Every year that women ride in the CT parade there are yahoo men with camera's. Every year that other men see this, they hopefully get the message that viewing women as merely objects is disgusting. I applaud the women for thier courage in exposing this behavior. Social ostracism and peer pressure is...

I've built a couple of domes now, and while I never had any formal blueprint type "plans" I found the calculator on this site to be extremely helpful:

http://www.desertdomes.com/index.html

Next year will be better. I just made my first purchases towards an art project for next year's camp. I am already counting down the days.

Rape is a crime of violence and you don't stop violence with more violence

A truly noble sentiment, but wrong - dead wrong. In fact, one of the best uses of violence is to stop rape and other crimes of violence.

I am very sorry that you had what you percieved to be a bad experience getting into burning man. I hope you can take a few valuable lessons away from this experience. 1) Everyone is searched on the way in - this is to find stowaways NOT drugs. 2) Undercover cops will ask if the "can have a bud" or w...

I can't really visualize the structure you are trying to build. Is it a square with 4 six foot tall poles holding up the corners? or some kind of tee-pee with the poles comming together in the center?

I just recieved my order in about a week from:

http://www.gothicarchgreenhouses.com

Hope that helps, this stuff looks fantastic if it holds up well I will be using much more of it next year.

1. Its HOT 2. No running water - must use JOTS 3. All of the other primative things about camping 4. Its LOUD 5. Its really DUSTY 6. There is nudity and lewdness 7. There is drinkning, drunk people, and yahooish behaviour 8. There are drugs and people using drugs 9. Its fairly expensive 10. Its time...

and soooo true. Sex is totally meaningless or even icky to kids until that magical day when puberty hits. That is what makes all the hysteria over protecting kids from sex so ridiculous. I am much more concerned about kids seeing violence than nudity or sex. Hopefully our kids will never have to kil...

Dry ice is much colder than frozen water. You can easily end up with a bunch of really frozen food or drinks. Wrap the dry ice in newspaper or other insulative material to keep the cooler at the proper temperature. It is really great if you want to keep a cooler full of ice for later use.

I still do not know whether to laugh or cry. This thread has raised many stong emotions, which in turn has caused me to think and re-think them. For that I am grateful. I have participated in "swinging" camps before and loved it. However, the logistical effort proposed here is just like a cold showe...

HASLE cars only bother me a little bit, what really steams my veggies are speeders. I'm going to make a couple speed bumps and see who complains more the Rangers or the Speeders.

you wouldn't walk around half naked and inebriated at night in any other city so don't do it in Black Rock City. While I am sure that this is good advice it makes me very sad. BRC should be different, and that being said I will strive to make it safe for anyone to walk around totally naked and ineb...

Many of the expenses of BM could be tax deductible depending on your business. Even if you are just a 1099 independant contractor, but especially if you have incorporated. If fact, I'd wager that anyone who doesn't have ALL of thier income reported on a W-2 could find some legitimate deductible expe...

A recent transplant from the Bay Area. Great to see some local folks !

Any events comming up? or local lists to join?