Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles Burning Man Believes in Magical Places October 13, 2016 By Caveat Magister The place most associated with Burning Man, the Black Rock Desert, is widely acknowledged in our culture to be “magical.” ...Read More
Serious Stuff, Shenanigans, The Ten Principles A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man October 6, 2016 By Caveat Magister In 1986, at the very first Burn, a crowd of complete strangers gathered around the Man once it was lit it ...Read More
Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles Burning Man Is an “Efficiency Third” Culture, and That’s Why You Love It October 3, 2016 By Caveat Magister In a recent article, burner and economist Conner Smith asked “Does Burning Man work?” Smith acknowledges by the end that ...Read More
Serious Stuff What happened to White Ocean, and why every prankster should condemn it September 7, 2016 By Caveat Magister Okay, let’s talk about White Ocean. If you hadn’t heard: on Sept. 1, White Ocean made a Facebook post discussing ...Read More
Shenanigans, Tales from the Playa PEACE IN OUR TIME!!! Media Mecca and the Census end their four year war with historic treaty! September 3, 2016 By Caveat Magister In 2012 the Census claimed that Media Mecca had poached one of their most beloved volunteers, while Media Mecca claimed ...Read More
BRC Art, Tales from the Playa 747 at Burning Man Hijacked! Film at 11! September 1, 2016 By Caveat Magister Last night the 747 at Burning Man got hijacked. I wasn’t there. I so wanted to be there. I was ...Read More
Shenanigans, Tales from the Playa The Darker Impulses of Artists – or “Why We Shout Insults at People Through Megaphones (Maybe)” August 30, 2016 By Caveat Magister The other night, I was the asshole on a megaphone shouting things at people going by my camp. I couldn’t ...Read More
Tales from the Playa Scenes and Moments August 29, 2016 By Caveat Magister The porta-pottie I'm in has a bad handle, so it doesn't latch properly, which means I'm interrupted by a tall ...Read More
Shenanigans, Survive and Thrive Public Service Announcement: Should I use a tent or an RV at Burning Man? August 26, 2016 By Caveat Magister This is a controversial issue that people never seem to stop arguing about: what's the best way to experience Burning ...Read More
Serious Stuff Thoughts on the Place of Native Costumes, and Promotion of Social Justice, at Burning Man August 23, 2016 By Caveat Magister I want to thank, and applaud, members of the HYBYCOZO art crew for bringing up the difficult issue of Burners ...Read More