I’m sick of hearing about fucking Burning Man—and all the
fucking you did at Burning Man. I’m glad you went into the middle of
the desert and built deeper, more intimate bonds with your
“community”—but when I look at this group of people you describe
as “open minded, creative, thought leaders, and radical pioneers,” I
see a socially stunted set of dorks who use sex, drugs, and homemade
costumes to hide their complete inability to function in and form
meaningful relationships.

So congratulations on finding a community of similarly smug sluts to
ride with you on the fluorescent-colored psychedelic short bus to the
middle of the fucking desert. Yeah, I’ve heard your arguments. Art
festival, blah blah. Creativity, blah blah. Expansion of consciousness,
blah blah. Radical self-reliance blah blah. Maybe if you continue to
repeat those mantras, I’ll start to believe that the time, money, and
resources you burn on the way to “the burn” are worth it. But for now,
listening to you has me convinced that Burning Man is one big weeklong
circle jerk of social retards.

For the record, I respect furries—at least they have the
self-awareness to call their fetish a fetish, instead of trying to pass
it off as a form of visionary social responsibility or true community.
Too bad all the drugs you did this year didn’t provide the clarity you
claim they can. Instead, they just added to the denial and distractions
that keep you from growing the fuck up and learning to live, love, and
fuck like a responsible adult.

92 replies on “I, Anonymous”

  1. Does “growing the fuck up and learning to live, love, and fuck like a responsible adult” mean that I have to become as bitter as I, Anonymous? I’ll take “the fluorescent-colored psychedelic short bus to the middle of the fucking desert,” thanks.

  2. Wow. You’re a total dick!

    Maybe your friend found some folks who weren’t assholes and actually had a good time — something that would be impossible with urban hipsters who are as judgmental and intolerant as yourself.

    If you’re trying to set an example of someone who has mature, responsible relationships and excellent social skills, you are failing. Face it: You’re a sad, repressed and unfulfilled individual, and you’re pissed because your friend is having more fun and better sex than you ever will.

    I’ll take my socially retarded fur-clad drug-addled slutty dysfunctional burner friends over fuck-wipes like you any day…

    Big dusty hugs,

    Another burner

    PS That circle-jerk was hot!

  6. You obviously don’t get it and only feel this way because you haven’t been yet. I used to agree with you but then opened up my mind a little bit.

  8. I find the depth of your self awareness truly inspiring! You are clearly a person of deep convictions, with a commitment to “Protect and Serve” yourself. I hope that no matter how many beautiful Burner Women, or Extrordinary Burner Men you might meet, disregard their genuine friendliness, ignore their attempts to invade your panties, resist all attempts to build something “Just for the fun of it”
    And most importantly, Never, Ever loose your grip on that mighty self control, and go to Burning Man!

  10. Awwww, did someone forget their ticket at home? Forget to take their 5-htp?

    Oh wait, I’m a burner too, and I met the douche that won’t shut up about the goddamn event. Yet if he’s really that into how much he had SOOOO much fun at Burning Man, maybe it’s because Senor Douchebag (IE, you) keeps making fun of Burners in general.

    PS: Respecting a furry means you respect people who fuck stuffed animals. Burners may fuck stuffed animals, but at least the animals are human.

  11. HAhahahaHAHA!!!!
    ROFLAMFAO!!!!

    Sounds like you’ve only met the Raver “Burners”. They have more in common with hippies then they like to admit.

    Try actually going to the desert before writing your next Article, look up the Death Guild (although I’m hearing rumors they’re becoming a bunch of pussies). A local friend of mine beat the crap out of the founder in the Thunder Dome a couple of years ago. Breaking his nose.

    Besides that, the rest of the Acid Head life changing Bullshit is Drainbow Talk (or Rave-Burn Talk).

    Otherwise the rest is a pretty funny description of some of the Burner Culties.

    I just don’t understand why that’s a bad thing?

