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Burning Man Flakes

Marz-XamanEk — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:06:43 GMT

From the best of Craigslist:

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/1334185583.html

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Tribe is dead!

shastagathering — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:15:46 GMT

Yep, I think the death rattles are happening more frequently! Nice to cyber chat with ya'll... Bye Bye!

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Ok, like, ya know. Right?

trianaorpheus — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:11:32 GMT

What the hell is Playahair, and why do all these, like, people, need it. Right? I don't get it.

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HAHAHA...I laughed so hard when I saw this tribes title!

Davi >*<Leelyn — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:24:23 GMT

This is funny....yeah,I feel the same way about burning man crap.
I have never been to one and I wont ever go to one most likely.
I just get a really pretentious vibe from it mainly.
Like its the most amazingest thing in existence or somethinrother. LOL

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What will you be doing the week of Burning Man?

Dee — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:39:43 GMT

How do you intend to cope with the lack of dust, disease and obnoxious posers in your life?

I will be working at my new job & saving money for trips to Montreal & New Zealand later this year.

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Nothing?

Dee — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:59:05 GMT

Only a few weeks to go before BurnIng Man and no snarky comments from you guys to amuse me? Tribe is just so sad these days...

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Ok folks

Shatter — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:37:59 GMT

First off, open this in another window....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZkllM8znx4

When the music starts, begin reading:

Folks, we're approaching that time, when we're going to see the annual "Begging your way to the Playa" festival. Much liek George Carlins take on God, so goes my take on Burning Man.

See, there this guy, and his name is Larry. Larry doesn't have a job. His job is to sit around and get $500/ea for a party he throws on Gov't land in which 99% of the staff are volunteers. About 15 people are on payroll. The rest are in servitude for a free ticket. The peopel who show up and make Burning Turd what it is, also need money, to Give to larry, so they can perform for free for him.

Oh sure, you're going to hear from DWP all about how they drive tent stakes in teh ground and supply people with generators and fill them with fuel. Sure. And what's teh carbon foot print left being? Worse than all of the cars, planes and rocket ships for an entire year. So much for nature!

So, just how far shall we ridicule them this year?

Let's also not forget the man, who brought the FINAL bit of renegade expression to Burning man, who is still sitting in Prison, thanks to Larry and his pals: Mr Paul Addis

--S

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Apparently Im delusional!

Shatter — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:29:26 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/burningbah/thread/92dadcaa-0fa8-4d10-ba15-6611d165c652

Comedy!

--S

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FASCIST WANKER DANIEL PINCHBECK

Ricky — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:44:03 GMT

Verrrrry enlightening:

http://www.xanaduxero.blogspot.com

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Burning Man tribe

kundalinicowgirl — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:28:56 GMT

I keep getting posts about people being banned from the BM tribe for disagreeing with the moderator.
Kinda ironic.

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Narcissistic Burning Man Profiles!

Dan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:50:48 GMT

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080926/sc_livescience/facebookprofilesoutnarcissists

This study applies equally to the uber-popular burning man Tribe profiles....pics of themselves plastered all over the playa, hundreds and hundreds of friends, etc.

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"Are you a Burner?"

madame7 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:45:52 GMT

next person who asks me that gets their eyes eaten right out of their face

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help me out here, guys.

madame7 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:11:28 GMT

one of my blog entries is turning into a debate about BM's influence in the local underground culture.
Who's got my back?
http://seattle.tribe.net/template/pub%2Coc%2CDetail.vm?plugin=blog&inst=1315204&topicid=80fe124a-ed04-446b-ad3b-732139a2bb8c&commentid=30d51325-1463-4d98-ab40-3b7e75b05f01#30d51325-1463-4d98-ab40-3b7e75b05f01

you might not wish to read through all the entries. It started out as a rant about how the underground dance scene in Seattle has degenerated to SUCK and i'm so bored/jaded that i stay home every night. Then i ventured to blame it on the Burners and one of my friends got insulted.

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Safe to come out yet?

Shatter — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:32:11 GMT

The burn is over...

The tards decompressed last weekend....

--S

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Hee Bee Gee Bee Healers

kundalinicowgirl — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:22:59 GMT

So, I keep seeing postings for the Heebeegeebees on CMT tribes.
As a CMT, this group makes me skin crawl.
From everything I've heard from other CMTs, 90% of the people who work in this "healing village" have NO training or certifications at all- except maybe an occasional 14 hour "couples massage" or tantra class.
Of course, this likely do the fact that most CMTs are highly overworked and underpaid and likely want to spend their vacation time off so they can keep from getting repetitive strain injuries, not exacerbate them by working in the hot sun.
Another issue I have with this "healing village" is that a few years ago, a friend's sister was molested there against her will- along with many other women- and they successfully took this "healer" to court and won!
I have never heard of this having been addressed among people who have volunteered for that camp.
So how come the Heebeegeebees continuously take people with NO credentials, NO insurance, NO professional training and then give their clients NO warning?
Sounds to me like a breeding ground for any perv who wants to molest people in the guise of a healer.

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Web cam irony

Dee — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:07:04 GMT

So I went to the web cam on the BM web site in order to enjoy the site of fauxhemians being obliterated by dust storms.

I was greeted by this message:

"We don't encourage spectating, on or off the playa, so we want all of you who can't make it to Black Rock City to be able to participate from afar via our live webcast."

I had to read it twice before I got it: they don't encourage spectating therefore here's a web cam so you can watch!!!! It doesn't make any sense!!! I think the web cam is a great idea, why bother prefacing it with some excuse about how it's not really spectating?

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This Tribe is great, but its getting boring

shastagathering — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:33:43 GMT

I guess I should participate instead of spectate! LOL!

I saw a friend of mine on the streets of downtown Eugene, the same one I mentioned in my first post to this tribe. He said BM was awesome, but no details.

I chuckled......

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here they come!

madame7 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:03:11 GMT

some of them left early because of the intense dust storm earlier today.
they will be bringing back more dust than usual, so look out!

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There They Go!!!!

Dan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:30:21 GMT

One by one they're packing up and heading to Mecca. Our communities are safer, less visually disturbed, and conversations are back to topics that matter.

Let's party! Let's rejoice! Let's reclaim the streets!

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I Love this Tribe!

shastagathering — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:23:28 GMT

I have never been to BM. I would say more than half of my friends have and most of them are still going, but I can sense their interest is starting to wane. I have a friend who has been hosting theme camps every year with complete with a plumbing system and recycling etc etc since 2001 & every year he always would try to talk me into going and would tell me I was missing out on the greatest party on earth. This of course got annoying, but he is a good friend so I tolerated it. I just saw him last week and he told me he was going this year but was just going to camp and keep it simple.

You know, I could never see the appeal of paying close to $400 (not including travel expenses) to camp in a hot dusty environment, get playa dust all over my shit! & Holy crap, what a nightmare it must be to have to break down a theme camp! Fuck that! If I'm going to camp I want a lake or river to jump into!

But I have to make a confession. I used to go to Grateful Dead concerts and would talk about them just like Burners talk about Burning Man. I must have annoyed the fuck out of a lot of people! LOL!

Throughout our history we have always created sub cultures as a way of escaping the mainstream, we like to think we have transcended the mainstream somehow, but over time the illusion fades and we realize we didn't transcend anything! Wer'e all still people, period!

Did I say I love this Tribe? :)

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I must say, I'm pleased....

kundalinicowgirl — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:39:44 GMT

It appears that many many of my friends have decided not to go to BM this year! Everyone has a convenient excuse- be it the economy, the price of gas to drive an RV to Gerlach, how wasteful all the burning seems in this time of eco-crisis, the weather, other plans, etc. etc.
People are starting to get it!
I've been truly amazed....
It also doesn't seem like quite the faux pas it used to to announce that I hate BM. I even get people who laugh and concur!

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Need free ticket, ride, camp and drugs for BM

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:13:18 GMT

Hi Fellow Burners-I am so glad there is a tribe for people like us, connected by the spirit of Burning Man!

I have no money but really want to experience this thing they call Burning Man.

If someone can gift me a ticket, ride, camp and some mind bending drugs, I would be so grateful-I could trade some great bodywork I learned on the beach in Thailand. Just email me and let me know when you will be picking me up!

Thanks fellow Burners!!!

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the american dream 2008

Galateo — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:31:26 GMT

Any comments or suggestions to how this years theme- The American Dream will proceed. What is the dream? Capitalism? We do live in a republic comprised of this governing tool. How will the burners interpret this in thier imagery and expressions? Any humerous insights?

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curse you, Ilaniowear!

madame7 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:04:53 GMT

Get that pale, nasty, emaciated chick in your banner ad out of our tribe!
We come here to avoid having to look at people like that, and you are dangling her bony ass before our eyes!
Google should write in a script that can detect the difference between an actual marketing lead and a nemesis.
Blechhh!

