Hola mis amigos,
I am El Coyote, and I am very thrilled about this year's theme: "The American Dream"
It gives me an opportunity to share an old Latin American Tradition.
"Run For the Border"
I would very much appreciate if you would all join with me and share in this important tradition.
I have done this many times, so I can share with you the proper techniques.
On Monday evening next year, a large group of us will circle Burning Man outside of the defined perimeter. Everyone will be in place by 9 o'clock. Then, before midnight, a sign will be given and everyone will run for the border at the same time.
Sombreros, mustaches, and ponchos are all recommended. When the terrain is suitable, as is in the case, bicycles are always preferable to running.
You can pre-purchase a ticket and treat this as performance art, or for a more authentic experience you can try to enter illegally. That's your choice.
More information will be posted at regular intervals as we approach next years burn.
El dios le bendice todo!
== El Coyote ==
I am El Coyote, and I am very thrilled about this year's theme: "The American Dream"
It gives me an opportunity to share an old Latin American Tradition.
"Run For the Border"
I would very much appreciate if you would all join with me and share in this important tradition.
I have done this many times, so I can share with you the proper techniques.
On Monday evening next year, a large group of us will circle Burning Man outside of the defined perimeter. Everyone will be in place by 9 o'clock. Then, before midnight, a sign will be given and everyone will run for the border at the same time.
Sombreros, mustaches, and ponchos are all recommended. When the terrain is suitable, as is in the case, bicycles are always preferable to running.
You can pre-purchase a ticket and treat this as performance art, or for a more authentic experience you can try to enter illegally. That's your choice.
More information will be posted at regular intervals as we approach next years burn.
El dios le bendice todo!
== El Coyote ==
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Re: Run For The Border
Fri, September 14, 2007 - 6:41 PMROFLMAO now *thats* cacophany!
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Re: Run For The Border
Fri, September 14, 2007 - 6:45 PMThat's freaking awesome
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Re: Run For The Border
Fri, September 14, 2007 - 6:49 PMha,,, do it during CT
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Fri, September 14, 2007 - 7:22 PM
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Re: Run For The Border
Fri, September 14, 2007 - 8:34 PMI think it's a great idea!
Someone posted this video to the bm tribe.
If you we do it right, it could look like this:
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Re: Run For The Border
Sat, September 15, 2007 - 7:48 AMBlorp!
The oranges really put it over the top. Well done.
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Re: Run For The Border
Sat, September 15, 2007 - 8:00 AMThey use night vision specs, dont they? If that's true, then it's the same amount of danger at night or in the daytime. You might want to do it in the daytime so more spectators see it. What are the roolz about going outside the perimeter. Is it still okay with a ticket? Or do you have to pay the in/out fee?
As many leaf blowers as possible should be used as props. Especially at 7am on Saturday or Sunday morning. @#$%!!!!!! -
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Re: Run For The Border
Sat, September 15, 2007 - 11:15 AMSeñorita Margaret,
Outside of the trash fence there is a "no go" zone where no one is allowed. I believe that it might be 600 feet, but we will have to check that. Outside of that area is public land and we are free to be on it with or without a ticket.
If we set an exact pre-determined time for the run, then that gives the border patrol a better ability to be ready for us. But if we have a 3 hour time window, and all leave on some secret signal, then we can spread more disorder and also more of us have a chance of getting through the fence.
That's why we do it at night. Who wants to wait for a couple of hours in the hot sun?
Come join my tribe, eh?
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Re: Run For The Border
Sat, September 15, 2007 - 11:26 AMThey also have radar, so they will know you are there before you do. Sorta.
Afterwards there could be a party at the Home Depot Parking Lot Camp. Some of my friends were joking about having one. People who want to help other people with their camps could come and hang out and people who need help could come by and "hire" them. -
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Re: Run For The Border
Sat, September 15, 2007 - 11:43 AMHa ha ha. A big orange box would offend all the people that like to be offended. It needs to take up an entire block of real estate too. -
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Sat, September 15, 2007 - 12:06 PMThe Home Depot Parking Lot Camp would need at least 120 amigos to be authentic. We could fill the Home Depot with Black Rock Rangers in orange aprons. It would be eerie realistic; overweight, clueless bozos that are never there when you need them and in the way, wasting your time when you don't want them. The self-checkout would require you to place all your clothes and valuables on the counter before you could leave.