    I think the Desert could use more people like you. You’d fit right in with the Death Guild or DPW, and be an awesome shit disturber.

    Just don’t camp with the Hippies.

    Napalm Dragon

  12. Awwww, did someone forget their ticket at home? Forget to take their 5-htp?

    Oh wait, I’m a burner too, and I met the douche that won’t shut up about the goddamn event. Yet if he’s really that into how much he had SOOOO much fun at Burning Man, maybe it’s because Senor Douchebag (IE, you) keeps making fun of Burners in general.

    PS: Respecting a furry means you respect people who fuck stuffed animals. Burners may fuck stuffed animals, but at least the animals are human.

  13. You had me until you said you respect furries, at which point your credibility went down the same toilet your Burning Man friend bathes in.

    For you BM folks, enjoy your self-aggrandizing nihilistic bullshit while people like me spend that time planting native foliage and cleaning up after your alley-shitting, drug-addled, societally useless friends. Woooo!

  14. Who gives a shit about you and your shitty life? Sure, this jackass of a friend of yours is off in La-La Land of the Radical Self-Expression. Hell, half the time I’ve been there I want to drop-kick the Drainbow Galaxy through the goalposts of reality, but at least I have the presence of mind to know that their asshattery is based upon their own stupidity.

    You, dear sir, are basing your fucktarded assumptions and douchebaggery not on the actual event. Oh no, that would be simple. Instead, the negatively-charged simple protein you call a friend that has BEEN to the event has colored your perception, and so rather than be pissed off at how much of a waste of flesh you seem to have chosen for friends (a choice that does not reflect well upon you, one might note), but you slap a nice fat label on the festival. Well done, my good Pat Robertson clone! Well done indeed. Why actually ATTEMPT to do something when one can sit back and make judgements about it and all those who attend?

    Please, the next time you feel so inclined to hate on Burners, remember two things: nobody cares. And two: nobody cares. We’re still going to ride that psychedelic short bus to the desert – with the guys who founded Google.

  15. LO, UPON THE HIGH SEAS OF PLAYA, WE DID SPEAK.

    And thus, we heard the crying out of the jackass in the reeds, saying, “You bunch of hippies!”

    And then the pantscannon did load with many pounds of pants;

    And aiming upon his stupid face, we did fire;

    And thus shall all unbelievers of Larry perish at the hands of the Man and his followers;

    For it is written, suffer not the douchebags to write stupid idiotic columns about us.

    Praise Jub Jub, in their name, let’s go get trashed.

  16. HAHA not a community eh? comments say otherwise.

    I’ll take the dusty burner over your company any day, thanks….

  18. I’ve been going to BM for about 11 years now, and I fear that the writer is right about a lot of the participants.

    It’s just a week in the desert, but for a lot of the people it’s the only experience outside the carefully constrained box that they have so it takes on a significance like religion or participation in a wider civic society. This causes self-righteous behavior and a tendency to act like an epic douchebag.

    You’re not more enlightened, you’ve been to an event. It’s a good event, sure, but you should probably back that up with actually doing something useful the other 51 weeks of the year.

  20. 1) Burning Man and “burners” are funny.
    2) Burners talk a lot about Burning Man. A LOT.
    3) Liking Burning Man is the new not liking Burning Man.
    4) Cap-hill hipsters are pretty funny too, but I liked them better when they were wearing white belts and trucker hats. WTF is up with those helmet haircuts these days that look like a blast shield that only go down to your eyebrows. Also Femullet WTF?
    5) Socially stunted dorks and social retards write I, Anonymous letters instead of engaging with those close to them about what is on their mind.
    (With the exception of that one about the school bus that ends up as being the theme from Fresh Prince of Bel Air. That was awesome)
    6) Next year for Burning Man I’m totally going to play shoegazer in my chill dome and see if anyone notices
    7) Rants about how much Burning Man sucks were better next year.
    8) I AM WIZARD!!!
    9) The costumes are kinda lame sometimes. (sorry burners, they are)
    10) I would really, really, really to have the opportunity to see a furry attempt to pass off their fetish pass as a form of visionary social responsibility. That would be some funny ass shite.

