more than a decade ago, i killed my tv; but occasionally, i must check in with the joneses' programming.

i laughed a lot tonight during the malcolm in the middle episode where the family goes to burning man... although it wasn't actually filmed on the playa, and i must say that the inclusion of cacti & rocks as plot devices seemed awfully bizarre ( Read more... )

I will attempt to confine the subject of this post to a brief encapsulation of my actual experience out there on the playa, and I will save my explorations of meta-themes for another entry. This was my first year to be actually physically present in BRC (instead of being there in spirit alone, up until now), and the only name I have been able to ( Read more... )

obviously, burning effigies are found in ancient ceremonies around the world... many, that still survive to this day:

in japan, in britain, in mexico, in pakistan, in spain, in san franciso, in india, in ohio,& in ecuador, for instance ( Read more... )