Shirt-cockers not welcome.

August 8, 2008 3:32 PM

Anyone interested in a meet-up during the big, desert hippy thing?

Complaining about recent threads with strangers would sure beat striking up a conversation with women with painted breasts. I'm just saying.

posted by MiltonRandKalman to MetaFilter Gatherings at 3:32 PM (22 comments total)

I am a shirt-cocker and proud of it! Why? Because it keeps the sun off my shoulders and I still have that "feeling of freedom". So I guess I can't meet up with you.
posted by telstar at 5:20 PM on August 8, 2008

Um, as pointed out recently hereabouts would that be hippies you're talking about? Or pear-shaped persons?
posted by StickyCarpet at 6:36 PM on August 8, 2008

go telstar!! I am pro-shirt cocking, and I'm a woman. but I'm not going to burning man this year...
posted by supermedusa at 6:47 PM on August 8, 2008

Previously (yes, for this year.)
posted by mykescipark at 6:48 PM on August 8, 2008

you obviously have no fucking clue what a hippie was...
posted by quonsar at 9:11 PM on August 8, 2008

Hippies are still trying to ruin the country!
posted by homunculus at 10:46 PM on August 8, 2008

I can't think of worse attire for meeting people from the internet.
posted by iamkimiam at 12:25 AM on August 9, 2008 [2 favorites]

Hippies are still trying to ruin the country!

I sincerely hope so, since I'm one of the lefty loonies and I feel so alone in this crimson red state.
posted by francesca too at 6:32 AM on August 9, 2008

Do educate us, Q.

Not going this year. Need a break. Have a blast and make me jealous.
posted by scarabic at 12:29 PM on August 9, 2008

How do I make shirt cock?
posted by meehawl at 12:53 PM on August 9, 2008

From Homunculus's link:

Just don't vote for them [leftist hippies] in 2008.

There are leftist hippies running for office in 2008?

Like, where, man?
posted by telstar at 5:06 PM on August 9, 2008

I sincerely hope so, since I'm one of the lefty loonies and I feel so alone in this crimson red state.

I have a feeling that a few days at Spring Break for Math GeeksBurning Man would turn me into a Republican.
posted by jonmc at 5:28 PM on August 9, 2008

Burning Man vs. burning pride in America!
posted by homunculus at 12:24 AM on August 10, 2008

I've seen some Republicans at BM. One camp was a pro-military camo-decorated mini patriotic village. Also, a few years back as we were leaving in the long line, the car in front of ours sported a Bush/Cheney 2004 bumper sticker. Not ironic as far as I could tell.
posted by telstar at 2:25 AM on August 10, 2008

Homunc, here's the response to your "ruining hippies" link above.
posted by telstar at 5:09 AM on August 10, 2008

Like, where, man?
Where else?
posted by whir at 4:07 PM on August 10, 2008

Well that didn't go anywhere.

Anywho, I'll be MCing/stage-managing the stage at center camp 11pm-1am Monday, Wednesday, Friday (co-hosting the battle of the marching bands), and after the temple burn from 11pm-7am (fuck me). so stop by and say hi. I'll be the one in the tux.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 10:48 AM on August 11, 2008

I know mykescipark already linked it above, but maybe you missed it. There is already a Burning Man meet-up thread, albeit with only slightly better results.
posted by team lowkey at 11:46 AM on August 11, 2008

oh, when he said 'previously' I thought that thread was from last year.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 11:47 AM on August 11, 2008

oh, when he said 'previously' I thought that thread was from last year

...that's a joke, right?
posted by mykescipark at 1:53 PM on August 11, 2008

no, I actually thought it was last year, but I'm reading the other thread now. So its irrelevant.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 4:19 PM on August 11, 2008

I'm doing fire art again this year. We'll be in the playa about 500 feet from 4:30 and Esplanade. Every night between 10pm and 2am we'll be making exploding Hydrogen Bubbles (much improved over last year) and showing a new piece (PyroCardium) which has 40 flame effects that pulse in time to your heartbeat. If you see a bald guy operating them, that's me. Stop by and say hi.
posted by pombe at 4:58 PM on August 11, 2008