Consumptionblog (my blog) will be contributing one article a week. Everything else will be original to BurnerLove and the occasional awesome Burner story/article/video/picture we find elsewhere.

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Hippies have been gaining the upper hand in the Burning Man culture wars for the past couple years. http://consumptionblog.com/2011/10/06/hippies-vs-ravers/ Burning Man Bureau of Labor Statistics (BMBLS) released a report on Wednesday showing that Hippies have now gained the upper hand at the event ...

Shill posts inflammatory comments in effort to drive page-views to blog post, film at eleven... As a hobby I enjoy writing 'The Onion' style articles about an event I love that takes place north of Reno and sharing them with other Burners - some people like them, some don't, most don't care...I mak...

Bob wrote:Does it help that I typed "badly", rather than "poorly"?

It helps a little

Shill posts inflammatory comments in effort to drive page-views to blog post, film at eleven... As a hobby I enjoy writing 'The Onion' style articles about an event I love that takes place north of Reno and sharing them with other Burners - some people like them, some don't, most don't care...I mak...

Victoria, Australia (CN) – Australia’s sole academic journal concerned with cultural issues and stuff, Meanjin, recently published an article about Burning Man that has breathed new life into the slowly dying desert event. The author of the article makes several controversial claims about Burning M...

pink wrote: And the part you quoted wasn't even the best bits.

True - but it has the best information about what to do to get tickets - that was the whole point of the post

I haven't seen this listed anywhere else: http://bit.ly/u6xexp 1. All those interested in entering the Burning Man draft fill out a simple ‘baseball card’ style application process with valid credit card number by January 5th. 2. After being printed the cards are randomly distributed by a profession...

It was a crazy year for Burning Man news - here are six of the top Burner stories for 2011 http://consumptionblog.com/2011/12/28/top-6-news-stories-of-2011/ Gerlach, NV (CN) As we exit 2011 and crash into 2012 Consumptionblog looks back at the year in BurningMan. As always ‘The Event North of Reno’ ...

Simon of the Playa wrote:"i'm hung like a DPW"

bumper sticker spotted in Fremont.

I can't believe this isn't a bumper sticker already...

Great Sparkleponies!

Gerlach, NV (CN) – We now have it straight from the horses mouth. As announced earlier starting in 2012 Wild Horses will replace all human DPW staff. Burning Man Board member Ruud Van Nistelrooy went on record today confirming what had been rumored for weeks in the Burnersphere. http://consumptionb...

Gerlach, NV (CN) – We now have it straight from the horses mouth. As announced earlier starting in 2012 Wild Horses will replace all human DPW staff. Burning Man Board member Ruud Van Nistelrooy went on record today confirming what had been rumored for weeks in the Burnersphere. http://consumptionb...

junglesmacks wrote:I think it's time for some reggae night at Johnny's with some candles in the sand..

Yeah, that wouldn't be bad, get a night off after doing all this statistics all day long...

Careful measurement of foot traffic throughout Black Rock City confirmed rumors this year that NectarVillage received more foot and bicycle traffic than Center Camp. http://consumptionblog.com/2011/10/03/burning-math-nectarvillage-vs-centercamp/ What do you think. Center Camp needs a Steambath...

theCryptofishist wrote:I'm sure that "Dusty Lentil" used to be the leader of Violent Klown Faktion before being force fed lsd for a week.

Prolly not too far from the truth...

Hippies took over dominance from Ravers this year:

http://consumptionblog.com/2011/10/06/h ... vs-ravers/

Burning Man Bureau of Labor Statistics (BMBLS) released a report on Wednesday showing that Hippies have now gained the upper hand at the event North of Reno.

jkisha wrote:

BlackRockCityPimp wrote:
I guess napalm can be used for cooking.

Why not? We used C-4 for cooking!

C-4 is good for stews where you don't care about appearance but rather only taste...

junglesmacks wrote:

tattoogoddess wrote:Pepper Spray
http://www.safeshow.com/pepper_spray.html
Pepper spray is a non-toxic self-defense product derived from hot cayenne peppers, the same type of peppers used when cooking.

It's basically a condiment!

Glad you all liked it - more to come, just getting warmed up for 2012...

Washoe County, NV (CN) – In a late night raid Black Rock Rangers raided the OccupyBurners camp in the former town of Empire. There were no reports of injuries or violence during the raid.

http://consumptionblog.com/2011/12/01/b ... in-empire/

Thank you very much for your response. I think you make many valid points. It certainly would be hard to judge virgin burners. Perhaps with Burning Man's emphasis on regionals a college or development or farm system for Burners could be developed where people would be drafted based on their 'perform...

We don't even know where the Burn will be held this year. Also - in the past let me clarify your thoughts - you only had the illusion of self-reliance in the past. The lottery is for all its faults is more in line with your higher power. You only have the power to find and attend Burning Man with H...

Burners would be picked based on the relative merits on how awesome of a Burner they are. And because 50,000 people would need to be drafted even if you are only a little bit of an awesome Burner who occasionally steals a bike or brings a huge sound system out to the Temple at 3am blasting Insane C...

clerkkent wrote:I think they should just randomly insert gold embossed tickets into chocolate bars. Then we would at least have a chocolate bar.

I would not be opposed to this at all.

I agree with Trilobyte, but I'll say why: how do you measure merit? There is no grid to do this, and I have noway to prove that I'm an awesome burner or a shitty one... I bet ya we could come up with a grid or formula. I'm not very good at algorithms but something like '# of Burns / bikes stolen x ...

I have mixed views about adopting a lottery system for ticket distribution. On one hand dealing with the new reality of ticket scarcity demands new thinking in ticket distribution modalities. On the other, its already a bit of a lottery in the early stages of ticket purchasing whether you get the ch...