I have severe asthma and use Advair and albuterol inhalers every day, so I was very nervous about what might happen to me at Burning Man. In addition to inhalers and good masks, I also got a prescription for prednisone from my doctor before I went, just for emergencies. So now I've been to Burning M...

Raiderburn, my 17 year old daughter went to Burning Man this year, and she went last year too. She doesn't drink (much) or do drugs and has the most unbelievable, incredible, wonderful experiences every year. Of course, as she's a beautiful trusting receptive young girl, she always goes out with a "...

Actually, I recommend you run spell check on all your messages before posting (in Word, perhaps?). It is difficult to take rants seriously when every other word is misspelled. Sorry, I have a thing for spelling. I won a spelling bee in the fourth grade and have never gotten over myself.

I posted this in another section of the Forum, but I'll post it here too, since it's OT... Speaking of photographers at CT...the links below are a couple reasons that may deter women from riding in CT (they definitely deter me, anyway): http://www.troutbrook.com/bmgallery16.html Look at the bottom o...

Speaking of Critical Tits on porn sites...the links below are a couple reasons why I won't ride in CT again... http://www.troutbrook.com/bmgallery16.html Look at the bottom of page, you'll see an option to purchase prints. http://www.coccozella.com/zPATRON/1new_gal_exhibit.htm A website selling to t...

I rarely wear a costume while in brc I am so busy doing activities i dont ever dress up until night. MAny times in this thread i heard over and over again yahoos with no costumes sorry my costumes put up so i can build something for you etc etc. This might not go over well but maybe critical tits s...

Nice gigantic image. It's so detailed I feel like I could almost reach into my computer monitor, grab a gnarled, hairy teat and squirt a little of that sweet albino nectar into my morning coffee.

Seriously, though...how in god's name did you get a titty photo of Barbara Bush?

. I was picking sequins and spirit gum off my boobs for at least a couple days afterwards. I'm sure the volunteers to stay after us to clean up managed to get all the ones that fell off! Thanks for sharing! Wow, were you following me around counting the sequins that fell off my boobs? Allow me to d...

Critical tits does not celebrate women, or empowerment, or freedom, or even sex. It celebrates tits. You make the choice to take your shirt off, you make the choice to ride publically. If you have a problem with morons yelling at your tits, that is YOUR PROBLEM. . First paragraph, spoken like a tru...

Ooooh, yah, I wouldn't have survived without the pee bucket for those nighttime bladder emergencies. The only problem was getting my campmates to stop pouring their old coffee and half-eaten soup into it when I wasn't looking...

And if there was a younger female present and the photographers still kept taking pictures, that's disgusting. People need to show some respect. Yes, Kinetic, there was a younger female present (my daughter)...and I think that just added fuel to the fire for the camera-wielders. Definitely an "ick"...

I rode in the Critical Tits parade this year for the first time with a friend and my daughter (and our breasts were very nicely painted, if I do say so myself). We were waiting around on our bikes at the base of the Man for the parade to begin, milling about en masse with scores of other topless god...

Our primitive evap pond worked beautifully this year. We used one medium-sized kiddie pool, a camp shower, a few towels (and we only had 5 people in our camp) - but this year we girls decided to "go dirty" and quit worrying about washing all our long hairs every day. We relied mostly on lots of baby...

Last year there was an older gentleman with a button machine. He was having people draw their own button designs, and then he made them into buttons. It seemed pretty popular, altho people weren't listening to his instructions and he was getting a little testy. I like the idea of a pinch of playa du...

Shit, double-clicked, SORRY!!! It's way too fucking early in the morning.

Yes, thank you, Kinetic, most of my thinking is probably "flawed", yet somehow I still survive this world. However, I prefer to think of it as simply a different line of thought - just because it's different from yours doesn't make it flawed, it just stems from different personal experience. Re: roa...

Yes, thank you, Kinetic, most of my thinking is probably "flawed", yet somehow I still survive this world. However, I prefer to think of it as simply a different line of thought - just because it's different from yours doesn't make it flawed, it just stems from different personal experience. Re: roa...

That's the only kind of deer I like. It's dead. I know, I just hate deer too. Hideous asshole woodland creatures who selfishly fling themselves to their self-centered deaths on our precious moving vehicles as we speed to our vacations on highways we've built to run directly through their natural ha...

I don't have a lot of room in my van (and no racks on the roof), so for $20 I purchased a "rooftop storage system" from GI Joe's - a collapsible square bag kind o' thing that fits on the roof, rack or no, and expands to 13 cubic feet. Has anyone used one of these for a road trip? Is it a piece of sh...

I just picked up some of that Swedish Snow Break Up net at a Seattle surplus store yesterday. I was looking for shade material, i.e. a parachute, but the store owner told me that lots of local burners came in looking for the white Swedish stuff rather than parachutes. Does anyone have experience wit...

This year I vow to NOT bring a satellite phone. The ability to call home and friends from Burning Man makes a great gift - my sat phone was a popular item with my neighbors at BRC - but we ended up leaving before the Burn last year because of an "emergency" call from a family member.

I did hear that a fasting cleanse (of less than a week) is great for getting rid of the lifetime of accumulated Play-Doo permanently occupying your colon - maybe when it comes out you you can make a playa sculpture out of it.

I am 1/2 of a couple that does not attend Burning Man together. My S.O. is a suburban kinda guy who thinks Burning Man is a pointless freakfest, and thinks I'm a total nut for participating. (I think he's just afraid to find out more about himself and open himself to life). I would love to be able t...

Yes, definitely use guy wires...we camped next to someone who plopped their 10 x 20' carport directly down on onto some embedded rebar and thought that was enough to keep it secure. During last year's windstorm the carport was lifted right off the rebar, tossed about 30 feet in the air and landed on...

My 16 year old daughter and I went to the Playa for the first time last year. She's sort of "delicate" and shy, so I was very worried about how she'd fare, but as soon as we got there she dove (dived?) right in, reveled in the heat, wind and dust, gained buckets of instant confidence, made some grea...

I used $70 Costco walkie-talkies to keep track of my teenagers, and they worked pretty well most of the time. We just agreed on a channel a little higher up on the dial, tested it out for a bit to make sure it was quiet, and had a fair bit of success keeping in touch with our kids (altho after about...

One way to prevent veterans (or other newbs) from getting pissed at newbs is to make sure you balance all of your fun and exploration with a bit of time pulling your weight in camp. It's very easy to get caught up in the seductive wondrous tentacles of BRC and forget to help your campmates with camp...

...now know what IT is. Whenever Im walking down the street, and I pass people going the other way, I always smile a little and try to look into their eyes. Usually people will keep looking in front of them and ignore me. But once in awhile, some people will share eye contact, and for a short momen...

As a first timer I do think it's a good idea to "contribute" because contributing helps you integrate into the community and become more a part of things, but you can contribute on so many different levels. As a first-timer I think it's okay to contribute on a modest level, given the visual/emotiona...

You have done and seen and learned more than many people will in an entire lifetime. Many of us in our daily small travails are slowly forgetting about the magnitude and aftermaths and lessons of the tsunami, and yours is a poignant, moving reminder of the sacredness of both life and death; the powe...