I <commonsense666atlast@...> wrote:

> This is definitely a traveller's advisory. Do not
> go to Burning Man, or to any Burning Man affiliated
> event, anywhere. Yes, you can probably see a lot of
> halfway decent looking women naked at these events,
> but who cares about the looks if the spirit does not
> intrigue and the mind does not command one's respect?
> Every year this arts event and those who attend only
> seem to get crazier and more hostile which is to be
> expected at any gathering where drugs have come to
> play such a major role. If you did go at what you
> perceived to be my recommendation, I regret the
> misunderstanding and will try to make my prose
> clearer on that point, among others. My best advice
> is keep your art at home, or at least somewhere in
> the civilized world. The 60s are over, and if Burning
> Man is any guide to what experiencing that era would
> have been like, we didn't miss much.


Today's Burning Man, at least. The one I saw in 2001 was
a much different creation, but times have changed and
in this case, definitely not for the better - and even
back in 2001, there was already real cause for concern.
But, if you absolutely must go, there is an alternative
resource of sorts that you can try, where the neonazi
silliness does not get a friendly reception. The place is
called "Travel to Burning Man", located at

http://bmtraveller.proboards56.com/

home to a never used resouce called "ePlaya in eXile" (how
cute) offered for use during that forum's many outages.

http://bmtraveller.proboards56.com/index.cgi?board=eplaya

The management of that board doesn't seem supportive of the
kind of antics I described in my earlier post, so that might
offer a more pleasant alternative, or at least would if more
than four people would ever use it. Not exactly buzzing
with activity, but then, no alternative Burning Man resource
is, so I might as well mention that one.

Currently, on it I can find a story

http://bmtraveller.proboards56.com/index.cgi?
board=stories&action=display&thread=1143120185

and a discussion of "Motorized Chess"

http://bmtraveller.proboards56.com/index.cgi?
board=creative&action=display&thread=1147307416

among other material. Whether much more will be seen
there has yet to be seen.