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Strike These Words From The English Language

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:07:32 GMT

and maybe I'll take the magazine out of my shotgun:

MANIFEST
ABUNDANCE
CHAKRA
BLESSINGS
THE SECRET
LAW OF ATTRACTION
NAMASTE
LOVE & LIGHT
POLY
DEFAULT WORLD
MAGICK (especially 'Powerful Magick')
INTENTIONS
KABBALAH

Got to stop now, I'm getting a Grand Mal...

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investigate before you pay entry into that party...

madame7 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:35:48 GMT

it may be someone's Burning Man Camp you're funding!
This is the time of year people start throwing benefit parties to raise money for their mobile fuckstation, their bacon artcar, their airstream dildo beer circus, and hydraulic poi parade. I hate to sound like a Republican, but why should the rest of us pay for their pathetic vacation?

It's hard being in the position to deny some of your best friends what they've been salivating for all year, enough cash to get their furry ass-less chapped ass and all their beer to the Playa...but be strong! Friends don't let friends go to Burning Man. Or at least they don't give 'em the money to get there.

Instead, throw your money at your favorite political candidate, preschool, non-profit environmental organization, Tibetan Rights campaign or homeless shelter. If you really want to go to the party, spend your money on cocaine and then sneak in. Then at least you'll have some good fun watching the freakshow.

It's going to be a long, hard spring and summer having to hold our breath through all the squirming and squealing anticipation of this year's Burn. I'm already starting to overhear plans for the "best camp ever", and i may need some dramamine to get through it. I want to get out , dance and socialize as much as the next person...but i'm as willing to park my ass at home on a Saturday night as i am to boycott Chinese products right now. I know i won't stop them from raging in all their dusty glory, but i don't want to pay them to do it.

Be smart, party safely.

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eeewwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

girlmark — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:54:17 GMT

check out this one:

http://people.tribe.net/bf1f028b-b311-4f86-95de-ec182c0e46c8/photos/4fe0e421-bba5-46a9-9cc5-f43479bc50b7

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WATER WOMAN GATHERING

Renee — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:57:20 GMT

please check out WATER WOMAN GATHERING TRIBE for sharing visions and co-creation of the potential gathering called WATER WOMAN~ or click www.waterwomangathering.blogspot.com

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Hitler Plans For Burning Man

kundalinicowgirl — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:11:41 GMT

Why hasn't this been posted here yet?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CV4i7dWeu0c

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camp organizing time

tomm — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:49:22 GMT

It's that time of year again, and even hitler has to plan his burning man camp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV4i7dWeu0c

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so why not in real life?

madame7 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:02:32 GMT

After viewing some of the photos taken of the art installations at BM, i am left puzzled. Why don't people put forth that level of creative effort to make art and inspire community in their everyday lives? Granted, they have to go to work and keep up with "real life" and not everyone has the luxury to make art all day. But if the intent is there, the means will manifest. All those people found the time, energy and resources to gather up, drag out and build that stuff, because they were driven to create it on the Playa. That effort could easily be directed into their home communities, if only they cared enough to do so.

Why do you suppose people are willing to give to Burning Man, but not so much anywhere else? OK so i don't know, maybe SOME of those artists do that in real life. But my guess is that the majority of them save this energy for the BM community. To me it's like tuning all of your mental capacity into your dreamtime.

?

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Best way to kill yourself on the playa

kundalinicowgirl — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:52:48 GMT

So, I recently watched the movie "The Bridge" which is essentially a snuff film of people jumping off the golden gate bridge. It was disturbing, not very well-done, and lacking a certain je ne sais quoi.
This led to a conversation about the guy who hung himself at Burning Man and a discussion of superior ways to off yourself at BM.
We were curious as to whether or not the guy who hung himself crapped his pants, and thought it would be much preferable to hang yourself inside the man, right before it burned.
Of course, this would be a security issue, and it would risk canceling the actual burn....then not only would they see that you'd crapped your pants, but your friends would be pissed to boot.
There is always the potential of bizarre scissor lift accidents, or throwing yourself in front of art cars being driven by obnoxiously drunk people.
So- where's Shatter?
The question is....what would be the best method of suicide at Burning Man?

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Did you know . . .

I-Storm — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:22:46 GMT

Did you know . . .

I haven't visited Tribe's BURNING MAN page since FALL '07 . . .

and since that time, over 16,000 posts have accumulated ! ! !

Did you hear WTF i said???

16k fuggin' posts, PEOPLE ! ! !

And the sad thing is:

(Like JAMES BROWN said)

They're "Talkin' Loud & Sayin' Nothing"

What a shame, man :-(

That's why I won't go to Burning Man.

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Find and replace fun!

Shatter — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:30:58 GMT

Something was wrong with my life. I was seventeen. I had enjoyed a wonderful upbringing in a loving family, attended church, worked a part-time job, made decent grades in school, planned to attend college, played lead guitar in a successful rock band, and was very unhappy. Despite the shiny future ahead of me, I felt a deep sense of hopelessness within me. I wasn’t sure what meaning or purpose my life had. I couldn’t bear living with such sadness every day. What was I to do? I began to burn.

A local Burner had made an impression on me once when I visited his beach burn. There was something very different about this man that caught my attention. I could tell that he loved people. He went around the community helping the sick, poor, troubled or anyone with a need raise money for art cars. He loved people with what seemed like a superhuman love. I wanted to get to the source of this love.

He took the time to sit down with me and answer all my questions about Burning Man from the internet. He explained that The Man was a real person sent to the Playa to take the punishment for whatever baggage I was hauling around and that He was actually alive today. I received my burning man ticket and discovered that the playa would literally enter me and live in me, my body being a temple for the playa, because I will ingest so much of it at burning man. I had just begun a relationship with the Creator of Art Cars.

The fact that I had believed the words of Burners and put them into practice made all the difference imaginable. My life took on purpose and depth as I experienced drugs and art cars. Many years of discovery followed. I witnessed powerful drum circles as well as painful trials as a Burner. I remain convinced that The Man was raised from the dead and is burnt in effigy for $300 a head.

(http://www.clickfire.com/viewpoints/articles/christian/ the original)

--S

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stupid Burner tricks

madame7 — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:21:27 GMT

http://people.tribe.net/leonmac/photos/25fc9704-f614-4970-a3f7-afc557a537a2

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Hi. I'm a bad, bad man

burning_man — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:17:44 GMT

I heard that some have had trouble finding anything negative about Burning Man online. How sad; perhaps I might help. I am one of the moderators for the new stopburningman group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopburningman

which started out as a generally pro-Burning Man group until a few clueless moderators on ePlaya and their in-kid friends alienated the owner of the list. Charming business involving support for the notion of putting poor black refugees from New Orleans into prison camps and carrying out a holocaust against the population of the Islamic world. Interesting bunch, those progressives in BRC are.

Honest, reasonable criticism of Burning Man is welcome on our list. It is a yahoogroup, so please do be aware of the TOS if you choose to post there, because as mods, we do have to enforce it, even if we don't always agree with it. If you find those too constrictive, I can at least offer a new tribe I just set up for Chicagoans to post about their alternative, non-bmorg affiliated events; criticism of Burning Man is welcome there, too.

If you have an anti-Burning Man site, I do consider those for inclusion in the "Bmorg doesn't speak for us" ring (originally the "BMORG Can Kiss My Ass" ring) at Ringsurf and Ringlink

http://tinyurl.com/yppajd
http://tinyurl.com/yr5r5s

which the search engines usually seem to like. I have a few other yahoogroups and pages as well, but I think this will do for starters.

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i went to a Burner party....

madame7 — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:15:03 GMT

by fucking accident, ok?
i didn't know it was going to be like 80% burners. My friend invited me and i hadn't seen her in a long time since she moved away, so we agreed to meet there. Her ex boyfriend was helping to throw the party and he was performing there. He invited her and she didn't say much about it other than the fact that his band was playing. I never go anywhere so i was game for something social on a Saturday night, you know, to feel remotely like a normal person. I showed up looking sleek and classic in my new argyle sweater, body parts fully covered, hair still upswept from work....but for some reason, people still assumed i was a burner.

The first thing i encountered was a doorman wearing (you're not going to believe this) FURRY ASSLESS CHAPS, i kid you not. What else should he be wearing? My God, it was fucking perfect. The next thing i discovered was a full bar, all set up by people who obviously know how to set up a bar on a tiny folding table--they must have had at least forty bottles on that table along with the cups, ice and cash box...but still they were working it like pros. One thing i thought was nice was that someone had scored dozens of free bottled smoothies so i enjoyed one, thankful that they were sitting out in a freezing cold warehouse and not in the goddamn desert. I knew a few people there so it was ok that my friend hadn't arrived yet, but i still felt a little weird just standing there amidst so many boogying, happy people. So i wandered over to the dome tent, half-assuming it had to be some sort of public sex sideshow but i was pleasantly surprised. It was a creative zone in which they were encouraging people to come in and write a haiku, draw a picture, or whatever.

