Burning Man Meetup

July 28, 2002 2:18 AM

Even though, apparently, Burning Man is just soo damn uncool these days there will no doubt be MeFites & bloggers attending and probably blogging from the playa itself.

Any thoughts on a MeFiBuM meet?
posted by i_cola to MetaFilter gatherings at 2:18 AM (10 comments total)

It could be the most international hook-up yet...or maybe I just couldn't resist posting the word MeFiBuM...[or maybe the word 'bum' means nothing in N America?]
posted by i_cola at 2:21 AM on July 28, 2002

Not nothing; but not the same thing.
posted by dhartung at 4:12 AM on July 28, 2002

dhartung: Ah of course...tho' I was thinking more behind ;-)
posted by i_cola at 12:18 PM on July 28, 2002

Bum, yeah i've heard it used as butt and guy on the street. Why is that?
posted by Apoch at 2:01 PM on July 28, 2002

tee hee! everything evanizer posts is a MeFiBM... oh wait...
posted by quonsar at 3:34 PM on July 28, 2002

of course it's not cool, it's in the desert. duh.

except at night. then it's just plain cold.
posted by jcterminal at 5:55 PM on July 28, 2002

A MeFi British Museum? What?
posted by Mo Nickels at 7:39 PM on July 28, 2002

Well, I think Burning Man is still as cool as most cool things are, so I'll be out on the playa (chances are I'll be greeting some of you other burners on the way in) and I'd be happy to meet up with other Mefites. I'm organizationally impaired, though; if someone else wants to set up a place and time I'll show up there and then, but anything else is beyond my meager abilities.
posted by whir at 8:55 PM on July 28, 2002

Burning Man must be what you make of it, right?

Personally, I grow weary of the people who blather about it ad infinitum, but it must have done a number on them for them to go on about it so.

And really, wouldn't the best thing for Burning Man be for it to stop being cool?

Note: I've never been, but feel as though I have been from all the stories.
posted by Kafkaesque at 11:43 PM on July 28, 2002

Cool/Uncool...bleh.

I'll be doing a HugNation Hug at the man on Wed at 6pm. You're all invited. :)

And if you want a really mature (and fun) look at Burning Man, check the new documentary, "Gifting It" (about the gift ecomony of Burning Man.)


posted by halcyon at 10:13 AM on July 29, 2002