  21. Oooooh…Burn: I’ve always thought life counselors a ridiculous fad – until I read your post. Now, after having the truth burn all of the wax out of my ear canals, I’d like to hire you to guide me to fruition. The future is now! You’re a great life counselor! Be in touch – I’m going to need your gifts to get up out of the water.

  23. HAHAHAHAHA.

    Wow.

    Someone went trolling and caught 10+ people.

    and *I*, as THE “uberBurner”, laugh at all of you.

    I still have the dust on my boots, and in my ass (Dust Colonic’s are AWESOME!)

    Everyone on this thread needs to get laid…. RIGHT NOW!!!!

    Me included.

    I treat small minded opinions like the last grain of rice on my Combo #6 from the Mu Shu Sun Lok Garden Restaurant down the street.

    Yeah, it’s there, but It’s not worth the effort to go after.

    That is the reason Larry loves me more than all of you. Remember you are the read-headed step child that Larry “Says” he loves.

    I’m in the Burning man will….

    UberBurner out

  28. Jesus, there are a lot of burners on here. I applaud I, Anonymous for realizing that eventually, getting high out of your fucking skull doesn’t make you unique or special, or liberated. It makes you a slave to an ideal that no one takes seriously. You want real social activism? Volunteer.

  31. Why does anyone bother reading this silly column? Or for that matter this silly newspaper.
    Tend to your life and ignore those who shout.

  32. “Why does anyone bother reading this silly column? Or for that matter this silly newspaper.
    Tend to your life and ignore those who shout. “

    Says the one commenting on this thread…

  33. I agree with anonymous, and I love going to drug filled music festivals like Burn. Most of the people there I would never hang out with sober, but I gotta tell ya, they are a blast when you are high.

    Except the guys who are just there to try and get groped by young girls too high to know what they are doing.

  34. I am so glad I live in a city filled with open minded and tolerant people.

    Go back to church where I won’t come to sit in judgment over the spiritual journey you have chosen simply because it’s not for me but may work for others. Can you do the same for me? Didn’t think so. Why, because it’s far easier to stand at a distance and judge others to be “wrong” in their ways then it is to look at your own self hatred and lack of inner peace. Look inside “Burn Victim” you have some serious anger to deal with. Intolerance is never the answer. It leads to violence….. REMEMBER JEREMY!

    I wish you peace.
    Ozzy Girl

    (another Seattle Burner taking the fluorescent-colored psychedelic short bus to the middle of the fucking desert)

  35. I am so glad I live in a city filled with open minded and tolerant people.

    Go back to church where I won’t come to sit in judgment over the spiritual journey you have chosen simply because it’s not for me but may work for others. Can you do the same for me? Didn’t think so. Why, because it’s far easier to stand at a distance and judge others to be “wrong” in their ways then it is to look at your own self hatred and lack of inner peace. Look inside “Burn Victim” you have some serious anger to deal with. Intolerance is never the answer. It leads to violence….. REMEMBER JEREMY!

    I wish you peace.
    Ozzy Girl
    (another Seattle Burner taking the fluorescent-colored psychedelic short bus to the middle of the fucking desert and damn proud to do it)

  36. f’n awesome! i love this. hilarious. any burners feeling too defensive to admit that burningman has become what it’s supposed to be against should step back and reassess whether you know what you’re talking about. sure it’s fun to frolic in the desert wasted. i do it with you all, but seriously, open your eyes and understand what the ACTUALITY is, not the mindless programming.

  38. Obviously the person has been personally burned (har har) by someone, but that doesn’t mean Burners aren’t smug little tards, which they frequently are. It’s a big (incredibly expensive, I’ve been given to understand, and thus pretty damn elitist) party where you get trashed and laid and so some arts and crafts. Stop making it out to be anything else and you will have at least one other person on your side.

