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See You On The Flip Side…?
Well, this is it. I’m writing this from the passenger seat of the RV that I scored cheap on eBay before last year’s Burn. I reupholstered it and put in a significant stereo upgrade, among other...
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Otto von Dingbat (updates)
Was Burn Wall Street the most controversial art installation ever on the Playa? Here’s some (relatively positive) coverage from New York magazine, the Huffington Post and Business Insider – although if...
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Great Idea for Preventing Bike Theft
Lose your bike on the Playa? So did at least 3000 other people. In 2010, our camp had 12 bikes stolen within the first 3 days. This year, using cheap Wal-Mart combination cable locks, we didn’t lose...
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From “Sold Out” to “Shrinking”: Burning Man attendance down on last year
Last year Burning Man was placed on probation for exceeding their population cap of 50,000, with an official attendance of 53,963. This threatened to jeopardize their plan to increase to a population...
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Topsy turvy world: Neon bank logos, OK; Angel suit, NO ?
Some Burners can’t understand why I would criticize the giant Bank of America advertisement Burn Wall Street. Well, while all that has been going on, other Burners are also giving it hard to Ka, the...
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And the best Best Art of Burning Man 2012 was…
We copped some flak for expressing our opinion that Burn Wall Street was the worst piece of art on the Playa this year. It’s a case where “radical self-expression” butts up against “radical inclusion”...
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The Dark Side of Burning Man – Rape on the Playa (updates)
We brought this issue to your attention a couple of weeks back, it’s a serious one and needs to be addressed by the community – especially as the event gets bigger and intends to fertilize its seed...
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MOOP? Or Bike Theft?
This is a photo of half the bikes left on the Playa this year. At our camp, we heard “leave the bikes and someone will collect them to give to local Kids” – true fact , or Burner myth? I took mine with...
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Everyone’s Unique Except Me: Why I Hate Magical Thinking
Ah, non-conformity. It’s what Burning Man is all about, right? I mean, aside from all the other stuff that Burning Man is all about. getting shot with this hurts more than hollow points Some people go...
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Monday is the New Saturday
I have been meaning to sit down and write an article about pranks at Burning Man and how large they loom in our history, but someone whom I would have featured in that article decided to die this week....
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Groupthink Wants to Harvest Your Brain to Feed Zombies
“A camel is a horse designed by a committee” – Sir Alec Issigonis. Sadly, I’m not making the title of this post up. Many Burners were negatively impacted by last year’s ticket fiasco. How seriously...
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The Beatings Will Continue ’til Morale Improves
Burner Nettles has posted quite a horrifying tale of (presumably) her experiences on the Playa this year, over at the official Burning Man blog. Like it or not, this is the most prominent experience of...
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Us Loves They
If you’re single, the opportunities for spontaneous sex and love at Burning Man are virtually limitless. The playa is particularly hard on couples, though, because the same is true if you are not...
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Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss?
Haters gonna hate. Lovers gonna love. And BMOrg? Gonna justify their existence with an ever increasing pool of regulations. We welcome the new boss, Charlie Dolman. I’ve never been to his doof Secret...
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Oh Look! We Forgot to Count this $1.3 million
Just when we thought we could say goodbye once and for all to 2012 and all it’s ticket shenanigans, we get another classic case of number-fudging from BMOrg. You know how attendance was down on last...
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The Future of Burning Man – Millenial Ideates
Whether it’s pronounced “Idea-ate” or “I-de-ate” or “I-di-ot”, it seems like this camp, new to Burning Man in 2012 and predominantly made up of people who’d never even been to Burning Man before, is...
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Dispatch From the Front [by Whatsblem the Pro]
DISPATCH FROM THE FRONT 12/23/2012 by Whatsblem the Pro First ignited by Paul Addis‘ early burn of 2007 after the stage was set by John Law’s departure from Burning Man and subsequent lawsuit, the...
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Millenials Fight Back!
I have to say hats off to Nick Molnar, a guy who I’ve never had a problem with, and who has now impressed the hell out of me with this rapidly deployed post in response to the recent IDEATE...
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Wonderhussy: Attack of the Superprudes
Sometimes the smallest thing will set off a chain reaction that leads to an epiphany. Sarah Jane Woodall, a fellow blogger (blogette? blogina? blogogyne?) and my favorite wonderhussy, got a private...
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Listening Without Hearing or Counting
In light of yesterday’s post about the new ticket price tears tiers , we thought it would be interesting to compare BMOrg’s new policies with the result of our own poll. We asked Burners “how should...
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