after the American Dream i was braced for the worst... i heaved a massive sigh of relief with Evolution... much to my pleasure, most people ignored the American Dream, reminding me that BRC is still BRC no matter what "theme" Larry picks. Evolution should both stimulate fun responses *AND* be very e...

if all of the old school burners give up on us then who will be there to help us 'evolve' into the kind of community that you can be proud to be a part of?

the kind that drink lots of whiskey, drive fast on drugs and discharge firearms at stuffed animals?

>Old soldiers never die ......young ones do.......
>unknown.....

here's a variation: "it's always the old to lead us to the war. it's always the young to fall. look at all we've won with a sabre and a gun. tell me is it worth it at all..." -- phil ochs "i ain't marchin' anymore"

>I can't help but wonder if any of these 'fuck the theme' retards have ever actually BEEN to BRC. this'll be my tenth visit in eleven years. i almost didn't come because the theme was so wretched. then a good friend whose first burn was last year said "you gotta come!" and, well, i'm hoping to see t...

Tom Wolfe had some funny comments on the term hippie. He basically said it was a "totally Newsweek term" and said that the hippies in the Haight called themselves "acidheads" but that the media wouldn't use the term acidhead because, as he put it, "it sounded like corroding batteries." so they inven...

footnotes: in addition to shirt, cape, elf boots and hat, i was wearing PANTS (well, actually shorts) when talking to the cop. only on a brc discussion board would i feel the need to point that out... also, i want to say that drug possession arrests are a scourge upon the nation. sometimes intoxicat...

this is an intense thread. rev, care to answer if you were high, and, if so, on what? it's irrelevant, ultimately, but might have some bearing on any credibility you could lend to your story. it seems incomplete at best and deranged at worst... as in, i think you believe that is what happened, but l...

my first burn i got there on monday night. by tuesday afternoon i took my first walk across the playa and almost literally the first thing i noticed, at least the first immediate and strong impression that i had was that as i walked by all of these people, they would all say hi to me. and it was mos...

also once again avoided rocking the shoes, shirt, hat, sunglasses, no pants and /or underwear look.

oh yeah, and i spent an afternoon (drinking bloody marys) helping a friend actualize her art project and encouraged her when she was becoming frustrated with it. that was very gratifying since when all was said and done, the result was a project she was pleased with, and we saw others experience and...

things i did right... well, the #1 thing i did right was get a shitty bike at Target in SF before coming. i fly out from NY so this has been my sixth burn since '98 and only the first one where i had a bike. what a fuckin' difference! and a bay area friend offered to keep it for me until next year. ...

howdy. russell, thanks for starting this thread. for two years now i've been severely annoyed by the "down in front" schmucks. the animosity almost keeps me from wanting to get high burn night or go anywhere near the burn until the man is torched. burn night has never been my favorite night of the e...