pete0121 wrote: GOD OUR COMMUNITY would be SOOOO much better off without the "holier / burnier than thou" people like yourself.

Yes it would. How about you stay home a make the community better.

Lonesomebri wrote:My art submittal for next year.

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*HOWLING*

burning man suicides, rapes, thefts, battery, arsonists..weddings, drug busts.accidental deaths. speeding tickets, alcohol anonymous, discussions about/camps about sexual boundaries, freaky sex clubs, people mourning dead/dying loved ones at a big church, people saying 'fuck yer day' ...people abus...

What an excellent idea! No more tripping over playa snakes.

I don't think BBSue is claiming that Apokliptika was responsible for starting the Playawaste Raiders, I think she is saying that members of Apok left to help start the Raiders, which is true but might sound misleading. Less than half of the members of the Raiders in 2009(the first year) left Apok b...

Bay Bridge Sue wrote:Everything from helping launch Playawaste Raiders to, hell, Georgie Boy.

Oh HELL no... Apok had nothing to do with 'launching PWR' other than driving some of your former campers away. Attempting to take credit for the work of others is a new low.

You should leave us out of your drama stew.

To me, these are the best playa moments ever. The ones you can never quite convey to anyone that wasn't there at that very moment. I'm so glad you shared because just thinking about it makes me smile as well. :) That story was pure imagination, inspired by some "pirates" I met while I was out one ni...

So like we're pirates, with squirt guns! Stop your art car, we left our bikes by the trash fence because we heard there was gonna be a party, but then there wasn't so we snorted all our coke and did some bath salts and smoked all that meth we were gonna sell (Coke's still cool right, hey don't you ...

Best: My people doing it right.
Worst: Those people doing it wrong.

Simon of the Playa wrote:shall i ask the boys in alaska to turn it up a notch or are we satisfied with the current level of doom?

I think this is just right Simon.

Why can't I bring my guns?! I have a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to have my firearm at all times no matter what anyone says! I might have to protect myself from those rapey shirtcockers! I could sue BM out of existence if they don't let me have my gun!

*****5 star thread! Would read again!*****

I could have my date wrong, but the 8th sounds right. I know it was a scramble to have them in within a very short time frame after the forms went live to be considered for directed tickets. Then placement pulls up their database to see if you were a camp that didn't suck and put you on the list. If...

I have a feeling too that theme camp registrations were WAY up this year due to the prospect of gaining tickets via the 10k directed distribution. Way more than there was reserved space for. That can't be true. Nobody knew about the direct distribution until after the fact. We did know. We were tol...

I don't know anything about it. TBI isn't anything to joke about. No, but when I was in icu expected to die, I did make jokes about it. Watched a marathon of mad doctor films overnight waiting for surgery too. I hesitated, but I did watch them. Never realized all those doctors were neurosurgeons be...

gyre wrote:Well, we already know that isn't working, don't we?

What isn't working? I'm confused about who you're talking to here.

gyre wrote:Oh, I have great pictures of that.

Zero motivation to add to information you already know.

I don't ask people for autographs either.

I don't know anything about it. TBI isn't anything to joke about.

i love the big ziplock idea, but have never tried it. i constantly drain off water in gallon jugs, to save for various uses, and add more ice when needed ... often cubes in the bag, so i can use it in drinks, but block as well, and dry ice, at least to start. it's very important to keep your food o...

Block ice + big ziploc bag = win!

If you have to use the chipped ice try using the REALLY big ziplocs.

Instead of stating the second rule...

pinemom wrote: First rule of Knowing Simon of the Playa is not to tell people about Simon of the playa.

I've never seen a David Best temple in person and I cannot express how thrilled I am about this!

Hey Lemur was the 2010 temple the one that looked like a pile of sticks in the shape of a playa snake sand dune? I think that sucked too.

I am constantly amazed by your ingenuity FJ.

The Plug n Play camps strike me as being camp-centric. They exist for the sake of the campers and not so much the community. Head out to the suburbs. Most of the camps out there exist for the sake of the campers, not the community. That's not a slam on them at all, just a reality - I have tons of f...

@Dr Jet Sinister - I agree, there shouldn't be some kind of trade-off where, for an additional fee a camper doesn't have to be bothered with the same responsibilities others share. The really sad part is that it can really diminish their BM experience too. There could be a silver lining in that how...

Gotcha. I guess for the BMOrg then, it's a question of what is more important. Are they willing to ignore poor adherence to LNT and decommodification in return for some large interactive features that someone like Playaskool brings? No consequences means the camps never learn and never grow. That s...

The only thing that can be done about it is for the community to reject it. It's up to *us* to be the collective that we believe BM is supposed to be. Just as the org sues to protect the BM trademark, it's up to us to alert them to people attempting to profit in ways that run counter to the essence...

Do you have any sense of humor? I don't think so Completely irrelevant to the ongoing discussion. So this is not the time to wade in with: I know Dr Jet Sinister, I am a friend of Dr Jet, and I'm here to tell you, the person you are describing is no Dr Jet Sinister ? Thank you Fishy. :) Putting on ...

Dear DrJet Have you visited Playaskool last year? No Do you know what fraction of the occupants "where tourists"? No Hahahaha Really? How do you know I didn't visit? Jon La Grace posted about all the people that came to hear the speakers, did you check the guest list and see my name wasn't on it? Y...

To conclude for now I really believe that being judgemental is the last thing Burning Man is about, if guys are making money out of it (and I really don't think they do) good for them let the BMORG decide and as always they'll get it wrong anyway so just let them be and if you don't like it look th...