BTW: all they would sell would be lawn gnomes and kitty litter.
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Sat, September 15, 2007 - 2:28 PMDisastrogirl:
> They also have radar, so they will know you are there before you do. Sorta.
I just did some research. I believe that there is only a 50 yard perimeter beyond the fence.
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:ARzhHT66mnUJ:www.stopburningman.org/04permit...firefox-a
The people with radar might know that we're there, but I don't believe that they can do anything to us until we actually cross that line. And with hundreds of runners, there is no way that they can stop us all.
> Afterwards there could be a party at the Home Depot Parking Lot Camp.
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Re: Run For The Border
Sat, September 15, 2007 - 2:32 PM
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Sun, September 16, 2007 - 12:39 AMAdam, it's good that you are dealing with the important details first - drinks.
It depends on whether you want to go with Home Despot style drinks (orange gatorade and ?) or Mexican style (tequila, mezcal or mexican beer) I will be experimenting heavily with horchata in the coming weeks to maybe come up with something totally different. Or maybe something with champorada? Someone else will have to try that because I hate that stuff.
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Re: Run For The Border
Sat, September 15, 2007 - 2:49 PMTo further spread the rangers thin, schedule a "Paul Addis' American Dream March" inside the event starting at 9pm. -
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Sat, September 15, 2007 - 3:58 PMSylvain:
> To further spread the rangers thin, schedule a "Paul Addis' American Dream March" inside the event starting at 9pm.
Hahahaha.... I rate that as the best idea of the day. :-)
What would that look like?
I imagine 50 people dressed in monkey and clown suits carrying torches, chanting (Do they chant Paul's name?), and marching towards the man - no one will know if they're going to set the man on fire or not.
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SpockScienceMonitor was all over it
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Sat, September 15, 2007 - 3:41 PMaiiiiii, Cantinflas! -
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What are they guarding anyway?
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Mon, September 17, 2007 - 9:50 PM
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Mon, September 17, 2007 - 10:09 PMBud:
What is that? Is that the radar truck?
If so, there may be some rumors that we can jam it. I don't know if we'd want to do that, or if it's more fun if they know where we are. If there are enough of us, there is no way that they can stop us all. -
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Wed, September 19, 2007 - 12:16 AMGreat Cacophony, But are there any Patrick McGoohgan fans out there?
BUT....I think it would be better to start INSIDE the fence and attempt a mass escape from "the village" ala the Prisoner
www.theprisoneronline.com/.
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Wed, September 19, 2007 - 1:11 AMok i'm weirded out now.. I spent some time on the Prisoner site and it has been a while since I've seen the show.... Here are some quotes...I'm SURE we are being kept in the "village"...eerie aint it? Be seeing you!
Number 6Number 6: I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or Numbered. My life is my own. I resign!
Number 6: Where am I?
Number 2: In the Village.
Number 6: What do you want?
Number 2: We want information.
Number 6: Whose side are you on?
Number 2: That would be telling, we want information, information information.
Number 6: You won't get it.
Number 2: By hook or by crook, we will.
Number 6: Who are you?
Number 2: The new Number 2.
Number 6: Who is Number 1?
Number 2: You are Number 6.
Number 6: I am not a Number, I am a free man!
Number 6: Who is Number 1?
Number 2: You are, Number 6.
Number 6: I am not a Number. I am a person.
Charles Curtis: The only trouble with science is that it can be perverted.
Number 6: Bad habit of mine, playing with lighters. I'll probably start a fire one day.
The Professor's Wife: Construction arises out of the ashes of destruction.
Number 6: If I knew where I was sailing from I could calculate where I was sailing to.
Number 2 is describing the Village.
Number 2: What in fact has been created? An international community. A perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realise that they're looking into a mirror, they'll see that this is the pattern for the future.
