So a month into this new year and things are rolling along quite nicely. Construction, music and smiles are on the increase while drama, destruction and frowns are on the wane. More and more we hear about what an amazing space we have here, how positive the vibe is and how everyone wants to return. Read More …
Go out to the desert. There are glorious things in this world if you look in the right places, and with this as truth I am underwhelmed by the describable. I am uninterested in the ordinary. Like many others, I have pretended and tried, but under this kind of sunlight it is too Read More …
Where to begin? At the beginning? Nah, too far back. Maybe begin a little after the start but not quite in the middle? Like walking into a movie that already started. Then when you watch the beginning the ending makes sense. The ending is the best part but nobody will understand it without the back Read More …
My god, really? They come into the desert late, the last minute of the eleventh hour and all, but you know how musicians are and I never heard of these guys but with a name like Orphan in the Afterlife I am damn well expecting leather-straining Norwegians with too many fücking ümlaüts in their fücking Read More …
I was lucky enough to get to fly on an ultralight airplane over the slabs in December, so I thought I’d make a quick post to share what East Jesus looks like from the sky.
Ever have one of those days where your jaws hurt from laughing too much? And the side of your stomach feels like maybe a rib broke? Ever feel like a weekend was a year long at the time but now feels like it was only a day? It’s Friday and I’m only now coming down Read More …
How alien, strange, the red and blue lights at night, winking on-off on-off in campfire smoke like distant planets. Rust creeps kudzu-like and is lost in the haze, sleeps and lives forever. Vaguely aware I am sitting on desert floor, feeling synapses unravel in whorls and beats of tympanic echolalia. Vibrations sing along with shotgun shells in the walls, hanging in canted angles. In the Read More …
In 2006 Charlie was living at NIMBY, a live-in DIY art space in Oakland, CA. Run by Michael Snook, NIMBY was, and still is, a hotbed of creativity. Over the years many well-known Burning Man art pieces have been created there such as the Cleavage in Space, the Steampunk Treehouse, and the Trojan Horse. Charlie Read More …
WARNING: The following story may cause feelings of jealousy, envy, and regret. We don’t apologize for this. New Year’s Eve: just a reason to get drunk? But how many times can you accomplish that and still enjoy it? Maybe you’re a little older now and have started tiring of the same old thing. The hassles Read More …
Edge of the world, edge of Western civilization, edge of the desert, of birth, of death, edge of a sky falling over us at the speed of a year’s last breath. The sky falls over a sea of campers, trailers, diaspora from the north, over an acid-green lightshow to rival the Fourth; banking and turning Read More …