The Preamble
For the 1.7 regular readers of this periodically forsaken blog, you may still have a vague recollection of an earlier era (may even have been when we still went by The Duologue!) when a significant portion of my blog entries (there were more then) mentioned national political issues. Lots of stuff about little Georgie [...]

On Friday (while at Burning Man), I discovered that there was a wi-fi network available and as I had been commanded by my co-blogger to twitter if I could, I decided that it made sense to spend and hour or so at Center Camp (where the wi-fi signal lived) with my trusty laptop.
After a breakfast [...]

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. [...]

I have arrived in Seattle on a glorious, sunny, crisp day. The flight was a little too early in the morning to be pleasant, and then it was delayed for about 40 minutes. The airport was a fucking zoo, man. And I was not able to sneak Moula in sans ticket. So it started out [...]