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IT HAS BEGUN!!!

The-Shatter — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:55:11 GMT

Rather late this year... but no lack of ride beggers and discount ticket shoppers...

--S

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the american dream 2008

visceroplueral — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:28:24 GMT

I am curious of what you all think about this years theme. It is the American dream~ a homage to the mulicultural United States, celebrated by the majoriy: caucasians. Any comments? I

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Is it just me, or...

Isara — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:04:18 GMT

have the burners been less obnoxious about BM this year?

Either I got new friends since last year, or no one is particularly thrilled about going. I just realized that it's nearly August and I haven't heard the antsy anticipation and the non-stop chatter about BM this year.

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Burning Man changed my life!

danceslut — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:51:41 GMT

Burning Man changed my life!

You hear that a lot, particularly after each year's BM. It's usually said in a positive tone.

Look back at the people you know who went to BM and said that. Have they really changed, for the better? (Acquiring drug habits or diseases or breaking up with long-term partners doesn't count, unless they really should have DTMFA years ago.) Are they really happier in October, or in January, than they were before they bought their ticket or started packing? Do they have their shit more together than previously? Are they actually following up on whatever mystical change that was triggered at BM?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Sick of hear.....

Checkers — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:34:57 GMT

I'm sick of hearing... "Have you found your camp yet?"

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Hitler Plans For Burning Man

kundalinicowgirl — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:17:18 GMT

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CV4i7dWeu0c

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Why I like this tribe.

Aribig — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:07:03 GMT

I was thinking about leaving, just because I thought that it might be bad for my mental health, being too involved in a forum devoted to ineffectual, frustrated complaint.
BUT, I am a broke motherfucker who goes to Burning Man just because I enjoy it, in spite of all the louts who wish to prove how enlightened or creative they are. I find much of the criticism in this tribe really inspiring, even when it isn't meant to be constructive. I mean that sincerely. I am a member of the Burning Man tribe, as well, but I visit this one more often.

Thank you all for bitching so zealously.

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It's working!

singingnymph — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:27:24 GMT

The dwindling numbers at Burning Man are really upsetting Larry... I mean, Herr Führer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV4i7dWeu0c

P.S. Please go give my comment about Larry's new mustache some love.

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WATER WOMAN GATHERING

Renee — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:56:53 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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Right-wingers vs. Burners

Isara — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:12:48 GMT

Oh dear. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57523

Melanie Morgan
Burning Man vs. burning pride in America
Posted: September 7, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Driving down Interstate 80 through California's Sierra Nevada Mountains with my differential on fire, a slow rage started building in me.

Labor Day weekend traffic was wailing along at 5 mph, and I was looking at the backend of hundreds of Chevrolet Tahoes, Expeditions, Jeep Grand Cherokees, and reeking hippy busses that were burning a hole in the ozone up to the cerulean blue skies.

The stragglers from the Burning Man Art Festival – at which 40,000 tree-huggers pop peyote, smoke weed and destroy the ecologically sensitive playa in the Nevada desert – certainly didn't have any Eureka! moments in regard to the environment, I told my traveling buddy Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson.

These teenage dreadlocked navel-gazers were clogging up traffic on the freeway and slowing down our patriotic caravan of freedom lovers traveling to 27 rallies all across the country with a proud pro-troop message. We have dubbed the cross-country caravan the "Fight for Victory Tour," or "give peace through strength a chance" in our more casual moments.

(Column continues below)

Monday morning before the launch in Carson City, I looked out the window of our Holiday Inn Express, shocked by the sight of a '60s psychedelic painted bus. I assumed the contraption attached to the rear of the coach was some new-age bio-diesel thingamabob. It turned out to be a collection of rubber anatomically correct private parts. I'll let your imagination roam from there.

Our decorated lead vehicle was sporting streaming banners of red, white and blue flags, and Uncle Sam's image on each side with a sign that read: "We Don't Surrender To Terrorists."

I thought it was a nice compare-and-contrast for what is happening in the world today. Burning Man Festival (which builds a 10-story tall man that is set on-fire at the end of the week-long gathering – but this year had a premature immolation) versus hundreds of men and women who stopped their lives and interrupted their holiday backyard BBQs to turn out in protest of Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, who calls our troops "losers."

Move America Forward folks believe we are engaged in a life-and-death struggle against the Islamo-fascists who have been on a worldwide killing spree for dozens of years.

Our uplifting message that we are WINNING the war in Iraq delivered in Carson City, Sacramento, San Francisco, Modesto, Los Angeles and all the other stops along the way was enthusiastically received. Cheers of support rolled over the park for Debby Lee, whose son Marc Alan Lee was the first Navy Seal killed in Iraq, and Deborah Johns, whose son William stands ready for his fourth deployment back to the battlefield.

Burning Man attendees were rolling around in the desert dirt, celebrating the Flaming Lotus Girls and Serpent Mother's articulated flaming snake, dropping acid, cramming "shrooms" and dropping out of reality.

OK, so kids and old smelly hippies are entitled to their fun – but when the San Francisco Chronicle (and dozens of other newspapers and blogs) writes about a zillion words about their antics, while ignoring our heartfelt plea for the country to remain strong and united behind our troops and their mission, well, something is out of kilter in the cosmos.

Reality check! Gen. David Petraeus is going to deliver a report to Congress around Sept. 11. My sources say he is going to say something like this:

* There is every reason to be optimist about the prospects for establishing security in Iraq.

* Operation Phantom Thunder is the first coherent campaign to route al-Qaida strongholds at once. No more whack-a-moles. AQ in Iraq has been DEFEATED.

* Smaller terrorist groups are on the run.

* Kim Kagan, president of the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, says that "the tide in Iraq is clearly turning, as the Iraqi people are voting with their lives to fight with us against the terrorists and militias. Now is not the time to give up the flight."

Let the '60s refugees and their rainbow-haired progeny roll in the mud and do in their Burning Man. The grown-ups of the world are setting fire to our patriotic spirit, winning freedom for oppressed Iraqis and killing a lot of Muslim extremists who would be more than happy to take them out into the desert night, douse them with gasoline and burn them alive, exactly what they did to Iraqi children whose parents supported reconciliation in Iraq.

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Another great idea for BM

The-Shatter — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:54:44 GMT

Think we could sell Time Shares in BRC?

--S

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Just for fun

The-Shatter — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:40:12 GMT

Can we rename the tribe to

"I don't care what you did on the Playa"

Could be fun.

--S

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oh noes! premature immolation!

Isara — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:40:27 GMT

I keep giggling hysterically over this story, and at the ire of all of my burner friends who aren't out there yet.

(and best mugshot photo EVER) Is it really arson if it's supposed to burn anyway?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/28/BA2ARQRFI.DTL

Burning Man's icon goes up in flames, 4 days prematurely

(08-28) 11:27 PDT BLACK ROCK DESERT, NEV. - A San Francisco man was arrested on felony arson charges today after the 40-foot-tall "Man" statue whose torching is the annual highlight of the Burning Man festival in Nevada went up in flames four days early, authorities said.

Paul Addis, 35, of San Francisco, was booked into the Pershing County Jail in Nevada on the arson charge and misdemeanor possession of fireworks, Sheriff Ron Skinner said.

Festival organizers, meanwhile, pondered the smoldering remains of the Man and promised to rebuild the big guy in time for Saturday's regularly scheduled burn in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno.

"The Man is still standing, and an assessment is under way to determine the structural integrity of the Man and the Green Man Pavilion," according to a statement posted today at www.burningman.com. "The event will continue as scheduled."

Jamie Thompson, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Land Management, which manages the land where the event is held, said the platform and material around the statue was intact.

Some 40,000 people are expected to gather in the desert by this weekend for Burning Man, and Thompson said about 15,000 revelers are already at the festival site. Many were on the playa early this morning watching the lunar eclipse when the fire ignited at 2:58 a.m., according to Burning Man organizers.

Thousands of festival-goers streamed out onto the playa from the surrounding Black Rock City encampment to view the spectacle, witnesses said. Black Rock City rangers rushed to the scene and doused the conflagration within about 25 minutes.

