The woman with
the white trash bag was collecting MOOP when I got her to take a brief
break in my shade.
I think blue
skirt was the person who said "the Zuni make fetishes." We were talking
about spiritual politics at the time.
That orange bottle came up to the playa after spending many years in my
freezer as a block of ice. I had read someplace that if you replace a
lot of the air in your freezer with ice, it makes the thing more
efficient. In the mad rush to pack at the last minute, we had needed 40
extra gallons of water, so I had brought it along as part of that. We
got quite a few laughs about the fact it was water from the last
millennium. This guy had suggested I sell it on eBay. Unfortunately
that idea got scrubbed because Cheryl used it to clean the worst of the
playa dust off of the car we drove up in just before we left. She also
wanted to recycle the bottle.
This frog was
hanging out in the Clan Dyken camp. I made a point of
dropping by there, having been a fan since the beginning of 1992.
Unfortunately,
after I took this picture my camera stopped working. I did the rest of
Burning Man without it, which probably made the experience easier to
enjoy for some of the people with nothing on.
I had a great time. One time I met a woman from Palo Alto that was
wearing a white lab coat and a string of sharpies on a necklace. She
wanted people to add art to the coat. I put "small change" over her heart,
with some decorative lines. Another time I stopped by the Playa Book of
Records, and put myself down for "most repetitions of a one minute
speech". They asked me how many times I had done it, and after we did
the math it worked out to 5,500 times over six years at Burning Man.
I'm wishing it didn't have to end so soon.
My camera
started working soon after I got it home. I just had to mutter,
blow on the shoot button, and glare at it a bit.
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