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2010-08-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

PayPal Giving Burning Man a Real Buzzkill....

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Posted by Swamp Blondie 2010-08-11 13:10|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 So a simple white cross in the desert needs supreme court approval, and yet torn down by leftie vandals. Still unable to put a new one up because the old one was the only thing protected and this guy is building a burning temple???? WTF!

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-08-11 15:30|| 2010-08-11 15:30|| Front Page Top

#2 But you don't understand, this is really, like, a total bummer, dudes and dudettes!

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-08-11 15:32|| 2010-08-11 15:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Wow Dude! That temple is, like, all holy or something!

And read some of the comments....

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-08-11 15:53|| 2010-08-11 15:53|| Front Page Top

#4 SF Grauniad: Aw, geeze, dude!

Posted by mojo 2010-08-11 17:57|| 2010-08-11 17:57|| Front Page Top

#5 A college roommate owns a west coast advertising firm. Hires his best talent at Burning Man.

Messing with Burning Man is really going to upset the ad firms (not just his). Burning Man is a trial by fire for ad talent.

Posted by 3dc 2010-08-11 19:32|| 2010-08-11 19:32|| Front Page Top

#6 PayPal is evil. Avoid it. Seriously.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-08-11 19:38|| 2010-08-11 19:38|| Front Page Top

#7 GPal seems like a good alternative to PayPal.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2010-08-11 20:06|| 2010-08-11 20:06|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't get what you mean by "Burning Man is trial by fire for ad talent". No advertising is allowed there, neither is any vending. It is actually a pretty cool event. There isn't a single trashcan there and when people leave, it is as clean as when they found it. If you hauled it in, you haul it out. There are two things you can buy there: ice and coffee. The proceeds go to the local schools (not for salaries, but for "stuff" they need) if there is any left after expenses.

You want to take a shower out there? Fine, bring your own, and bring your own water for it. Oh, and you will need to haul the dirty water out. You can't dump it on the ground there because it is a dry lake bed and it turns to muck if you put water on it.

Hippies actually don't fare well out there and it is an engineer's dream.

The thing about Burning Man is like a lot of other things, most media tends to pick out the most extreme examples and portray them as typical. There is a US Marine Corps camp out there, there is bluegrass music. It is probably one of the harshest environments in which to camp in the US. It can be 100 degrees by day and 35 at night with winds howling for days at a time that can rip a tent to shreds.

That temple is an important part of the experience. It is a place where you can place a burden, a loved one's ashes, a painful memory ... and then burn it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNNWK_G4XU

Some years the rendition of Ave Maria will send chills up your spine depending on who is performing it.

People build some crazy things out there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiV1BIRVFNI&feature=related

I never met a hippy yet who could build something like that.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-08-11 22:03|| 2010-08-11 22:03|| Front Page Top

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