countdown to the burn

[muse]

My life’s wanted to go on hold as I’ve gotten stuff together for Burning Man, but reality is a different thing. It shakes you by the shirt and slobbers on your face to remind you that it needs walked. I had meetings to arrange, published pieces to sign off release forms on, insurance adjusters to meet (someone dumped paint over on the highway,

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[summercamp]

Speaking of Burning (hu)Man, on BoingBoing today they posted this - a BM Bingo game! http://joeljohnson.com/images2/bm_bingo.jpg and it made me think of you...

They also had this - http://burningman.beatmaps.com/ - which is a nice interactive map.

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/08/burning-man-google-maps-mashups.html - and then this talks more about the map...

I hope you take LOTS and LOTS of photos!

Oooh, and good story about your brother with the moose! now THAT'S a moment when you want a camera...!

respectfully.

[muse]

Thanks for the stuff.

The thing about pictures there is, I feel a little wary taking them because people are there to experience the event, not have pictures taken of them. In my workplace, I have tourists taking pictures of me all day long without asking. It's gotten to where I am resentful when I see someone with a lens aimed at me. Now, because of this, whenever I want to take a picture of someone, I ask. Even then, I don't take pictures sometimes.

I think memories are a way to preserve things. My journal is not a photolog and won't ever be. I sometimes share pictures here, but rarely. If I take pictures at BM, I don't know that I'll share them. It seems like the type of thing that should be kept sacred.

Re: respectfully.

[summercamp]

I understand, and I respect that, especially with you being on view for others all the time...

Re: respectfully.

[summercamp]

One more helpful post if you have a GPS... http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/25/burning_man_2006_a_r.html

[summercamp]

Oh and I meant to ask, how IS the Escape doing these days? Glad you got it? Many problems? Would you have rather have gotten another SUV hybrid?

[muse]

The Escape is great. I love it and I'm keeping it up very well.

I am looking for diesel trucks right now. I'd like to convert one to run on Greasel. I'd still keep the Escape, but this would be for short trips to town and the gym, since I am always going there.

[summercamp]

We have in LA a lot of biodiesel fuel places starting to open up, and I think it's a great trend. Of course, people will always know when you're coming from the smell of french fries!

[i]

i can't wait to see what you write about b-man!

[quest]

Maybe it's meant o be 'MAN' as universal enclosing catchword? Or is that bad too.

I'm totally horking that game for my dinner party in October.

[muse]

That's the thing . . . man is only universally encasing of one gender. A lot of college texts use humankind or human to say what used to be man kind or man. I'm not one of those people who spells woman womyn, but I do not like things labeled as man that include me, too. I cannot be sorry for that. Wouldn't you feel weird if everything describing humans for you were categorised as womankind? It would put you in a category that you didn't belong to, and while there's nothing wrong with either category, it's not yours.

That game is a blast. I've never known it to fail. It'd be great at a dinner party, even better in the back of a truck as you're headed to Mexico or sitting at a table with my friend Patrick, who's got games in the twinkle of his eyes.

[quest]

I guess that I have not been in the habit of regarding 'man' as a 'male' oriented word. To me it has meant 'human,' encasing the species, gender neutral. I can see what you're saying, but I can't really identify with it, which may frustrate you, but I can't project how I would feel if our positions were reversed because I have to force myself to understand how it can feel oppressive.

I have a friend named Patrik. I may try it with him. The truck to Mexico idea may have to wait.

[muse]

I understand that for you it's meant other things. However, the origin of the word was meant to denote a male gender and pronoun, so that's how I idenitify with it. I don't call myself a boy because I am not one; I don't like generic assignations to label women with the word man either. If I remember right, it comes from the Sanskrit of manu, but it's also existed in similar forms in many other languages.

Trucks to Mexico can wait, but not for long.

[lutin]

have such a wonderful time in the desert, lady!

XO