I want to publish a literary sampler of my shorter work in paperback, and give away at least a hundred copies on the Playa this year. The sampler will include fiction, non-fiction, essays, film reviews, poetry, etc. from my existing back catalogue of work. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/182969...

I can bring a good number of RV trailers to the Playa for people to use, but if you want one you'll have to drive about 90 miles north of the Playa to pick it up, and then drop it off in Reno after the Event. . . and hopefully you'll have early entry as I am hoping to get this done by the 24th.

I would like to volunteer for the kissing 40 girls a day experiment, please.

FOR SCIENCE!

Oh, and re: trusting your own experience vs. trusting the wisdom of sages. . . I have put many years of hard effort into learning to be properly skeptical and sort the intellectual wheat from the chaff. I do a pretty good job of discounting even my own anecdotal evidence if it flies in the face of, ...

Ah, Anandaconda my dear, you are a refined person with deep and beautiful thoughts. Well, that, or you just want a chance to shoot me.

Hey, the instructions were "invent a rite of passage," not "invent a rite of passage and then go out and do it, you fool."

I'm not in love with anyone who wouldn't immediately open fire once I made my little speech.

Take a woman you truly love to an isolated spot in the desert. Give her a gun, make sure she knows how to use it safely, and dig yourself a grave. Stand in the grave looking up at her there with the gun in her hand, and tell her that you are willing to be responsible for everything every asshole man...

I betcha somebody here at American Steel in Oakland would want that. I will ask around.

Actually, I'll just print this page up and stick it on the bulletin board here.