Rich wrote:I believe that the US is the only nation whose cultural identity, whose very sense of self, is based on the process of creating dreams and myths.

Maybe you should look up the Aboriginal dreamtime.

Sorry, but I guess the only way to make any progress is to be honest, and that's how I feel. Very disappointed. That's cool, and I appreciate the constructive tone with which you offered your opinion, but I wonder if you've read the actual statement yet: "Ranging from Canada to Chad, from Brazil to...

You know, this can't be let to stand. We have to figure out a way to get them to reconsider this awful theme. There are so many ways to capture the spirit it seems like they're going for without calling it The American Dream and putting a fucking flag behind the man.

Wow, fuck this. I missed this year and was so psyched to go next year. I am not going with a theme like that. God this makes me so angry.

I don't see any mention of storming off or that this is the biggest, most important issue that BM should deal with. I see a complaint that the "spontaneous" dancing was contrived and annoying, and a call to make a decision about the café's status as either commercial venture or art camp. Oh, and I c...

s5 wrote:And you keep Howard Dean out of this.

Make me! PIYAHHH!!!

s5 wrote:Until they pick a side, I'm going to bitch.

PIYAHHHH!!!

Burning Man deems coffee so important they break their own rules to bring us the café, yet if the quality of the product and the service is unacceptable no one can complain because "it's a mocha in the middle of the desert"? The café takes our money and provides a service. If the service is bad, the...

unjonharley wrote:Whiny fucks, Don"T go to center camp. Many camps have free coffee in the mornings. Good people to sit around and coffee is where it's at.

Obligatory whining about whining post!

domitron wrote:Kid Beyond blew me away!!! I was almost in tears he was so awesome!

Really? I wasn't impressed at all.

That's incredibly lame. Sorry that happened to you.

We have a missing Furry here, people. If anyone sees a nappy blue fox wearing a white t-shirt, no pants, teva-like sandals riding a blue bike, please send him to a Ranger. Please pass this message on as not everyone is in hearing range of this announcement. Thanks.

We have a missing kid here, people. If anyone sees a ten year old boy with blond hair, tan shorts, no shirt, teva-like sandals riding a blue bike, please send him to a Ranger. Please pass this message on as not everyone is in hearing range of this announcement. Thanks.

One wrote:Well Olivia I never said the word ban just WISE judgment.

My response was aimed at the original poster, not you.

Next let's ban old people, and disabled people too!

Oh wait. Let's not.

There are a lot of people out there who use new agey touchy-feelyness as an excuse for sexual harassment. And then there are those who just do it without apology. The cops are out on the playa to bust us for drugs and having consensual sex in public. I propose we put them to work in a way that serve...

I read it. In SF I don't have to give my recycling to anyone, dudes in trucks come and rifle through it the night before trash day every week.

Is this a serious topic? I can't tell.

Yes, I recycle and compost, on and off the playa.

It is pretty awesome to see the amount of trash we take home after the full week, it's really tiny, probably equal to one plastic shopping bag full. It's amazing how much you can keep out of landfill.

tola wrote:Few things sexier than men in kilts. :P

Men in kilts with nice legs and big stompy boots! :P

Your reasoning is exactly the same as "She was wearing a miniskirt, she deserved to get raped!" We all know most guys love tits. NO, it's not the same because I'm not talking about violence. I'm talking about men looking at breasts and taking photos. I'm making a distinction between the pornographe...

My camp mate had his bike stolen while he was on volunteer shift for the café. Like anywhere else, people are thieves - could be the drugs, could be the alcohol, could be the base level of morality. Either way, I locked up everything I wanted to keep this year,even though I'd had nothing stolen befo...

And I want to add to this thread a teeny weeny bit of understanding about these guys since, as women (I'm female), it is really hard for us to understand why they act so idiotically around naked breasts. And what, I think, we don't understand is how much men LOVE our breasts. I think, especially if...

Ugh, RebA! your story makes me so angry, I can't believe people have such gall. This year I said so many times that freedom of expression is just another term for sexual harassment at Burning Man - for some reason these men check their respect at the gate and think they can treat anyone like shit. I...

There was a screen displaying PETA type reels, animal abuse, etc. They were very disarming, I could have done without seeing them. After all, I am already vegan. All the political "art" that people bring out there, it's preaching to the choir in the most extreme sense. We already know Bush is bad. W...

I saw some signs up around the esplanade about the giardia thing, and those trucks are definitely non-potable, so getting it in any orifice or whatever is really not a nice thing. Ew, I feel dirty just thinking about it. I wonder if less people will shower under the dirty water trucks now. Sucks tha...

JediDale wrote:Yes the Pneumatic Diner is a great place to eat.

Yup, the PD the place to get awesome veg*n fare on the way home - 11am to 11pm. We ate at Port o' Subs every year until someone clued us in, and now it's falafel sandwiches and choco soy shakes all the way.

GuinivereElise wrote:I'd love to see us all act like the mature and responsible people we are capable of being.

this is the only real solution.

in between the dream journals, bad poetry and relentless ranting about Bush, the open mic in center camp was taken by a rather talented beat boxer. during his set a large, plucked, alien-looking chicken man walked up and began to pop & lock while the beat boxer injected "bok bok bok" into his routin...

Shouldn't the creeps have the same freedom to express their creepy natures? absolutely, as long as it doesn't involve abusing other people's rights. in my experience, there are plenty of places to go on the playa if you wish to do what most people would consider creepy, the difference being that yo...

i really really really love the cafe a lot. i know it conflicts with the supposed bman ethic of radical self reliance, sort of. i mean, no one lives by chai alone. but good christ the coffee is wonderful. i love commerce camp. i love the lemonade. i love the volunteers. i love the terrible, awful, u...