DOH! I forgot about the pre-sale. Thanks BBadger.

The proposed BLM population cap for 2012 is 58,000 according to the application file here: http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/wfo/blm_information/nepa0/recreation/burningman_2012.html That number is 4,000 peeps higher than the total number of tickets we know about. Is the difference the number of passes...

Totally agree with Junglesmacks! It's like the difference between staring at a spinning beach ball or staring at a progress bar. You really don't know the details driving either of them, but at least with the progress bar you see things moving in the right direction!

But if they've already allotted 80% of the tickets, and only 25% of the theme/art camps have gotten theirs, how will even making sure that all of the remaining 10,000 tickets go to those camps fix things? It'll help, for sure, but there will still be a lot of important camps with half their members ...

What do you do if you have a vision stuck in your head that is just too damn big and/or complicated to bring to life? For three nights now I've had the same dream of a giant sculpture-- sitting on the Playa, of course-- huge skeletons of two Dinosaurs humping! In the dream it's funny, erotic, ironic...

I know it's trendy right now to use the "Occupy ----" meme for everything, but I just saw an ad selling big-screen televisions that encourages you to "Occupy your sofa!" It's a damned shame that this really important message that so many good people have suffered for is already getting diluted and d...