Once again, your friendly Edjumicator shares pearls of whizdumb with this year’s class of Burning Flipside Noobies. Check it out, Noobs:
Did you know that…in Pyropolis, most theme camps with a bar will happily serve you a delicious beverage, but many won’t provide you with a cup? Theme camps work really hard to create their interactive space, and they don’t want to haul away a bunch of trash when it’s over. That’s why it’s so important to bring your own cup with you everywhere you go in Pyropolis. It’s goshdarn easy to make a transportable beverage vessel – all you need is a thin plastic cup. Just punch a hole in it with a hole puncher, hook it onto a carabiner, and hook the carabiner on your backpack, camelback, beltloop, tutu or nipple ring. Viola! Self Reliance in a cup!
Did you know that…using a cup or bottle with a lid on it can be a smart idea? Unwanted, scary thingies can sometimes find their way into your drink when it doesn’t have a lid: things like ants, spiders, DiRt, bUGS, sweat, sequins, feathers, tiny puppets and other dubious thingies. Your Edjumicator sez: keep a close eye on your drink or use a vessel with a lid, y’all.
Did you know that…loud generators can be annoying to other Flipizens? Yes indeedy, they certainly can. Using a BAFFLE for your generator significantly reduces noise and your neighbors will really, really appreciate it. It’s easy to build a baffle. For tips on how-to, click this link.
Did you know that…in Pyropolis, specific areas are reserved for theme camps only? Some theme camps will welcome you with open arms and allow you to camp in their reserved space, even if you aren’t a member of their camp and they’ve never laid eyes on you before. However, other theme camps do NOT want you to set up your camp in their space - for a variety of reasons. Use the Pyropolis map (you’ll get it at the Greeter station), find out where the reserved theme camp areas are, and ask to speak with the theme camp lead before you start setting up your camp in a theme camp’s reserved space.
Did you know that….those little orange and pink flag thingies you will see sticking out of the ground all over Pyropolis are placement boundary markers? The orange and pink flag thingies need to stay put. In other words, do not run over them with your car, pluck them out of the ground or relocate them. If you are caught fucking with the orange flag marker thingies, we will send someone from Fart Camp over to torment you.
Did you know that….every *thing* is a Thingie™? That is all. M’nah, M’nah.
Love, the Edjumicator
The rumors are true, there is a tide of Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Mania sweeping through the burn community like Nascar with cooler costumes, like crack addiction only more healthy.
I hear people saying, “When do I get to learn this mysterious dance?” Wait no longer. Your time is now.
When and Where?
Tonight! Wed. 4/30 at The Warehouse 8 – 10pm
Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Workshop with the Drishti Dancers: Basic Fast Moves and Cues
Tribal Fusion Belly Dance is performed in groups in following a leader, so it’s easy to learn! You will learn the moves that will be performed at performances during Flipside and en masse on Burn Night! Please be prompt, we will start at 8pm.
What to Wear?
Wear a long flowy skirt or comfortable flowy pants and a cropped top or sports bra. If you have a tasseled or fringed triangle shaped scarf to tie around your waist, bring that too! We will be dancing on pavement, so wear sandals or comfy shoes.
How Much Does it Cost?
Hahahaha! That is the best part. It is absolutely free.
Drishti dancers
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Agite!
DaFT has bunches of people helping with all aspects of the build.
But now they are getting to the decorating part of things and they need YOU to make with the pretty.
Show up to Church Night over the next few weeks and help the hula girl get her groove on!
The DaFT team
Do you have a French Maid costume? Or something that could pass for a French Maid costume? Can you speak in a really bad french accent? Would you be available for an hour or two on Sunday at Flipside around noonish? If you answered “yes!” to these questions, I want YOU! Email me at edjumicator@gmail.com and I’ll tell you about the French Maid Project.
Steph
Pre-Post Operations is taking Volunteers.
Limited time offer!
Pay: none. Medical and dental: see pay.
Other incentives: you get to come out to the event site early and work your ass off before everyone gets there and after everyone leaves you get to stay and load trucks and help clean up.
If this sounds like a good time to you too, go to the Pre/Post Ops wiki and fill out when you want to work. Or just drop me a line at Lurko.P@gmail.com
Lurko
Ranger training has been modified to be more accessible to those interested in learning more about what rangering is all about. The 6 hour training has been modified into a shift training that lasts about an hour to an hour and a half. This is in response to a large volume of feedback that the training length was an impediment. This also allows us to give more trainings, and we are doing that.
Here is the updated schedule.
Church Nights: Wednesdays at 8:30pm at the warehouse
May 3rd: 10am at the warehouse
During Flipside: Thu, Fri, and Sat afternoon, 2pm at the creek
All are welcome! Come on out and see what the Rangers are about!
Ranger Straylight
Concerning Economics
Make a shift
Everything is
Just a Gift
Burner Shave
The party culminates when the effigy burns, but the spiritual heart of Flipside resides in The Temple. The Temple is a community space for introspection, catharsis, and general “letting go.”
The structure will be three booths, decorated with symbols of metal and wood, connected at a center point. They will be enclosed, but still open to the world – private, but not ALONE – there will be no doors, only doorways, and windows, but open ones.
The Temple is not complete without community contributions. You are invited to write in the notebooks, create new symbols, and leave things that you need to let go of: letters, pictures, mementos, etc. We will then all burn it together, a group catharsis.
Before the event, help creating symbols is welcome. Contact Sparrow if you are interested.
There will be a meeting for people interested in helping bring this year’s temple into being. Come to the warehouse on church night May 7th. Get more details, help create symbols, or just lend a hand.