So i went in and grabbed a pen and paper, got comfy on the pillows and waited for the haiku to come. I remembered the ones i read here last year, some of which had actually made me wet my pants a little. I couldn't remember the one i'd written so i sat there, stumped, for quite a while. It was then that i noticed the two lesbians off to my right, all but humping each other. Ok, they _were_ humping each other. Nobody cared. Ahhh, i thought, staring out the door of the tent and imagining that i was looking out onto the Playa at night....so this is what it's like.
......................................................
I will never go
man in furry assless chaps
how fucking perfect

and in this dome tent
lesbos humping next to me
just like Burning Man!
......................................................

and i hung it up on a string with the other poems. It was the best i could do at the time. I was disappointed. I wanted to get my creative boner on. And miraculously, right then, two artists i know came into the tent and asked me if i wanted to "jam". They meant doing some collaborative drawings. I was excited to try it, because i have only recently started drawing again and need all the inspiration i can get. So we did three Exquisite Corpse drawings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse) and then a collaborative comic strip. I spent well over an hour doing that and didn't want to do anything else. Finally i got a whiff of the positive side of Burning Man, as i could see myself making art every day for a week out there--that's how i would get my rocks off, not drinking, not fucking, not blowing things up, but making art and drinking water. At that point i felt pretty happy to be there so i came out of the tent to go find my friend, who was happily chain-smoking with a crowd of people. She and i headed over to the bathroom and while in line, we played with the big spin wheel that had all sorts of commands written on it. I spun it, and it landed on "tell a secret to someone you don't know". So i picked the person right in front of me and told him something embarrassingly personal, in full detail. I don't know what got into me, i just let it fly. Does this mean i'm ready to fuck in public now?

I hope not. Looking around the dance floor i saw several couples oozing all over each other, and a stupidly hot guy with an afro up on a platform swinging his shirt around like a stripper, with a sweaty, half-naked chick feigning a blow job on him. All of these people had furry shit on, somewhere. There was even a furry couch, which i have to admit i liked. By this point the party was really going off, even though IMO the music really sucked. It was super cheesy generic rave music, but nobody seemed to care. They were howling for the DJ as if he were Bassnectar or some shit. I started counting fedoras, i found three, and surprisingly i didn't notice any cowboy hats. WTF is up with that? Must be a Republican conspiracy. I got hit on by five people; four males and one female. Two of those males i swore had to be gay. Mmmkay....the girl was nice but i wasn't in the mood. I was ready to go home.

I went and found my drawings and said goodbye to a few people, nearly got clocked by a hooper spinning the thickest, heaviest hoop i've ever seen. The dumb-ass was hooping right in front of the exit with a black hoop which was invisible under so many blacklights. Everyone is in their own little world, it seems. I was definitely in mine while immersed in drawing in the tent. Of my experience i would say it was 60% fun/inspiring and 40% annoying as hell. For the most part i'd rather stay home and make art than endure the 40% annoying part, which of course is why i've never been to Burning Man.

the end.
m7

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And all their Boring Pictures

digory — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:05:08 GMT

And now everyone has had time to come home from Boring Man, develop, scan and post their pictures from the most glorious 4 days of there lives.

Blech!! If I see one more tribe pic with a fucking desertscape in the background.

I just have one thing to say people: Hydrate, you're looking a little rough around the edges.

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Rich people buying pimped-out experiences at burning man

tomm — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:42:45 GMT

I'm sure y'all will have an opinion about this:
http://summerburkes.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/the-elephant-is-in-the-room/

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PARTY WITH PAUL IN SAN FRANCISCO!

Shatter — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:49:15 GMT

SUBSTANCE
Modern Rock Dance tracks all night long!

Special Guest this month:

PAUL ADDIS!

The man who burned "The man" during the Lunar Eclipse and got charge with Arson at Burning Man! Paul is also known for his one man show "Gonzo" tributing the life and times of Hunter S Thompson. Who knows what he's going to do at Substance, so come down and find out. If you hate him, come down and tell him so. If you love him, come down and shake his hand. If you have no idea who this guy is, come down and meet him!

The will be a donation jar for anyone wanting to contribute to his legal defense fund.

We'll have some great music too! Modern Rock, Discopunk, Electro and more!

DJ's
Damon (Bondage a Go Go, Gossip, 1984)
Dangerous Dan (1984, The Bar on Castro)
DJ Donimo (Shadowplay, Lucky Pierre)
Tomaz Diablo (Strangelove, Rock This Town)

The Endup
401 6th Street @ Harrison
Doors at 9:30
Come down early for Drink Specials and Discounted Door

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Anti-burners: Look what Tedward made me!

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:58:54 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/burningbah

HAHHAHHA he made this then made me the Mod! I love it!

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Wired Interview with Paul Addis - smart guy that Paul Addis

mrwiggles — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:34:53 GMT

One of the other posters blogged about this, http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2007/08/addis

Absolutely brilliant. My favorite quotes:

"The Burning Man organization doesn't have any sense of humor anymore and that streams and trickles down to the participants themselves."
ABSOLUTELY. I've noticed the lack of humor for some time now. I couldn't put my finger on it though.

"Burning Man was the perfect place but once it made the decision that its own survival was more important than its content or style, everything was lost."

ABSOLUTELY. Now they are just another social organism, grasping for fuel and breeding for size. Whatever group has the money, that's who they appeal to. They have completely lost their vision.

I so agree on what he says about Green Man. Green Man is bullshit the way so much of the Green movement is moralistic feel-good bullshit. We are just sucking in the garbage from the surrounding society and calling it high-mindedness. It is really just the latest crap.

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It's 4:00 o'clock - They're back and they're making a mess

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:04:31 GMT

I was just walking back from Safeway and all those rare parking spaces in the Lower Haight are already filled with their damn dust-encrusted cars. Then on Pierce Street these morons were shaking out this tent and getting dust all over - all I could do was glare. One has to wonder what happened to the Agriculture Inspection Stations at the border. The state should stop them and force them to decontaminate, I have no doubt that dust is full of all sorts of nasty, toxic shit.

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Ilaniowear

dhoa — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:00:59 GMT

Ok....new member here. Hello everyone! I recognize some of you from the other tribes.
Now.....let's talk about Ilaniowear. Who else is sick of seeing Playa Barbies everywhere on tribe?!!!!!!
This is a great example of why I am so sick of hearing about BM. More anorexic 20-somethings flashing their shit. Let's hear it for female empowerment! Same shitty sociocultural dynamics, different costume. It's disappointing.
And I would give it a shot and go there before I knock anything- but when tix are $300/pop, it's often not an option.

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One down, how many more to go?

Shatter — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:08:28 GMT

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/08/man-hangs-self-.html

For the first time in 21 years of Burning Man, a Burner has committed suicide, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

A man was found hanging inside a two-story-high tent this morning, said the federal Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the festival on the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada. The man's identity has not been released pending notification of his family.

He dangled for two hours before anyone in the big tent thought to bring him down, said Mark Pirtle, special agent in charge.

"His friends thought he was doing an art piece," he said.

(more behind the link)

--S

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Tragedy on the playa ...ha ha hah hahhhaha

MChurch — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:46:08 GMT

At approximately 2:58am local time, a fire ignited the Burning Man figure and the center Green Man Pavilion at the Burning Man event in Black Rock City, Nevada.

Black Rock City Emergency Services Department units responded from Stations Three, Five, and Nine and put the fire out within approximately 23 minutes. There were no reported injuries. The Man is still standing, and an assessment is underway to determine the structural integrity of The Man and the Green Man Pavilion. The event will continue as scheduled.

An arson investigation is currently under way, and is ongoing. There is no confirmed cause of ignition at this time.

No further information is available at this time. More information will be released tomorrow morning after the investigation can safely be continued.

-Andie Grace, Burning Man Communications Manager

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nominate Addis' mugshot for new Tribe main photo?

girlmark — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:08:34 GMT

Can we please, please make Paul into our main tribe photo???

Whenever the moderator comes back from BM, that is... Earth to Dan, come in Mr F...

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There they go

Vulkanika — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:30:00 GMT

All the Cruise America™ RV rentals are packed up in the neighborhood with expensive bikes in tow. I don't see any fur or hoops with that group. Cases of gin though√

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New member posting my BM gripes.

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:32:11 GMT

I guess my gripes with BM (which I have never attended) are similar to what others have posted.
I find many burners to posses an attitude that since they have gone to BM and lived to talk about then that is all they do. The whole shock that comes over their faces when they find out I haven't been and never plan on going to BM. It's shock, it's shock at the fact that they see BM as like the ultimate coolest shit in the universe and how could I not want to go and be able to say I went and call myself a burner and be amongst the other ( what is the BM tribe at? 55,000 members now? ) burners.
There is no individuality at BM. None of what goes on shocks me ( born and raised in SF) I just don't care. I am anti-heat. When the temps in SF climb to a whopping 80 degrees I sit in the shade and sweat and prey for sundown. It's just how I am and that has been my main reason for not going.
Now I would never go simply because of the way burners act about it.
They remind me somewhat of killer bees. When you upset one killer bee, before you know it you'll be attacked by thousands. If I went over to the BM tribe and said something negative about it, soon enough I would have posts after posts after posts annihilating me. How dare I.

