different neighboorhoods?

skeetsh00ter · Post by **skeetsh00ter** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:55 pm

So are there typically areas where one group (mostly thinking age-wise) of people tend to camp? Not that i would be upset if there weren't a lot of people my age around me, just wondering.

Also, as an aside. why doesn't the BRC layout align NS?! would it make too much sense to have 12:00 as N and 6:00 as south?

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:23 pm

would it make too much sense to have 12:00 as N and 6:00 as south?

The way they lay it our there are easy ways to tell people direction. N/E/S/W don't work well in a round city, but the clock and alphabetical streets work great.

There is Kidsville, other than that it's a big mismatching of youngins and oldins.

Post by **mdmf007** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:33 pm

BRC is aligned the way it is so the 10-2 oclock open portions look farthest out to the open desert.

The black Rock Desert runs Southwest - to - Northeast. Thats why it isnt aligned N/S. Its easier to orient BRC, rather than chage the desert.

chrispburn · Post by **chrispburn** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:36 pm

re: North South orientation - I think the question is why is the city rotated, facing the way it does, on a map -- if you look at a sat view (on google earth, for example) the city looks more like a "C" than a "U"

"4:00" radial spoke was south in 2006
"4:30" was south in the previous years, and I believe again this year.

My guess is something to do with facing everything out to the open playa - the black rock desert stretches out for miles and miles. Not sure, but likely other factors at play as well.

skeetsh00ter · Post by **skeetsh00ter** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:01 pm

ok, that makes sense about looking towards the open playa.

I was asking only b/c i was looking at google maps and the BRC 07 map at the same time...it bothered me a little.

thanks for the input!

hunter S · Post by **hunter S** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:40 pm

N/S is that NO SMOKING? all smokers east of 6:00? no ...I think not!

Post by **trilobyte** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:08 pm

Neighborhoods kind of exist, in the loosest sorts of way. Some camps join forces to form villages. Sometimes it's just big groups of inter-connected friends. Sometimes it's around a common theme, age group, sexual orientation, or something else completely. Take a look at the list of registered theme camps and you'll get an idea of the kinds of diversity out there.

~Trilo~

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:17 pm

A lot of people in their seventies and eighties tend to be in rvs.
But not all.

Token · Post by **Token** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:14 pm

The city is rotated so that all the loud sound camps can point their speakers out into the longest length of open playa and not get a refection from the mountains.

2:00 Spoke: large Sound Camps - Ontz Ontz Ontz

The whole 3:00 spoke and the plaza are the great Aztlan La-Raza experience. This is where you can drive by and hire yourself a crew of Mexicans for all your camp physical labor needs. Carne Asada and Cervesa for everyone AYAYAYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

The 4:00 spoke is the low income housing projects. These are the body-a-night projects. Watch out for gang-bangers and especially kids spilling motor oil in the intersections and then bike-jacking you. The little urchins are vicious so if you are going to large scale sound at 2:00 just blaze by the 4:00 spoke as fast as you can and don't under any circumstances make any eye contact.

Kidsville and all the pedophiles are on the 5:30 spoke, if that is your "age group"

6:30 is the lesbians, lesbians dipped in chocolate and lesbians on stilts and Irish refugees. The lesbians like the little green leprechauns, go figure. It must be a midget fetish of some kind.

7:00 to 7:30 is single white males hoping to get layed area. A lot of lotion gets used here for , well .... not getting layed, yeah, thats it.

8:00 is Stiffy Lube and penetration village. Gay, Glamour Gay, Drag, Queens, tops, bottoms, assless chaps... You know, a man's man king of place.

Best fucking glory holes on the Playa.

The 9:00 spoke and the surrounding area is where all the perverts, sexual deviants and shirtcockers live. They just naturally gravitate to that spot.

10:00 Ztnoo Ztnoo Ztnoo .... Oontz Oontz Oontz!

There you have it, the city guide to neighborhoods of the Playa.

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:06 am

Heh
Don't travel the boundary between the Shirt-Cocker and Pants-Cannon Camps!

skeetsh00ter · Post by **skeetsh00ter** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:33 pm

skygod wrote:Heh
Don't travel the boundary between the Shirt-Cocker and Pants-Cannon Camps!

yeah, i would hate to catch a flying pair of pants in the face...that could be bad in more than one way.

Toolmaker · Post by **Toolmaker** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:37 pm

Token wrote:The 4:00 spoke is the low income housing projects. These are the body-a-night projects. Watch out for gang-bangers and especially kids spilling motor oil in the intersections and then bike-jacking you. The little urchins are vicious so if you are going to large scale sound at 2:00 just blaze by the 4:00 spoke as fast as you can and don't under any circumstances make any eye contact.

Too fucking funny.

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:24 am

Toolmaker wrote:
Token wrote:The 4:00 spoke is the low income housing projects. These are the body-a-night projects. Watch out for gang-bangers and especially kids spilling motor oil in the intersections and then bike-jacking you. The little urchins are vicious so if you are going to large scale sound at 2:00 just blaze by the 4:00 spoke as fast as you can and don't under any circumstances make any eye contact.

Too fucking funny.

Only because you know it's true!

Token · Post by **Token** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:55 pm

Yep, back in San Francisco, in the late 80's, early 90's. They had these projects down in the Mission, I think near 24th street. I witnessed the kids personally car-jack a guy by pouring motor oil at the stop sign.

They must have been no older than 10 or 12 but there was a shitstorm of them with pipes and sticks and they beat the living crap out of the guy, took his ride and then scrambled back into the projects.

I u-turned my bike and high-tailed out-a-there. I felt liek a chicken-shit for a long time after that event.

T