Success -- First message was at 12:00:38, then two crashes and two refreshes at about 1:40 Pacific Time got purchase screen Now have confirmation email for TWO TICKETS TO BURNING MAN! Yea!! Not perfect, not smooth, some hope, some fear, joy in then end -- and IT WORKED . . . (kinda just like the Pla...

85 minutes and counting . . . Time to listen to this . . .

Got in within the first 38 seconds >>>>12:00:38 PM PST: >>>You are now in the queue to buy tickets in the Individual Sale. You will not see a number indicating where you are in line for this sale. The system will refresh every 60 seconds. If the system stops refreshing, or displays a 'file not found...

>>(I would have rather been called the most Libertarian camp at Burning Man.)<<

THANKS for the laugh! Ditto for me! Live Free!

I'll be by with a gift for you from the campaign HQ!

Tengerguy

Lonesomebri, I love the ideas here. Gotten back to feeling glad I posted this again. If Gary Johnson, Joe Biden, and whoever the Green Party candidate is, fought Homer Simpson, Pat Paulsen (he's "middle of the bird"), and the Architect from the Matrix movies for a seat on the Supreme Court, in a six...

Thanks amarantha and Ugly Dougly, The douche bag, fucker, whack job responses were in the way of the experience I'd like to create on the playa -- but, hey I started this, so no blame -- but honest to god it wasn't anything more than it's my third year, want it to be great for my 17 1/2 year old son...

Just watched the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lxRrKbX9ss4 And have decided to channel my earlier energy into supporting the BWS art project. http://burnwallstreet.net/ I especially align with the artist's comments beginning at 3:10 in on the video. They are PERFEC...

Eric, >> The rest of us will go "cool buildings, I bet they burn nice!" or "doesn't look like they'll make a good fire".<< If only I'd paid attention and noticed they were going to blow up Coffee Stop 2 years ago. THAT made one HELL of a mushroom cloud. You're right. This looks like a crappy layout ...

Bob, >>The Trojan horse is already out of the barn with the OWS (hah!) funded (hah!) art (hah!) installation. Bring it.<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Yeah, WTF is THIS: http://burnwallstreet.net "Forged from the financial unrest and injustice that has incensed the American public, Burn Wall Street’s core intention ...

[quote="Lonesomebri"][quote="Tengerguy"]I'm voting for the one guy advocating non-violence. But given your first posts here I can see why you'd vote for the Nobel-Peace-Prize-Winning-Drone-Killer-of-Kids-and-Other-"Terrorists" Who Has Also Ramped Up The War On Drugs Here At Home Black Man . . .[/quo...

Simon, >>forget about all of that for a week, it might do ya good...<< Your advice here just keeps getting better and better. Thanks for the candor. Yeah, my FAVORITE Broadway Musical is Man of La Mancha. It's a Long shot. The odds are against us. We're certain to be crushed. But if he could get in ...

>.im voting for the Black guy, BTW, because Mormons are Alien scum...<< NOW we are getting somewhere. I will (try to) find Root Society and look you up. I'll be the guy wearing the PERFECT T-shirt for that meeting (based on your comment above). 1) it's Black. 2) It says: UFOs are REAL, the Governmen...

Simon, One more sorry, my request to tone it down was being written as you posted your last (VERY KIND -- THANKS) message. It's been less than two years since I first considered going to BM. Bought a ticket online on the last day of the sale in 2010. IF I'd gotten tickets in January, I'd have had ti...

Simon, OK. Jesus. Think you could tone it down just a notch or two? -- I could hear you clearer. But I get the anger. I get I screwed up here. I apologize. I am grateful (truly) for the feedback here. It saved me from screwing up out there. Rereading my initial post even without your feedback it loo...

>>>>Is there room for a Gary Johnson logo wrapped van (not an art car/mutant vehicle but something to be parked at the camp? Can gifting include giving away said campaign yard signs, T-shirts, bumper stickers, << Yeah, that's looking like a really stupid idea here 24 hours later. . . >>And here I wa...

So in the world of making good come out of this (especially for those I pissed off here by being stupid (I've been to TWO -- 2010 alone, 2011 with my wife -- this was my first attempt to even think about a theme camp . . . call me slow and stupid too if you want). Here's the policy that I looked at ...

Hey guys, 1) If I was out to shill, I doubt I'd be asking for community feedback here and now; but I get the anger, desire to leave Politics out in the default world. I respect that. I stand corrected and apologize for whatever degree that was part of my developing agenda. That was wrong. 2) The thr...

Should have said -- not looking to pass anything out, but also want to have stuff to give to those who would want it. . . .

Yeah. I get it. Not looking to pass anything out, but have enough of a visibility to connect Burner Libertarians with each other (and personally, make a bunch of new friends) and enjoy conversations about the connection between Libertarian and Burning Man values (bringing that sense of Liberty out i...

This will be my third consecutive year at Burning Man. Bringing my 17 year old son this year. I'm also working as a full time volunteer for the www.garyjohnson2012.com presidential campaign. So I'm wondering -- is there any interest in a Theme Camp for Libertarian Burners/Gary Johnson fans? In the w...

>>One of my campmates got her STEP offer (she was a 12:17'er) but is turning them back in 'cause we already have tickets for everyone in our camp. Hope one of you get them. : )<< Wouldn't it be PERFECT if, in the end, there was ONE ticket left over unsold on the last day, and Burning Man did NOT sel...

Calirobert -- "SOON" for me would have been several months ago! :-) In 2010 I waited till the last minute and went alone. Then in 2011 I got tickets the day they went on sale, put up a Rites of Passage Poster, but the tickets in the frame and lived into a future of going to Burning Man every day fro...

Calirobert -- I think this is worse than watching a pot boil.

12:18:11 -- checking email every few minutes. Holding breath. Went in 2010 alone; 2011 with my wife; 2012 -- hoping to go with my 17 1/2 year old son -- promised this as a Christmas Present to him . . .

I'm sitting on 12:18:11 . . . have some hope for the first time in weeks/months.

Great Idea -- Love playing with the dual gate idea Love/Fear Birth/Death Work/Play Power/Surrender Wisdom/The Fool As Above/So Below The Word/The Silence Bright Blessed Day/Dark Sacred Night (Louis Armstrong) Answers/Questions Home/The Journey Hero/Villain Mentor/Petty Dictator Citizen/Slave Dom/Sub...

I recommend reading -- How to Record the Cops: A guide to the technology for keeping government accountable -- This summer . . . camera-wielding citizens were arrested in Maryland, Illinois, Massachusetts . . . New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Florida, and elsewhere . . . So far Massachusetts is the onl...

Goes over well with me. Theft is not "radical self reliance" nor is it at all consistent with any part of the Burning Man culture, IMO. Catching and correcting the behavior of those who steal . . . is, IMO.

Kodachrome, Not sure this will help, but listening to BMIR late Monday, the DJ was reporting that the rangers/cops had busted two organized bike theft rings. Then he dedicated a song to them with the lyrics "You Fucked Up." Been wondering where those bikes went? Into an evidence locker? Or if they w...

I left about 10 am Tuesday, only a few other cars, and no wait at all. Road was very bumpy and dusty, but not bad or unexpected. Lots of activity Monday afternoon and evening. Some fireworks late Monday night. BMIR Radio was warning of high winds and low temps forecast for later Monday, and said som...