Living It

This was my 9th year at Burning Man, which I can hardly believe myself. I don’t have the passion for it that I did in the early years, but there are years like this one where the pieces fall into place and I’m reminded how special it is. The three things it comes down to for me are the wonderful people, the abundant creativity, and the kick ass dancing.

Camp Felixxx had 13 people this year, including 4 newcomers, 3 of which were from Japan. It made for a great vibe.

Over 50,000 people came to the playa this year.

The hub for seeing the varied citizens of Black Rock City is Center Camp.

Creativity comes through in costumes, which I don’t seem to have many photos of.

Through installations.

(I climbed this)

And art cars.

One of my favorite parts of Burning Man is the dancing. Whether it’s someone with graceful moves –

Tearing it up at Distrikt in the afternoon.

Or DJs exploding like The Crystal Method at Roots Society on Friday. This was one of the most amazing DJ setups and visuals I’ve seen. Just look at the crowd in front of the stage.

Burning Man wouldn’t be what it is without a lot of fire.

And seeing the dawn rise over the Black Rock desert, which I did 3 nights in a row.

Friday morn.

Sunday morn.

Finally, the Man itself. Due to a desperate need for a nap and the dust storm that was happening, I missed seeing it burn on Saturday.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby
English will be the official language of the European Union rather
than German, which was the other possibility. During the negotiations,
the German Government argued that English spelling had some room for
improvement and some changes to the language were agreed to as part of
a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”.. Sertainly, this
will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard “c” will be
dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and
keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik
enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be
replaced with “f”.. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted
to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have
always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the
horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it
should go away. By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”. During ze fifz yer, ze
unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz
fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

The beef cheeks were a winner as well. Good choice for restaurant week.

From the Hewes stop, courtesy of Felix.

Half a pound of crayfish and an open buffet of salmon, herring, crayfish salad, swedish meatballs, and more!

Some bodaciouis picks including the Peter Michael 1999 Belle Cote.