I just moved to Reno to attend UNR. What's happening around here? I'm very excited about the move. We're discovering a pretty cool arts and crafts scene... Never Ender and La Bussola and such. We're also looking for some studio space to do bigger things, since we figured that an acetylene torch in t...

I might have been one of the creepy men with a camera at the opener for the party. Me: Mohawk? Check. Gold thong? Check. Decently ripped and tanned for a 47 year old? Check. Why was i there? To be supportive and celebrate with someone very importnat to me. My beautiful wife, mother of two, terribly...

Yeah, I was wondering if the Hash House Harriers were out there. I've never come across them, and it seems like they'd fit right in. What do they drop instead of flour?

Mildly curious,
--manda

There's one with a broken leg sitting at the corner of 13th ave and South River Road in Paso Robles, CA. I'm sure no one would mind it going for a walk....

I was hunkering down in my tent during last year's dust storm toward the end of the week. I was bored, having read eveything there was to read, including the food labels and the "Keep fire and heat sources away from this tent" label. So I scounged up a mask and went walking. I pointed myself down th...

I like to pop by the e-Playa while I'm at work, for a quick moment away from, well, work. Then I see in depth discussions about what sucks about Burning Man. So! I love, love, love reliving the approach to the playa. It's almost 6 am, and the sun is thinking about getting around to rising. I've just...

but when he

No, but they sure look spiffy....

a magnet.

I saw one HUGE dome in '02, at one of the rave camps at the 2 o'clock end of the city. I was rather....distracted, but my impression of it was 25 feet in diameter, quite possibly more. (My frame of reference is my house, a two level geodesic dome house, wood and plaster and everything. It's 25' acro...

He could've sung the phone book, and you'd buy it. If I'm not mistaken, he did an excellent version of "It's not easy being green" once. Or perhaps the Muppets have at last overloaded my brain.

It is nice to see all the flags at half-mast for him, tho.

Back when Senator Jesse Helms was sucking the corporate ass of Phillip Morris... A very funny group out of Austin had something to say on this topic. You can listen to a clip of the song at amazon; click on track 5, "Jesse+Phil," 1/3 of the way down the page. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/...

I finished reading House of Leaves a short while ago, by Mark Z. Danielewski. That is a freaky book. It's enough to make you scared of the dark, but not for any of the usual reasons. Very, very good though. I'm reading Always Coming Home right now, by Ursula K. Leguin. It's pretty cool, a collection...

Re: corsets...

An ice pack in the corset. Nice and cool.... for a while. And hey, I'm not complaining about a little extra, uh... padding.

PetsUntilEaten wrote: - but you really need only to appear self reliant / or be a self-reliant person with an unforseen problem who needs help...

So long as you've got your towel...

Leave no trace... Especially on my freaking PILLOW!

I see stickers on cars from time to time, on my absurd commute. Usually I'm too spaced out to do more than grin or shout "yeaah!" to myself as they drive past me, which I figure is better than the alternative of 'love tapping' them from behind to say "Hi."

Hmmm... Perhaps some classical conditioning could work on these miscreants. Positive reinforcement for driving slowly... stripteaser walking just ahead of said art car...

My classes, which have always been most accomodating by starting the day after Labor Day, this fall start on August 30th. Oh, sadness. Oh fuck!

Does anyone know where I can hire a doppelganger cheap?

DVD Burner Sir...

I think I have one or two of those CDs left. I had saved a bunch to give away in Exodus last year, but then I left too early in the day, and there was no line... PM me your addy, or I'll hang on to them and bring them back to the playa.

Yaaaaayyyyy!!!! My co-worker called in sick! I don't have to listen to her talk and bitch and moan all night!

Oh, wait.

Fuck!!!!!! Co-worker called in sick. I have to do twice the work.

Fuck.

Snowflake Echo..... well, it's ethereal.

The sky isn't really blue this evening, it's just kinda washed out, white-grey, stark. It's like the heat and the dryness have leeched even the memory of blue from the sky. The heat-haze outlines all the surfaces: tents, cars, the Man himself, in unknowing imitation of the flames to come. Up till no...

Ich bin ein Berliner!

Kudos graciously accepted and eaten.

Do I get an extra cookie if I can scare up a My Size Barbie for you? I'll look into it. You guys let me pass out in your shade one time, after driving all night and all day and not being able to find my camp. You guys rock! Also, have you seen this? http://www.spatulaproductions.com/spatula/barbies....

lurker wrote:
Kittens and ice cream...mmmmmmm

Raheer wrote:
Ah, Kitten-flavoured ice cream. Good stuff, but the whiskers get stuck in my teeth.

Schrodinger's Swirl, anyone? http://www.goats.com/archive/010606.html

It's been about three hours since we got the shock of our lives, all of Black Rock City gone. A few of my fellows have been debating reality and the existence of the senses for the past hour or so. I'm trying to tune them out, for the most part. It would be an interesting conversation under normal c...

Thanks, all, for the compliments! And sorry about the weird tense problems. I get that way when I'm writing stream-of-sleepiness. But hey, I finish my chores, and then they pay me to surf the web for another 4 hours. (Shh... don't tell, or they'll give me more work. Lucky for me, none of the manager...

Damn my luck! Damn, damn and damn! Why the hell couldn't I have stuck around for 2 more hours! Lisa wasn't feeling good, the first couple days of acclimating are never tons of fun, and then she got horrible cramps on top of that. So after asking around camp, I decided to catch the shuttle into Gerla...