the smart money is definitely on gigsville there.

Hey, of course you don't have to like the cafe. But there's a difference between not liking something and talking about ending its existence, or not liking it and finding it to be fundamentally wrong, a betrayal of the values you think to be running BM. I personally hate hard-core techno, but what t...

yeah actually, I'm really happy with the long-distance romance I happened onto at BM this year. I mean, we live on different continents and all, but... I'm still better understood by my BM love than by most women I meet here.

Re: Bob's question. Hmmm, like the subject heading says, it's a good question. It's not really a theme camp per se, because, as everyone here points out, it's a beast of a different stripe. But I've busted my butt building it, stocking it and running it, and I like the people there, at least for the...

I've been following this thing for a while... First and foremost: To those who doubt, it is indeed possible to be self-reliant in the desert for a week. Accepting, that is, the definition of self reliance as "bring all you need from a department store" rather than the traditional "supply what you ne...

All right, I won't even try to get back into the fray of the actual debate here... But I'll be damned if someone is going to insinuate that I'm from San Francisco. Love the city, but I'm a hoosier, born and raised. As in Indiana, James Dean, Wendell Wilkie, Ernie Pyle, Michael Jackson, automobile ra...

I'm a long-time cafe volunteer, and yeah, I call myself a volunteer, although if anyone out there is really into nomenclature and really not into the cafe, they can feel free to be offended and hereby think of me as a profiteer, wage-slave, whatever. I suppose that the last thing this thread needs i...

I know Berlin has a certain amount of BRC falir to it the entire year, but... Here's at least one fellow interested in potentially meeting up, possibly in Cafe Zapata, as they have their own fire sculpture (yeah, I know, it's not even close to what we've seen, but you have to give them a certain amo...