Number 6: The whole world as the Village?
Number 2: That is my dream. What's yours?
Number 6: To be the first man on the moon.
Number 6: Last week, Number 14 was an old lady in a wheelchair. You're new here, and you're one of them.
Number 6: I also have a problem. I'm not sure which side runs this Village.
Villager: [first time line is spoken] Be seeing you.
Villager: It's very cosmopolitan. You never know who you'll meet next.
Number 2: [Shouting] Why, why, why did you resign?
Number 6: Be seeing you.
Number 6: Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment, and will die here like rotten cabbages.
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Wed, September 19, 2007 - 9:08 AMI've always thought it was more like Gilligan's Island than the village. Gilligan wears a white hat. ;)
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Re: escape from the inside, like The Prisoner
Sat, September 29, 2007 - 10:03 PMAh, Escaping from the inside, like The Prisoner.
That is perfect!
The last time I attended the event, my bf and I left early, on Friday morning, cause we were sick of alot of the BS going on.
People could not imagine that we were leaving.
Especially at the gate, people kept stopping us...
"Are you sure you want to leave? Are you sure?"
That was wierd for sure.
Yeah, kinda reminds me of The Prisoner.
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Wed, September 19, 2007 - 12:56 AM>>What is that? Is that the radar truck?
It looks like a cherry picker to me; I'm guessing the logic is they can take the high ground at any point they want and scan the horizon.
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Wed, September 19, 2007 - 12:57 PMLorien:
> BUT....I think it would be better to start INSIDE the fence and attempt a mass escape from "the village" ala the Prisoner
I do like the idea.
But Run for the Border is much more in theme. I hated the American Dream theme, but now I'm starting to get in the spirit of mocking it. Somehow I don't think that 1000 people in mustaches jumping their fence is what the BMORG intended when they came up with theme.
Plus at least some people (if that's their thing) might be getting in to the BMORG for free. And I'm not opposed to taking a few dollars out of the BMORG's pockets.
Monroe:
> Besides, can radar work low to the ground?
I don't know too many of the details, but here's a photo of the radar room.
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Wed, September 19, 2007 - 1:53 PMIf you already have been in, and do the proper exit/re-entry procedures, there's not much they can do if they catch you, yes?
Should be prepared for some people to be caught. They may even have a short white bus with locks and a cage between the driver and the passengers, where they might take all those caught back to Gerlach and drop them off.
Is it appropriate to have the run cross the highway? Or at least the road leading in to burning man? I'm visuallizing one of those crossing signs like they have in SoCal.
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Wed, September 19, 2007 - 6:01 PMhahahhahahah
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Wed, September 19, 2007 - 6:42 PM
Does it make sense to have everyone running from one location all at the fence at the same time?
Or is it better as coyote proposed with people outside the trash fence surrounding Burningman?
Anyways, we definitely need the signs. We should put two or three of them along Highway 447 to get people in the mood and prepared for something when the arrive and find the mustached hordes in Empire.
When they see those signs they're going to think "What the fuck?"
Let's put some of the "What the fuck" back into Burningman. :-)
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Wed, September 19, 2007 - 10:22 PM>>If you already have been in, and do the proper exit/re-entry procedures, there's not much they can do if they catch you, yes?
Like most conventions and whatnot, the folks in charge probably reserve the right to remove anyone from their function if they want to. It's hard to judge if they would just let it slide if you already had a ticket unless they caught you with someone who didn't (read: assisting).
I also guess it depends on if the cop is a dick or can take a joke...
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Thu, September 20, 2007 - 8:33 PM> do the proper exit/re-entry procedures
Aaron, sounds like youve got a promising career as a BMorg bureocrat..
the point of the exercise is _not_ to do the proper procedures..
I'm sick of proper procedures.
> Should be prepared for some people to be caught.
true.
