"If Elvis Presley was so great, then why was he buried in his backyard like a hamster?"-
[beneath that...]
"Because he was too fat to flush down the toilet!"

-from the wall surrounding Graceland.

Tickets at gate, $6. Bring water, think playa- except there's trees, hills, and the nearby Shawnee National Forest. A little less dust.
The event planners are currently busy putting together a Ren Faire and may have missed yr messages. Happens sometimes.

This event has been relocated to the Murphysboro (IL) State Park, to be held in a Pagan-friendly, gated section.
Contact the organizers for more info.

"Burning Carp" is a nickname for the Warren G. Harding Dada Festival of the Subversive Arts.
This is a regional burn in beautiful Southern Illinois. More info~



http://www.greylight-theatre.org

Would like to meet IL burners! I'm a 2X burner, ('01,'04) looking for a better way in than the Green Tortoise bus... http://www.greentortoise.com I'm located about 5 miles east of the AMTRAK City of New Orleans stop at Carbondale. There was a regional burn here- "Burning Carp", so there are locals w...

A man goes to his doctor and says, "Doc, I have this terrible pain up my ass. Could you have a look?". Doc says, "Sure! Get up on the table, spread yr cheeks and I'll get a flashlight." This happens, and the doc says "I see a piece of string." The man says "Pull it out, don't just leave it!" Doc giv...

Peter Jennings blew the story of our lifetime with his UFO special last February. At least he gave some free publicity to...

http://www.nuforc.org

Talk to the folks at Clear Channel. You'll have lotsa "music", too.

Check local Post Office lobbies for AOL displays. Feel free to take all you want- nobody else is using them!

Hey Robotland!

see: http://www.geocities.com/auramanburn/resort.html

Hope this helps.
Anyone from Southern IL (AKA "SoIll") headed up there?

The Church of the SubGenius IS the Divinity School of Hard Knocks.

Praise "Bob"!

Sounds ambitious, best of luck. (pause)
Is there a drug festival nearby?

'pposedly, the adjective/ noun combo- random from a dictionary- gave the Grateful Dead their moniker.* Names: The Latex Mex Celebrity Squisher Foglifter (enlightened!) Zoo Loft (a theme camp?) 'bateshop (porn rental) Opinionated Asshole MOOPmop Pollcat AfraidKnot BetaMax, champion of disused tech! *...

Finally, finally had a Burning Man dream: made dust angels 'steada snow angels. Wish I could visit the dreamplaya more often.. any how-to tips?

SH-BB:

It's far better to see *anybody* show up w/ instruments + ready to play than see someone wandering around aimlessly with a can of Idiot Oil + expecting to be entertained.
Fuck that critic, write a nasty tune about that squirrel. Outdance him.
Even the barfiest art beats none at all.

The Peter Totter! Look carefully at the frame near the axle and you'll see the name in red script. It's sent bouncing back upward by means of the spring under each rider's ass.
Looked way kewl in operation.

Never again w/o a bicycle. Never again on a Green Tortoise bus (though the food was tops). " " w/o a radio- I missed lots of good music at times when I needed it. Thinking positive: Attend that regional burn I was invited to. Too bad I didn't know it existed until 2 weeks before the Real burn. Cash ...

He made beginning and intermediate-level guitarists actually want to play- instead of throwing down their axes muttering, "I'll never get it." His advice to guitar newbies was to buy a LOUD amp first, *then* find a reasonably playable cheap instrument. He influenced thousands. Johnny Ramone, rest sl...

This was my second burn; I don't drink. Hooboy, did I ever feel excluded from *most* camps. Did anyone else notice that BM seemed extra booze-heavy this year? The tipplers clustered w/ other drunks and this sort of decision-making limited social interaction (or seemed to). Otherwise, it was a fine b...

Rational Recovery helped undo AA damage and helped save my life.
No more meetings.
Thought I'd pass that one along.

I'm bringing a teeny digital camera to the event and I need to a know of a good spot or two for downloading pics. This would be either into a jump drive or (preferred) onto CD-R. The *gift* part of this would be spare blank CD-Rs aplenty for those willing to help, plus any junk jewelry, crap art or ...

Not a movie, but a great quote from the '01 burn:

"Looks like a Fellini picture on a Cecil B. DeMille scale."

Yet another vote for the Mad Max pics- it's how I (partially) explain the burn to the normals who don't know BMan.