I don't like everything I encounter on the Playa ... but I like that I can encounter everything on the Playa. For me, it's not about what is there ... it's the fact that almost anything *can* be there. It's freedom ... freedom to be a drunken fratboy spectator or a self-righteous hippie artist or so...

LOL ... nope, that's my beautiful torso you'd be staring at ...

Unless, of course, the question was completely rhetorical ... the Andy Warhol reference flew right over my stoned head.

LOL @ "man"ly chest hair ... pun intended, I hope? Actually, it's all mine ... or was. To be honest, I hate my chest hair ... always have. But too in love with the "me" as a whole to be superficial enough to shave it. So, I vowed to embrace rather than despise it for BM this year. You can thank the ...

I fucking love this fucking thread.

(after looking again and noticing the obvious flaw in my logic ...)

LOL ... yes, I certainly do have my moments ... some are just less stellar than others.

StarBoy wrote:I'm smiling at you, by the way.

And I at you, StarBoy ... thank you for putting into words exactly what I was thinking. Like I said, the event ends for me ... but the Burn never does.

Having been a member of online communities for about the past 20 years, I've constantly been forced to try and come up with any number of handles, e-mail addresses, nicknames, etc ... although I've been through a lot, most of my currents are "It's Just Rob" or some variation thereof ... I'd pretty m...

Really, really great pictures ... thank you for sharing.

If you are or know the person in pic #38, I highly recommend considering it for submission to the Mirror Project (www.mirrorproject.com) ... it's a great shot.

For many/most of us, Burning Man never really ends. We carry the ideals and beliefs that solidify us as "Burners" with us everywhere we go, and the annual event is merely a pilgrimage to Mecca to celebrate these ideals with like-minded folk. As much as I count myself a member of the above group, the...

One of the things that I like about Burning Man is that it enables me to see the places that I *can* go within myself ... even if I don't live in that space all the time, it means a lot to be able to take with the knowledge that I *can* get there. One of the things that I like about drugs is that th...