I don't want to get into too much detail. Time and specific place, not important. Who I am, also coincidental. But I have GOT to share this stuff! In any case there were other people around. Milling about, you would say. Maybe there was a piece of art nearby. Some people were on bikes. I had my wate...

The experienced I had was cultish but it's not clear to me who the leader is. Am I the leader? Are you? Is everyone the leader of this cult called life? Is everyone a sleeping hero in this collective reality that we've de-mythified to the point of our apparently imminent extinction? All I know is th...

Wow, this thread has gone on quite a bit. I started it!

I've given up coffee. That's the update...

I had the most mind-altering experience at BM this year (my second), a huge dive into the collective unconscious, and it happened on a drug that is not supposed to induce this, and I feel like it's STILL going on... I went into the underworld for one. I thought I had died and gone to hell for a litt...

This was my first burn and I picked up here and there on the ambivalence about Center Camp and the vending of coffee. First, can anyone post a brief history on how this feature of BM was introduced? Details of its evolution? I would like to know where people come down on this issue, and what bases t...

Pets, I don't know if I was there. I usually had on a day glow vest, a hard hat with a flower sticking out of it, and a yellow cape. Also a bunch of garlands wrapped around me. Who are the Cacophonists? I do agree sometimes you should say fuck it, just be who you want to be. But there are always lim...

This was my first burn and I cobbled together a single costume real quick out of some work cloths (a day-glo vest) and a few other pieces. I was surprised to get some genuine admiration for the look. I thought, cool, I have a costume people dig... But later on in the week I began to notice (or thoug...

Well, I should say I never really had a habit, but I suppose I've always taken some "comfort" from having the TV on in the background. I'd read a book and feel like I'd like the TV talking in the background. Of course, splitting my attention, I gained not much from either. But after my first BM, tel...

I'm new here, and at the risk of asking a stupid obvious question....

Do people get busted for drugs at BM other than pot?

This was my first Burn, and a key experience was riding around on my favorite art car. The first night I found it I was blown away by the energy coming off it, the music (I'm usually listen to classical, but I was grooving to the pumped up stuff they had). It was the Surly Bird, a truck converted fo...