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Burning Man: Whatâs Out, Whatâs In - 2001

OUT

IN

$200 BM tickets

tipping the baristas anyway

9/16" wrenches

screwdrivers at the Cube Club

acid jazz

live jazz

anal sex

giving "the Dirty Sanchez"

antagonizing a cop

seducing a cop

arriving on Friday

leaving on Friday

barter

gifts

bicycle theft

valet bicycle parking

bondage leather

Liquid Latexú

Bondage-A-Go-Go

Temple of Atonement

bringing your pets

bringing your parents

candy flipping

candy stripping (E, acid, & Viagra)

checking your watch

checking your sundial

coming down

coming out

dehydration

water

dissing Pepe's opera

re-inventing Pepe's opera as a campy sing-along party a la The Sound of Music

drug-sniffing doggies

dog-sniffing druggies

electroluminescent wire

holographic nanotech tattoos

electronica

Norwegian black metal

facial glitter

rectal glitter

full-body glitter

sparing, tasteful sprinklings of

geodesic domes

hexagon houses

getting married at BM

getting divorced at BM

glow sticks

Krill lights

hanging with your friends

meeting your neighbors

henna tattoos

henna piercings

human trash in the porta-potties

human excrement in the porta-potties

inhaling the propellant

fresh whipped cream

Kidsville

Gigsville

Larry Harvey

Hairy Larvae

last-ditch attempts at sincerity

pointed, jaded irony

liquid nitrogen

liquid oxygen

loud generators

solar cookers

Man burning unexpectedly early

Man burning unexpectedly exactly on time

Mickey's 40-ounce

blue margaritas

PDA's

slaves

playa rage

PLUR

ski goggles

monocles

"So, what do you do?"

"So, what can I do to you?"

store-bought fireworks

Impotence Compensation Project

tanning oil

SPF 30

theme camps on margin loans

theme camp downsizing

walkie-talkies

walkie-talkie jamming

Y2K

L2K

yoga at dawn

martinis at midnight

-- list compiled by Lenny Jones, Tokyo Rico, Adrian Roberts, °lux, Dr. Lizard, Penfold, and Zabriski



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