Special Thanks to Coburn Hawk for finding this piece of Burning Man History.
Can anyone spot Larry Harvey? I think I can.
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Special Thanks to Coburn Hawk for finding this piece of Burning Man History.
Can anyone spot Larry Harvey? I think I can.
Found here: http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvq87eZqv1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg
Nectar Village HQ, San Francisco (CN) – As the below news footage from Burning Man 2011 demonstrate Placement are always the hardest folks to deal with at the Event North of Reno.
For more information about Nectar Village and the mysterious Soup mentioned by Adolf check out:
The Greatest Burn
by Ben
Without a doubt, the greatest burn ever was the Burn of 1553. I arrived on the playa that year, early arrival as usual, to find it festering with bears. Now these weren’t just any old bears, these were polar bears bedecked in tuxedos, each equipped with a guitar. We paid them no mind and set up our giant subwoofers at 2:00, ready to blare solid beats for Lady Jane Grey and her entourage–well-known ravers all. But every time we’d take a break, we’d come back to find our speakers disassembled and packed away again.
After a few days of this, it was getting close to the time for the unwashed masses to come in. We were way behind schedule, and couldn’t make any headway with all of our work being undone. So we decided to spy on our speakers to see what we could see.
We lay in wait for hours. Then we saw something strange: one of the bears approached our speaker. He said, “I’ll give you a nickel to tickle my pickle.” I couldn’t believe it–he was hitting on the speaker! Another of the bears approached. He started hitting on another speaker. This went on for an hour. Then, and this really surprised us, the speakers started to move slowly away from the bears, packing themselves up. You could see from the way they moved that they were filled with disgust.
We came out of hiding, and the bears and the speakers froze. They were all ashamed at the scene we had witnessed. When we explained to them that we didn’t have any judgment about bear-speaker love, we all sat down to see whether we could work something out.
It turned out that the speakers were just upset that the bears hadn’t been listening to them. And then it came out: the bears all liked to play only Pete Seeger songs. So we came upon this–whenever we didn’t have a rave going on, we’d play Pete Seeger songs through the speakers, and the bears could listen and strum along on their guitars.
This arrangement worked out beautifully, and the speakers began playing our drum and bass with the sweetest beat and the best melodies. Our camp was the place to be at that burn. Twinks and nymphs and leprecauns filled the dance floor, powered all night by Timothy Leary and Hunter S. Thompson themselves. Lao Tzu, Rumi, and L. Ron Hubbard subtly imparted wisdom through the vocal tracks of the music. Che and Davy Crockett fired their guns into the air and at the ground, to keep the dancers on their toes. And a horde of butterflies hovered overhead, achingly beautiful to those who were sober and completely trippy to everyone else. The hours before the temple burn, God Himself appeared and began to dance the simplest and most beautiful dance I had ever seen, moving to the music, and bringing us all along with Him, whether we were talented ballerinas or cripples without any feet. After He departed, we turned the speakers to Jonathan Richman and Pete Seeger. We wept. The
n the bears left to hibernate and the rest of us went to watch the temple go down in flames.
That was a good burn!
The following truth falls like pearls from the lips and gilded onyx keyboard of Clear, a man who has many roles in Bumblepuss – High Holiest Highest Priest of Goat Slapping being first and foremost – bringer of many vibrant people to Bumble – massage artist – DPW representative and soon he’ll be cracking your ribcage open and massaging your heart as he undertakes an online course in cardiac surgery.
Please retain this for the records:
The Alternate Unabridged Version of Our people, where Burning Man Originated
and how to roast an apple without getting your feet burned.
The night was one of the full eclipsed moon circa 2539 BC when the idea
first hit our historical godfather’s ancestor le Gizzle del Pete…who was a
dope gangsta style version of your classic Roman emperor, and the chief of
the nomadic goat herding tribe the ~Umbfus’ious of Nec’ar V”lleege. It was
an ancient people who’s history could go back farther, but to what end, for
Gizzle was the dopest chief off that ever made history.