    Also, to the poster above, furries actually fuck each other while wearing animal suits. Which is very slightly less strange.

  39. Burning man hippies fucking suck. No one wants to hear about the nasty dirty chlamydia infected dreaded hippie pussy you got last year. You’re gross and you should go crawl in a hole where your smell won’t make the rest of us wish we were dead.

  40. Yeah, it is just a party in the desert, and I still go every year. BurningMan is a “city” of about 49,000 people, and there are DruggyHippySluts and some normalish people having a good time at a festival. Some folks feel the need to make it all about “utopian community” and spirituality and shit and they are annoying and kinda hypocritical. It’s just a week in the desert 😉

  41. Thank you letter writer. You’re right about what BM is although you didn’t emphasize the selfishness of it quite enough. Just tell your friend to find other people who can’t think with their mouth shut and leave you alone.

  42. It’s so cool to hate on Burning Man these days. In fact, you get so many instant cool points with all your hipster friends that you might actually be made the King Of The Cool Kid Hipsters for your anti-burning-man-ness.

    You’ve never been right? Oh yes, that’s correct, you stated as much. Lots of judgement of 50,000 people based on your experiences with a handful of individuals.

    I feel the same way about black people though. So you and I at least have something in common!

  43. People who can’t talk about anything but one thing are annoying?!?!?!!1
    WHO KNEW?
    Between this and the Restaurant article telling me where to get a plate of badly rendered melted cheese and sauce, this weeks issue of the stranger is brought to you by Captain Obvious and the letter Tell Me Something I Don’t Already Know.

    Signed,
    A 5 year attendee that I bet a $1,000 you wouldn’t peg as a “burner”.

  44. i am a festival lover, i love the whole deal, the drugs, the sex, the music, the art, even though i don’t dress up as much or at all like many do, but folks- here is the gig, when you continue not to go to the dentist, ‘live off the grid’, never cut your dreads, tune out from the reality that there is a time and a place for everything, by 40 when your old hippie friends see you at bumbershoot, they get embarressed for you and walk the other way, you look stupid, immature and like you just …took it too far
    you missed windows to continue to evolve,
    to use all ‘the love’ in effective ways that society and the ‘community’ can benefit from. worst of all the halitosis.

  45. I’m not a fan of burning man myself. I’m not a big fan of the circus, the gratutious drugs, and the big waste of energy that doesn’t amount to shit or any real creativity. Nor do I want to hear how kick ass burning man is.

    But to judge ones way to love and share intimacy and saying it’s not “adult” that’s just fucked up!

    Personally, I’d prefer a shower before, after and sparingly durring my sexual activites than to screw some hairy beast out in the middle of the desert. But I can’t judge someone who finds their own freedom, intimacy etc. And I’m man enough to agree to disagree.

  46. What he says here is absolutely right the fuck ON. I’ve been there, and it’s EXACTLY what you describe. The truth hurts. One thing though — why not say all this right to the person’s face? It just might wake he/she the fuck up.

  47. OK, been to Burning Man a dozen times, know pretty much everyone is this so-called local community, and Anonymous? Right the fuck on.

    The moment people start taking Burning Man seriously is the moment they begin to lose it. If you want to go, then go. But remember that it’s just a dusty camping trip… you are not sticking it to the man, you are not making a statement, you are not rebelling against a damn thing. It can be a lot of fun to run around the playa for a week doing crazy things, but you know what? That’s all it is.

    Sorry to burst your day-glo bubble.

  48. i don’t think it is impossible to enjoy yourself while at burning man. but burning man enthusiasts and the culture surrounding it in general is pathetic. replace ‘burning man’ in my previous statement with ‘renaissance fair’ ‘rave’, or ‘furry convention’ and i stand by my statement.