What I don't get is how some people act as if BM is the only festival where nidity is commom, where people dress up in colorful costumes and dance, where drugs are easy to obtain and sex is out in the open. I mean, it's only because BM has the biggest mouth and boasts about itself constantly that we hear about it and have it shoved into our faces every August.

My last gripe is that I think BM is a total scam. Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find anything negative about BM on the web? Have you ever noticed that the pictures on the BM site are all young, slim, scantily clad women not older, matronly women? Why is it OK to say you care about the air and the enviorment but still applaud when 40+ feet of lumber and neon lights burn for no other reason than entertainment?The waste that BM generates. The damage to the lake bed. BM is one enormous hypocrisy.
"radical self reliance" my ass. I guess that explains the RV'S, generators, cafe, police, first aid station, ice station and post office and porta-potties.
Something like Rainbow Gathering strikes me as more "radical self-reliant" than BM would ever be.

BM is getting louder and louder. If you wanna go party go ahead. Who doesn't love a hot party? Who doesn't love a good camp-out? Sex, drugs and an enviorment of sharing, accepting and good positive energy are an awesome fucking mix for an awesome time. But just shut up about it, don't act like everyone has to do it, or that you are the coolest shit because you do it. Not everyones trip has to be the same. Isn't it all about "radical self-expression" anyway? Being free to be who you are and express your individuality?
Enjoy your journey and I'll enjoy mine.

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Why I don't like Burning Man

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:50:43 GMT

Because the people of go there remind me of a certain type of hipster set high school - it could of been a combo of popular kids, jocks and cheerleaders or like a trendy set.

Well, whatever group it was there was always like a bunch who thought that they were so cool and like it had some big secret that they only knew about and everyone else was a square or nerd because they didn't know about "IT" or just because. And if you asked them what the big fuss or secret was they would put you down for being a nerd or not in the know. BM seems to be made of people like that. It seems that groups like that were always giggling behind everyones back because they were privvy to some secret incredible thing.

This summer I was talking to this chick who all of sudden had to stop all she was doing and only focus on going to burning man - she became down right nasty when you would question her about it. She was not the only one. I have found that it's been mostly females who are so hardcore about BM.

So when she got back - I saked her like what she did at BM and she got all high and mighty like I asked her something personal about her sex life or what was in her moms lingerie drawer.

Is BM sometype of sexual outlet or is it the Woodstock of the 21st cent.? I mean what can one do in the middle of the fucking desert? Like I said - I'd rather be in a tropical beach instead of a dusty shit hole. One guy told me he went there for the Hippy (pardon my French) pussy.

All in all the BM people seem real smug to me - especially when one has a job and a family to feed and a life to live.

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Define Tragedy

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:51:22 GMT

This piece is on SFGate this morning. They are putting pits to have bonfires on Ocean Beach.

> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/22/MNGDROPM781.DTL

> There have been fires on Ocean Beach as long as there has been sand on Ocean Beach.
> That cherished San Francisco tradition almost died when the National Park Service
> announced last year that it was banning beach fires because they made too big a mess.
>
> But the fires will return -- in 12 elaborate fire pits designed by the people who bring you
> Burning Man. "It's really an amazing project," said Tom Price of Burners Without Borders,
> which worked with the Park Service to solve a problem that has vexed the government for years.
> "It took what was going to be a tragedy -- the loss of open-air fires on the beach -- and made it into
> an open-air museum of public art."

Okay, I have nothing wrong with people enjoying themselves on Ocean Beach with a fire. But tragedy? Tragedy? With all the problems in the world, the use of this one word tells me all I have to know about Burners Without Brains, er, I mean Burners Without Borders.

I won't even go there about the use of the word "art."

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New Theme Camp!

ickybob — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:16:46 GMT

“Concentration camp”

Do it straight as an educational art installation, with historical information & dioramas. Bring some of the real world in to ground the hippies!

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From a friend's blog...

kundalinicowgirl — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:26:14 GMT

Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10
hours in any direction. Put the house back together.
Invite everyone you meet to come over and party.
When everyone leaves, follow them back to their homes,
drink all their booze, and break things.

Buy a new set of expensive camping gear. Break it.

Stack all your fans in one corner of your living
room. Put on your most fabulous outfit. Turn the fans on
full blast. Dump a full vacuum cleaner bag in front
of them.

Pitch your tent next to the wall of speakers in a
crowded, noisy club. Go to sleep. Wake up 2 hours
later in a 110 degree tent.

Buy a new pair of favorite shoes. Throw one shoe away.

Only use the toilet in a house that is at least 3
blocks away. Drain all the water from the toilet.
Only flush it every 4 days. Hide all the toilet paper.

Pay an escort of your affectional preference to not
bathe for five days, cover themselves in glitter,
dust, and sunscreen, wear a skanky neon wig; dance
closely naked with you, then say they have a lover
back home at the end of the night.

Visit a restaurant and pay them to let you alternate
lying in the walk-in freezer and sitting in the oven.

Don't sleep for 5 days. Take a wide variety of
hallucinogenic/emotion altering drugs. Pick a fight
with your boyfriend/girlfriend.

Cut, burn, electrocute, bruise, and sunburn various
parts of your body. Forget how you did it. Don't go
to a doctor.

Spend a whole year rummaging through thrift stores
for the perfect, most outrageous costume. Forget to pack it.

Spend weeks preparing and freezing tasty, nutritious
food and then forget it in your trunk for a few days
of 110 degree heat. Eat it anyway - and like it.

Listen to music you hate for 168 hours straight, or
until you think you are going to scream. Scream.
Realize you'll love the music for the rest of your life.

Get so drunk you can't recognize your own house.
Walk slowly around the block for 5 hours.

Sprinkle dirty sand in all your food.

Mail $250 to the Reno casino of your choice. (price
of average BM ticket in 2004)

Go to a museum. Find one of Salvador Dali's more
disturbing but beautiful paintings. Climb inside it.

Spend thousands of dollars creating a deeply
personal piece of art work. Hide it in a funhouse on the edge of the city.
Blow it up.

Set up a DJ system downwind of a three alarm fire.
Play a short loop of drum'n'bass until the embers are cold.

Have a 3 a.m., soul-baring conversation with a drag
nun in platforms, a crocodile, and Bugs Bunny. Be
unable to tell if you're hallucinating.

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Greening the burn

kundalinicowgirl — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:48:52 GMT

Does this mean they aren't going to waste thousands of gallons of irreplaceable fossil fuels?

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More haikus!

kundalinicowgirl — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:54:18 GMT

At this time of year, I think we should revive the haikus of years past....let's get creative gang!

What is it, 5,7,5?

Must earn lots of cash
burning man benefits help
to pay for the gas

Well, that wasn't so mean....

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what camp am i with?

madame7 — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:31:58 GMT

I was at a party in the steppe of Eastern Washington last weekend called Prosperity. This is an old school, homespun community gathering that happens every year and it's small & vibey because we don't promote it anywhere. So i was sitting around the fire with my drum, sharing my pocketful of trail mix with a nice guy i had just met. And fairly early on in our conversation he asked me "So what camp are you with at Burning Man?" Not "have you been to Burning Man?", but "What camp are you with?". As if it was obvious that i was a burner. And i was "dressed", you know, not just wearing camping stuff but dressed for a party, just 'cuz it's fun, and i was wearing the furry legwarmers i'd made for my BM halloween costume....'cuz it was 35 degrees out there and they went well with my copper-studded gaucho pants. So I said, "Just because i'm wearing furry legwarmers doesn't mean i'm a Burner". But i said it with a big smile instead of being nasty, because this guy was sweet and innocent and i didn't want to be rude. i got a little smirk out of everyone within earshot. He didn't know how to respond to that, and I didn't know what to say after that, except that i'd never been and don't have any plans to go anytime soon.

And then i stared into the fire and thought about that for a while...and soon my eyes wandered around to the bodies moving around the fire and i started noticing all the feathered fedoras, shredded-looking skirts, vintage lingerie, color-saturated dreadlocks, lip rings, studded belts, & furry boots. Do I look like i'm part of the BM culture? I don't think so. So his assumption may have been that the entire event was a Burner gathering. I did notice when people set up their camps that the people who have been to BM are more organized in creating a vibe and providing for their needs than the others, who simply set up a tent next to the car and put a chair in front of it. I also noticed that some camps had more gravity than others. I have always set up my camp as a home and a community gathering spot, it's just who i am and what i feel compelled to create. I always make an altar, create a kitchen area, a comfy place to lie down under the shade of a canopy, and a snuggly warm nest in the van or truck that i came in. But i have not been to BM, i didn't learn this there, it's just what i do. People come and take a nap at my camp, they come and borrow my stove to make their tea, they come looking for water or matches or butter, and i always have those things to share. Does this mean it was my destiny to become a Burner?

