Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Tuesday, August 26, 2003 The Pitch: It's like On the Waterfront meets Gamera! I predict this is the best Burning Man ever. Of course, everyone predicts that every year, but this year I think there's a good chance of it. And I'm missing it.Why? Because there's been no mention of it in the press this year, as far as I can tell. Remember when it was on the front of Yahoo's news, and getting coverage on all the news stations. Now, two days in, it hasn't even been mentioned by S.F. Gate. They're probably all waiting for the big weekend money-shot footage, and I'll get to see footage of the Man going up, followed up by a quick summary of statistics: how many people, how hot it got, what they paid, how many medically evacked... Or maybe not. Maybe the Burning Man meme isn't as resilient as the war meme, and easily swapped out for the recall race, the Kobe Bryant story, and the press trying to figure out what its official position should be on Howard Dean. This means that whatever's going on at Burning Man, most of us slobs don't know, and won't know, until the burners return. It always seems that the best Burns take place when the least amount of the world is watching...or maybe that's just the way the vets tell it, to make themselves feel special. Really, this year's lack of media coverage will probably mean a better Burn next year, as there'll be less weekenders driving up in a car with four cases of beer, some e, and two bundles of bananas "for nutrition" because they've heard that Burning Man is "one huge insane party." But what's odd to me is how little I've seen of a Burning Man presence online. Where are the MeFi threads, the blog entries, the message board topics? I've come across only one other reference in the last two days and it was from someone, like me, not going this year. Maybe that's the only people on the Web who care about Burning Man this year--people who aren't going. Which means, maybe that me and this other guy are the only two people who've gone before who aren't going again. Which means I'm probably missing the best Burning Man ever. posted by Jeff Lester | 10:57 AM | |
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