The MAN Burns Tonight!

http://www.burningman.com/ ^ | 09/01/12 | NA

[prisoner6]

I am probably the only FReeper who enjoys the end of Summer Burning Man Festival.

That said here is a link to the Main Page Black Rock City

A link to the UStream Live Feed

[prisoner6]

Burns tonight! 48,000 people there tonight, down from 52,000 yeterday.

Should burn sometime after 9PM local in the Black Rock Desert.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I always wonder what the carbon footprint of Burning Man is. Given that so many attendees appear to be hippie types, the ones who love to lecture about carbon footprints, I always wonder how they justify their carbon footprint.

[JRandomFreeper]

Yeterday? Dude, no more brownies for you.

/johnny

[StAnDeliver]

"Live yada yada"

Wish I hadn't looked. 200 hooded people straight out of Conan casting carrying rows of cowbells. Where's Zimmerman when you need him...

[Beowulf9]

any sort of relation to the Celt’s Wickerman?

[JRandomFreeper]

Actually, yes. Though somewhat perverted from the original.

/johnny

[Unam Sanctam]

Loved the original Wickerman movie!

[prisoner6]

Yes! Very similar. Also kinda like the Celtic Fire Festivals at the end of January, early February. Up Helly Aa in Lerwick is one of my favs!

If I ever have the money I would love to take a major symphony orchestra to Burning Man. The folk there would most likely love it.

Carbon footprint? HUGE!

A little known fact is that the original Burning Man included a lot of hunters, NRA members, shooting enthusiasts who spent the week firing various small arms in the middle of the desert.

This year it's a weapon free zone last time I checked.

BTW these folk - for the most part - might be a little out there but NOT OWS types.

[bigbob]

Actually it looks pretty cool, thanks. But then I am not a number, I am a free man ;-)

[dalebert]

doesn’t making it a weapons free zone take some of the freedom out of the event?

[montag813]

What is the purpose of this? Peace, Love, Dope? I used to follow the Dead in he 1980s. Same crowd?

[prisoner6]

Yes. That was a big problem with a lot of folk this year.

BLM was involved also.

[prisoner6]

All of the above however of course I disagree with dope. You don't go into the desert for a week and do drugs. Well you don't do drugs period!

It's kind of a big Libertarian thing.

[libertarian27]

make sure you spread the word around the fire

ABO

[prisoner6]

A great video and musical summary of Burning Man from last year.

Better than you might imagine! Would make a GREAT Johnny Cash Song.

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[Bernard Marx]

Think of the awesome amount of money and energy wasted on the Burning Man event! If all that money was used for humanitarian purposes, imagine how many hungry could be fed, how many homeless could be sheltered, how many trees could be planted, how much C02 could be prevented from contributing to Global Warming just from that event alone!

Of course now that NASA's budget has been slashed and future space projects have been aborted, there's probably no further need for cash to finance those endlessly repeated liberal goals. /Sarc

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

End of summer is in about three weeks.

[prisoner6]

Unofficial end of Summer.

[Disambiguator]

There will be another "burning man" next week - Old Man Gloom.

The Burning of Zozobra

Yeah, New Mexico is kinda weird.

[prisoner6]

That is COOL! Hope there is a UStream or webcam!