No. So many of my friends now are telling me "you've gotta go, you totally belong on the Playa" and i have come as close as saying, "hmmm. maybe someday". And i've spent a lot of time imagining what my camp would be like, what i would offer, how i would live there. And i always end up coming back to this: "Why?" I can do what i do wherever i am, without driving all the way there and fighting to keep from inhaling toxic dust and getting heatstroke. I am wondering if it's really worth all that, and there is only one way for me to find out, but it just doesn't make sense for me to bother. I have to admit that i'm yearning to be inspired by the creativity and passion that i know exists out there, but i can't see it being worth wading through the bad energy of the partiers, vampires, lost souls and posers that are also present. I know, this point has been made again and again in this tribe and i'm preaching to the choir. But the issue keeps getting raised in my life because Burners are EVERYWHERE and now people believe that everything that resembles BM came from BM. Even my evil psychotic neighbor when i had my coffee shop accused me of associating with Burning Man people, and used this to degrade me. She had seen some of my friends visiting, and some of my barista's friends hanging around, some of which may have been to BM but i would not call them "Burners" because they are individuals who have enough of their own creative energy not to be a by-product of the festival. Was it the feathered fedora and custom-stitched boots? The giant carved earrings, furry collar on the long coat? How did these things become Burner characteristics? My friends and creative associations are part of the very SOURCE of what makes BM, and that is why i love and respect them. The assumption that anyone who looks like this is a by or waste-product of the festival is an insult to the very creative energy of the individual. It's like assuming that someone who is pure and kind must be a Christian because the religion allegedly teaches purity and kindness. This is how the average drone thinks, that you have to go to the supermarket to get your vegetables because that's where they come from. Whatever happened to gardening?

I am with the camp of the individual. At the moment, that means i've isolated myself in order to take a really deep look at who i am and why i'm here. I am beginning to reach out and connect again, but i screen Burning Man participants thoroughly to find out what side of the equation they're on--the creator side or the consumer side. I am still not saying that i'll never go to BM. I'm watching it closely, taking notes. My camp is open year-round. I don't have anything to look forward to, or anything to reminisce about, i'm just here...hanging out in my camp with my sarcastic legwarmers and my trail mix. If anyone needs to make some tea, come on over.

m7

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OT: Boring

fnord — Wed, 09 May 2007 23:08:20 GMT

It turns out that “boring” is an interesting word, etymologically. Here’s the entry from the OED for “bore”:

[This, and its vb. BORE2 arose after 1750; etymology unknown.
(Usually supposed to be f. BORE v.2, which is then regarded as a fig. use of BORE v.1, with the notion of ‘persistent annoyance’ (cf. Ger. drillen). But it seems impossible in this way to account for sense 1 of the n., which is apparently the source of the other senses, and of the verb itself. If related at all to BORE v.1 or n.1, the connexion must be much more indirect; possibly there is an allusion to some now forgotten anecdote. The phrase ‘French bore’ naturally suggests that the word is of French origin; bourre padding, hence (in 18th c.) triviality, bourrer to stuff, to satiate, might be thought of; but without assuming some intermediate link these words do not quite yield the required sense.)]

†1. The malady of ennui, supposed to be specifically ‘French’, as ‘the spleen’ was supposed to be English; a fit of ennui or sulks; a dull time.
1766 EARL OF MARCH Let. in Jesse G. Selwyn II. 88 [date misprinted 1776] Augustus Hervey and Lord Cadogan are in a long bore. 1766 G. J. WILLIAMS Let. 9 Dec. in Ibid. 108 He sits every night next to Lord Temple, and has a complete bore of it for two hours. 1766 —— Let. 30 Dec. in Ibid. 121 Your last letter was the most cheerful that I have received from you, and..without that d—d French bore. 1767 LD. CARLISLE Let. 8 Mar. in Ibid. 150, I enclose you a packet of letters, which if they are French, the Lord deliver you from the bore.

†b. One who suffers from ‘bore’ or ennui, or affects lack of interest in anything.
1766 G. J. WILLIAMS Let. 25 Nov. in Jesse G. Selwyn II. 86 You are..such a French bore, and all against your poor country, that I believe you imagine your letters are opened at the post-office.

2. A thing which bores or causes ennui; an annoyance, a nuisance.
1778 Refutation 16 Advice is well enough—reproof's a bore. 1807 Antid. Miseries Hum. Life 27 Conversation is a bore, as ’tis generally managed. 1831 WHATELY in Life (1866) I. 111 A formal dinner-party even at Oxford is a bore. 1858 HAWTHORNE Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 190 It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.

3. A tiresome or uncongenial person; one who wearies or worries. blue bore (quot. 1837): in punning allusion to the tavern sign of the Blue Boar.
1812 Edin. Rev. XX. 74 A king is in these tribes really regarded as a sort of..bore. 1826 DISRAELI Viv. Grey V. vi. 192 The true bore is that man who thinks the world is only interested in one subject, because he himself can only comprehend one. 1837 DICKENS Pickw. li, ‘Ungrammatical twaddler, was it, sir?’ ‘Yes, sir, it was..and blue-bore, sir, if you like that better. 1848 THACKERAY Van. Fair xi, He says the country girls are bores; indeed, I don't think he is far wrong. 1858 O. W. HOLMES Aut. Breakf. T. i. 3 ‘Madam, all men are bores, except when we want them.’

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Idea 2

fnord — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:20:33 GMT

I had thought of this and the people I know who attend the BM event disapproved. So I offer it to those of you who are jaded but still considering attending for one last hurrah.

Mushroom and Ex-Lax brownies. Carefully calculated to include enough psilocybin (or acid or other convenient hallucinogen) to kick in before the Ex-Lax. The party person is emphatically informed of the hallucinogen content, but mention of the laxative portion is conveniently “forgotten”. Distribute freely from a camp near a portapotty, preferably in a location which encourages several hours of residence. Watch and enjoy the startled responses from tripping weenies suddenly overcome by an overwhelming urge to defecate in an exquisitely unseemly fashion. Humor is obtained in some manner afterwards, either through observation or interviewing. Call it “interactive art” to top off the experience.

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Idea

fnord — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:15:38 GMT

Someone rich asshole should bus in a bunch of crack-smoking lowlifes from Oakland or LA or something to Burning Man and let them loose. And video the entire proceedings.

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"Burning moonie uni"

ickybob — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:28:24 GMT

The Burning mannie uniform…

"Burning punky honky dreads"

Fly goggles

Fake furry fashions

Henna tats

& the knockoff Al Jorgensen cowboy hat.

…ad nauseam

What did I miss?

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fire dancers

madame7 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:24:04 GMT

Ok, i just watched the LAST fire dancing video i care to see for the rest of my life.
This may or may not have anything to do with this tribe, but fuck it--this is the only place i can think of to vent without losing all of my friends who still think fire dancing is cool. Wait--one concession before i begin railing, i do occasionally witness a performance that genuinely compels and impresses me, so it's not entirely fair of me to generalize. That said, 98% of all fire performances could well have been choreographed and performed by the same godforsaken troupe of skinny chicks with dreads and tattoos. I swear to God, they must all go to the same dance trainer like Britney and Jessica and those bitches, referred by Paula Abdul and J. Lo.

FIRE FINGERS were interesting and somewhat cool TEN YEARS AGO. There is only so much you can do with Fire Fingers. Wave them around, drag them across your bony, sweaty chest, figure-8 them around someone else, lie back on the floor and arc them over your head...OK so we've seen it all. Enough already. How about some WATER FINGERS that spout out streams of water in five directions? Or JIZZ FINGERS for that matter? Now that would be a sight...

Yes, i'm sure it is not easy to spin poi without bonking or torching yourself. No, i've never done it. The only fire-related thing i am semi-interested in is fire-hooping, partly because it isn't seen as often--it seems a lot more difficult to master. I was impressed the first ten times i saw people doing various forms of fire dancing. And then it all looked the same, in the same outfits and hairstyles and body type, and people are still in awe of the beauty of something that could be branded and sold to a theme park by now. Am i preaching to the choir or is there anyone out there who truly is not bored to death with this stuff?

I'd like to see a lot more public, anonymous art and a whole lot less of the "look at me" radical selfish-pression. My intention for the New Year is to form a group of anonymous guerilla artists in Seattle to provoke people with acts of love and consciousness. I encourage you all to do something similar--we need to counteract the growth of this cancerous generic "subculture". It is terribly sad how blind our own kin have become to the insidious co-opting of the very arts that once defined the underground, and even more sad that they have handed over the reigns themselves by being mere followers. There are far too many followers, and too few conscious leaders. I read a post on the Culture Jamming tribe in which someone suggested that Burning Man is a Temporary Autonomous Zone. I disagree. Perhaps in theory it once was, but as soon as someone started making a profit on it, the TAZ became another McDonalds. This tribe could be a TAZ, however...and we could organize to turn our sarcasm into real social and aesthetic change. We may lose some friends along the way, but perhaps when Budweiser banners start appearing on the Playa our kin will realize that we've been right all along, and they will come back home.

