Archive for the ‘Beginnings’ Category
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The King is Dead
21 May 2017Bruno Selmi 1923-2017 Bruno’s County Club was the most notable building in Gerlach when Burning Man first arrived there…
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The Future is now, at the Salton Sea
20 Apr 2017On Easter weekend, 2017, several hundred participants converged on a post-apocalyptic landscape, 244 feet below sea level, for a top-secret…
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2001 – a Black Rock Odyssey
01 Jan 201615 years ago, on January 1st, 2001, I stood on the Black Rock Playa and watched the sun rise. BurningMan…
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The Santa Claus Infection
25 Dec 2015There were 33 Santa clones at the original event in 1994. We started the evening by crashing a high-society party…
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Esalen Is Burning
15 Nov 2015The 2015 BurningMan Summit was held at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. I’ve never been to Esalen before,…
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Early Burn!
25 Aug 2015Burning Man has many traditions that have grown from a single event. Early Burn began in 1999, when Peter Mars…
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-Blog Index-
19 Jan 2008In 2008, I created this blog, and then parked it for 7 years. It’s one of many seeds I’ve planted…