Maybe you just need some "bad shit". A woman has dramatically gained weight after a stool transplant from her daughter, doctors report. It is a genuine medical procedure to transplant healthy bacteria into a diseased gut, but US doctors think it may have affected her waistline. She quickly gained 36...

Did you know that a real revolutionary communist came to Burning man in 2010? "Bob Avakian, the Chairman of our Party, we have the kind of rare and precious leader who does not come along very often. A leader who has given his heart, and all his knowledge, skills and abilities to serving the cause o...

Ticket prices did rise and sales at the gate were (mostly) stopped to harness in the growth, but mostly I think it's on that linear path because the playa is harsh and remote -- it takes work and time to come to BRC and is supposed to. The real problem is too many people want to go and there are no...

I guess I got faith in the ORG's efforts to control scalping. I'm pretty sure I've read that they have kept scalping far below normal for events like this and take a very pro-active stance in hunting down scalper systems that try to game the ticket sales. BMorg has clearly stated that scalping tick...

Elorrum wrote:

bradtem wrote: Each day the price goes down $20.

The tickets sell in an instant... I don't think there would be any price dropping. AT ALL.

If that was true why didn't the $800 tickets sell out in 5 minutes?

I agree Dutch auctions are the way to go. The only problem I see with is that it's complicated to explain and when people don't understand something they throw up their hands and yell " BMorg conspiracy!" I would love to see someone from BMorg say why they think Dutch Auctions are a bad idea.

My wife and I are trying to get four tickets. Got right in with one computer, no walking green man, got two tickets. A green walk on the other computer with anywhere fro 5 to 56 minute wait.

This Burgin and his Burgin Beautiful wife got tickets! I'm working 24 hours of overtime this weekend to help pay for it. I have a stupid question, is it possible to write off $410 as a charitable donation? Jazz fest has similar "Gold Pass" tickets and they are partially tax deductible. I seriously d...

From what I have read over the years, traffic is the concern. The road can carry only so many cars per hour. Based on that primary restriction, I have long advocated lengthening the event to spread traffic over more days, and in recent years we have seen small moves in that direction -- primarily t...