I think I will eventually go to Burning Man and make a movie or somehow create a presentation that documents the irony of "different just like everyone else". I am a very good spy...and i've already got the costume. Perhaps a TAZ camp at Burning Man where we educate people on what radical really means. Anyone wanna meet me there? It could be a slipknot of a cosmic joke and we could turn it in to a documentary in the vein of the Blair Witch Project, which everyone would think was a real movie about Burning Man and not until the end do they realize that it's actually a movie about NOT Burning Man and the joke is on them.

i may be just kidding about that.
blech.
(i don't really want to go there.)
someone please stop me!

m7

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Burning Barbie

Melodious — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:30:15 GMT

From the Seattle tribe (you may need to go to the original post to fully get the joke): http://see-attle.tribe.net/thread/094dfa4e-6ffd-45dd-af4b-9b2c1e84f8d0

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Loud, hot, dirty, self-aggrandizing, massively wasteful, polluting, and destructive.

ickybob — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:27:16 GMT

There are some really great threads on this.

-IB

From Chris Campbell:

http://johnlawspeaks.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/does-burning-man-belong-to-everyone/#comment-216

I swore I’d never give this topic anymore ink. But under the present circumstances…

Let “burning man” revert to common everyday lexicon like terror alert’, ‘baseball’ or ‘apple pie’. We could make it an adjective to describe something loud, hot, dirty, self-aggrandizing, massively wasteful, polluting, and destructive. It’s perfectly American. Come to think about it, so is trashing agreements and cutting out your partners for the sole purpose of profiting further. Come to think about it, so is capitalizing on the idealism, sweat and blood of others. Come to think about it, so is spewing enormous amounts of toxins and co2 into the atmosphere. Come to think about it, so is sending enormous amounts of trash to landfills in Nevada. So is dividing people into camps, and polarization. So is giving tens of thousands of dollars to oil and gas interests. So is hanging out with an unknown number of cops and agents. So is being in nature with 39,000 of your closest friends and making so much noise you can’t hear or see nature. So is putting untold acres of timber to a match for the sake of entertainment. So is doing it at night so you don’t have to see the miles wide cloud of smoke and ash. So is telling yourself how original and unique and right you are. So is telling everyone else how original and unique and right you are. So is cranking your stereo so loud the whole block can hear it. So is claiming exclusivity to a 5000 year old cross cultural phenomenon. So is charging “what the market will bear” for the privilege of bragging rights. So is altering nature to suit our whims. So is expecting convenience. So is worshipping false idols and false figurehats.
Burning man stopped being cutting edge many years ago. It initially wasn’t about the art anyway. It was about freedom, self-reliance and immediacy without all the usual safety guidelines and perimeters. It was about really putting yourself out there with your wits and imagination, and then having a good time at the edge of survival. The art was a manifestation of the experience out there.
There is life after burning man. The term already refers to someone or something to do with a bunch of weirdos. Let it go. Don’t be such a “burner”. If you’re worried someone might use the term “burning man” for their personal gain, forget about it. It’s already happening at your expense. Come up with your own bm product and start selling it. At least start making it so you can get a jump on when the market opens up.

P.S.– I hear from a source near the source of sorts, that any settlement from bm will be used to fund a halfway house and counseling center for huddled unwashed ex-burners. Deprogramming services will be available as well as micro-loans to help the poor and idealistic get back on their feet.

Happy Trails,
Chris Campbell / “Keeper”
Designer-Builder-Destroyer ’92–>’99
Orbicular Affect ’97,’98,’99

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egocentricity in action

andy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:21:38 GMT

i dunno how many of you are already members of the "non traditional housing" tribe, but you might want to check this thread out.

http://nontraditionalhousing.tribe.net/thread/1d4115a2-40ca-468e-96f7-fe6880d1d651

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proud of me.

xjx — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:14:07 GMT

I have just turned down another free ticket to you-know - what. Arn't we proud of me?

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BM ring tones?

madame7 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:47:32 GMT

http://www.getphonetones.com/?group=Burning+Man&artist=Burning+Man&keyword=Burning+Man+ringtone&programID=1&aegis_tid=50476724&aegis_cid=584587835

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"The last day of Burningman Tribe."

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:15:40 GMT

“Dear Moderators of Burningman related tribes, We regret to inform you that recent legal matters are forcing us to ask the community at large to cease and desist all forms of public mention and reference to the Burningman event."

http://bm.tribe.net/thread/9bf063d8-1645-4183-b80c-c4b03f9cf105

And oh what a happy day that would be for the rest of us 'unelightened' ones. Nice to dream about, tho' somehow I doubt it will happen. Tribe has actually made semi-official (about the best one can hope for out of those spineless doubletalking mealy mouthed fuckwits) statements to the effect of "we won't let an irate moderator delete a large tribe on a whim".

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Unraveling

gratephil — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:45:10 GMT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16569253/

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Remembering

anomaly — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:16:36 GMT

I did go to BM once. It's as cheesy as one can imagine. After seeing hundreds of pics from the playa I felt as if I had been there already. Prior to the event, the guy who took me said we needed supplies. All over the bay area stores were full of Burners spending millions (no exaggeration) at Costco, Wal-Mart, and specialty boutiques in SF made just for Burners. Glow sticks! How many freaking glow sticks are dumped after BM? They speak of how conscious they are to clean up the dead playa (there are absolutely no plants there) when the event is finished, but where does the overabundance of aluminum cans and plastic bottles go? There are no recycling facilities at BM, and guaranteed most of it goes right in the trash.

When perousing the BM tribe you can see how many Burners make fun of hippies. Many of those people's profiles scare me with their Beyond Thunderdome militant attitudes. At BM the vibe is very conservative! It smells like white collar money. American flags are everywhere! If Burners think they are living outside the all seeing eye then that is the biggest illusion of all. Burning Man is Big Brother! Military vehicles are within the playa compound. Burners are so mesmerised by day glow that they don't even know! It's a huge scam as far as I am concerned.

The art repeats itself, there are way too many pink hatted cowboys and girls and devil-eared yuppies. Cruising the outskirts of the playa there are bars in the "frontier" with cowboys trying to get people drunk. Free liquor is EVERYWHERE! It's like being at a nightmarish carnival. I can tell that every year the roller rink, the thunderdome, and some of the same cheesy art cars that all have free booze on them are sponsored by BM itself, which is a corporation. Even the one gas station they always tout as the one store in Gerlach is obviously owned and runned by BM.

BM has a huge reputation for casual sexiness. The dork I went with was completely overtaken by thoughts of random sex. While wandering around the playa I noticed some very attractive people eyeing me in overtly seductive manners. It was so extreme that I wondered if people are hired just to walk around and be sexy! I mean, I am an attractive person, but this was over the top, with tall bare chested model-type women and men just showing up at spots, making ding-dongs feel like they are in the hottest spot in the entire universe, and walking off and hitting up other spots. Weird stuff.

In the temple there was an altar to Baphomet. You may be familiar with the Baphomet as the goat god worshipped by Freemasons, Satanists, members of the OTO and various other groups. I don't want to get in a religious discussion here, but I found that altar to be pretty interesting. If I ever mention it no one remembers seeing it. Of course!

There are many nice people at BM. Some people really do get into the gifting aspect. One man gave me some homemade mango butter. A girl was giving away books, and there are a number of yoga teachers and bodyworkers who offer their services. It is interesting to go into a nice camp and see the effort put into it. But for what? To have the coolest camp? I mean, yippee, you've got a swimming pool here. How much did that cost? How many people could have been helped with the money it took to make the awesome camp? My point here is, what is the point of BM? It is a huge ritual. I don't know exactly what for. I do want to go in again, to infiltrate, to investigate.

One final note: at the Black Rock City post office the shack was covered in graffiti. NONE of it was uplifting or positive. I will never forget reading "Be a man, kill yourself. Be a man and kill someone else." What a world!

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Now they're invading Thailand...

Melodious — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:09:02 GMT

Once again, I'm speechless:

http://www.magicgardenthailand.com/

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how has bm changed in the last 10 years

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:14:31 GMT

hi folks, i'm new here. i've been over on the never been to bm tribe talking with someone about what kind of permanent goodness bm leaves behind. it's been an interesting exchange.

one of the things he said was that bm hasn't really changed much over the last 10 years, it's just gotten bigger.

is this true? what do you think?

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Oh, for God's Sake...

Melodious — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:09:28 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/floatingman

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Fair and balanced coverage

fnord — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:13:24 GMT

This article clearly needs more fair and balanced discussion of Burning Man. Feel free to edit it for clarity and substance.