Reactions ranged from amusement and support to frustration and anger.

"I am disturbed that the Man is burnt. As I looked at it, I was going, 'This can't be happening,' " said Bob Harms of South Lake Tahoe, a seven-time burner.

Kyle Marx of Eugene, Ore., said the fire started from the Man's left leg and spread to engulf nearly his entire body.

"Some people were chanting, 'Let him burn, let him burn!' and some were chanting, 'Save the man, save the man!' " Marx said.

Several people were seen clambering up the tower of logs below the statue's platform base shortly before the fire began.

"Someone went to a great extent to interfere with everyone else's burn. I think, frankly, an attention whore has made a plea for attention," said a Burning Man volunteer named Ranger Sasquatch. "In three days, we will have this rebuilt."

A festival-goer who identified herself as simply Erica said she and her friends were "upset by the fact that someone would take this away from everybody who comes to the event just to see the man burn. To try to sabotage him is completely wrong. We wait all year long. This is an adult's Christmas party."

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BM suicide

timrayborn — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:11:04 GMT

Playa Suicide

A Burning Man participant was found dead this morning, hanging from the inside of a two-story high tent, according to Mark Pirtle, special agent in charge for the Bureau of Land Management.

The apparent suicide would be the festival's first in its 21 year history, Pirtle said.

Pershing County coroners are investigating the scene and preparing to remove the body. Pirtle said the man was hanging for two hours before anyone in the large tent thought to bring him down. "His friends thought he was doing an art piece," Pirtle said.

A makeshift morgue is being set up at the law enforcement command center on the outskirts of Black Rock City. Pirtle said authorities can not release information on the dead man's name until next of kin is notified.

The incident has gone unnoticed by most of the 36,000 revelers who have already arrived. The city's population is on pace to hit 46,000, Pirtle said, a fourteen percent increase from last year.

Holy crap. An "art piece."

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irony

Isara — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:56:45 GMT

theme is "Green Man" this year. Ginormous Green Man gets set on fire. I wonder how much toxic smoke and CO2 gets released?

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lovely rant about Burning Man

Isara — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:59:37 GMT

(interestingly, found on the BM Tribe: http://bm.tribe.net/thread/6d24e324-1c9d-477f-b2a1-d79fce7217a2 )

Achtung Hippie! : Reflections on the Burning Man Scam
by Patrick Mulroy
Saturday, Sep 9 2006
blog.hisnameistimmy.com/

The idea of holding a massive event in one of the hottest nastiest driest places on the planet seems stupid on the face of it. Why would almost 40,000 people pay over $200 for a ticket and probably $1000-1500 total to suffer in this godforsaken place for a week or more? For years my common sense kept me away, just as it has safely helped me avoid backpacking in Afghanistan, running an ultra-marathon in Death Valley or eating bacon wrapped hot dogs from the vendor carts in Tijuana. Though my common sense seldom fails me, my friends often do and they conned me into wasting a week of my life and about $1500 to attend Burning Man 2006.

To be fair, my friends had been conned themselves by glowing reports of the “magic” of this overrated hippie love fest at the gates of Hell. “Burning Man changed my life, man” was the word. Hey, we all want to change our lives: stop smoking, lose weight, quit drinking, fall in love. The promoters of Burning Man promised all of this and more in their feel-good web accounts of dull people who now lead exciting lives, thanks to taking the Burning Man cure. These absurd claims had the hollow ring of cult indoctrination, but I was hooked. I wanted to drink the spiked kool-aid and search for magic in the nothingness of the Black Rock Desert.

Nothing could have prepared me for the stupidity of this event, except perhaps an honest account of how truly awful it was. I’ve been unable to find such an account, online or elsewhere. I offer my dissent to the pretense that is Burning Man. I hope that my eyewitness report will save potential burn victims a week of vacation and at least a grand in misspent cash.

Few communities want 40,000 yahoos drinking, drugging and fornicating in their backyard for a week. I know I don’t. As such, Burning Man is held in a dry ancient lakebed known as a “playa” in a state where gambling and prostitution are legal, respectable businesses and 24 hour boozing is a protected right: God Bless godless Nevada. When the gold ran out and most of the Indians had been murdered, they turned to exploiting human weakness to earn their daily bread. Promotion of vice is the state’s stock and trade.

Whatever Burning Man supporters claim, know this, the event is a 24/7 bacchanal of booze, drugs, nudity, S&M, public sex, and bad art, all done in a scorching flat dry oasis of misery that reminded me of the surface of Mars. This drug orgy is translated by event promoters on the BM website as a “radical experiment in self-expression.” Wasn’t that Jeffery Dahmer’s excuse when asked about the body parts in his fridge?

From San Diego, the Black Rock Desert is exactly 900 miles on my trip odometer. I arrived with two friends, Tim and Alex, just past sunset on the first official day, Monday the 28th of August. As we descended onto the site, we could see the flat and vast playa, ringed by the Jackson Mountains and Black Rock Range. Stark and beautiful, yes, but thousands of cars and RVs, combined with the constant wind, had kicked up a massive storm of alkali dust. Dust masks are required gear at all times though many do not wear them. Even with a mask on, it is impossible not to inhale alkali dust at Burning Man.

We waited in the Will Call ticket line for 30 minutes in this storm. Most of the Burning Man staff are volunteers and seemed stoned and disorganized, though cheerful. Most Burning Man tickets go for $225 if you buy them a well in advance. As “the burn” approaches, the prices steadily ratchet upwards.

While we waited in line, a staff member announced that all the $325 tickets were sold out and that the price was now $350, snickering as he made the announcement. There was now little pretense that this was not a massive grift. The only service included in your $225-$350 admission is overflowing portapotties, often devoid of toilet paper. That’s it. In what universe is that not a grift?

Prior to entering the BM compound, all vehicles are searched: not for drugs, guns or explosives (bring as many of those as you want), but for stowaways trying to avoid the $250 ticket price. “Don’t try to grift a grifter” is the point here.

Finally reaching the front of the line, we were met by a greeter: “Welcome home!” she gushed. Good acid, I thought. She must have mistook us for black rock beetles, the only living thing that calls the playa home, surviving mostly on hippie skin and other organic matter blown by chance onto the playa.

After a two-hour traffic snarl at the gate, we arrived at our camp: exhausted, surly and coated with a fine layer of dangerous alkali dust. If the founder and King Rat of Burning Man, Larry Harvey, had been present we would have gladly taken turns shocking his balls with a car battery, Abu Ghraib-style. We were that pissed. Larry was likely in St. Bart’s spending our money, or perhaps in a fabulous underground lair built by enslaved hippies from previous burns, or maybe just laughing from his Lear jet above in his trademark white Stetson. The man seems a curious cross between P.T. Barnum and Jim Jones, conning the same moon-eyed Bay Area seekers whom Rev. Jim hypnotized so tragically.

The first full day at BM felt like the worst jet lag of my life. I was tired from the 900-mile trip, exhausted from the heat, the dust and the 4,000 ft altitude and thin air. The word “nausea” barely covers the full body ache you feel when “acclimating” to the Martian landscape and punishing heat of Burning Man. You can’t move, you can’t escape the dust or heat and you are surrounded by some of the most perverse and deviant people you will ever meet. Everywhere you look a “porno-copia” of sagging balls, flopping peckers, hairy asses, flabby breasts and other uninvited unattractive nakedness will strip away any remnant of goodwill you may feel towards your fellow burners as the caustic alkali dust strips away your exposed skin. What gives these naked perverts the right to expose their ugly fucked-out carcasses? If being forced to view hundreds of hairy ass cracks as you gag down breakfast sounds fun, Burning Man is for you.

In the mad heat of Burning Man at 2pm on Tuesday, parachutes opened 6,000 feet above and I imagined that Pope Benedict, former child Nazi, had jumped in, leading a brigade of storm trooping Cardinals and castrated choir boys, his Vatican banners streaming yellow smoke from his Luft-Commando parachute, to lecture these folks on the spiritual benefits of wearing clothes.

