Really? You guys have problems with playa bars? I've never really had much of a problem getting a drink at any bar I've stopped at for 5 years now, or even encountered much of any rudeness.

I'm not cute and lack tits too.

You can drop off a 30 pack of Pabst at my camp.

Not out yet. Probably soon. Make do with '09 until then.

An alternate to the ice cream ball.... Put the ice cream stuffs into a large ziplock bag. Seal. Put the large bag into another bag full of ice and salt. Seal. Wrap the double bagged goodness in newspaper so that it resembles a ball. Throw this ball around with yer friends for a while. Eventually yo...

My concern with being naked is being naked and still meeting people. How can i be naked and walk up to someone and start a conversation without it being "Hey hey check it out, COCK!" Ha, my first year a friend and I were stopped by a very kind and soft spoken older gentleman who wanted to take a pi...

Bike snob or no, I don't think I'd want to take any bike out there I paid more than 20 bucks for, and it would definately have to be a cruiser. I can imagine the playa wreaking havoc on exposed gears.

I don't know that the attitude that attractive people have more worth than unattractive people is exclusive to the 20somethings out there. In fact, I find that I notice attractive folks, clothed or no, receiving special treatment at Burning Man far more often than I see it in my everyday life. I've ...

Not effective when the computers are down and the lines are so long that the boards get to be five layers thick. The computers have nothing to do with the bulletin board except they happen to be located at the same place. In 5 years I've never seen a line to look at the boards. Towards the end of t...

I dunno about sending boxes out from the playa, but I know I delivered a priority mail box (with some very interesting contents) when I helped deliver mail in 2005! The post theme camp has a website out there I believe. A little bit of searching should turn it up, and you could inquire more directly...

In addition to what everyone else has said, I've always had great luck in tacking up paper messages at the board outside Playa Info. We found our camp last year this way, and I think I found the message after barely a minute of looking for it. If you're planning on getting to BM the same day, but ar...

Ziplock bags are a must in my book, as are tools, work gloves, cooler, and condoms and lube. A bike is a "nice" thing to have for me, but I kind of prefer experiencing the city on my own two feet. I've never really felt that I needed the goggles or dust masks either...I don't even bother to pack the...

Scratching at a beard is one of the most manly and distinguished acts there is. Man up and rough it for a week.

I think there are some good threads still floating around about how to seal your up your tent to keep out as much dust as possible, and countless others on tents you can buy that don't let in much dust out of the box. In my personal tent, about the only dust that gets in is what I bring in with me f...

My first year, at the tender age of 23, I was trying to delicately explain about Burning Man to my parents. I think I said something along the lines of "I'm going on a camping trip out in the Nevada desert." To which my dad replied, "Ooh! Burning Man? Can I go?" He had watched something on TV about ...

Flat imput: No, you will likely not have any trouble with the law if you have a few joints for personal use. Provided you aren't an idiot.

What's the difference between a hippie and an onion?














Nobody cries when you cut a hippie.

I don't feel like doing the exact math, but there are rows of JOTS every few blocks inside the city semicircle. It's harder to find a potty the further from the city you wander. Generally speaking, they are wonderfully maintained. You sometimes find a dirty one after a late night of partying, but th...

You could...though I'd wager to guess you'd get funny tasting water out of the bladder if you switched back to plain water.

water and shelter are totally provided by Burning Man. The rangers tend to get a little crabby at you if you try to sleep at center camp for long periods of time...at least at night. And with exception of the sport drinks or whatever the fuck they were selling last year at the cafe, I wouldn't anti...

I farted in the steam bath. Sorry.

I'm amazed that the annual playa rugby match doesn't turn more physical. If the ruggers can avoid pounding each other into the playa, I have high faith the flag footballers will probably do the same. That said, I'd love to play, though I'm almost positive I won't be able to come up with 4 others. An...

Fittingly, using some arbitrarily illegal substances can help you understand that there is nothing sacred about state or nation, or the laws thereof. Regardless of whether states, nations, and laws are sacred or not they still continue to exist, which is an important fact to be aware of. Wish in on...

I used this last year: http://www.rei.com/product/796545?preferredSku=7965450013&cm_mmc=cse_froogle-_-datafeed-_-product-_-7965450013&mr:trackingCode=551A4576-8893-DE11-93DB-0019B9C043EB&mr:referralID=NA Holds 3 litres (which if my mental math holds up comes up just shy of 1 gallon) which I found to...

We were just passing through the area through swarms and swarms of people and I heard a Ranger explaining to some kid that some camp was going to be playing Daft Punk, but Daft Punk themselves were not going to be there.

I laughed my ass off.

I have a little rug burn from the slide, nothing major. A friend of ours broke his elbow as he tripped getting off an art car on Friday night. He drove down to the hospital in Reno Saturday morning and was back in time for the Burn. What a trooper!

Charlie_in_OC wrote:http://www.getacross80.com/

I was looking at this site, which leads me to interpret that it would not actually be that bad at all, but I've heard this will be updated after this week?

Does anyone know how ripped up I-80 between Sacramento and Reno will be for this year's Burn? My pal in California that we're meeting informs us that there is some major construction going on in a few different places, and that we could experience extreme delays. Should we consider an alternate rout...

Reading through the laws, it appears there is an exception for RVs and limos, provided you are getting your drink on in the living quarters and not the cab. Having open containers in the cab I knew would be illegal, and our driver will not be impaired. After last year where I had to drive a manual w...

A question concerning Nevada law:

Are passengers in the back of a RV allowed to drink alcohol? I have heard this is ok provided said RV is equipped with a toilet, though I have suspicions that if this is true, it may not be true from state to state.

It breaks down into 4 or 5 pieces that attach using the little pushy in button things that go into the little holes on the next piece. I might be wrong. And I usually am. But I wondered if a pipe, PVC, etc were slid over the center pole, could a pushy button get pushed in during big winds, break da...