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Burning_man

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guess what i'm gonna be for Halloween?

madame7 — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:51:52 GMT

yep....
a fucking burner.
shhhhh!!!! don't tell my friends! I want to see if when i show up at the big party that all the burners are going to, i just fade into the background and look like i'm not wearing a costume. I will post a pic of Burner7 on monday.

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A year later....

gratephil — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:15:22 GMT

The Malcom in the Middle BM episode may be this phenom.'s Spinal Tap...

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The final blow.

xjx — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:54:30 GMT

When the old bats in red hats get a theme camp.

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Ummm....well.....

Rodney — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:57:22 GMT

Ok, I am speechless.

http://www.lifestudent.com/

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what should i tell her?

madame7 — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:18:08 GMT

I opened a boutique in August and i'm selling the most fabulous stuff designed and made by people i know. The store is beginning to get more and more attention by both customers and people who want to consign their work. I was just contacted by a woman i know, who is a friend of a friend but i've met her a few times. She said that she makes clothing and was wondering if i'd like to sell it. She is a sweet, genuine, beautiful person and a mom so i wanted to support her creative efforts. Knowing that she is a recent Burning Man initiate who just got into spinning fire, is polyamorous and vegan to boot, my first assumption was that she makes Burner clothing. But to give her the benefit of the doubt, i asked her what kind of stuff she makes, as i'm interested in keeping the boutique refreshed all the time and featuring different artists and designers. WELL, she was more than excited to send me to her photo gallery to view pics of the costumes she has made and guess what? Furry, flared legwarmers, plastic bikinis, feathery wing things, hair extensions, i mean the fucking BM uniform as if she bought it all at Rite Aid in the Halloween costume aisle. She is so naive about it, she really thinks that selling BM costume stuff in a store is cool and that all the burners will come and shop there for their furry legwarmers. ...and i know this is because she's a newbie and hasn't gotten jaded or even seasoned yet, so it's all ultra-cool to her. I can't help it, it made me almost heave my Tom Kha imagining my storefront display with Burner mannequins in it. MAYBE burner mannequins all hacked up and bloody with skulls for heads and spider webs all over them...now that, i can stomach.

So i know i have to tell her that it's not the kind of stuff i'm looking for, but i don't know how to do this without bursting her bubble. She seems to have assumed that i think BM is cool. Any ideas?

m7

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burning man prank.

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:41:51 GMT

The burn takes place in a dry lake bed right? What if you were to turn it back into a lake, plant trees, make it a giant desert oaisis, then all the hippies would be to concerned about the environment there to have another burn.

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Canadians Are Boring Too

Melodious — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:50:00 GMT

So sad:

http://lowermainland.tribe.net/thread/6c0636e4-5b16-4226-aefd-12e49af779c1

And I quote:
"the most inspired happening on the planet."

If that's true, please kill me now.

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Well, the reviews are in....

gratephil — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:02:10 GMT

www.thestranger.com with that suitably irreverent Seattle attitude has sent their "Worst Enemy" cubbie reporter to the big burn. the current ish so greatly captures the burn of doing this do. To wit: "If you buy into the shallow and the physical, you can easily find a slice of heaven in Black Rock City. This easy success feeds Burning Man 's popularity, and each year it grows as more corporate types migrate to the desert to strip off their suits, don garish costumes, and dance their way to utopia."

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Burning Man Makes You Turn Green

MarcoPolo — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:07:17 GMT

Scientists study the event's greenhouse emissions, festival planners see dollar signs....
Attention: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/26/BAGV7KPVGE1.DTL

In an attempt at feigning genuine environmental concern, they have found an ecological reason to charge burners even more.

"Maybe one day Burning Man would add a small surcharge to the ticket price, less than $1, to offset all emissions from the event,"

....Because, you know, they just can't allocate Less Than $1 of the existing $275 fee to offsetting their own ecological impact. A whopping three-tenths of one percent of the ticket intake? That would bankrupt them.

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i'm never going. NEVER.

madame7 — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:40:40 GMT

of course i once said i would sooner eat dog shit than ever eat animal flesh again, and the other night i was overcome with an intense period-craving for Butter Chicken...which i promptly satisfied at the nearest Indian restaurant. I once also said i would never have sex with a meat-eater again. Almost no one i meet is vegetarian anymore. I can't afford to be that picky unless i want to shack up with my vegan dildo for the rest of my life.

But seriously, i still have no urge to go. Every year, more and more of my friends try and convince me, defending all of the points i bring up, from my disgust with Burn-tards to my fear of the way a human crotch smells after several days of steeping in its own funk. I am curious about the art, and that is my sole interest in BM, but people post photos of it all over the place. Why do i need to take a week off from work and dehydrate myself to see the art? OK, so i can't experience the drama, the heat and the smell of it burning, but i can burn some chicken in my backyard and pretend it's the Man.

I do have one fear, and i can confess that here since nobody is out to convert me in this tribe. I feel safe sharing this with you guys. I fear that one day i will actually go, and then suffer the same level of embarrassment i endured when my friend caught me hiding in the back of the KFC parking lot with a bucket of extra-crispy balanced on my pregnant belly. Fortunately, i am way too busy now with REAL LIFE so i am not in imminent danger of being pulled into the vortex. However, because time moves in spirals rather than perfect, predictable circles, i must make it publicly known that "never say never" is my new philosophy. This doesn't mean that i plan or intend to go. It just means i accept that people change....even me.

m7

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Not for poor people

xjx — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:33:04 GMT

Burning man is not for people who can make their own fun on a budget. Burningman is not for people with real responsibilities in the real world. Suppose, people are self-reliant and creative all the time. What would they need Burningman for?

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Burning Mouse?

Shatter — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:33:01 GMT

After the Canadian thread.... it hit me..

How long until Disney builds a new "Land" at one of the parks? Can you imagine a simulated disneyfied burning man theme park? It would be great. It would look dirty, but is really clean. All the worker would have fuzzy pink outfits. They would be playing lots of out door OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ music, and lots of snack shops and souvenier stands.

I wonder what rides you'd have?

Imagine the 400lb Midwestern Grannies on their Rascal moter carts with all the family in tow. Magical. It'll be better than actually going.

--S

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For next year: scalping Burning Man tickets

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:12:30 GMT

Does anyone do this? Is it profitable? Would it make sense to buy several of the cheapest tickets then then jack them up in the 11th hour to resell at profit to 'tards who think they'll die if they don't go, yet waited until the last minute to do anything about it?

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A huge job fair.... I knew it!!

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:38:40 GMT

Talent hunting in the counterculture

By Chris Taylor, Business 2.0 Magazine senior editor

August 31 2006: 4:48 PM EDT

(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- If you want to make an appointment to see Larry Page and Sergey Brin this week, you'll have a harder time than usual doing so. The Google founders are making their annual pilgrimage to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for the Burning Man festival.

Google's known for its exacting hiring requirements, which include a degree from a top-notch university and a stratospheric GPA. But Page and Brin also have a preference for hiring Burning Man attendees - a practice that other talent-seekers would be wise to imitate.

Page and Brin are just two of the approximately 30,000 Burning Man devotees - burners, as they're known - who gather every year to help build and enjoy the art-filled collective on an ancient, dried-out lake bed known as Black Rock City (which, for the week it exists, is the third most populous burg in the state).

So many tech types attend the event, it's a running joke in Silicon Valley that you can't get any software code written or raise venture capital funding the week before Labor Day.

The Google guys have been going for almost as many years as they've been running Google. When this correspondent hung out with them in the desert in 2000, they were body-painted blue and green, respectively. After the pair hired Eric Schmidt as CEO in 2001, Brin explained their choice thus: "He was the only candidate who had been to Burning Man."

Fire in the belly
To the untrained eye, Black Rock City may look like it's filled with a bunch of dusty, pyromaniac proto-hippies partying in the desert. And it is, sort of.

But it's also a fountain of the most incredible out-of-the-box thinking and engineering. Participants spend thousands of dollars of their own cash to build their temporary community, and it encompasses both the sublime and the ridiculous.

According to the Burning Man organization, this year's 240 constructs include "flaming blocks of ice, a steam-engine powered insect carousel, a deconstructed cathedral, a robotic spider, a field of sunflower robots, a mobile 3-story Victorian house, a homicidal hammock, a rubber chicken-launching trebuchet, a gigantic burning bra, and much, much more!"

Of course, none of this art would be very useful to your business. But the brains that create it are worth their weight in platinum. If you're in an industry that demands constant innovation, if you despair of the inside-the-box thinking displayed by your buttoned-down employees, then you could do a lot worse than follow Page and Brin's rule: Look for signs of a counterculture before you hire.

Counting on the counterculture
If you rolled your eyes at that suggestion, you would do well to read up on recent business history. After all, the PC and Internet gold rushes did not spring from staid old East Coast technology behemoths like IBM.

As Whole Earth Catalog creator Stewart Brand wrote in his essay "We Owe It All to the Hippies," "The counterculture's scorn for centralized authority provided the philosophical foundations of not only the leaderless Internet but also the entire personal-computer revolution."