The Black Rock Playa is about as far as you can get from the Garden of Eden and still be on the planet. Adam and Eve were said to be naked and perfect as God made them. Most of the Black Rock nudies were much less so, and could have hung signs around their necks reading “Behold the Ravages of Time.” At least viewing their tanned and leathery hides reminded me to apply sunscreen.

Then I saw a naked fat man walking alone across the playa into the dead oblivion of the Jackson Mountains, a Barbie doll sticking out of his ass. Ok, I got dehydrated and imagined that one. Still, the official Burning Man web site would welcome Barbie-Ass Man since “There are no rules about how one must behave or express oneself at this event.” When in human history has “no rules” ever been a recipe for harmony or peace?

The overheated Burning Man playa is subject to dust storms that may appear as slow whirling tornadoes or a massive wall. Though you can often see them coming, escape is impossible and winds can top off at over 70 mph: hurricane force. Shade structures and scaffolding with steel frames can be pulled from the ground and may hurt or kill you.

There are thousands of temporary steel framed structures, secured loosely to the playa, that may go airborne without warning as dust devils assault Black Rock City. Note to future burners: You may be injured or killed at Burning Man. The climate and weather of the Black Rock Desert is wholly unsuited for an event of this size with thousands of steel framed shade structures.

Burning Man Wednesday to Friday was a cauldron of dust, heat and shabby monster trucks (some absurdly labeled as “art cars”) crammed dangerously with partiers blasting bad music from blown speakers. Every day the noise and number of yahoos increased as the weekend approached. The post-apocalyptic spirit of Mad Max and Beyond Thunderdome were all around: monster cars, noise, chaos and intimidation.

Imagine a shabby, somewhat dangerous crew of NASCAR fans, bikers and other bullies looking to inflict their lifestyle on your camp site, then circling for hours and hours all night for another round of megaphone ranting and stupidity. These are the people who tailgated us at 80mph in overloaded RVs hurtling recklessly down the infamous Donner Pass toward Reno. These are the people who complained when firearms were banned from Burning Man a few years ago. If you want to live in a trailer park with 40,000 people where insane drinking, drugging, public nudity and lawlessness are the norm, Burning Man is for you.

The Department of Public Works (DPW) is the rowdy but hard-working crew of roughnecks that sets up and breaks down Black Rock City. They spend months on the playa in rough conditions with low pay to build the city’s infrastructure and return it to a pristine state, post-burn. During one rare moment of comic relief during BM 2006, the DPW paraded through the streets in their beat-down trucks, raiding each camp and demanding cold beer. We gladly surrendered our beer to this heat-crazed and desperate bunch. I have nothing but praise for them, as would anyone who prefers not to be tracked down and killed. “Fuck your day” was their motto: now it’s mine too.

Despite its pretensions as a wacky art project, Burning Man is not about art. Most of the art was terrible with garish acid-inspired images and other peeks into Hell. Any random collection of Toto and Yes album covers would contain better trippy art than all of Burning Man. A few of the “art cars” were inspired and brilliant, though most were just chicken-wire enclosed golf carts kicking up dust on the esplanade and trailing a few Christmas lights and dusty faux fur.

Burning Man is not for non-conformists. You must wear a Burning Man outfit or risk constant abuse. I did not wear any silly costumes at Burning Man, or dress in drag, or hang my ass in the breeze, nor did my friends. Surviving the heat was plenty: we had no spare energy for playing dress up. For this breech in burner protocol, weirdoes in furry suits chided us that “jeans are not a costume.” These “furries” dress in full fur suits, like comic characters in the Ice Capades or that big rat at Chucky Cheese, and like to do drugs and have sex in their suits while in character. If there is anything worse than a pervert, it’s a self-righteous druggie pervert, dressed as a chipmunk, offering unsolicited fashion tips. If you want catty advice on how to dress from a crowd of Rocky Horror Picture Show rejects, Burning Man is for you.

Despite pretensions of forming an “experimental community” the Burning Man demographic is whiter than the crowds at the Republican National Convention: Dick Cheney white and twice as mean. I saw less than a half-dozen black people all week and only a few Asians. This proves my theory that blacks and Asians have way more sense than whites. The lack of diversity and total indifference to this lack seem odd considering the pretensions of many Bay Area residents and other burners to racial and ethnic inclusion. There is nothing new or experimental about an all-white community.

I doubt that the white bullies who dominate Burning Man and define its aggressive personality make non-whites feel welcome or safe. If you are white and prefer to party with whites only, Burning Man is for you.

The climax of this neo-hippie hootenanny is the burning of a 40-foot wooden effigy, known as the Burning Man. Before his destruction, this blue neon lit figure is the center of attention in the middle of the Esplanade, the central plaza. I love fireworks and enjoy burning things so I had hoped that this final orgasm of flames and destruction would somehow mitigate the misery of my worthless trip.

The burning of the man is 90 minutes of fire dancers and neo-pagan ritual, all centered on a god-like central figure, with his arms raised in triumph towards a frenzied, expectant crowd, clearly united in some dark purpose. This finale of Burning Man is a kind of hippie Nuremberg Rally.

As the Burning Man burns, both his arms eventually fall to his side. Curiously, his left arm dropped first, leaving his right arm raised in a straight-armed Nazi salute. At that moment, a spontaneous cheer went up a thousand right arms were raised as one over the smoky playa. Heil hippie! No shit, I have it on film.

Despite my disdain for Burning Man, many claim that the event is “magic” and “life altering.” For some, this “magic” comes from their first Ecstasy, acid or mushroom trip. Powerful mind-altering drugs are consumed in massive quantities at Burning Man. People are very nostalgic about the first place they got really, really high. This is part of the affection many have for the event: nostalgia for a first high.

Though not officially a sex party, Venus rules Uranus at Burning Man. The young get laid because they are young and older horny guys can get laid using drugs and booze as a lure. Sometimes their prey will stumble into camp pre-drugged, always a bonus. For many creepy middle-aged guys, Burning Man is a week long frat party where they get their last real shot at nailing women half their age. Lone women are easy prey. The darkness, disguises, anonymous playa nicknames and extreme intoxication that occurs at Burning Man makes it a date rapist’s Disneyland. Of course, if sober and fully consensual sex is your thing, there are several approved swinger and sex-themed camps at Burning Man too.

If you did not get laid, high or loaded at Burning Man but still claim you liked it, then you may have been infected by their magic pods and are now a self-deluded supporter of the Burning Man cult. The cult mantra is that Burning Man is “magic.” I guess, but so is cocaine if you do enough of it. I imagine that the supernatural success of this event could not happened without some special help from the Devil himself, who I’m told holds the deed to Larry Harvey’s soul. If Hell is half as nasty as Black Rock City at noon, I’m going to start being good soon. If you love the Devil and the events he supports, Burning Man is for you.

If you read my review of Burning Man and assume I’m some hung-up religious prude, I can assure you this is not the case. My factual description of the event is accurate. I wrote this review because I could find nothing truly critical of Burning Man online. This is incredibly suspicious. Mother Teresa was considered a living saint yet there are many critical essays about her, but none on Burning Man? Many supporters of Burning Man defend the event as fervently as Tom Cruise defends Scientology. Anyone that is critical simply does not “get it.” My friend Tim responded in kind to a BM supporter when he replied “Is it possible I got it, but ‘it’ actually sucks ass?”

Though a Burning Man “virgin”, I’ve been to a dozen weekend campouts with music and partying and have enjoyed each one immensely. None of these events cost more than $75 and often included meals. All were held in beautiful locations with plentiful water, usually in the mountains. No profits were collected and none of us were burned. Most of the participants were beyond friendly: downright open, affectionate and loving. This was not the case at Burning Man.

Note to hippies: Burning Man is not run for hippies and not run by hippies. It is run by thugs and bullies for the benefit of thugs and bullies. It is a festival for the Freudian Id, the sub-basement of the human psyche. Hermann Goring would have been in heaven here with the drugs, freaky sex, cool costumes and torch-lit rallies. If we all spent one more week in this dark utopia, I’m certain cannibalism and goose stepping would have been de rigueur, then mandatory.

