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[Julius]

Why I've decided to go to Burning Man this year
By Julius Caesar Salad

1. I love the playa! 100 degrees + every day, unpredictable sandstorms, 4000 feet closer to the burning sun. What's not to like!

2. DJs rule! I get to see dozens of DJs play video game music for a week on bad equipment (the good stuff gets ruined by the desert sand). Live music is so overrated, I'd much rather see a really cool dude dressed even cooler waving his hands in the air man.

3. The people are cool and they know it! In fact, they will spend the entire week telling you about it. Fascinating!

4. There was a Dr. Suess video about it on the internets.

5. It is only $350 for the whole week! And look at all the things you get for the price of that ticket doood!

6. It is so cool that they don't sell anything there. I do not require food or water.

7. I hate 2-ply toilet paper and can find a few hundred people there on weird new designer chemical drugs that will help me write protest songs about it.

8. Yurts, dude. Yurts.

9. Everybody else is doing it.

10. If I spend a week there I won't have any leftover time to waste at those stupid music festivals.

[Tabbooma]

Lots of sunscreen, lots of sunscreen

[In A Silent Way]

11. Rawdogging randos in the sand.

[Julius]

11. Rawdogging randos in the sand.

In front of 100 people who will willingly throw more sand on your pumping genitals until the pain/pleasure line is satisfied! Dude. And then you can go boast about it later as your penis bleeds all over the playa for a week.

[Spidergawd]

[Julius]

12. All those cool bear hats. After a few days you will be able to tell a panda from a polar bear. Something to be proud of.

[katydid]

Julius- I wish this were true because I would LOVE to hear your observations of Burning Man.

Maybe we can start a fund to get you there....for our amusement.

[Julius]

Julius- I wish this were true because I would LOVE to hear your observations of Burning Man.

Maybe we can start a fund to get you there....for our amusement.

You can send in a helicopter midweek loaded with two-ply toilet paper, replacement clothes since all mine will have been ruined by the sand, and maybe some smoked salmon and baguettes? And then fly out my trash!

[In A Silent Way]

13. To express my individuality by wearing the same pink hat as everyone else.

[BHB]

The Black Rock Rangers do not find your post amusing.

I never got the Burning Man thing. My gut says it's like Bonnaroo... was prolly best to catch it in the first few years and by now it's been all cheesed up into homogeneous slop... in the middle of the roasting dessert.

I'd keep on rolling right down 80 into lake tahoe and head straight into yosemite. yummy.

[Julius]

13. To express my individuality by wearing the same pink hat as everyone else.

YES!!!

[Julius]

14. I have always felt the need to pimp out my bicycle to look like a huge giraffe with wheels.

[KrisNYG]

Oh.My.God. A (fucking) +++

Hey, remember, my friend still has a free tic..

[Julius]

Hey, remember, my friend still has a free tic..

That's too expensive.

[KrisNYG]

Yep!

[Julius]

15. They have all these really cool "decompression" events afterwards so if you didn't get the chance to fully convey how cool you are to everyone at the event, you have a second try.

[Julius]

16. Apparently there is a bonfire. Never seen one of those before.

[KrisNYG]

[gregoir]

All my "Julius" reasons would get me smacked by my wingwoman.

[Karen]

15. They have all these really cool "decompression" events afterwards so if you didn't get the chance to fully convey how cool you are to everyone at the event, you have a second try.

[nancykind]

Julius- I wish this were true

me too!

[Spidergawd]

[In A Silent Way]

17. I like feeling like shit.

It takes nearly everyone a day or so to adjust to the desert climate. Don’t be surprised if you spend your first day feeling a bit queasy and cranky.

[lilphlower]

Maybe we can start a fund to get you there....for our amusement.

i was laughing anyway, but now im extra laughing thinking about all the kickstarter accounts that were probably actually created this year for this lol

[SunshineDrummer]

Thread of the day so far.

[KrisNYG]

All my "Julius" reasons would get me smacked by my wingwoman.

Watch it, YOU!

Thread of the day so far.

This one and the "raccoon" thread are definitely bringing the lulz.

[KrisNYG]

[gregoir]

If it was called Flaming Man I'd be totally in

[JBetty]

Thread of the day so far.

Please post your opinion here.

http://www.gathering...__fromsearch__1

[gregoir]

Thread of the day so far.

It was started yesterday

[melissaphish]

Haha I saw the thread title and thought "No way is he going to Burning Man."

[Spidergawd]

Here you go Julius, maybe you'd like to go to the competition?

[SunshineDrummer]

It was started yesterday

I
just saw it today. So there.

[Slarti]

what I'm waiting for is reason #11

[Slarti]

make that reason #twenty-leven

[Julius]

[nancykind]

burning man LEGO!!!!

http://laughingsquid...-camp-in-a-box/

[JBetty]

burning man LEGO!!!!

http://laughingsquid...-camp-in-a-box/

They should make a Vibes one with a tiny Ken and Leda, and a little Camp Velcro complete with teeny tiny gutters and downspouts and Tabbooma cooking up a tiny pig for all the little boardies. And an itsy-bitsy-teeny-tiny Lil Jerry.

[Spidergawd]

They should make a Vibes one with a tiny Ken and Leda, and a little Camp Velcro complete with teeny tiny gutters and downspouts and Tabbooma cooking up a tiny pig for all the little boardies. And an itsy-bitsy-teeny-tiny Lil Jerry.

This is getting close. I know there's been times whee a s stage and audience looked just like this to me.

[nancykind]

i have a make your own opoly game that i want to make into a vibesopoly

[Spidergawd]

Meanwhile, back at camp...

[Lazy Lightning]

4. There was a Dr. Suess video about it on the internets.

[Julius]

So it took us 16 hours to get in last night and when we finally got on the gate there was a white-out sandstorm so we couldn't set up camp, were afraid of other cars hitting us and weren't feeling very well adjusting to the climate.

So we dedicated a coffee can as "the case of puke" because you can't puke on the beautiful playa and passed it around all night.

But this will be fun!

[KrisNYG]

[Tim the Beek]

Many win is this thread!

[Tim the Beek]

Buncha amateurs don't even have Wit to pass out puke buckets...

[In A Silent Way]

So it took us 16 hours to get in last night and when we finally got on the gate there was a white-out sandstorm so we couldn't set up camp, were afraid of other cars hitting us and weren't feeling very well adjusting to the climate.

So we dedicated a coffee can as "the case of puke" because you can't puke on the beautiful playa and passed it around all night.

But this will be fun!

Wait ... what? Are you really there?

[nancykind]

jrrd Says:
August 19th, 2012 at 5:51 pm
uncouth as it may be, baby food pouches are my plan this year. fruits and veggies without any cleanup or mess yay!

[Julius]

You too can experience the joy:
http://www.ustream.tv/burningman

Please make sure to hydrate before watching.

[In A Silent Way]

Fuck that. After clicking the link earlier today I had to spend 30 minutes wiping my monitor and blowing dust out of my keyboard.