Ok, I hate to be the geek of the conversation, but there is a safety dimension to the sitting down thing as well. Most of the time, the crowd tends to surge forward during the burn, especially when the structure is about to topple. If people are sitting in front, they're not going to get trampled. T...

Yeah, and why do they have to have that Burning Man thing so far away from my house? It's so inconvenient for me. And why do they let in all those people I don't like? And why do they let them wear so much patchouli? It's stinky. [Sorry, but I felt the need to establish at least some small, tenuous ...

[quote="telizas"]How about the DMV do a better job of policing the vehicles they "allow" to operate before passing jugement on what is art and what is not? . . . I was personally nealry run over by several licensed vehicles during Sunday's white-out. I was quite pissed, but the DMV had closed up sho...