crypto, you make an excellent point about the failure of trains in America.. Its a cryn shame how such a supposedly advanced society as ours can't even build a decent rail connection across the continenent. almost gives credence to the notion we faked the moon landing.... I mean if we can't even tod...

well, I wouldn't want to smack a dead pony, but... a few thoughts occur: we wouldn't need to bring tracks onto the playa, just a switch and a siding would do. Some of the cost might be ameliorated by the use year round of freighting the nearby gypsum production via rail instead of trucks. Even thoug...

Thanks for engaging with me on this idea, Bobalu, This year was my virgin year so I'm sure there are a lot of obstacles I haven't thought through... but all in all, I'm sure heavy equipment including compactors and steamrollers (what an archaic term!) could recreate a road surface of proper specific...

Well previous is obviously fact and final is completely conjectural. It could be the final burn of all time - for me or you or all of us. Our lives are finite and the future unknown. But I imagine when anybody says, "this is my last burn", they are describing a true and present condition of the hear...

Ok, I shoulda said something earlier, cuz I got the perfect theme for 2008 and it ain't the AmuriKKKan Dream. So sorry if there's momentum for going in the wrong direction, but changes must come. The nature of art is a constant struggle between dynamic and static. BM has become too static. The cente...

Yeah, this was gonna be my last burn. But then everything changed on a Sabado and Sabado Noche. Day before? Friday Night? Grouchy, lonely, disgruntled and mean. And it wasn't the conditions which bummed me out. I love dust storms followed by rainbows and dry cracking heat. I'd come looking for those...