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Just ran across a facespace post by a virgin who needs a ride from Oregon. He has been hired by BRTA to work as a paid chef, feeding the volunteers who ensure that Paris Hilton can fly in for an amazeballs befeathered Instagram post on her way back from Ibiza.

A word of advice to those Commodification Camps who are just paying people to do shit for them now: maybe spend a few minutes educating your employees to lie on social media so your Sherpas don’t go blabbing everywhere. That, or, you know, cook your own damn food.

I used to have a huge costume sale in Berkeley before the burn. Every year these cooks would come. (A nice young couple.) They had hired on to a P&P camp several years in a row. According to them the pay was good. The employer was nice. They had become burners and would go even if they didn't get to work.

And the dilution of something that was really cool continues....

Captain Goddammit wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 23, 2018 12:07 pm

And the dilution of something that was really cool continues....

Agreed

Very sad indeed. I did not “discover” BM until last year. I know it’s not the same as in the past, but I still had a great time and will going again this year. I was amazed at some of the RV “city’s” I passed by, some of which I am sure were p+p. I have heard of a guy standing in the street directing passerby into a protected p+p with a bull horn, that sounds like fun. The down side of that would be the passer by rudely being turned away by the hired security. I am going to buy a bull horn just in case I get the urge.

If I had known about BM years ago I would be a crusty old burner by now. I am crusty and old but a new burner, trying to do it the old way.

You sound like you’re a great burner to join the party.
Pro tip: a bullhorn is an essential piece of burner gear.
It’s often referred to as a “heckler”.