His father’s ancestor, it is said, was the guide to Moses. It is saidith
and so it is written that the great P-Gizzle was the first of know man to
step foot on the desert and piss clear. From here, people reared him as a
savior. How could any man in a desert be hydrated they wondered. The
Gizzle said, I am the savior and leader and one day I will bring great peace
to this desert. I will lead a revolution of sorts and invention of sorts
that will be the basis that saves humanity, the basis that allows humanity
to evolve to the next level, conquer other planets, to go where no goat has
ever gone before.
P-Gizzle roamed the lands on a vision quest, but before he left, he taught
his people to cook a reguvination apple:
As time would have it, the Gizzle had been gone for what seemed centuries. Later we find out he met up with a homey named Jebus in the wilderness and granted him three wishes….long story. Nonetheless, Gizzle returned home and the people were joyous, but upset they had lost their leader for so long. They found he had returned with a man named Jebus. They blamed this man for his having had taken away their leader. Lies, said Gizzle, but nobody listened. They burned Jebus. It was…
Later that night….they realized their wrong doing and built a temple in
his honor.
Gizzle said, “We shall burn this temple too for our mistake hath written
history wrong! And I shallf forever be known as Jebus the savior, for I will
return to the towns as he, and all the lands will know not that which has
been mistaken here. And as I am gone you will make this spot your camp
forever and ever and ever forever.”
They made camp upon the spot and raised an apple each to their leader.
That very night the first goat was
slapped as Jebus, the leader, left. It was his famous last words in which
we recall today, “From henthforth hitherto ye shall never again have a
leader. For ye all will lead when leading and lead not when not leading.
You will be the last and only tribe upon this planet of which will know the
ways of the way. You shall be aware that you will go into history, isolated
in this desert as the only leaderless group ever and forever ever forever.
Ye shall know and remember, that to lead is the false way of phophets and to
slap is the true belief in self, humanity and the way.” (Word for word as
recorded by Broseephious the Righter in the year of Broseephious 1298 DB as
in During Broseephious, which we are not sure what correlation it has to any
other calender as he did not record anything else and lived isolated with
the rest of the tribe from the rest of the world thereafter the recorded
history.
Years later archeologists believe they have found the remains of this first
tribe with their only weapon, device or food preparation tool in the Black
Rock Desert where it is believed they lived during those times of old. It
is also believed they fashioned thier tiny knives and picks with the bone of
goat, which is long gone and the handle yet still remain, of rock. Today
you find this rock between itself and the soft place we call playa.
It’s believed the camp Bumblepuss of Nectar Village and their holy Godfather
T-Dizzle fled the desert in 1980 PDB as in Post During Brospephious when
word came that a new people were to colonize the land, and they had a leader
named Larry. The people of Bumble decided it was time to let the world come
to them and they did. They opened up to a new way, they acted as if they’d
never been to the desert and let the newbies believe it was a “discovery!”
They populated the desert with these new peoples as one of them. They even
opened their own camp to particiapte in the goings ons with them.
It’s said when someone comes around Bumblepuss and asks, “Who’s in charge?”
The best answer is “I am.” Cause they don’t want anyone to know they, we,
who we really are. And Jebus forbid, the Burners of today start coming to
the Bumblepuss asking, how do we live a utopian society like you have? How
did you figure it out in just the few short years since we’ve all been
coming to the desert? How come our camp has leaders and assistants and
people in charge of this and work hours and shifts, and still nothing gets
done, and still there are fights and dramas? How is it your people has not
a single list or leader and all is done and not a drama is in the air?
The Bumblers are said to usually direct the questions to the Goat…
And so it is said, and so it is written.
What follows is a timeline of the history and development of Bumblepuss and Nectarvillage through the hagiographic eyes of, well, me.
1898 – Leon Czolgosz attends the Burn held that year in Havana which ended in a crude representation of The Man named ‘USS Maine’ blown to smithereens.
1901 – Having a particularly hard decompression after searching for bacon grease fried falafel for years without success Leon assassinates King McKinley at Akron Ohio’s one and only subway stop. He is quickly convicted but before being hung by the neck until death gives birth to Soup and Marc through his armpit. Soup and Marc are separated soon after birth.
