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Burning Blog » Blog Archive » The early burn — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:12:17 +0000

[...] People were walking around like their dopplegangers, and it just worked.We’ve talked about it before, about how the Early Burn might be a little bit like what the whole Burn was 10 or 15 years ago. [...]

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By: coleman tent

coleman tent — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:47:41 +0000

It’s really big bonfire to burn a man,
The glow of a camp fire to warm weary campers who may have been very busy with their wilderness adventures is a sensation that is hard to match in any other recreational setting. Burning man are all part of the fun of camping.

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By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:34:50 +0000

Beautiful pictures and great story. My experience of the happy coincidences and synchronicities that you mention from the ’08 burn happened on Wednesday. I had emerged from my tent fairly early and continue to sleep for a couple more hours on a sun chair. I had already unknowingly ‘cooked’ myself some sleeping on the sun chair without sun screen. I ate a little and drank water and started out about 11am on my first 2 hour ‘roam’ of BRC of the day. Again, I failed to remember sun screen. I got about 2 minutes away from the camp when a wonderful soul stopped me and said that I was getting sun burned. Somehow I wasn’t feeling it at all, but of course he was right. I return to camp and applied the goo. Had he not been so considerate, my oblivion and subsequent burn might have ruined the rest of the week.

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By: art

art — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:33:34 +0000

i kind of think the whole idea of attending is to enrich other people’s lives and make people laugh. i hope that is true. anyway, i want to check out the feasibility of my idea.

i would like to dress up like lucy, from charlie brown (not much of a stretch, for me), and put up a sign that says “psychiatric help, 5 cents”. i am trying to talk an ex-girlfriend into being a nurse, wearing a starched white uniform with a tiny little mini-skirt. she is an exotic beauty, by the way. she is debating weather to do a sharon stone type thing, without any panties. i hope that wouldn’t be considered in bad taste.

the main gist of the whole thing is to ask people to fill out forms, like you always do at the docs, and then give them a spanking, if they so richly deserve it.

is this the kind of thing that would be considered acceptable?

art

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By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:26:28 +0000

Early Man! The night when all the serious construction is put on hold for some drunken, in-no-way-serious construction. If there weren’t Early Man and its amateur pyrotechnics, DPW just wouldn’t be the same.

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By: landry

landry — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:43:03 +0000

@thunder i hear you. im totally crying over here.
just this morning i was thinking of bringing some fancy coffee out for you all at center camp cafe!
i’ll come looking for you.

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By: kim

kim — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:37:15 +0000

wow this experience sounds so beautiful! and intimate and real! it gave me chills too. I remember that moon and was on the Reno end of it, longing to be on the Playa as it rose over our heads. can’t wait to go home! thank you so much for sharing your pre-burn, pre-populace story, it sounds like it was wonderful.

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By: JAMI

JAMI — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:38:05 +0000

omg. THIS MAKES ME WANT TO CRY these pics are so beautiful. i can’t wait to see you all there!!!!!

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By: Thunder

Thunder — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:55:12 +0000

At the House of Mouse, where I spend too much of my life making the scratch to burn… The reading feels illicit and hallucinatory, never mind the pictures. And I’d totally lie if i didn’t tell you that I feel like a cheeseball because tears are welling up, a tsunami of gratitude I try to suppress in the corporate world.
I get it now.
I’m coming home.
I know what that means and I can’t wait to make killah coffee for all ya’ll.
Thunder

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By: CDR Dot

CDR Dot — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:27:15 +0000

Thanks for the photos and story!! Now I’m really getting anxious to be home again in BRC. But I also envy you guys the intimacy with the place, each other, the moon and even the weather. Maybe next year I’ll have to volunteer for the early work and really experience Burning Man.

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