ahh. got it. good call. updated. though those times are generally pretty loose any how, lol

6:00 Venue available to us
6:30 Quoted open/start
700 ish Presentation
9:00ish SHIPPING: ChiCargo & Cobra, etc
9:30 stop, social, LNT
10:00 final LNT
10:30 exit.

Your monthly Chi-burners' Meet'n'Greet returns on Wednesday, 7.18! This time we are taking a break from the bar scene, and going to the WTF Reserve, a private lot owned by our friend, and your Regional Contact, Heyu. If you've not been there, the location is between Kinzie and Hubbard, just east of...

ack. good catch. i added the remaining 2018 jams to the calendar! and Yes! we do still do monthly happy hours. We just had junes last week. Usually they go up in FB a week or two in advance, i will make a note to the team to get those on the calendar as well. this has been a good reminder that we ne...

BAM

http://www.burningmanchicago.org/events ... laya-bound

Wed 7/25 _ Newbie Night
An orientation for the playabound.

6:30-9:30 pm, at Pumping Station One
(3915 N Elston)

oh, and welcome.

i will yell at folks about being better at updating the website and calendar. it probably will not do much good

> Don't know why. because people are too busy/lazy to update the website. tons of shit going on! and facebook is probably the easiest way to stay informed, for better or worse. The most important and relevant thing- there wIll be a Newbie Night in late july (tantatively scheduled for the 7/25, locat...

Awesome. Thanks dudes!

Was grabbing a couple things at a local big box and saw a 700 watt microwave on sale for $35. Kinda struck me as an easy way to simplify my playa kitchen. Am I overlooking something here? I can live on shelf stable food for a week- seems like way less of an pain than dealing with dry ice on a cross ...

First year i had little more than a crappy little $50 dome tent. Had the time of my life!

(second year I did not use that tent, lol)

AHA! I've tracked down the source of that information I was given last year. It was not an official Burning Man communication. I narrowed it down to the person who injected their own rhetoric into the EA instructions and let them know. eh. technically, Placers do include language like the following...

i just wanted to say fLOL @ "Pink Jesus"

It's a tough question, but the solution definitely isn't to complain to the org. They're busy keeping relationships open with governments and neighbors. They're busy with the shitters and what to do if mother nature decides to get interesting. It's a big machine, it can juggle all sorts of balls. Y...

SunrayU75 wrote:

Nipple wrote: Signs along the route. No ticket no entry.

pretty sure they have road signs that say that already

the souk was cool, but the inner playa did seem a bit empty after getting used to seeing a couple dozen large scale art pieces around the man. not a complaint! and i like change. But I did miss CORE. Not just because of the art, but because it kinda helped facilitate a couple types of interactions. ...

Hi Kay- I'm one of the RCs for chicago. Welcome! There is a lot of stuff going on, all the time! Our decompression will most likely be late October, deatails should be published soon. There Officially, you should sign up for the mailing list. There are two- announce, which is used rarely, and discus...

i'm down with rich dudes that want to blow their money loot on rad shit because they love burning man. (thanks, RS!) :D this year though i personally encountered a few situations that involved "clients" and "customers" and "bosses" that had me raise an eyebrow. People can burn how they want, but doi...

We close at 6 for dinner and reopen at 8 then go til 2am. Did you not read the sign at the door? :? doh. like i said. we'll read better next year. we want to come play with you folks! as an epilouge... while we were walking home "empty handed", a pal saw us and offered us a very interesting gift, w...

also, after 5 years, i suppose i should finally start reading the goddamn W/W/W book. we intentionally stayed unaltered thursday evening to go explore the kink camps only to find the ones we knew about (retrofrolic, school of consensual kink) all closed at 6 :/ (once we got home home, i cracked it a...

My one regret this year was not really connecting with anyone new out there. I know that's silly, because having a *real* connection with a stranger is a tall order, but between really vibing with our super cozy 5 man camp, and spending so much time lost in one on one time with my new fiance- both o...

I feel a little of this happens with the regional burns. Each have their little bit of lawlessness that doesn't fully stack up to the lumbering beast the big burn has become. I wouldnt say "lawlessness" as much as "police less". that's one of the most awesome things about a 1700 person burn. No fuc...

I've always felt like they are trying to be to exclusive! People were less friendly. Robot Heart is rad- but I do think much of the music they play attracts a more snobbish crowd. My ex spends every night there. Like, she might as well buy Robot Heart tickets, because that's her burn. I think their...

meathunter: i think i am going to do a hybrid approach next year; dry ice for the drive out and then switch to a chest freezer once on playa. (dry ice is pretty cheaep in chicago- don't see the need to mess around running a genny in a packed truck/trailer)

But I don't think I will use solid tarps anymore. we use three 10x20s to cover our 20x30 1" conduit-based shade. the strips of sun are a bit annoying sometimes, but it's better than the alternative. (this past year, we built a 20x30 with a single tarp for our regional- figured since it was in "calm...

yeah. n00bs wearing (incredibly powerful) white headlamps on their heads kinda surpassed darkwards on my annoyance meter this year.

oh man, the hail sounded so cool pounding the roof. My partner did a bang up job taping, the only tiny bit of of water we had come in was by the door, and it was handled as it happened so no big deal. here's an interior shot of ours: http://creativebackend.com/pics/int_yurt_sm.jpg embiggen the cloth...

after temple burn, we had a nice fire going in our dryer drum fire pit out in the 3 oclock burbs. a campmate and i notice some rangers and a hippie out at our intersection and invite them in to share the warmth. My campmate is an experienced greendot, so whatever, we are happy to help out and be goo...

Verdict= fucking awesome.

Slept till 3:30 yesterday. Roomy, dust was no big deal, warm at night and easy to cool during the day. Couldn't imagine doing it any other way now. Love it. Thank you Julie danger, and all the other nerds that figured out the tricky bits.