> They may even have a short white bus with locks and a cage between the driver and the passengers, where they might take all those caught back to Gerlach and drop them off.
and then we could sue Burning Man for kidnapping. A person can be ejected from an event for unauthorized entry. that is the extent of BMorg's legal rights. Unless, of course, they *lie* to a police officer, for which they could also be sued - in addition to the field day the press would have. "BMOrg persecutes fake Mexicans just like real life"
And this time they won't be able to whine about people being "endangered" like they did about this year's prank. they won't be able to spin their way out of this one.
Now that I think about it, I almost hope BMorg does try something shady.. might just be the end of BMorg. especially if some of their other past legal shenanigans come to light.. -
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Fri, September 21, 2007 - 8:19 AM"the point of the exercise is _not_ to do the proper procedures..
I'm sick of proper procedures. "
So is the point to just sneak in without paying? That doesn't sound like art at all. But then again, maybe I just don't know art. -
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Fri, September 21, 2007 - 12:22 PMAaron:
> And release a hundred mylar balloons with glowsticks tied to them before starting.
If we have enough people, then the radar won't matter at all. Even if they know where we are, there is no way that they can stop us all.
> So is the point to just sneak in without paying? That doesn't sound like art at all.
Are we creating art, or just spreading a bit of mayhem, or something in between.
I think that it's something in between. In part it's fun. In part it's art. And in part it's criminal.
The OP said this:
"You can pre-purchase a ticket and treat this as performance art, or for a more authentic experience you can try to enter illegally. That's your choice."
If everyone buys a ticket and the BMORG knows it, then they might not even try to stop us. What fun is that?
If _you_ want to follow half of the rules, and pre-purchase your ticket go for it! If others want to be criminals, that's their choice too. -
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Fri, September 21, 2007 - 10:10 PM> If _you_ want to follow half of the rules
whose rules? BMorg's? I didn't vote for them.. and they didn't create the festival in the desert. What, do they rule by divine right, like some medeival Caliph? I don't acknowledge divine right.
> If others want to be criminals, that's their choice too.
ah, criminal is such a harsh word, senhor.
If we could afford three hundred dollars we would gladly pay..
Alas, we are illegales..
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Fri, September 21, 2007 - 9:58 PM> So is the point to just sneak in without paying? That doesn't sound like art at all. But then again, maybe I just don't know art.
its certainly going to be a beautiful performance art piece to watch. and even more so to participate in. participatory performance art - what could be more Burning Man?
its also bubbling over with hilarious irony on so many levels:
1st, its a great, creative and authentic respone to the theme, without resorting to schmalz.
2nd - a potent comment on the order thats been imposed, and a way to communicate the feeligns of a *lot* of people, in a humorous, nonviolent way.
3rd - Larry's been making a lot of public statements about how he wants Burning Man to move into mainstream America. Well, this is a perfect example of mainstream America -on a small Burning Man scale- demonstrating the law of unintended consequences and also blowback. Useful learning experiences for Larry.
4th - it'll finally satisfy those people still whining about the Pre-Ingition of 07. This will be just as much prank but with none of the salty aftertaste - they can't claim it endangered anybody or damaged any equipment, since its not happening on top of their shopping mall this time. Its a flawless follow up.
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Wed, September 19, 2007 - 10:14 PM>>I don't know too many of the details, but here's a photo of the radar room.
>>people.tribe.net/evilrevch...ab73e1403d
Wow... that's pretty messed up. Looks like it could possibly be heat-sensitive, but the really confusing thing is that it looks like that's a pretty high up bird's-eye of all of BRC; higher than any radar truck could reach. They couldn't have a sattelite feed, could they?
The more I learn about BM, the more I come to this conclusion: BRC is deviating further and further from what it was supposed to be and turning into an over-policed security fest...
I support the sign idea (it'd be funny as hell), but chances are it might ruin the event for us. Sort of a "prank at your own risk" kind of thing. -
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Thu, September 20, 2007 - 12:44 AMMonroe:
> I support the sign idea (it'd be funny as hell), but chances are it might ruin the event for us.
What exactly do you mean that it might ruin the event for us?
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
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Re: What are they guarding anyway?
Thu, September 20, 2007 - 1:34 AMMonroe:
> if they catch the hint, they may beef up perimeter patrol.
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