One of the well known joys of Burning Man - and really the only part that I felt I really understood before I arrived - are the massive art installations. I guess I cheated on this front a little bit, as Nicole and I attended the Burning Man Arts Preview back in July, where we [...]
After being welcomed home, I mounted a suspended, empty hydrogen tank, which was rung by the BRC greeting crew, and thus my adventure was begun. We had identified a target address for our camp, using some of the Burning Man collateral we had collected recently. 4:00 and Jungle, we said (those are streets in BRC), [...]
I spent the better part of the last month-and-a-half preparing to travel to and survive in the environmentally challenging environs of Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis of about 45,000 in the middle of the Nevada desert. BRC is, of course, home to Burning Man, the famously wild festival of art, music, and free spirits. [...]
Couple of things I learned recently:
Cougar: the term to describe those of a certain age who prey on the younger set. Heard the term for the first time when I was out at the Union Street fair a couple weekends ago. Apparently everyone else knows this term already. I have confirmed that this is part [...]
I had a brief, but most wonderful, conversation with my sister this morning, wherein I learned a little bit about the mischievous side of my wonderful nephew. On our call, my sister mentions to me that it must be harder for me to give up ms. teevee, being single and all. I know what she [...]
Years ago, as a student at Cal, I spent certain semesters studying African-American culture in the US. As I took classes along those lines, I was often able to integrate my interest in hip hop music and culture into my studies. I wrote papers on things like the cultural impact of rap, the cross-cutural components [...]