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Water is Life: Preparing Your Body for the Playa

May 24, 2012
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  Drinking enough water to maintain your normal level of hydration is difficult on the playa.  Remember when you were a child, playing with a hose in the heat of summer and the water disappeared really fast [...]

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SeaCORE: The Seattle Core Effigy Project

May 17, 2012
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  Seattle: it’s a dark, wet, city at the top of the greater 48 states and about as far away from New York as you can get while remaining in the same country and latitude.  In the [...]

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Dude, Where’s My Grant?

March 15, 2012
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Let’s face it, this year’s been full of surprises (not all of them pleasant). After the lottery debacle, many burners planning to bring an art project to the playa this year are wondering about the [...]

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STEP Hysteria: Realistic Answers for Rational Burners

March 5, 2012
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[I]t was 12:45. Friday March 2nd and I had something important to do. I had to register for STEP. I was at work and in the midst of a project. I stepped away (no pun [...]

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Don’t Panic: One Burner’s View of the Lottery

March 1, 2012
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I realize there is a lot of hurt and anger over the ticketing debacle. I’m not going to beat the optimist drum because optimism doesn’t spontaneously generate tickets…but then neither does pessimism. The cold hard [...]

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