The Man at 40
Forty years ago on the solstice, the first Burning Man event took place in San Francisco. Only a handful of people alive today remember that evening on Baker Beach, and ...Read More
What’s Changed in 20 Years? (One More Perspective)
There have been some great posts about what has changed at Burning Man. For me, the big shifts over the ...Read More
Hottest Year Ever
By Terbo Ted
The playa was so hot this year, everyone of every gender was manspreading. All week long, the highest I got ...Read More
What If, after 10 Years of Really Trying, I Still Suck at a Principle?
It’s time to admit the truth: I suck at Radical Self-Reliance. It’s really bad. I went to my first Regional ...Read More
Reflections on 10 Years of This Shit
This ferocious, brutal, impossible year was my 10th trip to Black Rock City. I believe 10 is the “heat stroke” ...Read More
The Triumph of Fun and Weird Over Sense and Efficiency
After 30 years, someone turned the difficulty level up. Burners who have been here for decades and never had a ...Read More
All of the Reasons Burning Man Was Canceled, According to People Who Have Never Been
By Anselm Engle
“Burning Man? Is that still going?” Yes, believe it or not, Burning Man is still going. Don’t get me wrong ...Read More
Don’t Bogart That Leadership — Burning Man’s Not a Zero Sum Game
Not long ago I overheard a discussion between two OG Burners about leadership. Leadership at Burning Man, one said to ...Read More
The Single Cop Theory of Burning Man (In Praise of the Word “No”)
By Buck AE Down
This is a thought exercise. It’s about the endings of beginnings, the beginnings of endings, and beginnings from endings. It’s about ...Read More
What We Can Learn About the Soul by Talking About the Body — Reading “Materialism”
Sometimes I think that Terry Eagleton is a Don Quixote figure, on a quest that has taken him out into ...Read More