Too many at Burning Man were not even civil or respectful of their fellow burners or themselves. In a sad way, the event reflects our current national temper, a country controlled by red-state yahoos, led by a reckless bully who refuses to change course despite the pile of bodies in his wake. Burn on W. Burn on.

We packed in darkness at 3am Sunday morning, the day of resurrection. The road was empty and I was exhausted and wanted to escape before anyone sobered up. Perhaps this was the magic of Burning Man: surviving an annual death cult rally and returning to the joys of hot showers, air conditioning and dust-free living: civilization never seemed more splendid or necessary.

I reminded my passengers that we had spent one week in a desert hell but no one had shot at us or tried to blow us apart with an IED. Servicemen in Iraq are deploying for a year or more and are in constant peril. Severely injured and maimed Marines have become a common sight in my favorite Oceanside, California poker room. Black Rock City is better than Baghdad, that’s for sure.

The wind was rising, carrying the scent of the last bonfires into the Calico Mountains. I murmured a prayer for everyone. What else could I do? The whole world is bleeding but you can only burn off so much bad karma in a week. The Buddha urges patience in these matters. All is passing, everyone we love, the rights we enjoyed before 9/11, basic civility and human decency, all gone now.

The America I was raised in is dead, replaced by a monstrous pretense of democracy. I drank a Red Bull and kept my eyes on the road. I could not stop crying.

As we headed for Reno across the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, my friends drifted to sleep as the muffled voices of Native American spirits reminded me to stay awake and the horizon glowed with the heartbreaking blue light of the desert before dawn.

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Women Stand and Pee at Burning Man!

Karen — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:56:56 GMT

* Disposable - recyclable or burnable!
* No need to undress
* Quick, clean and leak proof
* Folds to fit discreetly in pocket
* Store in zip lock bag for easy transport
* Easy to use wearing pants, shorts or skirts

The P-Mate is a disposable cardboard device that allows women to
discreetly stand up and neatly pee like a man. Eliminates dropping
your drawers to use disgustingly dirty portable johns, other
unsanitary public facilities, or taking a risky squat in a field.
Women deserve the discretion and dignity that the P-mate provides. It
is an ideal companion for traveling, camping, hiking, public events
where facilities are limited, or when sitting or squatting is
difficult due to pregnancy or other medical conditions.

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ways to enjoy Burning Man at home, without going to the desert

Isara — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:43:55 GMT

bwahaha! I love you, Violet Blue!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/08/23/violetblue.DTL

Burning Man and safer sex
Free your mind, but watch out for crabs

While attendees of the yearly arts festival known as Burning Man come from all over the nation and the world, the impact of the costly desert bacchanalia is felt pretty strongly around San Francisco. Many rejoice at the sudden lack of rich hippies and art cars dripping Barbie heads and Legos onto the roads when fog breaks down cheap art-store epoxy, and the ease with which one can get brunch in the Mission. There are virtually no white dudes with dreadlocks for seven square miles. San Francisco smug levels ratchet back to tolerable in the absence of arty hipster trust fund brats and Web 2.0 lets-resurrect-Pets.com-as-a-vlog leeches. Super annoying guys don't hit on me in bars assuming I know what the hell they're talking about when they use terms like "the burn," "the man" and "off the grid."

And at house parties, there are no chicks that become uncontrollably drunk and then attempt to show you how they can "fire dance," accidentally setting fire to the host's potted plant/small dog/infant.

Making the e-mail rounds a few weeks ago -- and sent to me by more than one high-profile local sex educator -- was a snarky list of ways to "enjoy Burning Man at home." The list included many observations about the experience, like:

* Before eating any food, drop it in a sandbox and lick a battery.

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

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

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

* 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. Lust after Bugs Bunny.

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

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

(more at the link)

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ENOUGH!!!

The-Shatter — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:39:43 GMT

DEAR FREELOADING TIT SUCKERS:

STOP POSTING YOUR LISTINGS LOOKING FOR A FREE RIDE TO BURNING MAN. THERE ARE NO FREE RIDES. SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE IS PAYING. TYPICALLY, THE ENVIRONMENT YOU CARE SO MUCH ABOUT. ALSO, STOP POSTING LISTINGS FOR A DATE TO GO WITH YOU TO BURNING MAN. THAT'S LIKE TAKING A DATE TO A GAY ORGY. IN FACT, IT'S EXACTLY LIKE THAT.

--S

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Tattoo Financing: It's not just for rednecks anymore

The-Shatter — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:22:11 GMT

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/Hunny-Du-Melons-Birthday-Tattoo-Fund/san-francisco-ca/40eb2fc7-8668-4ef5-8ff4-8806e0edcfcb

Jeff Foxworthy always made the joke...

"If you have ever financed a tattoo... you might be a redneck! YA! Check it out! Two more payments and this baby is MINE!!!!!"

Anyway, that poppe dinto mind when I see a tattoo fundraider party. Who else but burners would ask for handouts to get some stupid tattoo to show off on the playa?

--S

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Just so we have an understanding......FUCK BURNINGMAN.

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:32:07 GMT

A bigger waste of energy and, a bigger centre of self-deluded, culturally mis-appropriating sheltered, trust-fund babies, and covertly racist and sexist ruling class pretenders I have encountered NOWHERE.

right ........................................... it 's just me and my "negative vibes, man"

Dharma does not include engaging in bullshit, covert capitalism orgies, nor shameless ruling class consumption while others starve.

I hereby denounnce burningman, it's followers, and what it creates: a sense of smug, and false spiritual accomplishment.
also a racist mis-appropriation of other cultures, as well as "let the servants do the dirty work" attitude towards, police, military and every other device that props up these "global gaia freedom connection purple spirit karma nudist indigo child free love" deluded idiots.
they play in the sand, building castles, like children and delude themseles and their bloated egos, into believeing they are actually promoting change, while they live firmly in the protective busom of capitalist society. I find it disgusting. racist, and very very imperial.
no offense to this guy,
people.tribe.net/raracheshcubumba ,
but he is a perfect example of why humility must preceed instruction. and how the sacrifices that were made in blood by people who actually fought for these rights, are now being completely wasted by a self centered "left" that does a disservice to the entire history of actual activism.

I said it.
when you can admit your human dark side, and work from there, without lying about it, you have a far better chance of making a historical impact on society.

check history. history is not made by those who dally in the opium dens, nor the mental disneylands and playgrounds of the flesh, decked out in the colors of another culture, and mouthing words, and tattooing kanji, they rarely understand.
it is made by those who can travel to the very sewers of the spirit and raise those who have fallen. not by exalting those who were born rich and act spiritually advanced because they never had the poor fortune to have their spirits tested by real conflict, and real life and death situations.

your culture of consumption offends me, and your profund ignorance in regards to your actual place in thhis capitalist culture amaze me.

there it is.

I invite any comments whatsoever.
by Piero

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could it really be the beginning of the end?

E.T. — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:48:21 GMT

We can always hope, I suppose.

Okay, really I don't care if it ends, per se, I just want to see some smug smart-asses worry about their bowl of *gravy train*.

If the lawsuits don't do it, the publicity from the lawsuits will surely have a lasting impression...
I always wondered, after seeing things from inside, how long it would take for principals to start treating each other with the same disdain and disrespect that a vast number of volunteers/staff have received. After all, with a fresh supply of volunteers each year numbering in the hundreds, who needs civility?

A culture of "bullies" eats itself... fascinating, horrid, predictable.

If you really don't know what I am talking about, google "burning man lawsuit" and read on,

Oh, Wait, damn, I'm sorry, this is the "i'm sick of hearing about burning man" tribe...

On another topic, I moved to Reno from Minneapolis and I really like living here. if it weren't for (unmentioned) I'd never have discovered this place!

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Land Speed Record attempts

gratephil — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:59:45 GMT

..will once again be unwelcome at Black Rock cuz of....ugh! For years, freaks united with air force types to put together machines that eventually broke the sound barrier on land. Thanks to BM megacorp marketing, a new generation won't get the thrill of low environ. impact progress and noble achievements. BTW, notice how much environ. impact burners leave by their participation at this dealie?

