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[desh]

Something feels off about today. Or this week. I can't quite put my finger on it. Some combination of the crazy American political goings on, the strangely nice weather, the rumors of rootkits in Sony CDs and IM worms, people's reactions to yesterday's LJ news post, and my strange dream last night...I don't know. I just have an odd feeling. Maybe it's just Daylight Saving Time fucking with me.

I went on a binge last night for no apparent reason, reading everything I could about Burning Man. It seems fascinating. Like Philly Folk Fest, but much bigger, much harsher, and without the music stages to provide a distraction for people who don't realize that it's more about community than the music. I honestly don't know if I could handle no free water and no waste pickup, though, let alone no food sales and 60-degree temperature swings. There seems to be a big Jewish community there too: the Black Rock City JCC. (Which had an article published about it.) The pictures of Shabbat there are quite compelling. I'm intrigued, and not at all surprised that the names Rabbi Seidenberg and Rabbi Waskow seem to keep popping up in my searches. Do any of you actually know anything about Burning Man? It seems to have quite a reputation, but I can't quite figure out what that reputation is. Have any of you ever gone, considered going, or known anyone who went?

Enough of that. Now, time to turn on my work music (Aural Moon prog rock: Open the URL http://live.str3am.com:2010/ in your favorite streaming audio player; it's quality music, but just uninteresting enough that you don't need to focus on it while working) and start sending out resumes. None of the jobs out there look appealing, which speaks to how much I don't know what I want. But the best solution is still to send out resumes, and send I shall.

Or maybe I'll go to the gym. This expensive place 3 blocks from here just sent me a free 14-day trial in the mail. Hard to pass up. I'll just act all interested in joining for 13 and a half days. I can do that.

Comments

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

You might wanna talk to ibm about Burning Man. He's a long time veteran who's done a lot of support work for the event.

[desh]

Interesting; thanks. I'll probably never go, but if it does become a possibility at some point, I'll talk to him.

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

Well, brother KK, is the Paul Erdos of fringe culture. You won't have to worry about finding him, he'll crash on your couch at some point.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

Do you have a car or access to a car? If so you can apply for a great job in Hobbit & Hobbit inc. It's only a part-time job. Basically every few Thursday nights, you give me a ride to Shop-Rite or Guinardi's so I can buy food for Shabbat. The pay is in Deli-roll and meal invites.

With the SEPTA strike I might also add a job of transoprorting me to yarn stores.

[desh]

I do have a car. And I usually drive to Genuardi's on Friday mornings, actually. Would that work for you?

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

wow.

it depends when on fridays you go. I have recitation from 11-12.

i also don't need to go for the next 2 weeks, because i still have meat for this week, and next week i'm going to maryland. I'm currently restricted with a self-imposed ban on making meals until the end of Marchesvan. [I decided 7.5 in one semester is already insane].

But i could definitely use you next semester, when my friday class isn't until 2, and i'm making meals again.

[t3chnomag3.livejournal.com]

I guess that sorta thing works for non-working peoples... Sadness.

[desh]

There are so many moms with little kids there. It's really funny. I'm a homemaker!

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

I love internetinformationbinges.

I've never gone to Burning Man but I've dreamt of it for years. Literally. I've also had the priveledge of spending some of last Pesach with some of the moversandshakers of Jerusalem camp at Rainbow which for some reason always reminds me of BurningMan. But... not.

Had you never heard of Burning Man before? If not, where/how did you first find out about it?

And I'm so grateful to have an excuse for not paying attention to American politics.

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

Dude! I know people in those Burning Man Shabbat pictures!

[desh]

I am totally not surprised.

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

Yeah. But I am.

[desh]

I think I've probably heard about it before, but I don't remember when, and I forgot about it entirely. I was reminded of it when my friend BZ (whose blog you'd really like, by the way) linked me to his post yesterday at http://www.jewschool.com/. I'd never seen that site before, so I looked around a bit and found a post about Burning Man from last month.

Why didn't you ever go? Too far?

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. Well, I read his post on Jewschool because, well, I read every post on jewschool. (I think I started that feed? I don't remember....)

I never went because, I dunno. I never knew people who went. No, that's a lie. I never felt much a part of the people who went. And I could never go alone. And I never had the right time open. Or a car to get myself there. Or or or....

[desh]

Now I'm trying to Google about Rainbow. I'm finding annoyingly little info, though, or at least explanatory info that would help an unfamiliar person figure out what the heck's going on. I guess that's what you get from an anarchist event.

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

Are you googling just Rainbow, or Rainbow Gathering?

[desh]

Yeah, Rainbow Gathering. The first two links were rather unhelpful.

[gutwoman.livejournal.com]

my friend rema has been to it (rainbow) a bunch of times if you really want info. she probably wouldn't be too much help though.

Gym-iny Cricket

[bumonyou.livejournal.com]

Well, just keep in mind what ole' Billy Idol used to say

Sweat. Sweat. Sweat. Sweat. SWEAT. SWEATSWEATSWEAT SWEATSWEATSWEATYEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Re: Gym-iny Cricket

[desh]

Yeah, um, that gym is scary. Even if I could afford any gym I wanted, and even though that one's closest, I wouldn't sign up there. All the yellow, the huge mirrors and windows, and the frightening name.

Re: Gym-iny Cricket

[dredpiraterober.livejournal.com]

But how can you resist TV's in every stationary walking machine thing!?

Re: Gym-iny Cricket

[desh]

When the alternative is being at home and watching TV without having to jog? Very easily.

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

i thought about going, but never in an actually expecting to do it sort of way. it sounds fascinating, though.

[peneli.livejournal.com]

My older brother and his housemantes have been going to Burning Man for a few years now. It sounds pretty wild, in similar but more extreme ways to folkfest. They tend to do the sorts of ridiculous things a bunch of engineering and math students do, like construct helium-balloon-lifted chairs. I dunno much more about it, though...

[desh]

That's awesome. (I can't remember if I've ever even met him. But he's cool now.)

[(Anonymous)]

This Onion article is a classic: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29344

And I recognize people in the Shabbat pictures too (Jay Michaelson of zeek.net and elsewhere).

--BZ

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

Holy shit. I never realized that Jay was Jay. Damn. People should be more talkative sometimes. How else am I to know in whose presence I'm.... presencing?