No-One Makes it to Burning Man
It might be 10 years old now, but this is still one of the most classic stories from The Onion ever. Rings very true to my BM preparations, what about you? Thanks to works-too-hard-to-be-a-Burner Geoff...
View ArticleWe’re Not Your Mom
The crew from Burner Service Announcements have released a fresh one. It’s not as funny or musically enjoyable as the “you all belong with us” one we reported about earlier in the week. But, some...
View ArticlePacking List
Thanks to Burner Joyous for sending in this list. Anyone else got any useful tips? Burner Brian insists his list is better, although I can’t really see what are the highlight items that Joyous missed....
View Article2013: Let’s Be Careful Out There!
This is a repost of something we wrote before last year’s Burn. Has anything changed since then? Well, we’ve had a big K9 bust of what seemed to be some relatively sizeable dealers. We heard about...
View ArticleEat Well and Be Merry
Burner Stephanie Hua has written a great piece on BAB about food preparations for a week on the Playa. Bay Area Bites is local TV station KQED’s public media food blog. Stephanie wrote about Burning...
View ArticleSkysquid’s Tips
Thanks to Burner Skysquid, firstly for hosting and facilitating so many amazing Burning Man art projects like those from Peter Hudson and Marco Cochrane in his Treasure Island warehouses; and also for...
View ArticleBurner Service Announcement #4 – Safety Tips
This one’s pretty good. These guys are really putting a lot of thought and effort into this.
View ArticleSAY YOU LOVE SANTA: A Cautionary Tale
by Whatsblem the Pro We all know there was more of a police presence than ever at Burning Man 2013, along with several alarming law enforcement innovations, like the partnering of officers from...
View ArticleAppreciate the Miracles: Radical Inclusion is not Anti-Elite
Over at the official Burning Man blog, John “Halcyon” Styn has shared a post about radical inclusion. I haven’t always been a fan of his style in the past, Burning Man is not the Care Bears after all,...
View ArticleBlack Hawk Down! Supreme Commander of NATO Visits Burning Man
For some reason, the celebrity factor at Burning Man this year is generating more interest than in previous years. We’ve already covered the Facebook founders/Winklevi hug-fest, and the...
View ArticleFeather Ban Lifted?
So says a store called “Screaming Mimis” in New York, where Wall Street Executives have been slapping down their Black Amexes for $1500 purchases of kilts, goggles, head-dresses and vintage-looking...
View ArticlePeace, Love, Unicorns, Rainbows (aka: PLUR)
Thanks to Laughing Squid for posting this. Their rules are “don’t be a dick”, which is funny because I’m in New York City right now. The rules here are more like “be who you are meant to be”, more than...
View ArticleWhat Are The Burning Issues?
Recently our post on crimes got a response from someone calling himself “Larry Harvey”, who purports to speak for Burning Man. They said that the rape kits issue had been dealt with, there was no point...
View ArticleLarry Harvey Oswald on Why We’re No Experts
Recently we asked Burners “What are the Burning Issues?” Like most things at Burning Man, opinions were divided. In the comments, someone calling themselves “Larry Harvey Oswald” chimed in to hate on...
View ArticleHipsters, Scenesters, Twerkers, Lend Me Your Bunny Ears
Scenester TV has done an episode featuring Burning Man 2013. It’s big on the blinky lights, but not so much on the in-depth analysis or factual accuracy. It’s all in good fun though, there are some...
View ArticleThe Most Fun at Burning Man
Jessica Gentile over at Vice magazine brings us a tale from Canadian DJ Blondtron, who tells us she arrived at Cargo Cult for her first Burn, and managed to have the most fun at Burning Man out of the...
View ArticleBare Your Soul from Dodgeball Addiction
These trippers from, ummm, Dodgeball Addiction, set up a video booth. A lot of the people in this video look like they probably don’t remember going in it…SURPRISE! This is quite amusing, good idea,...
View ArticlePlaya Chicken Madness
Just came across this video of Burning Man 2012, from Scenester TV. It’s got something in here for all the haters: Playa chickens, Segways, Playa chickens on Segways, tribal headdresses, glitter,...
View ArticleThe Dissolution of Normal
ZDBlue, aka The Dean, has published an interesting blog post called “The Dissolution of Normal”. He says that “normal” is an artificial construct – something I have always agreed with. And being at...
View Article“I Loved Me Some Burning Man”
An unexpected encounter on the journey to Burning Man 2014 from Why The Nose: The fame continues to spread to far-off lands…
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