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Darwin award

RuMpLe — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:49:33 GMT

It's been over for weeks and I can't seem to escape from
burnies talk about it. Get a life already ! My next door neighBORE
is a yuppie scum who goes to burning turd every year. I have
to listen to her blatherings on the phone to her friends when I'm watering
my deadly nightshade garden. So , I've heard the same shit about
burning turd about 15+ by now. She talked about how 3 people had
died this year. That's three too few in my book ! Anyhow, one sounded
like a candidate for the Darwin Award. This burner idiot got hit by
art car ( imagine that ! ) and recieve a major head trauma and was taken to
the medical tent. The doctor there said he needed to go to Reno emergency
room immediatly. The burner said " I'm not leaving the playa ! " then stumbled
out of the medical tent. He was found a few hours later dead on the ground.
DUH !

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They even invade my tribe...

The-Shatter — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:51:08 GMT

http://bondageagogo.tribe.net/thread/ad793d61-c30b-4d58-ac2f-179e7afa53f6

--S

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Dear Burnie/Burnie

The-Shatter — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:09:03 GMT

I'm glad you had a nice time at Burning Man. Thanks for Shareing.

Please, allow me to be the first to remind you that Burning Man/Turd is now over. I realized that you paid thousands of dollars to go to your "Free" event in the desert, and that nothing but the starbucks costs any cash there. However, you are now back in the real world, and we use money here.

No, you will not get in free to the club. You will not barter your crayon art or used tampons in exchange for cash. I will not make you any 3 for 1 deals for a variety of reasons such as:

1. I have a long line of people willing to pay and you are wasting my time
2. I really don't need you here becaus eyou've already been caught trying to BYOB so that means you have no intention of spending at my bar
3. "Nigga I don't KNOW YOU!"
4. I'm sure you are one of "Joey's" +5's. However, Joey isn't here and it's generally customary that you enter with teh person who's on the list at the time. If you could go in whenever you want your name would actually be on the list itself.

--S

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quiet day

sarita — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:14:34 GMT

not one person I know told me I needed should must go to burning man...can't imagine why

ahhh life is good!

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The Onion: No One Makes It To Burning Man Festival

tjcrowley — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:22:50 GMT

This is making me laugh a lot tonight.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29344

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.

"Jesus Christ, this is pathetic," said event coordinator Ethan Moon as he angrily gestured toward the empty Black Rock Desert basin expanse, known as the playa. "We've been promoting this thing all year. You can't start panhandling quarters for gas the week before the festival and expect to make it here in time, man."

Moon listed some of the most common no-show excuses, among them oversleeping, forgetting to request time off work, faulty van-borrowing arrangements, a shortage of ochre body-paint, and the last-minute realization that transportation to the Burning Man festival requires money.

"As of a few weeks ago, or even a few days ago, there were 30,000 people who honestly planned on coming," Moon said. "In every case, however, there were, well, you know—shit happened."

Although Burning Man festivals have had no-shows in the past, Moon said he's never witnessed absenteeism on this level.

"You have to figure out a way to get here, stock up on water and extra clothing for the cold nights, and make sure you have adequate shelter," Moon said. "Apparently, the advance planning it takes to arrange those three basic things was more than anyone could handle. Sorry to be on this uptight trip, but check out the playa. Not a single nude dude in a homemade papier-mâché tribal mask as far as the eye can see."

Although Burning Man is billed on its web site as a "temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance," it became evident that the no-shows were more capable of the former than they were of the latter.

Los Angeles silkscreen artist Goldi Trewartha was among the tens of thousands of Burning Man devotees who stayed home this year.

"Yeah, I was supposed to go with Ari and Shel, but they couldn't score [Ecstasy] in time for the trip, and I forgot my bartering beads at my friend Marnie's place in Los Feliz," Trewartha said. "Oh, and I forgot to get a dog sitter."

Added Trewartha: "Shel made this great suit out of old stuffed-monkey pelts and duct tape, and he was going to hop up and down on this old trampoline he found. But his ex, Nikki, made him babysit [their daughter] Gaia while she headed out to Big Sur for a few days. I love Nikki, but sometimes she can be real flaky."

Chaz Bullard, a University of Vermont undergraduate and veteran mud person, had multiple excuses for his failure to attend the Burning Man festival.

"I totally spaced that August is 8, and I wrote down 9 in my sketchbook," Bullard said. "Oh, and I got evicted. Yeah, fuckin' Dyl up and ditches me, right, and I'm stuck owing $700, because he wasn't on the lease."

Bullard added that he contracted hepatitis from his ex-roommate's tacos.

Moon said he has received apologetic phone calls from a squadron of recumbent bicyclists lost somewhere in southern Nebraska, a Kentucky artist whose pet python was too carsick to continue the journey, and a group of Germans who uncovered a fatal structural flaw in their "Freak Harnesses" art installation at the last minute.

Hippies were not the only counterculture group to miss the Burning Man festival. Portland-area Linux user and self-described cyber-conceptualist "Free" Lance Kaegle explained his absence in an instant message from his studio.

"I was organizing this boss techno-art project called 'Off The Grid,'" Kaegle wrote. "We were going to set up computer terminals in various parts of the playa and have people use them. Then we'd feed the binary data from those terminals into this fractals program that [Silver Lake, CA software designer] Ricky [Thomas-Slater] wrote. Those fractals would be sent, on the fly, to a group of exiled Buddhist monks I befriended online. The monks would transform the fractals into a temporal sand painting, the making of which we would webcast live to everyone on the playa."

Added Kaegle: "But I had to stop working on the monk thing to finish up this Pam's Country Crafts web site I'm working on. I really need the money."

While most absences were accidental, a few were not. Doug "Crazyroot" Pycroft, a former smoothie-stand employee, has a history of missing countercultural events.

"I thought about going, but then I decided I don't need some dudes pushing their rules down my throat," Pycroft said. "That's the problem with these things. If they're so nonconformist, how come you gotta obey some fascist wearing a lanyard just to use the Port-A-John? Same reason I refused to go to [The Church Of The Subgenius'] X-Day back in '98. Hell, I ditched the very first Lollapalooza one hour in."

As a cloud of sand whipped across the desolate playa, Moon could only shake his head. Although the weeklong festival traditionally culminates in the igniting of the Burning Man, a 50-foot-tall wooden structure strapped with fireworks and other incendiaries, Moon wondered aloud whether he and the handful of other staffers should even bother.

"I guess we could burn what we've built, but it would just feel anticlimactic with no one around to watch," Moon said. "You gotta look at the bigger picture here, folks. You shouldn't think of Burning Man as a burden. Burning Man is about being part of a community. Unfortunately, it's a community of people who can't get up before 1 p.m."

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My muffins are burnin! my muffins are burnin!

Isara — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:10:28 GMT

or, in this case, cupcakes (via BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/28/burning_man_enthusia.html - click the link for pictures)

Burners have their glow-in-the-dark hemp thongs in a bunch over an error in this San Francisco Chronicle article. The subject is a "pollution exchange" at Burning Man modeled after real-world projects like the Chicago Climate Exchange -- but here's the goof in "Burning Man Goes Green":

***
Encouraged by the resurgence of the green movement, the scientists are taking a hard look at all those sacred flaming temples, gas-powered scooters shaped like cupcakes, and hundreds of rumbling RVs that converge for a week on the dry Black Rock Desert lakebed. With an idea that would make Al Gore smile, the scientists have created Cooling Man, an online calculator that determines how many tons of greenhouse gases each of the 37,000 "burners" will produce with their art projects and community camps.
***

Thing is, those infamously cute cupcake art-cars (shown above) aren't powered by gas -- they're electric. And their makers are not amused with the Chronicle's mistake. Using glittery, festooned pens, and wiping playa dust from their eyes, members of the "Cupcake Corners" camp at Burning Man reply:

***
My dear editor,

I feel my muffin has been defiled. In Meridith May's August 26 article entitled "Burning Man Goes Green," she made a particularly distressing error (well, distressing to, at the very least, me and my fellow cupcake builders). Gas powered food? Ick. The motorized cupcakes and muffins are all electric, every delicious one of them, charged by solar panels back at camp. No gas. No varoom. None among us has a gas powered Burning Man art vehicle. (And as a matter of fact, my sweetie and co-inventor of the mobile muffins, converted his Honda Civic Del Sol into a fully electric vehicle years ago. He now works at Tesla Motors, the new company in San Carlos manufacturing a long range electric sports car.) Please remember to do your research even when writing about wacky art projects. Though I hope no one digs deep enough to discover that the furry toppings for the cupcakes were harvested from baby seals and stray kittens.

