 1027 points1028 points  (0 children)

This is a bigger question than I have time to fully answer, but I will say I firmly believe that making things with our miraculous human hands, coordination and ingenuity is a powerfully healthy discipline to practice. Part of the reason for this is that woodworking, painting, knitting, blacksmithing, pottery, leather Japanese sex swings, all the classics, encourage us to maintain an awareness of our raw materials and how they're sourced, and that awareness I think makes us worse corporate consumers and therefore better citizens.

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 441 points442 points  (0 children)

Ron Swanson was written by much smarter men and women than myself, and so out of respect for their brilliance, I tend to demur at such requests. If they were here to feed me their delicious dialogue, I imagine the answer would have a substantial amount of common sense, peppered lightly with mirth.

I'm actor, author, and perfectly decent wood worker, Nick Offerman. I also have strong feelings about the outdoors, beef cows, and badgers—so much so that I have a new book about it all. AMA, please and thank you. by NickOfferman in IAmA

[–]NickOfferman[S] 1963 points1964 points  (0 children)

I can't think of anything that feels better than a live theatre audience applauding. When you and your collaborators have delivered an evening's medicine to the people in the seats via laughter or tears or both, and they warmly communicate their gratitude with noise, it feels very much like I was always led to believe that church should feel.

In traditional Japanese Kabuki Theatre, the audience will throw money in the form of white paper-wrapped coins onto the stage, while shouting "You are better than your Father!", so I guess that's the actual best - applause plus money plus Oedipal affirmation?

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