  50. I still don’t have much against Burning Man, though it looks about as spontaneous and creative as WoodStock II.

    But I just realized that I don’t know a single burner that I like.

  52. or maybe you’re just mad that lover just cheated on you while at burning man cause you weren’t stimulating them enough. bummer man. get over it.

  54. i had the misfortune of wasting a week of my life in that miserable stank pit of human waste last year. it’s where the uglies return annually to spawn.

  55. Hey, “FurriesDontRespectYou”…
    Furries don’t fuck stuffed animals, they just like wearing animal costumes (and not necessarily for sex, just in general).
    It’s a completely different thing.
    You obviously don’t know any of them and have no clue what you’re talking about. Bored much?
    And no, I don’t respect you. At least you got that part right.

  56. burning man is totally what you make it. i’ve been five times and yes, there are lots of burners who seem like they can only talk about burning man. before i went i thought my friends who’d gone were insane–part of some weird cult. but then i said what the heck and i went. i have traveled extensively all over the world and there is nothing like it on the planet–and it’s uniqueness has very little to do with partying or sex.

    people emphasize the partying and sex because it is there and readily available. but let’s be honest, if you are young or someone who has not allowed yourself to really play in those arenas a lot, burningman is your shangri-la–you’d talk a lot about it too. but that’s not all there is to it.

    you can go and have a fabulous time stone cold sober. you can go and feel sexy (or not) and not have sex at all. or you can go and fuck your brains out–the choice is yours. you can go on the cheap, which i’ve done, or go with more creature comforts. how much you spend, what you do is totally up to you. it is radical self-expression, but it is also radical self-responsiblity too.

    i’ve met and made art with people from all over the world. i’ve built things out there under intense conditions with people much more skilled than i am and have been able bring those skills and experience back to help people in my regular life. not everyone is major into the costuming thing, you don’t have to be, but it can be fun! it’s fun to just stop judging yourself and everyone else, it’s fun to break out of the daily grind and the repression of our culture and feel totally free to be and do whatever you want. AND there really is absolutely brilliant art. many of the massive sculptures put the public art on display here in seattle to shame. sorry, but it’s true.

    anyway, i think if you just said to your friend, you know i’m really happy that you had such a great time and found some cool people to play with, but to be honest, i’d love to be able to talk to you about some other things every once in awhile they would probably appreciate it.

    most people who go to burning man are pretty open and friendly, and actually really talk to one another. everyone just let’s everyone else have their trip as long as it doesn’t hurt others. i bet your friend would be receptive to your feelings.

    that said, i totally understand not wanting to hear about it all the time. burning man is great, but it’s one tiny part of our vast, really cool world. i would say that if this last burning man was your friend’s first time, try and cut them some slack. it can be mind-blowing the first time you go, especially if you’ve been a bit repressed or sheltered…but if your friend is relatively smart, he/she will gain some perspective moving forward.

  58. Go to the fucking desert and do whatever you want, just stop talking about it constantly to people that aren’t interested.

    It’s no different than people who talk constantly about their kids, pets, favorite sports teams, etc. Except I’ve *never* met anyone who talked so much about their kids/pets/sports teams as burners talk about BM.

    The worst ones are the environmentalists that talk constantly about saving the planet and horrible yuppies and don’t realize that the energy wasted on BM and people getting there (flying from all over the world) could power a small African country for several years.

  59. Hmm, insightful much? I, Anonymous is a font of misdirected, misunderstood anger.

    I’ve never been to Burning Man. I can safely say that I will probably never go to Burning Man as I am just short of albino pale and am not interested in courting skin cancer (Sun block is only so effective.). It also doesn’t appeal to me. That said, who cares if this guy is really into Burning Man? Bored and tired of hearing somebody go on and on about Burning Man? Don’t hang out with them. Don’t talk to them. Here’s a radical suggestion: Tell them you’re not interested in hearing about it.

