Top 10 Signs that You Haven't Fully Decompressed from BM

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:54 pm

Rian Jackson wrote:hey, we can do it too. it just takes flexibility, balance, and finesse. and a front porch, which i currently lack.

I have one... and I have flexibility and balance and finesse... but when you come over, I'll be requesting that you do as I do, and take advantage of the indoor plumbing... goddammit. Or at least go around back or something... freaky burner chick...

kikidelosfeliz · Post by **kikidelosfeliz** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:45 pm

1. Ask kid to teach you to hula hoop.

2. Leave wings dusty, but replace 9v batteries for el wire.

3. Consider restoring fading silver burning man angel stencil on hip with more permanent method.

dcphoto · Post by **dcphoto** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:53 pm

GuinivereElise wrote:You can't understand why, when you yell out "Happy!" a la Happy Camp Salute Style, no one yells it back...

Glad you guys made it safely home to Seattle.
Hope Steven's Lincoln is doing OK?

Carla and I broke down and had to have the RV towed from Gerlach to Reno. But had a HAPPY decompression at the Reno Hilton for a night and day.

HAPPY !!!

DC

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:01 pm

dcphoto wrote:
GuinivereElise wrote:You can't understand why, when you yell out "Happy!" a la Happy Camp Salute Style, no one yells it back...
Glad you guys made it safely home to Seattle.
Hope Steven's Lincoln is doing OK?

Carla and I broke down and had to have the RV towed from Gerlach to Reno. But had a HAPPY decompression at the Reno Hilton for a night and day.

HAPPY !!!DC

YAY!!!! You're the coolest!!! Sorry to hear about your RV problems... the life on the road, eh?

Yep, the lincoln suffered only a small malfunction on the way back (drive shaft) and we were in Burns OR for a night and half the day. Seriously, it was like a Twilight Zone episode...

But other than that, smooth sailing. Good to hear from you. And it was really great to meet you both. You're faboo people...

Hey, if and when you get your pictures back, would you be willing to email them (specifically, ones that steven and/or I am in) to me?? I had a camera with me, but was so incredibly involved wtih everything that I rarely even took it out of it's plastic-bag-mummification. I would greatly appreciate it!!!

If you need ANYthing....

Guinivere

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:35 pm

Captain Goddammit wrote:
Rian Jackson wrote:hey, we can do it too. it just takes flexibility, balance, and finesse. and a front porch, which i currently lack.
I have one... and I have flexibility and balance and finesse... but when you come over, I'll be requesting that you do as I do, and take advantage of the indoor plumbing... goddammit. Or at least go around back or something... freaky burner chick...

you know you love me.

btw, how am i s'posed to stalk you when you don't answer your phone??
don't even bother wondering how i got the number.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:45 am

still resisting washing down my truck tent

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:00 pm

The Portland weather is finally taking care of the playa dust for me. My truck has a murky film spread over it and my tent (set up in the back yard for this purpose) has a grey moat around it. I'm going to collect it in small vials and sell it to gift it next year as Holy Water.

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:01 pm

Oops... fucking non-edit function...

I really meant 'gift', not 'sell to gift to'

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:29 pm

I have a love-hate relationship with Playa dust. It gets me excited for the Playa but I hate what it does to my skin and nostrils. I couldn't get the car unloaded and to the carwash fast enough. The exterior is already mostly Playa-free except for a couple nooks and crevices, the inside still goes *POOF* at the drop of the proverbial hat.

I'll get to it later, when everything's all cleaned out...good thing my apartment complex has a carwash-style vacuum canister...

Still doing laundry and clean-up of everything else.

DangerMouse · Post by **DangerMouse** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:22 pm

1) You walk into the Rainbow Casino in Wendover, NV and think you've just stepped onto the playa at night when you look above the slot machines.
2) You turn your TV on as loud as you can so you can get some sleep.
3) You try to give the gal at Taco Bell a hug for giving you your food. (Yes this was me.)
4) You leave for work minus your wallet, cell phone, pager, but show up at work (dress casual) wearing your dusty playa shoes and have all your BM gifts about your neck and realize you've forgotten your badge to get in as well. (Whoops) Yet you have glowsticks, chapstick, and finger nail clippers in your pockets.
5) You wish you'd driven to BM so that your car would have that playa fresh smell.
6) Your wife, who singularly would never 'get' BM starts screaming at you histerically about the skirt you picked up as a gift wondering if she should divorce you. (Ooops)

*sigh*

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:13 pm

You turn the TV on for all of two minutes, hear the fake, canned laughter and pour your last half empty bottle of Gatorade in the back of the damn thing.

