so, yer page says $250 to register pre-playa (understandable i guess), or $300 to register ON-PLAYA. i thought there was some thing about taking money on playa for anything. i just don't understand how someone who hasn't registered before they get on playa could be ok to camp with you for $300. one ...

i guess this counts as worst, but since it pissed me off it did exactly what it was supposed to do. "welcome to the rainbow gathering." (from an irate guy working gate, after we passed inspection). i think my favorite tho was, well, i saw a woman in full pony gear, pulling a cart by her harness that...

if you can swing it, wait until tuesday to leave. taking off sunday you miss seeing the temple and other art burn, leaving monday is dangerous (the last couple years we've had more deaths on the roads home on monday than on the playa during the whole event). last year was my wife's first burn. she i...

hey now, i never said that if you're doing it wrong that you shouldn't go.

in my experience, the unwashed dready-headed bare footed hippies who show up with no food and two gallons of water for the week have lot in common energetically with the shirt cocking beer swilling "i'm here because breasts" crowd: they both want a good time supplied by those who pour effort and res...

critical mass always bugged me: flooding the major roads with bikes so no one can get to work on time and occupying the police with a bunch of bike ninnies who aren't exactly breaking any laws, just clogging up the roads. but doing it, TO MAKE A POINT ABOUT MOBILITY AND SAY YOU SHOULD RIDE A BIKE NO...

yeah, but that was parody. the difference being: doing something because you're taking a jab at people who take themselves too seriously, and getting everyone a laugh at the same time; versus being paid to drag an ad around the sky by a private company. hell, gigsville had a PBR billboard, but that ...

word is that, like the rest of american air, air over black rock city is controlled. now it isn't hard to fax around and get permission to go on a flight (takes about ten minutes presuming you haven't filled out any forms by the time you get to the airport for an unscheduled flight), but THIS MUTHER...

the hot topic thing was a prank pulled over on the deth guild kids (i'm to understand one of them is a manager at a hot topic, and yes they all hate the chain of stores). early one morning, i encountered some folks looking for a climber who was confident in doing rigging while over forty feet up. by...

you camp where ever you park. the outer rings of town are quieter, except in certain neighborhoods. by the time gate opens for everyone, you are allowed to camp anywhere (not in the roads, but in any vacant space in the city). will call is a different line than box office, both of which are differen...

we're all asses here.

it's a fine skewering. i think the first line of each section is a direct lift from the standard.

i try to get some sleep starting around 10 or 11am and try to push it till around 2 0r 3pm, everyday. sometimes i can get away with laying down for just an hour and a half and be ok, but last year i missed my daily nap and was an extra wreck for the temple burn. after fighting our way home thru the ...

having undergone over 50% of my core group realizing they can't make it this year (from two months ago to just last night i lost another camp mate due to economy and vehicle crisis), something extra fucked happened: i ended up with an extra early arrival pass. so let me know if you have a legit reas...

hey everybody. anyone know a burner coming from humboldt county? or someone coming over 299? i and my crew leave either late this thursday or early friday morning, and at this point: i have an "extra" early entry pass. if anyone's got a legit reason to be out there but doesn't have a pass, PM me. i'...

hey everybody. anyone know a burner coming from humboldt county? or someone coming over 299? i and my crew leave either late this thursday or early friday morning, and at this point: i have an "extra" early entry pass. if anyone's got a legit reason to be out there but doesn't have a pass, PM me. i'...

i think a part of it has to do with how many folks are in a camp versus how much interactivity there is, what the ratio of land occupancy for personal use versus communal/social use. the tower and light jungle sound really neat, but if there's four times the amount of space for the camp bedding and ...

any oppertunity to tear someone down, hunh guys? her first post, she said she didn't figure it'd happen this year, just that she wanted to voice the desire and see what happens. knit picking over phrasing implying that her perspective and desire is impure is a bunch of conjecture and just rude to so...

lantz, do u know when yall are playing center camp?

well, when u know, let us know. thanks.

TRANSMORPHAGON apparently has a stage, there's a thread about it's return in 09.

that's exactly right: because deep end won't be there its now a complete creative wasteland. unlike when deep end WAS there, and the playa was still a complete literal wasteland. i thought it was the barren wasteland that we all went out there for, and that party's cropped up on their own. things ch...

i smoke tobacco and use a plastic zip lock bag to hold my loose leaf shag. i have been accused many times by fellow burners of rolling joints when i was just getting my nic-fix taken care of, as apparently the gesture of reaching into a zip-lock bag and rolling something indicates illegal to everyon...

i know its real difficult to imagine, but neurolinguistic programming only came up as an example of how to re-order one's own thoughts. REALLY, this shouldnt be what yall focus on, just one set of words that pissed of one troll. science once considered magnets to be a form of magic... cohesive reaso...

[quote="Simon of the Playa"]BEWARE OF NLP FUCKOS, THEY ARE WORSE THAN SCIENTOLIGISTS!!! swiss asshole run amuck buy my fucking tapes blah blah blahbitty send money now... NLP is a helping heaping of "you're a sucker"....[/quote] hey man, sorry if they made off with your cash before you realized it w...

the playa is full of magic, and this next year we'll have a place to conglomerate and ignore the rules of static reality! we'll have discussions/workshops on topics ranging from neuro-linguistic programming for the layman to how to decode the mystery of the moment using three coins and an old book. ...