>> Kind of reminds me of the story where a young man travels from Chicago >> to India and asks his "teacher" where to find bliss. The young man has >> travelled thousands of miles, climbed many mountains, met many teachers. >> The teacher says go back to Chicago. i LOVE chicago! mike/gomonk+ (origin...

howdy, this is gomonk with the placement team. we attempted to send out the Weekend-Arrival passes over the last few days. a lot of them did get out. in fact, we were sending out so many, that our individual ISP's froze our accounts, assuming we were spammers! (we all are volunteers, working from ho...

hello theme camps! time is running out to register your theme camp / village for burning man 2007! friendly reminder: deadline will be may31st this year! questionnaires need to be completed by may 31st (11:59pm) more information can be found by winding your way through the burningman.com website, or...

I think it was just a lot more unregulated. I've heard about kinky sex parties, art cars zooming across the playa at 100mph+, shooting guns, mad drugs. No structure. Just art, desert, fire, and chaos. yes, i'm sure it was a little chaotic. i was more interested in what are the real roots of burning...

. . . I don't think you can leave out the Man and its base, or such things as sound stages, the spires, or the Cafe in that history. well, the man is a given. what were the spires? for whatever reason, some people consider these the "golden years" of burningman, whatever that means. were there large...

. . . first, i propose we toss the burner term. clearly we aren't one group and many of us respond to being called a burner in about the same manner we would be if called a hare krishna. a burner has always sounded like a cult member to me. i cringe everytime i hear it. . . . thoughts? ....... i agr...

... from what i've been able to find out about funding and grants from the bmorg, they first started giving out grants and funding projects in 1996 (with helco and pepe), which happened to be my first year out there. my question is: if there were no grants or funding from 1990 until 1996, did burnin...

no, i didn't see the ebay thing.


interesting.


maybe it's a bootleg




m/gm+

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