Tales from the Playa

If you’ve been here, you’ve been there

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Where else in the world would I be walking down a street and have a man who looks like he recently got out of prison, with highly questionable tattoos, hold a greasy cardboard box up to me and say “Bacon?”

And without hesitating I think “I’m SO LUCKY!”

 

About the author: Caveat Magister

Caveat is Burning Man's Philosopher Laureate. A founding member of its Philosophical Center, he is the author of The Scene That Became Cities: what Burning Man philosophy can teach us about building better communities, and Turn Your Life Into Art: lessons in Psychologic from the San Francisco Underground. He has also written several books which have nothing to do with Burning Man. He has finally got his email address caveat (at) burningman (dot) org working again. He tweets, occasionally, as @BenjaminWachs