Screw Burning Man, I'm Stayin' Home!

[shadowcircus]

Over the next couple of weeks, there will be a gradual but inexorable exodus from the Bay Area. All around me, people will be leaving in droves, transforming this once-bustling city into a virtual ghost town. What is the cause of this mass evacuation? Is it an imminent earthquake? Is it a deathly viral outbreak? What kind of horrifying catastrophe

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[suxdonut]

*applause*

at the end of it all, i'll still be high and laid, only ill be $2000 richer.

[veedub]

i haven't gone to Burning Man since the last time it was in the city.

my only experience of the desert was driving through the Mojave to & from my son's Vegas wedding one September some years back, in a car with no air-conditioning. not something i would care to repeat for even one day, let alone a week.

[wyndebreaker]

I went to Burning Man '93, '94, and '96 and I'll never go again. I just love showering too much these days.

[city_of_dis]

Burning Man sounded like so much bloody fun.

When I was fifteen.

[razorblade_eyes]

Well, as you know-- because I love my raver boyfriend-- I am both going to Burning Man this year AND still relentlessly making fun of "Burners".
The last time I went to Burning Man, my impression of it was that it reminded me alot of that nether world from the movie Monkey Bone.. Except, with more smug naked hippies.
Honestly, I think you're one of the few people from my friend group that would probably really dig it there.

[shadowcircus]

"Honestly, I think you're one of the few people from my friend group that would probably really dig it there."

Heat. And too many people that I wouldn't want anywhere near me. The best that people have been able to tell me is that I can avoid all the annoying people/music/drug addicts, etc and just search out the few cool bits, but really - if I'm spending so much time avoiding half of it, what's the point?

And when it all gets to be too much, I'm stuck there. It's not like being stuck at a crappy party and having the option to walk home.

If I want to endure horrible conditions to see something cool, I'll go to Madagascar. There'd be just as many tribulations in the environment, but without the crappy music or company... And I'd much rather see a forest canopy than a thunderdome.

[indrigirl]

I've been to both Madagascar and Burning Man. Far less tribulations in the environment in the former. And Nutella is very easy to come by.