Oh Arian's - a sweetheart and loves burningman deeply.

I've been going for six years... cynicism is unavoidable-- though I do still muster deep love for all of it.

I think perhaps it's best just to belive that there are different takes on the world and leave it at that. Many a great writers and jounalists viewed the world with a jaundiced eye.

Yours need not be - and you will always have the BRG!

I was thinking that too. I couldn't tell if it was serious, or tongue n'cheek ... intresting reading either way.

I was camped next to them, so I know them more as neighbors than from the paper. They were great neighbors, and I took most of the paper as partly tongue-in-cheek (and got the impression they did, too). While it could have been done better, I think it's important to get that kind of perspective out there along with the BRG's "party line" pieces.

Reading between the lines helps a lot with Piss Clear. In one issue, for example, there was a suggestion that we all scream "Darkwad!" at people who aren't wearing blinky stuff at night. Later in the issue was a complaint about people who tell you to wear blinky stuff at night. I think this says a lot about their attitude toward what they're doing.

I wanna know what happened between the Piss Clear trailer and the DPW forklift.....

I think you've grazed on what I feel is one of the biggest misconceptions of Burning Man. It's not all about love and peace and happieness. It's about community. One of the side effects of community will be conflilct and disagreements. It's how the Burning Man community in general handles conflict and disagreement in general is what makes it amazing.

Check out the DPW thread in the BM tribe. Many of the posts are along the lines of "why are some DPW people assholes when that goes against what the event's about?" Last time I checked and from conversations with Larry, Marrian, Michael Michael, Dusty and many others who make this happen, it's not really an event about anything. Most of what I have heard them say centers around Burning Man being an experiment in community creation with a strong element of radical self expression and radical self reliance. Hmmm, DPW saying "Fuck Your Day" seems to fit into the radical self expression pretty well.

So for Piss Clear to have an element which goes against the commonly perceived grain of the event I would definately say that's radical self expression. As would the photo I saw of the Piss Clear trailer being baracaded by a forklift.

hi,
i'm trying to find the piss clear. incidentally, i happened to find this tribe and this thread. if anyone has information leading to the arrest of the staff of the piss clear, there will be a full reward. no just kidding, i just want to talk to someone about a gift i have planned for 2005.
i totally laughed at the entire paper, much like i do each week outside of john henry's on eighties night, when the new issue hits the stands and the sounds from the tables suck for three minutes. i go outside then, lean against whatever car is parked in that spot out front, and giggle uncontrollably at the satire.
:)