Pyropolis Volunteer Conscription (formerly Volunteer Central/Help Desk) has expanded our mission to connect anyone wanting to get involved with those needing volunteers. This year, we have added a Communication Center to help Flipizens find each other. Have you any lost sheep? Leave them a note!
What: Help get this (all-volunteer) army started
Where: In the Grove, underneath lots of shady trees
When: Two hour shifts from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Why: Because it’s fun!
How: sign up on the PVC wiki. Or feel free to contact me with any questions: pvc@burningflipside.com
Gyesika
This is the year Flipside is going to kick your ass. Hard.
In short, it’s time for you to bite off more than you can chew. In fact, you should already have done so. For your second year, you should be so deeply involved in too many projects that you’re already exhausted a month before the event. Theme Camp workdays, Church Nights at the warehouse, meetings with a couple volunteer leads. Get on it if you’re not already. By the beginning of May, you should be looking forward to the burn as a rest from burn-prep.
You had so much fun at your first burn, and it was such a life changing experience, and you’ve so thoroughly forgotten your “few hours of misery” I mentioned for first year burners, that you’ve decided that this event is for you to such an extent that you’ve already asked for time off for the next 5 years, you’re ready to quit your job, or not accept one, that won’t give you Flipside off. Perhaps you’ve gotten a tattoo or other body-mod related to Flipside. If not, you might want to schedule that appointment soon so it’s healed in time.
Last year, you were so inspired by all the great art made by regular weirdos like yourself that you realized that you can do it, too. And you are doing it. You’re going to bring it. Maybe you’re going to lead a theme camp, or maybe just a big art project, or maybe you’re leading part of a giant theme camp, responsible for the food or shelter or something like that. Either way, make sure you take on more work than you can handle, and make sure that you don’t reach out for help until too late, and that the people you do reach out to are unreliable.
Speaking of which, you might consider surrounding yourself with unreliable, ungrateful friends. Maybe you can bring a bunch of people for their first Flipside. Bonus points if you bring people that have a “prove it to me” attitude about how great you keep saying it is, people that already feel put-upon to have to pay for tickets AND do any kind of work, people that will flake out when you most need them. Delegate responsibility poorly. Turn over half your dues to some hippie that you’ve designated “food lead”, who will buy nothing but peanut butter, pumpernickel, and wine coolers. Beg for water for your camp, and have them whine that you’re not bringing enough. Buy ice just so you can drink it after it melts.
Keep in mind the community values of self-reliance and civic responsibility, and make naive assumptions that everyone else will remember those without you needing to remind them. That way, you can resent them later, for riding on your coattails.
Work too hard during the event. You know it’s all-volunteer run, right? Who do you think those volunteers are? Second year burners, that’s who. Sign up to a bunch of shifts in advance, and at least you won’t have to spend so much time in camp listening to your ex-friends whine about how hot they are and how much they wish they were watching the latest “Pirates of the Caribbean” release. If you’re a late-night person, sign up for morning shifts.
And remember, people are counting on you, even if they say they aren’t. Don’t think of volunteering as something you’re doing for your own enrichment, think of yourself as carrying the event on your mighty shoulders. Skipping your shift isn’t just an issue for your own personal integrity - the event will be shut down if there are only 19 greeters there, and it will have been all your fault.
If last year began a new romance for you, this year should end it. Lose about half your friends that show up, and half that didn’t when you get back, because you can’t stop bitching about the ones that did.
By about Sunday at noon, you should have decided not to come out next year. Pack up and get ready to head home. Hit the creek “one last time”, while you try to decide whether or not to skip the burn. While in the creek, come up with the perfect idea for a project next year, one that doesn’t rely so much on other people. Or, better yet, meet someone with a great idea that you want to help with, but not be in charge of.
Attend the burn, expecting to leave right after. Cry like a baby being reborn. Realize that they do “get it” after all, they just get a different side of “it” than you do. Hug your friends, including the one you threw that half-full beer at. Hug a stranger. Shout and dance. Stay up all night. Watch the sunrise with someone you’ve never seen before, someone you know you’ll see again.
Nobodobodon Mystiek
Villagers of Pyropolis!
Step right up and get Dr. Tiki’s magical elixir to cure all that ails ya! Saturday night at flipside, Dr. Tiki and his sidekick, ToFu will be showcasing his Red Medicine Show, which has come to the humble town of Pyropolis to help its citizens cure ailments they didn’t even know they had.
The evening’s Red Medicine Show will feature musicians, dancers, and showmanship to help peddle his magic red elixir. He is scheduled to cure several citizens and will have you engaged in the music of the medicine show as you sample the Tiki Tonic while the scheduled curings are to occur.
Saturday night at Flipside after the Toast show on the Playa. This is what you need!
Stop by redcamp for more info
Events! Send your details to flipsideflame@gmail.com
I reserve the right to chop to fit!
So, you think you got what it takes to make some badass fajitas?
Is your guac is the best taco topping in the world?
You think your pico can match MY Mango salsa?
Then, welcome to the challenge of a lifetime!
The 30TH Annual Flipside Fajita Cookoff!
Friday night of Flipside. At wISH camp.
Fajita Champions Doryan and The Carlos will challenge all-comers to see who has the tastiest taco.
Camps and Chefs are encouraged to bring their paltry attempts at Fajita-ness.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their most outrageous fajita topping!
Categories:
- Best Fajita (Meat)
- Best Fajita (Veggie)
- Best Guac
- Best Pico or Salsa
- Most outrageous taco (must actually EAT the taco)
Bring your best, Pyropolis.
Contact Doryan to register.
Or just slap your meat on my grill!
Doryan