    Incidentally, I’ve heard people rave/brag/go on and on about all sorts of things. News flash: sometimes people are boring. There are many more complaint-worthy things in the world.

    Incidentally, incidentally, why do people get pissed off at other people for their clothing and hairstyles. Who cares?

  60. Any activity that comes with a ‘philosophy’ is probably going to embarrass the participants later on. Might be fun now, but you really are just ridiculous idiots. See hippies in the 60s, disco free love swingers in the 70s, on up to burners in the 90s and now. Everything you think is so new, isn’t, and everything you think so revolutionary isn’t either.

    Whether its SCA or BDSM, BRC or any other alphabet soup altculture excuse to go blow it out and fuck in public, people have done this since ancient times. Why is yours so amazing and so wonderful and so likely to change society? Don’t you know in the end you lose? Ask the Dionysian cults of Rome. Ask the pagans of Europe. Death takes us all. Your alt-cult is nothing new, and really nothing that special.

  62. Thanks for the comment Burn Victim.

    It’s pretty much assholes like you that make me want to pack up my shit and live in the middle in the fucking desert once a week every year. I get what I put into the event(blood, sweat, and tears), and quite clearly so do you(nothing).

    Save your uninformed sweeping comments about shit you don’t care about for the drones at your nine-to-five, and shut your fucking hate-hole.

  63. I am a burner.

    I think this perspective is valid and worth contemplation by everyone who goes to the burn. What turned me off in this community of open minded friendly fun lovers is that they don’t really care that much about each other, unless it is to their own ego boosting benefit / desperate need for friends. The level of abuse (psychological and physical) they heap on each other is unacceptable and too many blind eyes are turned cause that would interfere with the fun. Burners are like drug friends step off the line and it’s hard to make a connection back. You know it’s true – this isn’t just me talking this is a story retold again and again but there are always new recruits to believe the hype or who just haven’t gotten out much up to that point. Every one needs validation and to feel special just keep some perspective kids. I was at burning man and it was fun but like the carnival rides at the fair once you look at the gears behind the scenes it’s a little unseemly. So to the good ones in the scene (don’t assume this means you) the thing is to think about this as a call out to integrate into society and bring the playa out to the real world and not an excuse to hunker down with the “e” at the next mono cultured party.

  64. Bravo! I wish I could hug you! Erm, I mean give you a high-five! You are SO RIGHT!

    See you in the dust at BM08, my Anonymous Hero. 😉

  65. Burning Man is not what it once was, this is true. However, it IS nice to be able to walk around naked. Like anything, Burning Man is what you want it to be.

  66. I love it! I thought I wanted to go, I quized everyone I knew who went – what goes on there? What’s so great? I guess I should have gone years ago when getting fucked up and “being original” still seemed worth while. I have enough local opportunities to get my freak on if necessary, I don’t need to blow my wad to get to the desert and compete in the costume contest.

  69. alright, having comments for “I anonymous” misses the point of the feature, which is a writer getting something off his chest without justification, moderation or further self- examination. You readers want to criticize? Well criticize your own frail asses.

  70. mmm, comments rock.

    “Anonymous” + “Community” has been proven and re-proven again for 30+ years on the internets alone; much less the long tradition of wearing masks to an orgy…. (no honey, i draw the line at fucking you in the desert. masks are fine, but the desert is OUT.)

  71. Wow, you so brilliantly pigeonholed 50,000 people (in addition to the many hundreds of thousands in the historical cumulative attendance).

    Do you also have grand generalizations against all column writers?

  72. THANK YOU for putting into words the irritation I have felt for years. Maybe, if I accidentally attended BM, I would learn to love it. But probably not.

  73. You just can’t stand it can you? That someone else enjoys something that much? What gives them the right huh? Who do they think they are; liking something that much?!? I understand to some degree… if you don’t feel like that about anything in your own life… could get irritating… probably sounds like bragging to you.

