Rain Delays Burning Man Voyagers at Reno Wal-Mart (People of Wal-Mart just got weirder)

AP via ABC News ^ | Aug 26, 2014 | SCOTT SONNER Associated Press

[a fool in paradise]

NOT a PING!

[Tax-chick]

Did you say you had friends going to this event? I hope they’re okay!

Unless there’s been a tragedy, I’ll snicker a little at the thought of highly cultured New Yorkers in a Reno Walmart.

[ansel12]

Typical left, working in an insult against the favorite store of conservatives and middle America.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Dead Heads meet Pyromaniacs?

[erkelly]

Living nearby Burning Man, my observation is that Burning Man is not a magnet for the highly cultured New Yorker.

[Tax-chick]

That may well be so, but it’s an accurate description of Miss Marmelstein’s social circle.

[TADSLOS]

Nothing says counterculture like driving in $50-100k+ RVs and stopping off to stock up on supplies at MEGLO MART.

[Parley Baer]

I know somebody that goes every year. He does bring back some interesting pictures to say the least. He is a Libertarian by the way.

[logi_cal869]

Just curious: Given my observations of the ‘wake’, or ‘fallout’ if you will, of typically-liberal gatherings (Earth Day, Zer0 inauguration, etc.)...”garbage/litter” is what I’m getting at...

...has anyone documented what the desert looks like after one of these ‘events’?

[IYAS9YAS]

Too bad the rain couldn’t have happened two days later...

[Reverend Wright]

from the story

“Barbara Quintanilla of Houston said the rain delay was the least of their worries in an RV with friends who didn’t initially know whether the camper used diesel or regular gas, made a wrong turn out of Texas and ran over a sign post. Their destination is “Planet Earth,” she said”

i think the dominant philosophy here seems to be airhead.

[a fool in paradise]

They are “supposed” to take everything (including garbage waste) with them.

[a fool in paradise]

"Welcome to Burning Man Wal-Mart..."

[Slings and Arrows]

The local Dhim precinct captain, I’m guessing.

[a fool in paradise]

"Here's a provisional ballot..."

[Brother Cracker]

I read somewhere that there is a BurningBush section of BurningMan reserved for Orthodox Jews.

[greene66]

I love the desert. I love hiking. I love brutal, hot temperatures.

But the idea of sharing space with a bunch of partying hippie dopeheads and earth-cookies would truly be my idea of hell on earth. I’d put Burning Man only ‘slightly’ ahead of Ferguson, MO as my idea of an enjoyable vacation destination.

[miss marmelstein]

We not so highly cultured. Just a 70 year old NYC avant garde theater company on the loose in the desert. My husband is their Executive Director. Some of the art installations are amazing.

[logi_cal869]

They're 'supposed' to do that at Earth Day rallies, too.