Written by people who, every year, go camp in a desert where you can’t even dump water safely. So I feel that you will find this Burning Man primer fascinating, not least because it is remarkably unsentimental and unforgiving in its approach. It’s almost draconian, in fact: there’s a strong sense of you-will-learn-how-to-do-these-things that I found appealing. And some of them I will probably do, the next time I’m at Pennsic (which is apparently infinitely easier to camp in).
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If you’ve ever wanted to go to Burning Man, hurry up those plans.
Because somebody just did a Dumb Thing…
One of Burning Man’s luxury camps was ransacked by vandals on Wednesday night, according to a post on the camp’s Facebook page.
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Sometime during or after the group’s famous “white party,” where ravers dress in all white, vandals entered the camp. They allegedly pulled and cut electric lines, causing food to spoil, stole personal belongings, glued trailer doors shut, and flooded the camp with 200 gallons of potable water, the Facebook post from Thursday reported.
Which isn’t Burning Man’s fault. Seriously. But this is: Continue reading If you’ve ever wanted to go to Burning Man, hurry up those plans.
Feds shaking down Burning Man festival.
Hey, you know how a lot of people who go to the Burning Man Festival every year are maybe the kind of people who would like there to be more government? OK! Here. HAVE SOME:
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials wants Burning Man organizers to spend $1 million on a VIP compound at this year’s festival.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reported Friday that federal officials have asked the festival to set up the compound — called the “Blue Pit” — complete with washers and dryers, hot water, air conditioning and couches for some of the 150 staffers who work the event each year.