More dispassionate observers concur. The New York Times' John Markoff, one of the most respected technology journalists in the world, wrote a seminal tome last year called What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. The hothouse of the San Francisco Peninsula, which gave us the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead, also gave us the integrated circuit and the Internet router.

The two groups of achievements are more connected than most of us care to remember. Consider, for example, that we would not have the iPod or the Macintosh without a certain acid-dropping, long-haired college dropout named Steve Jobs.

So should you go to Black Rock City with an eye to hiring the Steve Jobs of tomorrow? Of course not; burners consider talking shop to be terribly gauche.

Go instead to marvel at what creative people can do with the tabula rasa of an ancient lake bed. Go to discover how successfully community is fostered in a harsh environment that is trying its best to kill you. Go to participate (a key Burning Man tenet is "no spectators").

And if you happen to find yourself sailing across the desert in a vast pirate ship on wheels, sipping margaritas with a venture capitalist, an engineer, and two suspiciously familiar-looking guys painted blue and green - well, consider yourself lucky you didn't have to make an appointment.

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Probing questions

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:26:00 GMT

Is Burning Man unique?
Is it a distraction from actual politcal and/or community involvement at home?
Is the Burning Man experience a commodity?
Are fuzzy pink legwarmers inherently more individualistic than Chairman Mao jackets when everyone is wearing them?

Contribute, discuss and continue.

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It's Getting Closer!

Melodious — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 03:46:37 GMT

Boring, boring, and more boring...Zzzzzzzzzzz....

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What Do You MEAN, Underground Art Party???

MarcoPolo — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:39:57 GMT

Yo.

We all hear about Burning Man, we hear about it EVERYWHERE. Sometimes, we may overhear conversations about it in the weirdest of places.

What's the most ridiculous place you ever hear talk about the BM? (any place in San Francisco does not count)... I'm hoping to gather up personal stories that show just how mainstream this event has become... how "out of the box" this cat has gone.

I'll start. As mentioned in a previous thread, I was out with my GF at the local weekend swap meet on the Asian neighborhood of Las Vegas, a glittering hicksville if ever I lived in one. Cowboy music in the parking lot, those big-hair country-moms with american flags rhinestoned on their denim jackets and everything. At this swap meet, there was one particular booth that sold LED blinky-toys. A short Filipino woman, grandmother-age, was explaining to a potential customer (he was pondering the option of purchasing a keychain with blinkies), that this was the kind of thing people went crazy for at Burning Man...

"What's that?" Asked the cowboy.

"Oh, you know, they have this big party in the desert, and everybody wears fur and lights in their costumes, and they burn this big wooden statue of a man." The Filipino granny replied. "Then they have a big party while it burns down, and then they all go back to San Francisco."

"Oh, yeah," remarked the cowboy, "I hurd a that."

...I dunno if he ever bought the keychain, I had to walk away right then, so as to not guffaw rudely behind them!

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BM dream

madame7 — Mon, 29 May 2006 22:06:21 GMT

I had a dream last night that i met some burners who were really excited to show me what they had built on the Playa. It was essentially a tower, maybe 15 stories high and about 60 feet across at the top, sort of squared off but rounded on the corners because it was made out of earth and wood. I think it was originally a mesa that they chipped away to make a tall skinny tower that they added ladders and steps to so you could get to the top. The guy i was talking to was all animated and hyper about how cool it was that they had built this mechanism that made it easier to lift people up there. He said that some little kids had fallen off while climbing it so they decided to build a lever and pulley system to make it safer. So while the structure of this thing was mildly impressive, i didn't really get the point of why they had built it, other than just to get to the top. And it was then that i noticed all of these lions and cheetahs and other endangered animals at the top which had been living atop the mesa, and they were running around frantically because they were stuck up there with very little room to run around, nothing to eat, no water, and no way down because whatever path they used to take to get up and down had been destroyed in the building of this work of Art. Somehow, the animals had been overlooked in the process, and now the Burners were faced with the quandary of what to do about these freaked out cats and ?? i can't remember what else was up there, only that the animals wanted the hell out.

the end.

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Burning Man Products

Rodney — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:38:34 GMT

I was sitting here reading some of the threads on Boring Man and came to the conclusion that burners are not free-thinkers at all, even though they protest to be. As such, they would be ripe pick’ins for any corporate marketing campaign, which made me wonder about the following.

If you could market any product to a burner, what would it be?

Mine would be an Eau De Parfum Spray entitled, “Harmattan.” The slogan would be;
“Between an overflowing porta-potty and a flame twirling, brainless twit lies Harmattan. Live the experience year round through a rancid essence of unfettered pit stench amassed with a raw, acrid belch. Harmattan, live the playa, again, with each application.”

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The Pinnacle Of Irony

MarcoPolo — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:30:28 GMT

Lord, help me.

I may... actually.... be.... GOING TO BM this year..... (shudder)

My G-friend has never gone, and as a creative person she feels the curiosity. My brother, who's been in a Texas prison for 6 years and is getting out in late May, has never gone and wants nothing more than to spend his first holiday as a free man roasting his brains & body on the Playa.

Me, I feel a double impulse to go with him and keep him out of trouble, and to chaperone my G-friend so my worst Playa-Giggolo fears won't come true.

This means spending a week in the most horrible environment known to man, among some of the most annoying cross-sections of the American demographic, and spending hundreds of dollars to see art I already saw and be kept up all night by the cacophonous din of 100 Raves In Hell...

But it also means I get to see friends I've not seen in years. And to hang out with true creative people among the throngs of day-glo hipsters.

****HELP***

How will I cope? I need a support group.

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Pre-Burning thoughts from a BM first-timer 2006

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:52:11 GMT

ok i only joined in order to post. i am from germany and heard from burning man on german tv shows/documentaries. i never really had the wish to go there, but now that i am here i am curious what this is all about. i will go this year, for sure.

i have no deeper relation to art, i just like to have fun, and that's why i go there. party and fun, that's my only goal. burners might hate me for that, i am a BM tourist.

i don't know if i will find the parties i wish to get, the parties i had here in the bay area seemed a little bit different from what i am used to from partying in germany (all these legal restrictions here, but maybe i just haven't been to the right parties, sorry don't want to offend you ;-)
but that's not my point, i am just wondering, if all the people go to BM because there they feel accepted for what they really are, and they go there and wear freaky costumes and think that's what i really am, what if i am just me, wearing whatever is necessary in this desert, am i accepted or do people consider me boring for what i really am, because i don't have to define my inner self through clothes...?

finally, they are not freakier or different then the society, because in this desert they ARE the society. WE ARE ALL THE SAME. it's all objective... any thoughts to that?

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Naked on the Playa Pics

Dan — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:35:33 GMT

After a while, the naked playa pics just get boring. Boring, boring, boring. I'm not saying it's not a good experience for those who do it.....I think it's a good experience....but why, oh why, do they need to have themselves photographed and then post those pics here on Tribe?

Enough with it already!

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THE PLAYA CLINIC????

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:57:17 GMT

Does one exist? . sounds like i could make some cookies bein a nurse and all.
what do folks do at bm.?
and bm stands for poop in my feild of work.
are there trojan camps and diaphram dugouts . pregnancy stds. and lots of drugs. i have never been
but bein stuck out in the desert with say a case of the crawlies in my woolys wouldnt make sucha spiritual thing . i have heard girls go oh god it changed my life yeah they discovered chlamydia right?.
all that sex and no running water?
so just whore baths yuk...
ll make documentary on the THE GERMS OF BURNING MAN and sell it like the other bm hos.
if i offen any one i dont mean to but this tribes name asks for offending
does it not?

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i heard about "Buttring Man"

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:23:28 GMT

while living on the east coast...

and honestly?
i had thought of going and trying it out...
i "thought" it was just a long outdoor electronica party...
but, nope...
it's a lot more than that.
the more i heard about it
the more i learned about it
the more contact i had with burners the move turned off i got.

i see it as a bunch of "cool wannabees"
that need to "spiritualise" drugs, nudity and/or sex
like... they are not "good enough" on their own.
like... they know more, feel more than others...

fuck that!

the more i know about it
the more i hear about it.. the more i hate it.
it has a "freaky cult-like" feel to it that is just not healthy!

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Is is just me...

shatter_old_profile — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:42:25 GMT

...or do all the playa pics of people holding/spinning fire at night look incredibly staged?

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New Business Idea

fnord — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:00:11 GMT

Inspired by the discussion in the critical tits thread, I came up with an astoundingly wonderful new business idea. Set up a camp at BM with a porn studio theme, then sell the recordings and pictures you get out of it. Even before the lawyers or BM mgt swoop down on you I bet you'd make a killing.

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Does Boring Man Burn?

Phoenix — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 05:56:21 GMT

http://www.rainbowpuddle.com/images/boringmanburning.jpg

Got a picture here of Boring Man all fired up!

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