Greenly yours,
Lisa Pongrace
(Otherwise, I very much appreciated the article)
***

(more outraged responses at the BoingBoing link)

Link to the Chron article is here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/26/BAGV7KPVGE1.DTL

all that aside, I think the Chron article is pretty interesting.

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YAY!

tjcrowley — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:13:47 GMT

THEY ARE GONE!

WE HAVE THE CITY TO OURSELVES!

Just avoid Livejournal and tribe.net, because they're going to be posting all their DEEP DRUG INDUCED THOUGHTS while they are 'roughing it'.

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What do I say?

fnord — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:11:23 GMT

I’ve been meeting burners lately. Some of them are really nice people, and they go to Burning Man because it’s just a fun party for them. But what should I say when these *nice* burners say something like “I’ll see you at burningman!”

I guess the simple answer is “No, you won’t.”

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What I Hate The Most...

baital — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:48:36 GMT

...Is when I see that people have built something I think is a fucking awesome idea...

...And then find out they built it for BM.

http://tribes.tribe.net/neverwas

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and it's the annual BM begging

Isara — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:56:52 GMT

Ugh. I've seen so many listings lately from people begging for "donations" to get to BM for cheap. Call me crazy, but I'd much rather help feed a person who's hungry or kittens in need of a good home or an arts institution than help someone get all drugged up and muddy.

I just don't get it.

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..... ooopssssss ...... i did ..... ~ * ~

sheivahyana — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:20:16 GMT

..... ooops .... i did ..... ~ * ~.........
Today, 4:19 PM

Thömäs T

offline 349

Re: Just so we have an understanding......FUCK BURNINGMAN.

Fri, July 14, 2006 - 5:27 PM

you should copy/paste that on the BM tribe just for shits and giggles

i would love to read the replies ......

**************************************************
..... ooopssssss ...... i did ..... ~ * ~ ... .with a simple correction to the cut //pasre ~> paste ! .... enjoy!

~ * ~
S.

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..... ooops .... i did ..... ~ * ~.........

sheivahyana — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:19:00 GMT

Thömäs T

offline 349

Re: Just so we have an understanding......FUCK BURNINGMAN.

Fri, July 14, 2006 - 5:27 PM

you should copy/paste that on the BM tribe just for shits and giggles

i would love to read the replies ......

**************************************************
..... ooopssssss ...... i did ..... ~ * ~ ... .with a simple correction to the cut //pasre ~> paste ! .... enjoy!

~ * ~
S.

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Why is everyone's profile I look at a Burnie?

"T I M" — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:05:01 GMT

It really is a Techno Deadhead take over if you ask me.

It is fuckin amazing!

And they all look the same!

LOL!

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OH here we go...

The-Shatter — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:39:31 GMT

I'm already starting to hear about the "Compression" parties...

Just keep saying....

"I don't speak burner..."

"I don't speak Burner..."

"I DON'T SPEAK BURNER!"

make the bad people go away.

--S

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It starts again

danceslut — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:54:28 GMT

I just saw mention that BM tickets go on sale soon.

(BM tickets. Sounds like something from a sequel to "Urinetown", doesn't it?)

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Hahahaha.... OMG

The-Shatter — Thu, 18 May 2006 01:13:03 GMT

Ok, Skylars post on teh other thread just mad eme say to myself...

"I'm sorry, I don't speak Burner."

Hahaha.... I'm totally going to use this next time one talks to me.

--S

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Has this guy already been to Burning Man?

danceslut — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:10:24 GMT

http://www.partiallyclips.com/pclipslite.php?id=1403

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So I got this email from somebody....

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:37:49 GMT

"Hey, I had an idea re: an auction item that could feature the fabulous YOU! It would be a "FIRST TIME BURNERS CONSULTATION" which would involve a one-hour personal information session with a seasoned burner (YOU!) telling them what to take, what to do, what not to do, etc. I think that might be fun! No? Let me know if you're interested in doing that. :-)"

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Keep in mind

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:17:38 GMT

This thread is posted in a tribe for a NIGHTCLUB... Thunderdome has it's own tribe.

http://deathguild.tribe.net/thread/b1d2ab4e-0a74-4c5e-854f-23f503501f09

--S

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i don't need a ride this year to Burning Man

bombay13 — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:35:31 GMT

I'm desperately not looking for a ticket to burning man. I didn't have one last year and I probably won't have one again this year. If you don't have a ticket to burning man, could you tell me how you kept from getting one?
Also, I don't have a ride to the playa. If anyone has a full car, would you let me know and I'll not go there with you. Last year I didn't go with some really cool people and I'm hoping to not go with more fun people this year.

Please help folks - it's going to be one entire year before I can not go to Burning Man again.

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Ok... How many you love Burning Man?

"T I M" — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 21:37:24 GMT

Come on!

Admit it!

We are amoungst friends right? :)

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Burners are slow

pulchrasunt — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:03:21 GMT

http://argentinetango.tribe.net/thread/d7155360-4ca7-4a7c-b37c-ee5fa5c61a30#f935e5a8-cb73-46b6-998f-a2b95be8ec69

Talk about a delayed reaction!

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falls over

singingnymph — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:10:12 GMT

So I checked my local "alternative" tribe & saw this message:

I joined the central cali tribe. Where are you guys? Where is the community? BM is more than one week a year!

My response:

*snarf*
*giggle*
*howl*

I should hope so!

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For your humor consideration

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:12:28 GMT

http://tribeideas.tribe.net/thread/90bead61-0778-4f08-9eb9-8615189b3243?newpostingid=00598349-e03e-4361-b03e-ce8ac085beb4#00598349-e03e-4361-b03e-ce8ac085beb4

--S

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Is Burning Man on National park land?

"T I M" — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:19:36 GMT

Because if it is they should be shot and left for the vultures!

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Whats up with playa tit painting

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:25:38 GMT

But the last thing I want to do is paint my tits in the fucking hot desert? Is this what white women do for fun? Get massive sun burn and body paint?

Tell me this isn't odd?

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/9d0/183/9d0183f4-9c4d-4b70-97c1-918d17087a48

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On the plus side....

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:35:21 GMT

Seems like the freeloading hippy burnies are the loudest complainers about tribes policy change.

Perhaps they'll all leave so we don't have to see any more of their posts.

One can hope.

--S

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We're not alone

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:51:33 GMT

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/92109247.html

people on CL are sick of it too...

--S

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You know what Burning Man is...

"T I M" — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:46:12 GMT

I will tell you what it is...

Since The Dead are gone (Thank God!) and The Rave scene has just rolled every E tab there is.. It is just another excuse to be a HIPPY! LOL!

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So this BM chick says to me she is ivited to an exclusive sex orgy

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:40:16 GMT

So this Burning Man chick who happens to be a massage therapist in San Fran says to me - she was hot and poly and bi bbw DJ into BDSM BTW - that while at this last BM she was invited to an exclusive by invitation only sex orgy / play party on the playa featuring like all these beach gals & hunks and porno stars. So she says to me that she turned it down because this is the only time of the year she gets to see all her friends and when the actual sex orgy was going to take place her other friends decided they wanted to go out in the middle of the desert and twirl fire balls on rope and howl at the moon in some neo pagan ritual!

