Hello, Carnival!

[dragonsbones]

Every trip is unique. This one began with a weekend in San Francisco. Keeb's good friends, Mo and Phyllis, offered up a room (a whole room!) in their bangin' apartment in the Sunset area.

The City
Apparently, I've been offending people for decades now. When I say I would love to visit (and/or live near/in) San Fran, I SHOULD be saying "The City"

Comments

[shponglespore]

I'm at work so I will not even attempt to address everything, but:

And even at Burning Man, people can be assholes, because people don't actually CHANGE at Burning Man.

I don't expect people to change, but I do kind of expect most of the assholes to stay home. That's been my impression of the regional burns I've been to, at least.

And buying a new bed.

Will you be needing a queen-size mattress? Because I think I can get one for free right now. It's used, but I know the guy who owned it, and he's not the sort of person who would do vile disgusting things to a mattress.

[dragonsbones]

I think we have a specific new mattress in mind, but I'll check with Keebler on it.

The thing is, anytime you have a giant rave with naked people, sex, and drugs, assholes are gonna show up, because they want to have a lot of fun, too. In my experience, this was less prominent at the Texas burns I went to, and not PARTICULARLY prominent even at the Big Burn. But yeah, people just aren't all sunshine and rainbows, even when most of them are hippies.

The point is, it's still a big party, and not everyone picks up after themselves or respects other people. Dude, we even had someone toss several unused nitrous charges in our burn barrel. Splashed ash and other burnables and caught a sofa on fire.

[peglegpete]

Yeah, primate communities do not scale well. I've heard some of the Flipside LLC folks talk before about why the have their regional and why they are concerned about it getting any bigger (above and beyond the attendant legal concerns), and a large part of it boiled down to primate communities not scaling well. Once something gets semi popular as a good time, and once it's big enough that people can show without really knowing anyone else, an unfortunate number of people will behave in ways that are sadly typical when it comes to having fun and not having to actually deal with people on a personal basis.

[peglegpete]

Yay for fun times! So glad you and Keeb had a great vacation together.

Online friends

[anonymous]

Yay! A shoutout! I was your first online friend? Cherry popped! You were my second, but I haven't talked to the first in probably 12 years. So we win.

You're always welcome to come back - my wife enjoyed lunch. Next time our kid will only be cuter.

-BrainPolka (a.k.a. ThePantsOfDeath a.k.a. www.esoderek.com)

Re: Online friends

[dragonsbones]

My very first internet buddy! I'm 95% certain you were the actual first person I talked to in a chat room.