Anybody going to BURNINGMAN?

[Bennyboy]

I sure wish i was. 2nd year in a row I will miss. Feels like my spirit is getting zapped piece by piece by not going......For sure next year!

Something funny I found on the internets (not sure of the author).

How to Enjoy the Burning Man Experience from the Comfort of Your Own Home

Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10 hours in any
direction. Put the house back together. Invite everyone you meet to come over and party. When everyone leaves, follow them back to their homes, drink all their booze, and break things.

Buy a new set of expensive camping gear. Break it.

Stack all your fans in one corner of your living room. Put on your most fabulous outfit. Turn the fans on full blast. Dump a full vacuum
cleaner bag in front of them.

Pitch your tent next to the wall of speakers in a crowded, noisy club. Go to sleep. Wake up 2 hours later in a 110+ degree tent.

Buy a new pair of favorite shoes. Throw one shoe away.

Only use the toilet in a house that is at least 3 blocks away. Drain
all the water from the toilet. Only flush it every 4 days. Hide all the toilet paper.

Pay an escort of your affectionate preference to not bathe for five
days, cover themselves in glitter, dust, and sunscreen, wear a skanky
neon wig; dance closely naked with you, then say they have a lover back home at the end of the night.

Visit a restaurant and pay them to let you alternate lying in the
walk-in freezer and sitting in the oven.

Don’t sleep for 5 days. Take a wide variety of hallucinogenic/emotion
altering drugs. Pick a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend.

Cut, burn, electrocute, bruise, and sunburn various parts of your body. Forget how you did it. Don’t go to a doctor.

Spend a whole year rummaging through thrift stores for the perfect,
most outrageous costume. Forget to pack it.

Spend weeks preparing and freezing tasty, nutritious food and then
forget it in your trunk for a few days of 110 degree heat. Eat it
anyway - and like it.

Listen to music you hate for 168 hours straight, or until you think you are going to scream. Scream. Realize you’ll love the music for the rest of your life.

Get so drunk you can’t recognize your own house. Walk slowly around the block for 5 hours.

Sprinkle dirty sand in all your food.

Mail $200 to the Reno casino of your choice. (price of average BM
ticket in 2004)

Go to a museum. Find one of Salvador Dali’s more disturbing but
beautiful paintings. Climb inside it.

Spend thousands of dollars creating a deeply personal art work. Hide it in a funhouse on the edge of the city. Blow it up.

Set up a DJ system downwind of a three alarm fire. Play a short loop of drum’n'bass until the embers are cold.

Have a 3 a.m., soul-baring conversation with a drag nun in platforms, a crocodile, and Bugs Bunny. Be unable to tell if you’re hallucinating.

[Bennyboy]

1. I know a DOOOOOOOD!

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28911

[bridgit]

2. we have friends here in town that be represent'n...

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=1633775

[Bennyboy]

3. BurningMan!

http://www.burningman.com/

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4. My friend Neil is going

I still haven't gone yet.

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5. The year nobody made it

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29344

[Wapsie B]

6. That does sound like the experience of a lifetime to me.

A step into a whole 'nother world. Sounds like a blast.

[unpossibles]

7. I'm going!

My wife and some friends and I are driving out together in a van tomorrow, and I am excited as hell. I've had friends try to convince me to go in the past, and I always put if off because it's too far away or was afraid it would be a giant Douchebag Fest™ but finally went last year and loved it.

First off, for there being 40,000 people there, I only encountered a couple of people who were assholes to me. Sure, more were there, but those are great odds. Everyone is really just into their own thing, having a good time, self expression of any form, art, music, and community.

There's no vending allowed, and no corporate logos allowed, which is a nice break and gives you culture shock when you come back. Radical Self Reliance is stressed heavily, although I also found that people generally shared well and were friendly with each other. Also this year, they are trying to encourage a more Green event, which is a good step.

It's hard to describe it (although that post does a good job... lol) other than to imagine a giant fair on another planet full of all kind of people from all over the world.

If anyone goes, maybe I'll see you there!

[In_The_Wind]

8. I wish I was.

Next year I'll make it back to Starwood. http://rosencomet.com/