1935 – Akron, OH – Soup and Marc find themselves mysteriously re-united in the town of their fathers downfall in a tuberculosis ward where they are given large amounts of laudanum by one Doktor Random and in the wavvvvy symbiotic ether-state realize their mutual origins. They soon recover, write the first edition of this book published in 1939 titled ‘A Very Short History of Bumblepuss’ which is an odd mixture of recipes, tales of the occult, and reoccurring character named SteamGoat Billy. They then join the Army Rangers Psy-Trance Unit and spend the war torturing Germans with Dropkick Murphy covers and pre-electronic Progressive House re-mixes.
1950 – The first edition of ‘A Very Short History of Bumblepuss’ sells poorly but develops a cult following in America, Canada and other less important parts of the world. The early Bumble devotees are so dedicated that an international meeting is held in Cleveland, OH and people actually show up. Bumblepuss and it’s adherents festers in leaps and starts like a slow growing skin disease on the nice to look at bits of the female body. Many Bumblepussies as they are now known attend Burning Man which starts happening regularly every three or four years at spots around the globe.
1951-1976
Soup is nowhere to be found and gives wildly varying accounts of his movements in his 1996 autobiography ‘I’m on a Boat’, turns up in Perris, CA speaking French and looking like a bald, fat Marlin Brando with a Messiah complex; proceeds to start Weight Watchers.
Marc moves to Lowell, MA where he spends most of the 60s and early 70s watching repeats of The Wonder Years on BlueRay and wondering where those years are exactly.
The Sixties!
During these years in the wilderness for the two prestidigitatoresque Bumble founders Ilia and Allie take care of the day to day governance of Bumble Nation. Traveling the United States in a magic yellow bus with a group of Bumblers and selling education books door to door made out of blotter paper they spawn 1000s of Love Children and future Bumblers in the lower 48 and the province of Alberta.
1976 – Soup, Marc Allie & Ilia meet up at a Bob’s BigBoy in Burbank and decide over a Decadent Hot Fudge Cake and a side of Onion Rings the time is right to re-unite the Bumble diaspora in a mass ceremony to take place in Korea. Several diners and two short order cooks The Buffer and Quayle overhear the conversation and go on to play leading roles in the development of Modern Bumblepuss as well as discovering solar power and radium.
1986 – Soup meets Scott, an early HBGB Healer, at a ski convention in Aspen. Scott shares tantric secrets with Soup. Soup decides Scott doesn’t have enough ‘O’s but too many ‘T’s in his name and thus he becomes Scooter. Both men witness Massimiliano Blardone conquer Beaver Creek and decide they are horrible skiers and soon leave the industry. Nectar Village is formed.
1989 – Soup and Marc are put on trial for their part in attempting to turn the East German Stasi into an Amway distributorship – the Berlin Wall falls soon afterwards.
Next – Part Two – from Galvanized Corpses to Steambath and Epiphany’s First Date.

Editors Note: ‘A Brief History of Burning Man’ is a short historical novella that will be published on this site in serial form over the next several weeks leading up to the Burn of 2011.
Up and down. Sideways. Left to Right then cascade like Atari’s logo motherfuckers. Now real fast Diagonal. Up again. Then over. Then back to the center then DOUBLE DIAGONAL! One in purple changing to white the other red turning into wait for it, wait for it OMG OMG Orange! Such a lovely orange. No breaks for you – I keep going all night. 256 color VGA monitor colors zooming all over as you lay on the ground next to your friends and hopeful lays – pupils dilated like it’s 1999 and DanceSafe just turned your pill black. You don’t mind laying on your back on the hard cold playa looking up all in my admittedly colorful junk? That’s cool. All I ask is that those hippies stop beating their drums for just like 10 minutes man- drink some water man – talk about it, drink some more water, eat some of that cous cous in your Camelback – plus your drumming is getting all wiped out by those Electro Techno Disco beats flying out those big speakers attached to the Unimog. Drums beat in mass usually the center of aural attention at most events but not here – relegated as a distance thudding though only 30 feet over to the right where you think you left your bike.
Some people tell me stories as they lay under me. This one fellow told me fantastical stories of BurningMan past. Of recent excavations of Stonehenge where they found a dusty black vest with a spoon on the back of it in primitive el-wire – the first Burn he postulated and I believe quite rightly as I was there dazzling druids from way up in the sky with northern lights brought south for the solstice and Labor Day celebrations. Dirty Druids and their drums. He rambled on about war criminals, DPW, Peter Seeger fans and black bears until the sun started to come up and he remembered he had to cook breakfast for a lot of people. He stayed a little longer to tell the tale of the chicken korma made in a dust storm that fed hundreds even though it was only made for 60. The night turned to dawn quickly and thanking me for listening he got up – dusted off his back and we exchanged e-mails. That’s how he got a hold of me to write this introduction which I was happy to do as I have a lot of down time here in Tahoe.
