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After the Orgy December 05, 2023
August 2023. My boyfriend got to the Playa four days before me. He said everything would be taken care of before I got there. There would be bicycles, there would be acid, there would be MDMA, there would be NXE, and some other drugs whose acronyms I...
I Got Engaged in the Mud at Burning Man September 08, 2023
It was early Friday afternoon, right after my campmates and I exited a completely naked yet surprisingly chaste group shower organized by soap maker Dr. Bronner’s, when the rains started in Black Rock City, the temporary metropolis in the usually bla...
Burning Man Is a Capitalist Lie September 07, 2023
Marie Antoinette probably never said “Let them eat cake”. But she did provoke popular fury by building a model peasant village at Versailles, where she would retire to escape the pressures and opulence of court life, and even sometimes dress up as a ...
Rage Against the Wooden Man September 06, 2023
Imaginary friends. Monday morning, 48 hours into a global, social media-induced fake news hysteria, thousands of Burning Man attendees began their long, dirty trip home after what now seems, by all available indication, a largely pleasant (if unusual...
Escaping the Online Discourse to Burning Man September 06, 2023
After a treacherous five-mile hike in the sticky playa mud on Sunday, I got to the highway, hopped on a few different buses and made it home safely from Burning Man.A lot of readers have written to me to see if I’m OK, or just to ask about the experi...
Burning Man Will Rise Again September 05, 2023
Obviously one’s first reaction to hearing about the rain and mud at Burning Man this year was very similar to learning about the glitch that led to all those flights to and from British airports being cancelled last week: thank God I’m not there, tha...