Shit man, I don't know about you, but if I was invited to an exclusive by invitation only sex orgy / play party on the playa featuring like all these beach girls & hunks and porno stars, I would drop my friends for awhile and go to the fucking exclusive by invitation only sex orgy / play party on the playa featuring like all these beach girls & hunks and porno stars - I mean you can always spin fucking fire balls all you want and howl at the moon when you are back home and stoned in Berkeley - life is too short and sex is too good.

Cheers.

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Why I don't like burning man

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:54:14 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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Burning Man (a satire and critical definition)

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:22:39 GMT

Burning Man (a satire and critical definition)
dis - claimer - the views of the author don't necessarily reflect the views of the author - so there.

Where many rich white people (well not all are rich they tell you - but only when they need trust funds from mummy or daddy), who think they know all the answers to our complex world (yay - peace - it's Bush's fault), go and pay money to drive out to the middle of the desert (for like 2 weeks no less - when other people have responsibilities like work and family or dying for ones country) which in essence is the middle of no-where and where they prance and sashay around half nakkid - a bachnal in the sand - the void - an orgy of nothingness in the cracked dry impotent earth, doing belly dances - not realizing that the middle eastern countries where belly dancing originated now want to exterminate Western Civilization in sexually frustrated jihads of hatred towards the freaks, geeks, bi, bois, skanks, lesbos, fags, hippies, tops, bottoms, goths, gen xers, yoga sluts, who goto BM for pouring mud on each other, taking mind altering drugs, not washing, or the girls shaving their arm pits, having promiscuous sex with anything that crawls, wearing ski goggles and furry pink hats, saying "yay" and "right on" all the time - thinking they are the coolest thing since the Fonz because they twirl ropes with Molotov cocktails tied to one end and in the end they end it all in an orgasm of nihilism by burning a wooden skeleton in the desert. How original - how dystopian of that set - the offspring's of baby-boomers who hated their parents in the 1960s and fried their brains at Woodstock communard communes with acid jazzed up visions of Che tyrants and Kabul hash - OH, those poor parents, ancestors of those who rode the wagon trails out west - Kalifornia here we cum - who sacrificed during the depression and fought fascism and communism in the 40s and 50s - for what? So their cute blonde grand daughters could take full credit courses at UC whatever in BDSM and sex toy 101.

Like all new and alternative things - everything in the end becomes mainstream - Burning Man is no exception.

But it sure was fun - or was it the beginning of something? The end, or did it - BM, the bowel movement of a generation become a caricuture of itself?

Though I don't object to living this life everyday - just don't pay for it.

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Burners

Tue, 05 Jul 2005 01:09:55 GMT

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/listing/65bde310-c373-46d8-a861-fe531a6b7101?r=10535

It's not hitchiking.. it's a "Freedom Ride"

--S

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Shattering Man

GothicJames — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:10:57 GMT

I was going to call it Freezing Man, but you don't actually freeze the man, since it's made of ice, you shatter it. Anyway, one day when I get around to it, I'm going to start Shattering Man and it'll be in Alaska or somewhere, and it'll be a week of giant igloos and parkas and shit, but no fucking hippies. It's NOT going to be about communing with people you wouldn't talk to without drugs. It's not going to be about Kommunity. It's going to be breathtakingly cold, crisp, and gothic. Because I, for one, would rather see a chick in a corset (under her parka) than some kind of hippy shit in a straw hat looking like Cindy (Prostitute my Dead Son) Sheehan.

:->
because a bitter goth is a happy goth

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Burning Losers have become a rich man's pawn

th0rn — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:39:19 GMT

go to love it, here's more on the discovery channel buyout, full on hypocrisy =

On Sunday after the burn, 2005, Larry Harvey and John Barlow gave a talk at Otter Oasis Camp.

Stickmon, who camped at Otter Oasis and knew about the Discovery Channel/New York Times deal with BM-LLC for an undisclosed fee had some concerns. During the "Q&A" portion of the talk, Stickmon asked Larry Harvey this: "How can the organizers who believe that Burning Man is not for sale justify charging a large fee to both Discovery Channel and the New York Times for documenting the festival?"

Harvey's response: "What's wrong with making some money off of them?"

This response was followed with a smattering of laughter by Harvey and the audience.

As a burners, I ask: is Larry's response acceptable to you, in light of what you understand about Burning Man? I disagree with Harvey. I find the fee and the resulting advertising revenue generated from this program to be the gross antithesis of the "10 Principles" as set by BMorg, particularly principle #3 "Decommodification" which states: "our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising."

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LoveParade

Isara — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:55:58 GMT

So, a bajillion of my nearest and dearest (all Burners, of course) are talking about going to LoveParade. Thinking it had something to do with Folsom Faire (like Dyke March is for Gay Pride), I looked at the website. Call me nuts, but this sounds like neotechnoburnerPride to me. Ugh:

In 2001, a diverse group of San Franciscans envisioned bringing Loveparade to the US for the first time. And what better place than San Francisco, home of the original Summer of Love? After many meetings and thousands of volunteer hours, the first ever US Loveparade came to San Francisco on October 2, 2004 with 30 floats, 220 DJs, and 37,000 revelers dancing in the streets to the sounds of every genre of electronic music. The love returns on Saturday, September 24, 2005, with official events also planned for Friday, September 23th and Sunday, September 25th. Mark your calendars now for what promises to be one of the pre-eminent electronic music events in the world.

History:

Loveparade is the brainchild of legendary Berlin DJ Dr. Motte, who founded the event in Berlin in 1989. Motte rallied with other cutting edge techno/house groovers to create a "house music demonstration," which evolved into a demonstration FOR something, namely tolerance, respect and understanding among nations. Speeches and pamphlets gave way to the music’s raw and powerful ability to unite. Thousands upon thousands have heeded the call since, filling the streets of Berlin where attendance topped 1.5 million in 2000. Dr. Motte's underlying principle that "music… speaks in thousands of languages and is understood by all" has never been more evident, a truth he saw first-hand while here in San Francisco to help us kick off the first ever Loveparade in the United States.

Using the universal language of music as both cause and expression, LoveParade is world famous not only for its eccentrically dressed revelers dancing alongside floats, but also for its celebration of diversity, promotion of tolerance, and fostering of community. Since 2000, the Loveparade concept has been exported around the world, to Austria, Chile, England, Israel, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. All Parades share the same motto: to create an international web and platform for electronic dance music, with each city lending its own flavor.

Loveparade has become the annual electronic music mega-event for international followers of the European-bred movement of Techno. As the electronic music movement has diversified and matured, Loveparades have seen the inclusion of many genres under the electronic music umbrella, including house, techno, trance, new school breaks, drum and bass, jungle, and underground hip hop.

Mission:

Loveparade San Francsico (LPSF) exists to create an interactive celebration of electroinc music, art and the cultural lifestyle that accompanies it.

Loveparade SF is a San Francisco based 501(c3) nonprofit made up of music enthusiasts and people who simply love a parade. The Parade celebrates diversity, promotes tolerance, and fosters community. It is open to all—fans of electronic music, revelers looking for an excuse to dress up, those wanting a great party, the young and young at heart, artists, DJs, club collectives, and anyone who simply loves music and loves to dance will find his or her place here.

Loveparade San Francisco 2004:

Loveparade San Francisco 2004 was an extraordinary event, with over 37,000 revelers—from all over California, across the US, and as far away as Europe, Australia and Asia—attending the City's biggest new event. San Francisco Assembly representative Mark Leno officially kicked the day off with a proclamation from the California State Assembly deeming October 2, 2004 "Loveparade Day." 30 Floats, over 220 DJs, and Float Collectives from California, New York, Colorado, Illinois, Eastern Europe and Mexico made the event a one-of-a-kind experience. Support from the City of San Francisco—including the San Francisco Entertainment Commission, the Port of San Francisco, the Department of Parking and Traffic, and the San Francisco Police Department—helped us realize a safe, sound, and phenomenal party for all.

