which burning man wins?

a). Art, peace, and love
or
b.) Inebriated partying
I’ll find out soon, assuming the truck rolls into Black Rock City Monday morning as planned. With me in it, that is. I’m hoping the other 34,999 people will be on their best behavior. Be back around Labor Day.

the dusty inquirer

I know, I said I wouldn’t blog much for a while. I did a bunch of packing and prep work after work and now I’m tired and relaxing at this here keyboard.
Because I’m volunteering as an Oracle at Playa Information next week, I got a copy of the Playa Info manual from the Web. Go [...]

pringles in the mausoleum

This link Maggie sent me is from June, but stories about bodies being replaced by potato chip cans never get old.

shrew

It’s a long drive out into the hills east of Seattle, up a winding road, and into a semi-primitive park–that’s where you leave the car. That’s where you buy your ticket. Then you take a three minute hike downhill amongst huge old growth trees and come upon Snoqualmie Falls Forest Theater. A nice person at [...]

party in the oort cloud

I read on Gretchin’s blog that she and Sven are celebrating their Oort Cloud anniversary. What a great name for an anniversary. Instead of those silly silver and gold anniversaries, choose something celestial. The idea is that for a one-year anniversary, select something one light year away from earth. If you and your sweetie hopped [...]

sandi ate two crickets

I visited a house yesterday that had lots of deformed animal taxidermy specimens. That’s where Sandi ate the crickets.
Thanks to notification from Kelly (see Kelly’s Spot link on left), I had an opportunity to attend an annual event I’d never heard about before, the Eccentric’s Party. It took place at a house that was [...]

yow yow yow

While I’m frying in the desert, I’ll be missing both the New York Dolls and Iggy and the Stooges performing at Bumbershoot. Devo cancelled. I’ll also be missing Elvis Costello, the Decemberists, the Posies, Smoosh, Chris Stamey, plus a million bands and musicians I’ve never heard of. And while on the subject of entertainers [...]

weekend round-up

There were so many things happening this weekend–Seafair parade, Ballard Seafood Festival, Capitol Hill Block Party–that I had to whittle my choices down to only the most awe-inspiring and magnificent events.
- At the Grand Illusion: Favorite short films of Dennis Nyback. Nyback collects unusual movie shorts, industrial and educational films, etc. This show included one [...]