That's a good suggestion! I was thinking of doing that as things stood.

I know a lot of people have dreads... I was wondering about anyone having their hair done in cornrows or other braids. I was considering having this done before I go next year, just to make it easier to care for out there.

::giggles about the masturbation question: That's... kinda extreme. The whole 'don't fuck' part of being straightedge is interpreted by moderates like me more to mean 'don't have sex where you do not love'. Do me and my Master boink like weasels? You better believe it. But there is no one else for m...

For those that need dye-able light silk or gauze for veiling, I highly reccommend www.dharmatrading.com. I'm getting everything from my yurt canvas to my veilingmaterial to dyes and mordant to cloth for my batwings to.... yeah. ::squeaks and wanders off to look at all the Dharmapretties!::

I'm thinking my 'walking costune' is going to include Bedouin-like veils on top of the dust-mask. I have a variant of asthma, but generally, it's triggered more by cold than by dust. No sense taking chances, though.

The ten percent who are looking for a reason to groxx about something, I can let go; I have no pwer over their decision to be unhappy and to bring others there with them. I just want to be sure when I do this, I do it right. I think I already get it. What's more... I think I've needed it for years. ...

I mentioned this on another thread. I'm making somethng almost like a swordcane... except it will have a little retractable claw thingee in it and will be used as a combination walking stick and a 'hey, look, some moop' thingee!

I guess I just have the Scared Newbie Syndrome. I want to be where my heart is... and I know it's on the Playa, because I keep dreaming about dust, heat and wild beauty, even though I have never seen it. I want to be where my heart is and... belong, throw myself into it, without worrying that I'm on...

I agree! This is one of the big problems I have with the hardline straightedgers. They're not satisfied with being Vegan/straightedge, they want to act like bad fundamentalists and force it on everyone. Which REALLY messes up the scene for anyone who X's their hands and just wants to be proud of liv...

I had big problems with caffeine a while back; so I stopped drinking sodas to excess and weathered through the resultant headache-from-hell. I still like the taste of cola (especially Pepsi One!), though, so I have one once in a while. Non-caffeine sodas just don't taste quite the same. On the other...

I'm curious about something. What would the general opinion be about where costume leaves off, and art begins? I have some... pretty weird ideas (like turning myself into a glowing bat), and am wondering just how far I'd need to go to make myself into a walking art display, rather than someone in ju...

I agree with most of what you are saying, to a certain point. I agree that Burning Man is definitely a luxury and a privilege to attend. There are people—like me—that live on a fixed income; I'm on Social Security. I can't hold a job (believe me, I tried for about 20 years, ended up fired over and o...

I've heard about stuff being handed out and so on. Doesn't that turn into moop too easily?

Straightedge got started because of a Minor Threat song called, oddly enough 'Straight Edge'. It takes the name and the viewpoint of 'drugs are bad for you and a crutch, I have the straight edge'. Originally, as I said in a post before, it was 'don't drink, don't do drugs, don't smoke, don't be prom...

The design of the yurt seems to be conducive to breathing. From the look of it, all you would have to do is roll up the bottom a little and then open the hole in the top, where the ring is, to get a decent breeze going. I'm thinking of doing something like making a sort of dust-screen out of very li...

Good night! Rest well! And thank you for all the help!

Very, very, very good advice. I am going to be using the heavy, wide canvas available from www.dharmatrading.com. It's specifically designed to be painted on and is a very tight weave. I have a pretty ballsy sewing machine, and it'll all be straight, flat-felled seams anyway. I'm (obviously) going t...

Sounds like the Jasper laser from www.bigha.com. I go there to drool over their recumbent bikes, but their green lasers are cool, too!

How many 'bents are around the Playa? OOH! Another thing about mine; I have a bike trailer that'll pull about 100 pounds. Watch. I will end up being Ice Run Goddess!

::giggle:: What's Critical Tits?

::nibbles her lip::.... I'm a newbie. BM2005 will be my first burn. I am in the planning phases... and people like you are telling me I've made the right call, I've found the right vibration of weird genius. ::spontaneous hug:: You have no idea what you have given me... just by thinking I have been ...

Yes!! Yes!! Mine is a Bike E AT, all black! ::is all excited now:: Her name is Blackshatter, or... 'Girrrrrrl, whachoo ridin'?!". The latter was repeatedly yelled to me as I rode around New Orleans, grinning, Gothy and all X'ed up!

::makes a truly comical mad dash to go and look those up!:: OOoooh.... source material! I am also trying to find some way to turn my recumbent bike into... well... into a hyena. And rolling meditative space... oh, for disposable income to do THAT with.... I would love to have a rolling chillspace/te...

That sounds absolutely gorgeous! I had considered having hyenas (my totem animal) painted around the top of mine!

Ooo, the one I plan on making is actually a great deal smaller. The plans I have are for a yurt probably about half that size, able to be transported on a good roof-rack. The lattices fold down tightly and are divided into three pieces. The rest of the suggestions you have are great, especially abou...

::rubbing hands together and looking at tools inherited from her wonderful grandfather, who watches from on high with a grin::

I've talked to the SCAdians I know... I have the plans... baby, I'ma roll my own! (Well. Hopefully it won't actually roll..)

One tent type I've seen do very nicely even in some pretty ugly thunderstorms at Pennsic... is the yurt or ger. I'm thinking of building one. Does anyone have suggestions/experience regarding these?

::scuffs a foot on the floor:: Next year... will be my first Burning Man. I already have some plans for a nice little camp, and for running around and being a... weird wind-thingee. If there is one like me, there are more, more new people to come and try and breathe in some life. I will sing Meep So...

::blinkblinks, wipes eyes::... thank you. I mean it. Those three words rang in me like a bell. I am absolutely, positively going to have to make it to BM2005, even if I have to sell my teeth!

Yuck!! I'm so sorry they're like that. I promise you, though... there are many, many moderates. I wish the hardliners would go crawl under a rock and have a wonderful time listening to Earth Crisis... far, far away from where they can damage the reputation of everyone else who wears X's on their han...

::pets the badger!:: You make good points.. I'll give it a little time and see if anyone pops up and goes 'Hey, the Blerbtyfnaggle Camp is substance-free'... and, if not, I'll just... squinch my eyes shut and dive on in! One thing I know: the money most people spend on booze can be spent on making a...