DangerMouse · Post by **DangerMouse** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:18 pm

Badger wrote:You turn the TV on for all of two minutes, hear the fake, canned laughter and pour your last half empty bottle of Gatorade in the back of the damn thing.

Amen

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:22 pm

Amen again

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:52 pm

So mote it be!

Waitaminnit. I don't have a television!

Magikal · Post by **Magikal** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 10:28 pm

1.) You repeatedly open the door of your truck without first disarming the alarm (to the accompanyment of the screaming siren), because of course you had it disabled the whole week you were there.

2.) You look at strangers and try to figure if they would be right to be "gifted".

3.) You have to make a conscious effort to treat playa dust as something to be washed out and discarded, instead of something to be collected and cherished.

Trans Venus Flytrap · Post by **Trans Venus Flytrap** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:09 am

You give 'that' girl on Camden market a gift of a strawberry dipped in Belgian chocolate...just because

oh and everytime you make eye contact with a complete stranger you smile and intone a wistful friendly open ended "Hey..." - often to be met with utter bemusement

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:42 pm

DAMN! how did i miss this thread....

Still - what? almost 2 months later:
I STILL can't *really* justify NOT putting whiskey in my coffee every morning.
I want to have *really deep and meaningful connections* with everyone I interact with.
I am waaaaaayyyy more likely to follow rules of serendipity than those of society.
I am really disappointed in casual wear.
My favorite activity is playing dress-up with my daughters.
I am shocked to realize i haven't had enough *touching* lately.
I am constantly fighting a compulsion to point out glaringly obvious deficiencies of common sense, preferably via bullhorn.

*sigh*

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:49 pm

tisha2 wrote: I am constantly fighting a compulsion to point out glaringly obvious deficiencies of common sense, preferably via bullhorn.

Ha, ha. Common sense doesn't exist and the sooner you realize that the better you'll perceive "reality" on or off playa.

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:53 pm

hhmmmmmmmmm..... I think i disagree, fishy. I do believe there are certain basic things people just know deep down inside (whether they choose to pay attention to that little voice or not, is the issue).

But whaddaya mean?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:12 pm

OKay there is a "common sence" about Physics, for instance. I drop this and it falls. Maybe it's a feather and it takes longer, but it aint gonna go up under any circumstances I'm likely to experience.

"Men can't marry men" is "Common Sence"

Albert Einstein is supposed to have wrote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

I suppose it's a matter of my philosophical reality, but so much of what is called "Common Sence" is actually deeply ingrained cultural values.

My two clam shells.

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:19 pm

gotcha. i'm using 'common sense' to mean the deeper (hopefully) *actual* truths about life - eat, drink water, be nice, if i pull on something really heavy toward my face when it finally comes loose it will hurt my face, there is no trash can here means you take your trash with you and don't leave it for me to pick up, if i am alone in a bar it does not mean 'hit on me', etc.

sonic · Post by **sonic** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:19 pm

So great! Reading all those makes me really miss the playa. Oh playa sweet playa, how I long for thee.....

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:37 pm

tisha2 wrote: if i am alone in a bar it does not mean 'hit on me', etc.

ah dammit....

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:38 pm

Alpha wrote:
tisha2 wrote: if i am alone in a bar it does not mean 'hit on me', etc.
ah dammit....

except for you... you can hit on my anytime...

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:40 pm

I am shocked to realize i haven't had enough *touching* lately.

easy to fix...stop by the virtual heebeegeebees or come down to where hookers are welcome, San Rafael California USA!

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:43 pm

now, how are VIRTUAL heebeegeebees gonna help out with my need of *touch*??

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:05 pm

tisha2 wrote:now, how are VIRTUAL heebeegeebees gonna help out with my need of *touch*??

well first off....I'm sending you right now an invisible touch, full of love...did you feel that...it works this way too....subtler though

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:12 pm

cowboyangel wrote:
tisha2 wrote:now, how are VIRTUAL heebeegeebees gonna help out with my need of *touch*??
well first off....I'm sending you right now an invisible touch, full of love...did you feel that...it works this way too....subtler though

i actually have a good bit of *that* going on in my life right now...i just really need actual nerve ending stuff!!

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:13 pm

fuck - i'm so needy i'm getting cranky and rude...

what i meant was - Thank you Cowboy!!!!!!! I do actually feel it and really appreciate the energy!!!!

...i'm such an ass...

Sensei · Post by **Sensei** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:15 pm

Naah, Tish. You're tryin' to keep it real, that's all. I just wish you lived closer.

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