Burning Man Defies Katrina? (Mark Morford Alert!)

SF Gate ^ | September 7, 2005 | Mark Morford

[Loyalist]

Sometimes there is just no way to know. Sometimes you are just handed a slab of raw perspective, a shocking dose of irony, and you have to do with it what you can.

Some readers wrote me e-mails when I was out scorching my nether parts in the remote Nevada desert at Burning Man 2005, half naked and beglittered and intensely hung over and posting daily blog entries that read more like postcards from my moaning id than rational semicoherent slivers of BM reality.

[Loyalist]

Even in the face of disaster, Mark Morford never changes.

[Malacoda]

...half naked and beglittered ...

Oh, for crying out loud.
No blinking BARF ALERT for this?

I just ate breakfast!

[dighton]

How old is this infant?

[RadioAstronomer]

Actually "burning Man" is an interesting experience. :-)

(or at least it used to be) Much more commercialized now

[Moose4]

Oh Lord, it's that Morford chick again.

}:-)4

[E Rocc]

I don't think I wanna know what he means by "BM reality" :shudder.

-Eric

[hang 'em]

Fortunately homosexuals cannot reproduce.

[freedomson]

BM

No more need be said.

[johnb838]

[RadioAstronomer]

BM = Burning Man.

This is not about the gay lifestyle ok?

[reagan_fanatic]

*sigh*

It must be Morford's time of the month again.

[Mr. Jeeves]

"...when the worst natural disaster in recent U.S. history just hammered Louisiana like a Republican hammers welfare?"

If only the Republicans actually were what their enemies fear they are, we might get somewhere. ;)

[freedomson]

Again,

BM

It's all you need to know.

[FarmerW]

And of course my reply is, well, hell yes, of course Burning Man is utterly gratuitous, and excessive, and more than a little ridiculous, especially in the wake of Katrina -- just as, say, NFL football has become suddenly pointless, and also the auto industry, and celebrity, and organic dog food and ornithology and Destiny's Child or the fact that the ultraviolent cheese of "Transporter II" took in $20 mil over this past tragedy-thick weekend, enough to repair at least a few schools and roadways in Biloxi. You have a point?

The section in bold is a great demonstration of this person's utter lack of any grasp of how the economy works. How the world works for that matter.

Comparing a large section of this nation's economy to Destiny's Child makes total sense. I shall inform the autoworkers of their value. /s

[wizardoz]

intensely hung over and posting daily blog entries that read more like postcards from my moaning id than rational semicoherent slivers of BM reality...

So it was just like any other day in your life...

[Milhous]

And of course my reply is, well, hell yes, of course Burning Man is utterly gratuitous, and excessive, and more than a little ridiculous, especially in the wake of Katrina -- just as, say, NFL football has become suddenly pointless, and also the auto industry, and celebrity, and organic dog food and ornithology and Destiny's Child or the fact that the ultraviolent cheese of "Transporter II" took in $20 mil over this past tragedy-thick weekend, enough to repair at least a few schools and roadways in Biloxi. You have a point?

FarmerW.

The section in bold is a great demonstration of this person's utter lack of any grasp of how the economy works. How the world works for that matter.

Comparing a large section of this nation's economy to Destiny's Child makes total sense. I shall inform the autoworkers of their value. /s

Apparent asinine association probably passes as Olds Media intellectualism/poetry. Your post teased me into skimming more of Mark's prose to discover even more usenet-alt-group-worthy phrases and "logic":

And holy Christ on a glow stick,

And what's more, we do it all when there is absolutely zero shortage of earthbound terrors right at our front door

Reading Mark's prose/poetry kills brain cells. Thank G-d for New Media.

[George Smiley]

He's jumped the shark and become an unwitting self-parody.

[KarlInOhio]

No blinking BARF ALERT for this?

Morford - from the Anglo-Saxon "Mo" meaning attention or warning and "Rford" originally "rrrfoooordg" from the result of drinking too much cheap mead.

"Morford" signs can still be seen at the entrances of some British alehouses warning patrons that the floor might be slippery.

[RightWingAtheist]

[Milhous]

When your run their ad against a spell checker it reads ABSOLUTE LAMER.