    It reminds me of something my grandmother once said… “The only people who get irritated at the sound of the neighbors having sex… are people that have gone too long without making those noises themselves.”

  76. “This issue of the stranger was brought to you by Captain Obvious and the letter Tell Me Something I Don’t Already Know”? ha ha…that made me chuckle out loud.

    I also like the concept of “accidently going to burning man”.
    OOPS! I was just walking along and all of the sudden, I fell into a black hole that turned out to be burning man. damn!

  78. Ha ha, this was great! Brings back the saying. If you arent pissed off your not paying attention. Buring man sounds like a fun idea, then I got out of college got a real job and started contributing to my community while the dead beats who didnt have the tenacity to realize their true potential complain about the world instead of fixing it. yes, I am a cog in the wheel, but the goal is to be the wheel and then learn how to stear it. Hard to do that if you dont even know what a cog is and are to lazy and fried to figure it out. I know this from experience. I love hippies, but not wannabes. Let go, live, laugh, love and those connections (which is what life is all about) are far more intense if you leave the drugs in hi-school/college and take that next step in the journey of who we all are.

  79. Byte_me:

    Oh please. “Furries do X” is like saying “Straight men do X”. Or “people who identify themselves as old-school nerdlingers by commenting themselves as “byte” need to find ways to masturbate other than wanking while they type self-righteous asspuckering comments”. I don’t care if you’re a furry. I don’t care if you yiff. I DO care that furries are used as the primary source of something that’s all kinds of fucked up in social and physical strata by both their “defenders” and their attackers. Hell, I’m into girls who wear thigh-high stockings and nothing else; were they wearing fun fur leggings and nothing else I might be as drooly.

    But seriously? You’re an ass – each of you that have been yakking on about how Burning Man is (insert assumptive definition here). Fuck your assumption, fuck your attitude, and most of all, fuck your pathetic life that uses the choices of others to counterpoint the suckiness of your own. If you can’t justify your own choices any other way than by denigrating the lives of others, maybe you ought to look into that whole depression thing. Or maybe figure out what’s wrong with your OWN shitty life, instead of pissing in everyone else’s Cheerios.

    What crawled up your shitty life and died?

  81. I’m a burner and The event changes my life every year. My girlfriend hates burning man. In fact, I’m e-mailing her this article.
    Leaving there feels like getting cast out of heaven. It’s not what it is, but that’s how it feels. You miss it. Thats all. My girlfriend always asumes I’m being pedantic when I bring up burning man, when really…I’m just remembering something wonderful or trying to explain somehting that happened to me. I just don’t talk about it anymore…and–consequently–don’t have anything to say to her.
    So I just don’t talk anymore.

  83. It sounds like the real issue here is that your partner/friend “burner” is diverting resources (money, time, love) away from you to attend this event.

    Is Burning Man the big love fest that everyone says it is? Probably not. Let’s face it, it is a bunch of people getting high and partying. Nothing wrong with that, but don’t justify you getting high and partying with “building community, creativity and blah blah blah”. Its a party. A big party. But don’t make it more than it is.

    But, all of that being said, Burning Man isn’t the problem here. Your relationship with “the burner” is.

  85. Ha! I think the negative comments back up the point, Burners take themselves too seriously. they often seem to have something to prove, and ironically they are disapproving and closed-minded toward people who don’t want to compete with them in kinkiness and exhibitionism. This column is pretty harsh, but definitely funny.

  86. Am I the only one who agrees with this person?? Way to go, burn victim! Let the hippies die in their self-satisfied privileged desert party!

  92. The Burners’ comments here, and their need to defend Burning Man against a random anonymous rant, only further demonstrate the point: Burners take themselves too seriously, and far too many of them have pretty much invested their entire persona in their little party in the desert. Ever been stuck at a party populated by Burners who are incapable of having any conversation that doesn’t ultimately end up being about BM? It’s unbearable. Seriously.

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