― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.thespoon.com/costco/
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
If you're looking for scary scraggly creepy people on lots of drugs there, you will find them. If you're looking for amazing unusual fascinating people, you will also find them. There is a lot of really bad art, and more than a bit of incredibly good art. And the idea of spending 2% or so of my year in a culture that's pretty much entirely based on creativity and kindness really appeals to me.
Also, Gygax, it's a little hard for something to go all commecial when you're not allowed to use money there...
― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
I mean, if the haters stay home, so much the better (it's not like "no no, you just have to GO there, then you'll SEE"--if you're predisposed to hate it, you will anyway), but it's kind of disconcerting to see the knives coming out.
― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
Not that I'd ever go, but if I did I'd have to make myself a Christopher Lee costume.
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 August 2003 22:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 11 August 2003 23:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 11 August 2003 23:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 11 August 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 11 August 2003 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 00:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 00:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 01:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chester (synkro), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
Last year, Tom Schild (current PPLO President) ventured to the Wrong Side of the Trax at the invitation of Yuta Lee (PPLO Ambassador to the Dave Train).
This year, our fearless leader Tom is unable to face the playa but vows to return next year. In his place, a crew of 11 DC emissaries will be representing the PPLO on the playa. I believe we are the largest DC contingent in any camp.
Ambassador Lee arrives in Black Rock City today for preliminary infrastructure development. Phil Psilos (General Mayhem) will be in charge of military operations for recreational terrorism. In the absence of our President, I will assume duties as Field Commander-in-Chief. (I'm currently on TDY in the Bay Area).
We are the PPLO – The Party People Liberation Organization. We are recreational terrorists dedicated to decriminalizing the underground and preserving our constitutional right to express our individuality, dance, create house music, celebrate life, groove to whatever makes us groove, be freaks and, above all, assemble in the name of love and peace!!!!
PPLO PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCEI Pledge Allegiance to the cause of preserving our music and culture, and to the PPLO that protects it, at Nation or underground, all night long, with partying and dancing for all...
Namaste,Ky ("Key")
Field Commander-in-ChiefPPLO (Party People Liberation Organization)Wrong Side of the Trax (Dave Train)3:30 Serious Authority, Black Rock City
― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 23 August 2003 22:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 24 August 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
Hahahahahaha... yeah, generalizations about people from entire regions or countries are great. Nothing else does as good a job of bringing the ignorant flotsam of society to the surface. But I'm sure you didn't REALLY mean anything by that, did you Tep? ;)
― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 24 August 2003 01:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
GERLACH, NV—The Burning Man festival, a prominent artistic and countercultural event that draws tens of thousands of people to the Nevada desert annually, is in danger of cancellation this week because "no one had their shit together enough to even make it," organizers said Tuesday.
http://www.theonion.com/current_top_story.html
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
"The event likes to bill itself as radical self-sustainability, but really it's an orgy of consumption," said Jack Haye, a computer modeler at Industrial Light and Magic in San Rafael. Haye was exhibiting one of his sculptures at Burning Man.
"There is way too much utilization of new materials that are wasted. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars -- or millions -- are spent in Costco in August getting ready for this?"
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link
http://blog.hisnameistimmy.com/?p=12
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
-- sexyDancer (jjjjjjjjjjjjj...), September 9th, 2004 12:42 AM. (link)
http://shopbilder.comonline.net/pics/pa/015/picx/603218.jpg
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Much in the same way that Burning Man is.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't know much about it, but it seems mostly uninteresting and mostly harmless. i think my sister's been at least once.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
That blog post that revived this thread - that guy's a fucking moron who should've read up on where he was going before complaining so vociferously about alkali dust, heat, etc. He has no one to blame for his discomfort but himself.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link
What makes you think we haven't been? Granted it was well over ten years ago, but the one most OTM thing in that blog post is this:
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
Complaining about the heat at Burning Man is ridiculous though... Er, it's the FUCKING DESERT. I've done a lot of desert camping/hiking so it didn't bother me at all, but it seems like > 50% of the people didn't adequately prepare for it.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link