messiahwannabe mostly OTM I think even if I have no interest in ever going again. too many people/too much raving.
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
BURNING MAN ALASKA 2012 - or is that just wicker man
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
An ex-gf of mine went this year. Over the past few years, these have turned into her people. Which is fine, I guess. More power to them all. But you wouldn't catch me within a hundred miles of this shit.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
a friend of mine has worked for BM for over a decade now and it's been interesting to hear her behind-the-scenes take on the organization and the event itself and how things have grown and changed. long story short - when the men were in charge things were wild, dangerous, unplanned, etc. as the event grew in size and the women in the organization took over, things have become much more regulated, restricted, well-organized, etc. which was probably required by the event's scaling-up. even so I basically have no interest in an event that involves this many people, no matter what it is.
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Burning Man, LLC?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Black Rock City LLC
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
also, *everyone* is totally in the mood to get laid.
This sounds amazing until you realize there's a possibility you'd be the odd one out. Then it sounds like the most treacherous thing ever.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
xp It's the LLC that really matters.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/organization/index.html
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
Burning Sensation Man
― kate78, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
it does have a gross MTV-spring-break-for-nerds sorta vibe to it
I never got laid there fwiw (well, apart from the couple years I went with my gf)
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
spring break on bad acid
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
SF is never better than it is the week all the burners are gone.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
"Burning Person"
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
so true. plentiful parking! parks and museums and movie theaters and shows! bars/restaurants free of jerks!
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/the-best-craigslist-missed-connections-from-burning-man/262004/
You may of been my true-love-prince! - w4m - 24
I, was wearing purple polka-dotted crotchless panties, yellow fuzzy tap dancing shoes and rainbow knee-high socks with swirly peace signs. On my tits, I had disco pasties. I have sicc multi-colored dreads.
You, had a green goatee, and no pants. A cow patterned blazer, No shirt. Sicc tatts.
I saw you hula'n on the multi-colored flying dragon art-car as I was riding my TIGHT cruzer thru da sicc playa dust.
We made eye-contact and never saw each again! Hope the universe brings us together. Namaste.
P.s. my name is Raven.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
da sicc playa dust
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
"We made eye-contact and never saw each again! Hope the universe brings us together. Namaste."
Hope I can remain in a marajuana haz efor life yo
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
when you're there, and in the mood to have fun, this is the kind of stuff you notice, wandering around the desert high as a kite. also, *everyone* is totally in the mood to get laid.
No fooling, this, in a bare wide powdery desert in 289752895 degree heat, sounds liek the worst fucking hell I could imagine. I cannot fathom this being an enjoyable idea. It sounds like some hunter s thompsonesque nightmare to me.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
maybe because his coverage of the mint motorcycle race was in the nevada desert and burning man is in the nevada desert?
― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 6 September 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
Well, obviously.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Thursday, 6 September 2012 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
i was the odd one out more than once, didn't keep me from having fun there! it was just kinda in the air (cue obvious smelly genitals joke). it's a good party. it's intense. it's unlike anything else i've ever done. there were plenty of intensely crappy parts ("bare wide powdery desert in 289752895 degree heat" is a real thing you have to deal with) that were outweighed by the intensely fun parts. maybe a bit like an acid trip?
once again: i feel like so far on here, pretty much everyone who's had something bad to say about it has never actually been.
i could be wrong but this strikes me as possibly a joke? possibly by an actual burning man participant - i'll give you some of the details are pretty spot on, people do kinda dress like that there, but the "TIGHT cruzer thru da sicc playa dust, namaste" just sounds like parody.
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 6 September 2012 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
whether it's real or not, I enjoyed it
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 6 September 2012 06:31 (eleven years ago) link
i grudgingly admit it was funny
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 6 September 2012 06:43 (eleven years ago) link
have they really increased their ticket prices $100 over two years? in a recession?
― thomp, Thursday, 6 September 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
okay technically not 'in a recession' i need coffee
considering it sells out every year and the local authorities raise their rates/fees every year why would that be unsurprising
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 September 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
er surprising
"You were there reeking of patchouili and human stink. I rubbed mud on my belly and did an interpretive ritualdance. Hopeing we can try to eat plants we find in the forest one day"
that should be one
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
"We were both tripping balls and you were filled with white light. Call me"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
"You had James Brown tattooed on your anus>"
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
My current place of employment allowed some of my more favored co-workers to go to Burning Man for the week, paid...and then also gave them this week off to recover.
I really need a new job.
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 7 September 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
left out the funniest part of that missed connection which is the last line:
p.p.s we saw each other at burning man.
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Friday, 7 September 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
were do you woerk
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Friday, 7 September 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Hmmmmm. If someone else was footing the bill and giving me an additional week off during which to recover I might very well be singing a different tune and already thinking about where to order my purple crotchless panties from for next year's event.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 7 September 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, September 7, 2012 2:04 PM (2 hours ago)
this sounds fucked up
you should petition them for recognition of your own chosen festival of holistic meaningfulness + setting fire to things
― ask morbs if he is better off than he was 4 days ago (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 7 September 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
going to burning man with my co workers seems likea circel of hell
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Friday, 7 September 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
One of my coworkers went a couple years ago with his brother. Their other brother had died the prior year from a freak accident, and it was kind of a bonding thing. The brother had a mutant vehicle repair shop with welding tools.
Hearing a pretty straightlaced 50-something guy talk about Burning Man was cool
― your naïve bacon (mh), Friday, 7 September 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
that's p cool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 September 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
they must all literally be burned by the desert sun on their saggy flesh
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Friday, 7 September 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno, if one of my siblings had died in a freak accident, I might be inclined to stay away from freaks.
― pplains, Friday, 7 September 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
boom
― ask morbs if he is better off than he was 4 days ago (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 7 September 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.turboderek.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/runningman1js.jpg
― centipede burt s (how's life), Friday, 7 September 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/muppetwickerman1dfsd.jpg
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Friday, 7 September 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
i went to this...it was really fun
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 10:23 (eleven years ago) link
don't understand why it seems to generate so much hate from ppl who haven't been. it was one of the most civilized events i've ever been to. i'll take a few naked hippies who act respectfully towards each other & the environment over yr standard uk festival crowd who seem to take pleasure shitting everywhere except the fucking toilet any day.
went to so many fun camps & saw a lot of great djs & sunrise at the disco knights camp was probably the best party i've ever been to.
probably my weirdest moment was when ruby wax knocked on the door of our rv
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think critics are necessarily fans of huge music festivals, either.
Assuming you are limiting to large scale activities with camping when you say "most civilized events."
― your naïve bacon (mh), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
i was gonna say "most civilized music festival" but it's not technically a music festival so idk.
almost everyone i've talked to who hasn't been is a critic whether they are a fan of music festivals or not.
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
no nude hippies for me please
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link