Enjoy the tales he told me and make those recipes, something I am unable to do, most involve bacon so it has to be good. All were made in ad hoc fly by night desert kitchens often after nights and days of courageous amounts partying so it can’t be that hard on your playa dust free kitchen with your clean dishes.
Enjoy!
Yours Lovingly,
The Cubitron
In an exclusive interview Flo the waitress who served your lord and savior and 12 other guys at a little cafe called “The Last Supper” talked to Consumptionblog.com
Flo, a distant relative of Methuselah still plies her trade but wouldn’t divulge her age.
The cafe is still open but has since relocated to Flatbush in Brooklyn on Ave J. and Coney Island Ave. and has been renamed ‘Khaora’s’. We caught Flo between the lunch and dinner crowd juggling a feisty four top.
CB: Thanks for talking to us Flo – How did the 13 of them strike you; – what do you remember from the dinner, it was a long time ago?
Flo: It was a large party for a small cafe in east Jerusalem – me and the busboy Jesus had to push a bunch of tables together to make it work – Thomas and xxx were at a two top in the middle that rocked a little bit and spilled his Crystal Lite – but a book of matches solved that one.
CB: What did Jesus Order? Anything surprising in what the other Apostles ordered?
Flo: Jesus and everyone had the bread of course – it comes free – like chips & salsa at a Mexican joint.
They ordered a carafe of wine – a cheap Rose. Umm let me think – Thomas couldn’t make his mind up between hash and eggs or an egg salad sandwich, I think he finally settled on the chicken strips. Judas ordered the most expensive thing on our menu, steak and shrimp, and later tried the old ‘Dine and Dash’. The short order cook Mel caught him down the street and made him cough up the shekels. All the other fellows were pretty straight forward – frank and beans with a scoop of vanilla, scoop of chocolate for desert.
CB: Peter. He turned out to be pretty important later on – anything you remember about him?
Flo: Yeah. He definitely acted like the head honcho at least of the mortals, but he was very forgetful. He showed up late and denied the supper was supposed to take place at 4. He ordered an onion potato Knish for an appetizer, I remember it plain as day, but he denied he ordered it when I brought it over to him. When it was time to pay the bill Peter said he forgot his wallet and denied Mark had covered for him last time at Morton’s on the Lakehouse. It caused a big commotion. Thaddeus and Simon were over in the corner. They were the jokers of the lot and Simon started crowing like a rooster and all of a sudden Peter started crying and admitted to everything; even the potato knish. He left a big tip, that’s why I remember so well. Back in the day most folks didn’t tip 12%.
CB: Thanks for the interview Flo – we are really glad we found you and had a chance to talk with you. You look like you been on your feet all day, can I buy you a drink?
Flo: Honey – you can buy me a baked potato – ohh these putz’s want to change their order again…
Peoria, IL (CN) – A wave of powerful, transformational protests have swept through the world.
The Arab Spring has brought down governments in Tunisia and Egypt. Thousands have been killed confronting the brutal, tired old regimes of Syria, Libya and Bahrain. Major reform has taken place in Morocco and Oman. Yemen is a fucking mess.
In Spain, Greece, Britain and Ireland unprecedented mass protests have taken place against high unemployment, bailing out the banks and government austerity measures.
And finally, after years of government bailouts, endless war, high unemployment and penetrative frisking at the airports America has had enough.
The Sleeper has Awakened and Thy Name is #fuckyouwashington
This weekend hundreds of thousands Americans went to their kitchen nook, got on their laptop, read a milquetoast journalists call to arms, logged onto Twitter and said loud and clear #fuckyouwashington !!!
The National Guard has been alerted. Troops have been deployed to the White House and Capital Hill. There was a nation wide run on food and potato chips.
The Department of Homeland Security has asked all Americans to
What happens next is anybody’s guess.
Stay Tuned.