Posting a call to action from my camp's leadership. Come get weird with us! Attention: Burning Man PARTICIPANTS Kamp Suckie Fuckaye is hosting wonderful events and shows this year. We are looking for all sorts of performers and musicians. We are located at the 4:30 Portal (between Esplanade and A). ...

Hey Sage, thanks for your response! I sent you a text.

Nope. My question was intended more along the lines of "who is, and how do we contact them?"

Just booked a room as well, for pre-Early Arrival. $46.12 including taxes and fees. Thanks Pyro!

What's up with the orgy room? Asking for a friend, obviously.

Just throwing a rideshare request out here, if that's okay. I put it up on the official Rideshare page, but thought it might catch someone's eye on ePlaya as well. Also, Burner Express won't be running yet, so please don't suggest it. :) My fiancee and I are flying into Reno from New Orleans to meet...

Kamp Suckie Fuckaye will also be returning to the 4:30 Portal... booze, fire, acrobats, aerialists, suspension rope bondage, strippers, etc. We're mostly open in the evening/night, but sometimes we're sober enough to run things during the day. Evening entertainment schedule: Monday live music (migh...

AHA! I've tracked down the source of that information I was given last year. It was not an official Burning Man communication. I narrowed it down to the person who injected their own rhetoric into the EA instructions and let them know. I'm sure that person was thrilled to hear from you about it. No...

Well, that was a lot of goddamn fun.

Sarge: plans are still underway, but we're putting together a little family vacation. Looking at flying into Cape Town on April 21st to allow for some transition and shopping time, and then staying in South Africa about two weeks after the burn ends. Planning to rent a few RVs between everyone in th...

Two weeks ago, my fiancée and I had dinner with a world-traveling burner friend and his girlfriend, both from her very small hometown. We don't know them super well, but we really, really like them--lots of shared interests, similar life paths, and just generally awesome people. They mentioned the m...

some seeing eye: It's a good point, and another reason that I didn't think of EL wire to start with. I don't think there's any perfect light source that meets all of the ideal criteria; some sort of sacrifice will have to be made on brightness, price, weight, or durability. It's just a matter of fig...

More good insights, thank you everyone that keeps contributing. Definitely smart to include the Artery in the process, as this isn't the first time aerial art has been made on the playa and they definitely would have some things to contribute. Regarding lift, I think he'll use as many balloons as ne...

Great link Joe, that's super helpful.

Also a good suggestion, Captain. I just don't know about making the run from scratch is all. I did some laughably basic soldering for homemade bike lights my first year and they were....not good.

'Cause it's vertical. :P The man has helium, serious netting, some 4' - 6' weather balloons, and a desire to make the tallest string of light possible. I have concerns about anchoring, obviously, but he has some ideas to do it securely. It'd only go up for a while at night when airport operations ar...

Cool, thank you for the responses so far. I assumed that LEDs would be the way to go. I've used EL wire for small personal projects in the past, and it's nowhere near the kind of output that he's hoping to get. Unfortunately, what he wants sounds like it might just be impossible. The idea is for it ...

Ready for some stupid questions? I've got plenty. My future father-in-law is planning to come for his second burn in 2016. He's an eccentric dude, and has some ideas for art that he wants to create. A lot of it is light-based. Neither he nor I have much experience in the world of power and illuminat...

Aw man, this brings back all sorts of memories for me. I lived in Chiang Mai for about 8 months in 2012-2013, and I miss it a lot. It seems like you already have a good handle on Thailand, and I second a lot of the advice already given. Here are a few of my thoughts: --Chiang Mai is great. Sure, it'...

What worked... we got on the vacuum sealer train this year, and it was great. My fiance is a wonderful cook, but it's always so unappealing to do on playa, so our meals in the past have usually been pretty simple and plain. But this year we had: --vegetarian sweet potato chili, spiced to perfection ...

I'm definitely both spoiled and biased because in four burns I've never camped further back than D, and I like being up front with the noise and the traffic, but I can't imagine setting up camp separate from my vehicle all the way back in the walk-in zone. It's so far, and I'm such a disorganized an...

The few virgins on our EA crew got initiated to our family. Friendships were cemented. People banged. And it was lovely. No one was perturbed because they read the FAQ that told them there would be no fun allowed during EA, and there was fun going on after all. Our virgins handled it just fine. Our...

If little Billy believes that he's a girl despite his genitalia and genetics, a lot of people in our community would respect it and consider Billy to be a girl. I would. There is so much wrong in these two sentences that I'm struggling to respond politely. Let me just suggest you do some research o...

Fair distinction. But even without the hormones and the knife, Billy gets to check the "female" box on a college application, use the girls' bathroom, and get ladies night prices at the bar. Where's the line between that and maladroit feeling like a veteran, and asking for free coffee? Back on the o...

If little Billy believes that he's a girl despite his genitalia and genetics, a lot of people in our community would respect it and consider Billy to be a girl. I would. But how does society determine which things are acceptable to posit about oneself and construct a reality of, and which are just c...

I've never really thought about the question before, because I've never encountered dissonance over the usage of the word. Upon analyzing it a bit, I discovered that I personally have two opposing opinions. Both seem reasonable to me, and I'm not sure which I prefer. A. Going to TTITD at least once ...

I was first exposed to buffering in 2014...I had a hell of a burn night, imbibed all the things, bartended a bumping party at the ashes of the man in the morning, and finally came back to camp to start teardown. No one was awake yet, and I was still very much in the throes of things. I hung out on t...

Oh, man. For the uninitiated, a random orbital car buffer is the single best massage implement in the universe. Seriously awesome, intense, deep vibrations; sort of puts you in a trance. My camp has a massage table and a couple people with buffers. I bought mine for like $30 from the Despot, along w...

Also, I just went back and reread your OP--you were making plans for specific hours of specific nights of early arrival, weeks in advance, on your virgin burn? If you were in my camp I'd find it oddly charming, up until you failed to adapt to what the non-virgins demonstrate as expected and allowabl...

Sparr, go ahead, write a version of the FAQ the way you think it should be, and submit it to the BMORG. Hint: eplayans are not the BMORG, not even the mods. Also, eplaya is a tiny slice of the general population, we're a terrible sample size. A vocal sample, so there's that feedback for you. I'm de...

Really great writing, thanks for sharing!

Suckie Fuckaye indeed still rocked it this year. Every year we have Tutu Toolsday, where we play all Maynard James Keenan music and remixes and do a wine tasting from his vineyard, with lots of fire spinning and suspension rope bondage performances (one highlight this year: one of our campers, a go-...