Halloween is Burning Man for normal people.

• Families put significant effort and money into decorating their home theme camp.
• People get dressed up in sexy, creative, and unusual costumes.
• They wander around town checking out theme camps, meeting strangers, and participating in the candy gift economy.
• Raging parties happen on weeknights.
• Some folks ( Read more... )

So it's a week before I'm driving to Burning Man and I have a gift ticket I need to pass on. The various folks I was going to gift it to don't need it for one reason or another. I don't want it to go to waste, so I'm spreading the word more broadly, but I'm also trying to avoid a total deluge of email, so don't go posting this to every BM list in ( Read more... )

I added tongodeon as a friend because he created the Red Meat Constructor Set, but his journal is regularly full of insightful political and social commentary and well-written amusing anecdotes.

His views on holiday shopping are quite similar to mine ( Read more... )