I worked with Bounce for several years as a medical Ranger, and continued to work with him after the "blue dot" system was dropped in favor of the current one. Bounce was one of my two favorite medical Rangers, and this news hit me pretty hard today.

Late last night Scott Lofgren (aka Bounce) was stuck and killed by a car ( Read more... )

There's some debate over whether Larry Harvey created Burning Man, but what he did do was advance the concept of Burning Man as a Temporary Autonomous Zone or modern Pirate Utopia. Pirates would occupy an island for a few days (or weeks, or months) and create an independent society completely of their own creation. When the British Navy showed up ( Read more... )

"I saw that in Wired, I wanted to go but I need air conditioning ( Read more... )

matrushkaka and I just got back from over a week in the desert, 100 miles away from radio, TV, and cell phone service. Did anything interesting happen while we were gone?

k0re just mentioned a funny story where "the dumbest ass one can find anywhere ... kicked larry off for smoking on the hay". What kind of dumbass doesn't recognize Larry Harvey ( Read more... )

Burning Man wasn't as cool as it used to be. I don't mean today's Burning Man - I mean that Burning Man six years ago (1999:Time) wasn't nearly as cool as it was nine years ago (1996:Hellco), my third (?) year. Don't talk to me about whether last year's Burn was "the year it stopped being good": I'd already gotten over getting over Burning Man by ( Read more... )

Burning Man is next week. matrushkaka is leaving tomorrow, I'm leaving on Monday, and many of you will be there. I would like to share with you one of my most important secrets of having a pleasant time at Burning Man, where showering events can be few and far between ( Read more... )

Random Notes on Burning Man ( Read more... )

I'm heading out in 15 minutes to go to Burning Man. I will be gone till next Monday. My stupid packing blunder this time around: I spent 2 weeks meticulously compiling a list of all my friends and their camp locations, then on Friday I shipped the only copy of this list to Apple when I sent my PowerBook in for repairs. (One of the USB ports went ( Read more... )