How a Solstice Gathering Sparked Ritual, Communion, and Burning Man
Wherever you are today at 57 minutes after this hour, welcome the solstice. This celestial moment marks the day we ...Read More
Posts about Serious Stuff
Serious opinions on serious topics from (mostly) serious people.
What Burning Man Can Teach the Surgeon General About Curing Loneliness
The Surgeon General has declared that loneliness and isolation are an epic health crisis and must be addressed. According to ...Read More
Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Alba Roland Mejia on Race, Film, and Dust
Alba Roland Mejia is an Oakland-based filmmaker. She visited Black Rock City for the first time in 2022 and shot ...Read More
Decommodifying Permission: Participation vs. Commodification
Since I started this series, I’ve gotten a few messages from people saying (more or less): “YES, I want to ...Read More
A Sweetthang Story: Remembering Susan Bernosky
Susan Bernosky’s story can be told by beginning with Hurricane Camille, which smashed through Gulfport, Mississippi in August 1969. Susan ...Read More
Remembering Cowboy Carl: The Other Man in the Hat
“People think the life of a cowboy is some sort of Wild Bill shoot-em-up wrangler type. But a real cowboy ...Read More
Everyone’s an Artist; Artists Need to Make a Living Like Everyone
This is part III in Caveat's series about "decommodifying permission" and figuring out how to square the needs of a ...Read More
Anything Commercial Art Can Do, Decommodified Art Can Do Better!
In my first post in this series, I said that decommodified art can do things that commercial art can't. But ...Read More
Burning Man 2022: How Life Imitated Art
I have a new metaphor for the way Burning Man changes. For the last 10-ish years, I’ve been a part ...Read More
Remembering the Solstice Burn That Started it All
“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees ...Read More