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Burning Man Defies Katrina? (Mark Morford Alert!)
SF Gate ^
| September 7, 2005
| Mark Morford
Posted on 09/07/2005 6:17:35 AM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: beglittered; burningman; degenerate; freak; gaymardigras; glitteredrumpranger; katrina; markmorford; morford; morfordite; nomorekeywordfun; pervert
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Even in the face of disaster, Mark Morford never changes.
1
posted on
09/07/2005 6:17:36 AM PDT
by
Loyalist
To: Loyalist
...half naked and beglittered ...Oh, for crying out loud.
No blinking BARF ALERT for this?
I just ate breakfast!
2
posted on
09/07/2005 6:20:22 AM PDT
by
Malacoda
(*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*)
To: Loyalist
3
posted on
09/07/2005 6:21:20 AM PDT
by
dighton
To: dighton
Actually "burning Man" is an interesting experience. :-)
(or at least it used to be) Much more commercialized now
4
posted on
09/07/2005 6:25:25 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: Loyalist
Oh Lord, it's that Morford chick again.
}:-)4
5
posted on
09/07/2005 6:27:18 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
To: Loyalist
I don't think I wanna know what he means by "BM reality" :shudder.
-Eric
6
posted on
09/07/2005 6:30:02 AM PDT
by
E Rocc
(Anyone who thinks Bush-bashing is banned from FR has never read a Middle East thread.)
To: Loyalist
Fortunately homosexuals cannot reproduce.
7
posted on
09/07/2005 6:31:58 AM PDT
by
hang 'em
(Half the human race is either crazy or stupid.)
To: Loyalist
8
posted on
09/07/2005 6:33:03 AM PDT
by
freedomson
(Tagline comment removed by moderator)
To: Loyalist
9
posted on
09/07/2005 6:33:54 AM PDT
by
johnb838
(Pray for New Orleans.)
To: freedomson
BM = Burning Man.
This is not about the gay lifestyle ok?
10
posted on
09/07/2005 6:34:54 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: Loyalist
*sigh*
It must be Morford's time of the month again.
11
posted on
09/07/2005 6:35:58 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Proud member of the 21st century Christian Crusaders)
To: Loyalist
"...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. ;)
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posted on
09/07/2005 6:39:38 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
To: RadioAstronomer
Again,
BM
It's all you need to know.
13
posted on
09/07/2005 6:43:56 AM PDT
by
freedomson
(Tagline comment removed by moderator)
To: Loyalist
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
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posted on
09/07/2005 6:48:39 AM PDT
by
FarmerW
To: Loyalist
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...
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posted on
09/07/2005 7:09:42 AM PDT
by
wizardoz
To: 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?
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.
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posted on
09/07/2005 7:16:26 AM PDT
by
Milhous
To: Milhous
He's jumped the shark and become an unwitting self-parody.
17
posted on
09/07/2005 7:29:57 AM PDT
by
George Smiley
(This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
To: Malacoda
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.
18
posted on
09/07/2005 7:58:01 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(We need a strict constructionist - not someone who plays shadow puppet theatre with the Constitution)
To: Loyalist
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posted on
09/07/2005 9:02:33 AM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is not conservative!)
To: RightWingAtheist
When your run their ad against a spell checker it reads ABSOLUTE LAMER.
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posted on
09/07/2005 9:24:37 AM PDT
by
Milhous
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