Burning Man

i should become a professor or something

The people I know who go aren't hippies, they are artists/designers/musicians/etc.

http://www.thespoon.com/costco/

If you're looking for scary scraggly creepy people on lots of drugs there, you will find them. If you're looking for amazing unusual fascinating people, you will also find them. There is a lot of really bad art, and more than a bit of incredibly good art. And the idea of spending 2% or so of my year in a culture that's pretty much entirely based on creativity and kindness really appeals to me.

Also, Gygax, it's a little hard for something to go all commecial when you're not allowed to use money there...

I mean, if the haters stay home, so much the better (it's not like "no no, you just have to GO there, then you'll SEE"--if you're predisposed to hate it, you will anyway), but it's kind of disconcerting to see the knives coming out.

Not that I'd ever go, but if I did I'd have to make myself a Christopher Lee costume.

Last year, Tom Schild (current PPLO President)
ventured to the Wrong Side of the Trax at the
invitation of Yuta Lee (PPLO Ambassador to the
Dave Train).

This year, our fearless leader Tom is unable to
face the playa but vows to return next year. In
his place, a crew of 11 DC emissaries will be
representing the PPLO on the playa. I believe we
are the largest DC contingent in any camp.

Ambassador Lee arrives in Black Rock City today
for preliminary infrastructure development. Phil
Psilos (General Mayhem) will be in charge of
military operations for recreational terrorism.
In the absence of our President, I will assume
duties as Field Commander-in-Chief. (I'm
currently on TDY in the Bay Area).

We are the PPLO – The Party People Liberation
Organization. We are recreational terrorists
dedicated to decriminalizing the underground and
preserving our constitutional right to express
our individuality, dance, create house music,
celebrate life, groove to whatever makes us
groove, be freaks and, above all, assemble in
the name of love and peace!!!!

PPLO PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
I Pledge Allegiance to the cause of preserving
our music and culture, and to the PPLO that
protects it, at Nation or underground, all night
long, with partying and dancing for all...

Namaste,
Ky ("Key")

Field Commander-in-Chief
PPLO (Party People Liberation Organization)
Wrong Side of the Trax (Dave Train)
3:30 Serious Authority, Black Rock City

Hahahahahaha... yeah, generalizations about people from entire regions or countries are great. Nothing else does as good a job of bringing the ignorant flotsam of society to the surface. But I'm sure you didn't REALLY mean anything by that, did you Tep? ;)

GERLACH, NV—The Burning Man festival, a prominent artistic and countercultural event that draws tens of thousands of people to the Nevada desert annually, is in danger of cancellation this week because "no one had their shit together enough to even make it," organizers said Tuesday.

http://www.theonion.com/current_top_story.html

"The event likes to bill itself as radical self-sustainability, but really it's an orgy of consumption," said Jack Haye, a computer modeler at Industrial Light and Magic in San Rafael. Haye was exhibiting one of his sculptures at Burning Man.

"There is way too much utilization of new materials that are wasted. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars -- or millions -- are spent in Costco in August getting ready for this?"

http://blog.hisnameistimmy.com/?p=12

-- sexyDancer (jjjjjjjjjjjjj...), September 9th, 2004 12:42 AM. (link)

http://shopbilder.comonline.net/pics/pa/015/picx/603218.jpg

Much in the same way that Burning Man is.

i don't know much about it, but it seems mostly uninteresting and mostly harmless. i think my sister's been at least once.

glad to be of some use around here