If you missed last year's event—or are just missing the love vibe—you can see what the party was all about by visiting our Photos page.
Community Involvement:

Loveparade San Francisco is committed to supporting the electronic music community as well as local non-profits. As a non-profit volunteer organization—and as music lovers—we are particularly cognizant of the challenges posed to both charity organizations and artists. To benefit and cultivate artistic freedom and community responsibility, Loveparade San Francisco donates a portion of all proceeds to local non-profits.

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Fuck me blind

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:05:25 GMT

Just how many post playa decompression OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S OVER party's do they need???

--S

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big brother

Jessica — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:40:38 GMT

Burning Man: I saw it this year. Everyone thinks they are part of the coolest, most underground event. As far as I am concerned, they are playing right into the hands of the government, just as the Grateful Dead sucked in so many in the past. The desert is completely devoid of life, the dust is like toxic ash. Its federal land! There is a military presence there. But no one notices because they are too busy thinking about sex, taking tons of hallucinogens and believing they are all so hip because they are at the burn. It has a satanic vibe. Lots of stuff about death... vampire lounges, gravestones, graffiti that read, "Be a man, kill someone. Be a man, kill yourself." That was written right on the Black Rock City post office. The event is completely capitalistic. I imagine the money spent on the event totals atleast 50 mil, probably more. The whole thing about BM is to participate. What exactly are the people participatng in? A true scam as far as I am concerned.

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BM + bear + a razor + Folsom St. Fair =

Isara — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:36:44 GMT

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfbuckaroo/46832788/

(NSFW. Nekkid people)

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need BM?

sarita — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:33:33 GMT

Again I was hit not once but twice yesterday by newbies to the desert bacchanalian I was hit not once but twice yesterday by newbies to the desert bacchanal that is known as "burning man " with the statement "Oh you need to go to burning man" ...

No, no, no, no, no I don't

I need to brush my teeth twice a day and remember to floss - even if I don't floss
I need to make sure my clothes are clean and my body too
I need to remember to pay my bills and turn off the lights and save energy
I need to get working on my creative projects and become successful so I don't have to need an office job
I need to call people back and not forget where I leave my cell phone
I need to call my family at least once a week so they know I'm alive and happy and that they are too
I need tell my friends I love them for the people they are
I need to keep my karma clean
I need to go to the gym and keep my body healthy
I need to quit smoking
I need to continue to eat healthy foods and continue to not eat fast foods (not hard when you know what's in that stuff)
I need to learn to spend wisely what little I have so I can enjoy it more
I need to find a new place to live (this place sucks and the property mgr is a perv and an asshole)
I need a dog or a cat in the new place where I live
I need a studio to do more work
I need to worry that our world leaders will get us all killed
I need to make sure that I'm informed and that I vote
I need to see more art and good movies and read more books
I need to get another cup of coffee
I need to drink more green tea
I need little and want so much more for the world
I need to win the lotto
I need to donate more and accept little

I need to keep my mouth shut when someone says I need to go to burning man

but I can't

because I need to be me

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Malcolm In the Middle

blackegg — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:17:12 GMT

Malcolms family is going to Burning Man on one of the upcoming episodes.

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HA! finally BM shows itself for what it is- $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

th0rn — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:02:10 GMT

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/listing/Save-BRC-Stop-Discovery-Channel-wwwsavebrcorg/san-francisco-ca/dcd3d2f5-ce1c-4f23-9074-77f85330d26e?baseid=1000&region_id=10535&category_id=1000&name&resultsize=785&categoryid=1000&nextpage=http%3A%2F%2Fsanfrancisco.tribe.net%2Fcommunity%3Fregion_id%3D10535%26category_id%3D1000%26resultsize%3D785%26page%3D1%26r%3D10535&r=10535

look at these idiots.

sure , no employees of BM got their hands in this money, it's all for the cause right?
no corporate anything right?

fucking hypocritical assholes

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y'all might appreciate this.......

epona — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 03:51:31 GMT

http://mm.dfilm.com/mm2s/mm_route.php?id=2588740

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i feel so not bad for them

th0rn — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:49:24 GMT

http://losangeles.tribe.net/listing/Post-Burning-Man-Distress-Psytribe-needs-your-help/los-angeles-ca/e76a10d1-d77b-4ba6-9921-9985303be53c?r=10535

maroons. a $6000 accident. nice job BURNer.

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A Freak Among The Freaks

Tallsmoothie — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:42:15 GMT

New to Tribe, unfortunately I am certainly sick of the whole Burning Man thing, hearing about it, etc etc. It doesn't interest me in the least, and there's tons of other destinations in this world I'd rather spend my vacation money where they have running water and all those other crazy concepts. If BM makes you happy, that's great. I am just through with hearing about it or probably even spending time with most burners.

So, maybe, possibly... I could find a non-BM social circle around here, as Tribe is a pretty cool set-up. It just needs some serious DIVERSITY in regards to geography and group interests.

A great idea for a tribe. Now what do we do? Any NYC people around?

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Agree?

Mary — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:35:58 GMT

I'm wondering how many of you would mostly agree with this:

Our problem with Burning Man is not so much that it's a large group of mostly goofily-dressed or scantily-dressed people running around like idjits for days, on lots of alcohol and drugs.

C'mon. Face it. That stuff is *fun*!

It's more that so many of these people think that belonging to a large group of mostly goofily-dressed or scantily-dressed people running around like idjits, on lots of alcohol and drugs, makes them incredibly Spiritually Special, or that it's *ALL THEY HAVE TO DO* to be with-it, to convince themselves that they are somehow effecting important social change.

As a culture, we have a lot more pressing problems than the collection of enough fake fur outfits to cover eight days of Burning Man, plus a whole year's worth of precoms and decoms, etc. etc. ;->

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nice

Colonel — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 02:06:02 GMT

check out this posting:
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/listing/a61de6cf-9201-4d42-834a-ce0c958a03a8

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how stupid do you have to be?

theLeftBehind — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:27:31 GMT

I posted on another board how i felt BM had become a destination resort for geeks having a mid life crisis (('gee! I never got my hedonism on! Better do it now before I'm completely impotent or marry and have kids.')

The reply was from some guy who accused me of ~being jealous~ because 'I couldn't go." WTF?

Are their brains so fried that they really think someone who posts such even WANTS to go? They are so screwed up they think only one choice exists?

On another note, ever notice how prematurely aged regular burners are? The wrinkles, the age spots, the sagging skin. they come back looking like their grandparents and their physiques never recover.

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Well fuck

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:31:59 GMT

They're back.

Couldn't last forever...

Now we're going to hear about Decompression for the next 4 months.

--S

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Ha ha

Pilsbury — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:01:40 GMT

http://orsay.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/f1f/472/f1f472fb-aea5-41e1-9615-b8792cb2c78e

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Another great thread

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:39:05 GMT

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/thread/2f43eefb-9e60-48c8-a9ff-7fbda7419d1f?tribeid=138068e0-b4d9-4980-8884-83877260956f&r=10535

You all are invited of course.

--S

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HAHA BM THEFT ! idiots !

th0rn — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:26:16 GMT

these jackasses leave a 50ft trailer on the street all night (im sure after loading it up in fornt of countless losers) and a re suprised it was robbed- better yet, with the amount of stuff gone, one of two things happened-
they got hit by a BIG operation - or the first thieves left the doors open, and every other loser in town picked it over all night .......

HA!
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/listing/9f91f1a1-275a-49e5-abd8-49fe1c7d93ea?r=10535

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Imagine

patti — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:33:12 GMT

Imagine of all the burners spent half as much time and money and invested it in social and political causes. How much better would the world be?

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things I actually like about BM - without going there

Isara — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:41:25 GMT

My roommate is gone for 2 weeks - I can wander around naked (otherwise known as: hot orgies at my house!!!)

Cool fabrics for Halloween go on sale after everyone leaves town.

The commute seems to be a bit lighter...

Lots of cool parties for those of us who don't go.

others?

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Keep in mind

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HA! finally BM shows itself for what it is- $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

y'all might appreciate this.......

i feel so not bad for them

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Agree?

nice

how stupid do you have to be?

Well fuck

Ha ha

Another great thread

HAHA BM THEFT ! idiots !

Imagine

things I actually like about BM - without going there

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