Spike ,'Chosen'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
our world scares me.
Ditto.
My whole immediate family except Mac is in Europe currently, so yeah. I am texting with brother to gauge parental freak out.
The company I work for us Belgian, so lots of potential impact. It looks currently like no one from the company was at either attack location. The company is not based in Brussels, but international travelers are constant and all go through Brussels for meeting at HQ. CEO is sending email updates.
It's just that I have plenty of life experience informing me that I would not learn anything about myself that I don't already know at Burning Man.
And I suspect the only thing that would be reinforced by a trip to Burning Man is "Jesus, I hate people."
I hope everything works out okay, msbelle.
I hate wind and dust and sand and have a low tolerance for strangers wanting to interact with me. Burning Man sounds like hell.
The only reason the world doesn't scare me is because I can't make enough sense out of it to be scared. Hope all your people are ok and feel reasonably secure, msbelle.
Now the water kerfuffle I can understand. That's a conundrum. I suggest you all get unfired clay cups you can break after using (so as not to share germs) and recycle into new cups and melt snow to drink.
I am pretty sure if I tried Burning Man I would think it was a lot of goddamn people ruining a perfectly nice trip to the desert. Like most festivals I've been to, really, give or take a desert, but without a compelling draw. I suppose if I was into that sort of art - that's the idea isn't it, art?
I'm glad you and Mac are home, msbelle. The world won't stop being frightening and sort of awful.
Pleasantly Cool and Breezy Man, maybe.
Oooh, we should do that. On Buffista Island!
That and a return to tribal community in theory, though I suspect recreational drugs, sex, and the opportunity to run around naked have eclipsed the original goals. (Not that I necessarily think those are bad reasons to hold a festival...)
All of those things (community, drugs, sex and nudity) are unmixy with strangers, in my mind. But I am pretty old, I guess.
Pleasantly Cool and Breezy Man with Buffistas, otoh, sounds excellent.
I'm with -t entirely on this.
I am also with -t. None of those things should happen with strangers. Also with Matt- it should not be that hot. Why would I want to be hot, dirty and naked with strangers.