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How Burning Man Changed My Life
A 2016 take on the perennial Hero’s Journey story of a transformational experience. Filed under: Burner Stories Tagged: 2016, stories, video
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The Elephant In The Emergency Room: Heroin &“Standard” Treatment
By Terry Gotham I know that sometimes I can seem all doom & gloom about the state of the drug-consuming universe, but once and a while I happen upon something that justifies my concern. This...
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RIP Lost Tom
Image: Facebook The Burning Man blog has a lengthy eulogy about Tom LaPorte aka “Lost Tom”, a captain of the media team who passed away last week. Our thoughts and prayers go to his family and friends,...
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Do No Harm: Initial Prescription Details Influence Chance of Opiate Dependence
By Terry Gotham One of the biggest problems with writing about the War on Drugs is the almost exclusive focus on problems. There’s this myth that drug use is a combination between a ratchet &...
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$1000 Reward
I am offering $1000 via PayPal to anyone the first person that can give me a copy of the 1996 Burning Man Helco Contract, called “Standard Short Form Contract for Purchase of Soul”. The contract is...
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Lahontan is Lake Again
Image: Renee Aldrich via RGJ The Interwebz are all abuzz with pictures of people kayaking on the Playa, which has been under water for a couple of months now. Check this story at the Reno...
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Tickets 2017
Image: thomashunt.com Registration is open now for Burning Man tickets. As with the past few years, you have to create a Burner profile and register for the sale to be eligible to enter. Do that by...
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Aesthetics vs. Community: The Trouble With Parties
Source: worst party ever. By Terry Gotham Over the last couple of months, complaints about parties from various “scenes” around the country have grown louder. The combination of ever escalating rents,...
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Sorry BMOrg, the Money Changers Are Already in the Temple.
By Terry Gotham In 2006, out in the Deep Playa, about as far away from the Man as the man was from 10 & 2, there was this piece of art called Uchronia that we affectionately dubbed the “Belgian...
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Radical Inclusion Party Foul
A guest post by Mayor of the Techno Ghetto Terbo Ted TerboLizard, the founder of doof at Burning Man. Ever wonder why there are thousands of massively popular raves in the world, and yet the Cacophony...
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Thought Police: Don’t Call It A Festival
Yet another preachy Burnier-Than-Thou post at the BJ telling Burners they’re doing it wrong. For all the things that Burning Man certainly is, one that mindful Burners will vigilantly note that...
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The Anti-Burning Man
The New York Times has a story about the Bombay Beach Bienalle at the Salton Sea in California. They just had the first one, seems like it was a hit. Art, opera, and weirdness: sign me up. The Times...
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Here Are the Drugs Americans Did in 2016.
By Terry Gotham Every 3 months, the DEA releases the “Emerging Threat Report.” This document catalogs the various substances that have been seized and analyzed by the DEA over a 3 month period. Every...
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DumpsterFyre Glee: Why So Many of Your Industry Friends Had a Great Friday
Opinion by Terry Gotham Unless you were somewhere totally isolated like a private cay 40 miles south of Miami, you couldn’t have missed the deliciously schadenfreude-laden miasma of coverage and...
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Why We Burn: Heavy Meta
(Returning to my Why We Burn series, I wanted to cast the spotlight on Heavy Meta, a majority woman-built/non-American Art Car that will be hitting Hyperborea (a new Ontario Regional Burn) and the...
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Do No Harm: Safe Injection Facilities in Fentanyl’s World
Analysis by Terry Gotham But until recently, politicians dismissed the idea of a safe-injection site as being too controversial. More controversial than people dying in libraries and babies picking up...
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Cocaine, “Narcan Resistance”& the Grey Death: Fentalogs in 2017
By Terry Gotham If you follow the news about adulterants in the recreational drug supply, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with the news breaking every day. Last Friday, the medical examiner’s office of...
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5 Tips For Surviving Your First Burning Man Experience
A guest post by Adrian Stefirta Note: All images used in this article are copyright-free 5 Tips For Surviving Your First Burning Man Experience Your first Burning Man should be a liberating experience....
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Water, Hyponatremia, MDMA & Heat Stroke: How Not to Die
By Terry Gotham Now that the summer festival season is in full swing and we’ve all been dripping with sweat once at least once, it’s time to have a little chat. If you’re one of the people who hasn’t...
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Can Millenial Progressive Elites Spark Utopian Socialist Change?
How does Burning Man change the world? How does this centrally managed counter-culture exist in a world where politics shouldn’t be spoken of, in a 30 minute speech about politics? The comments are...
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