For me, it's a hard call!! The fun just kept on rollin'!! If I hafta pick, I'd narrow it down to:

1) My greeter shift on Thursday- it was hard work and I got utterly drenched (woot!!) as point guy, but those of you who arrived and got into it really made the event for me- a very small percentage of folks were crabby and rude (yeah, can you believe that shit?) but most folks blessed me with great smiles, burny warmth and returned hugs aplenty!!! Yay- you guys RULE!!!!

2) Dancing at Smash Sunday night after the burn- not sure when it was exactly, maybe 2ish- but I was passing Smash Camp, I hadn't danced yet AT ALL, and the music hit me like a tsunami. I danced my way across the grassy playa til dawn, doing this whirling dervish thing in my kilt. I had no idea I had moves!!! Yay!!!

3) Meeting all the people I met!! I know, it's not ONE moment, but I was, as always, delighted by the amazing, beautiful, excellent people I met, many of them virgins, who AGAIN redeem and renew my faith in our species, my belief in a loving higher power, and my hope for the future of us all. YAY!!!!

With Love, Light and Gratitude,
Major Tom

it was meant to be for you. Tell me, what did you do this weekend? i'm sure something magical happened to you. Floodside is a bit harsh, but entertaining nonetheless. I guess that seems like a reasonable interpretation for someone that wasn't actually there.

My most memorable moment that i forgot to mention in my verbosity was the dude that fell asleep on Cyndi's plush red chair. He got a solid 8 hours between early morning friday through friday afternoon. I'm so glad RedCamp can help so many people in so many ways.

russ

Floodside?

Too perfect.

Floodside.. nah we were calling it Dripside.
And it was glorious. I think the rain brought peeps together. There's always SOME mess.. if not sweat and sunscreen then mud and water. It was cool and lovely.

That happy-ass looney dancing around the mesa with his smoke-machine disco-shopping cart!

My ol lady and I were digging thru Laura-bars at Spreaders BBQ @3am when he jogged by playing the house-mix of Streets of SanFransisco

Mmm-mmm, that was good art!

My most memorable pre-flipside moment was seeing you twitch yourself off the first floor and land on the ground on both feet - I felt such a mixture of fright and mirth... there's only one Twitch in this world, and I'm grateful to have worked with you dude =)

Thank God we didn't have to bust it down and ship it back out, eh? :-D

hmm,

well it was my first time camping with C.O.L.D. being in it is much easier and exciting than I expected. I have been through rigorous training though.
was it the amazing effigy, when I pooped in my heart panties in front of everyone, my first pasties?
I think it was when the "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" dance party was winding down with us throwing stuff at the people on the bus, Ty and Gregor falling off the bus again and again, slipping and sliding with the Whiskey & Whores crowd.
The best moment is when my boy, WnB, stopped being in a depressed place and came out to play!

The worst things were when I woke up to discover I hadn't been woken up to play flaming soccer and that a friend had given away my sweetbreath that he found.

i had the best best best bacon at nft. no surprise with roadrash in the camp.

i got a compliment on my dancing! Hughmungus, you were awesome yourself, and in front of the fire it was purfect!

i got to PET on burn night with Feral Frank's GF, even though he couldn't make it from nyc.

sloan was sweet to me.

rob was sweet to me.

i got some very sweet sex toys from my campmate, Jordan! and tons of pictures of people taking the money shot out of the sex toys at lick and suck. aka the money shot.

i got a shot out of the dead doll's vagina. also known as the mung shot.

Oh gosh, I almost forgot about that…

RoadRash's jerky! I'm glad I made Gemma and the others in NFT camp laugh at my return and chugging on their gallon of water. Gotta love the burn.

the fish races at celebrity daquiri AKA Dive bar.
ridiculous.
excellent job folks

dw

In no particular order....

1. Not having responsibilities or a theme camp...but still camping with my awesome theme camp family for the 5th year in a row.

2. Getting to play live again at the pyramid after the burn ;) (always a great pleasure)

3. Seeing so many old and new faces and being the most social ive ever been at Flipside.

4. Almost getting hit by an effigy bottle rocket.

5. that refreshing energizing feeling you get after swimming and a shower for the first time out there.

6. Spontaneous moments of passionate combustion.

7. Spending time with friends i know and love from coast to coast.

Thank you so much for using the Temple as we had intended. We brought the temple out there for each individual. Our belief was that the effigy is for the community and the temple is for the individual. On Sunday morning I walked out to the temple and read what people had written. It was a very memorable and touching moment and it justified the project.

Those lanterns rocked. I remember looking across the field and seeing those floating lights. it was nothing short of magical.

Impossible for me to pick just one. It's like hundreds of colors splashed together. I was affected by so many things: those who welcomed me and helped assemble my flimsy tent just before the heavy storm on Thursday, the warm smiles, hugs, winks, and nods from strangers, finding familiar happy faces, the conversations (some casual, some intense, some totally surreal), dancing with beautiful freaks, fire in the sky, watching hysterical drunks slingshot plastic bunnies out of a tin can from the Celebrity Bar ramp, waking up to megaphone porn-readings, losing my rings and then getting them back (thanks again, Banana Jana), feeling genuinely joyous despite drenched clothing and bedding and a lack of sleep, and having one of my new-found friends nudge me after an incredible blur of events saying "hey, ya know it's still just Saturday morning... 2 full days left!"

I feel fortunate for this experience and am awed by the many rich souls who put so much thought, time, and heart into this magical event - from the bad-ass artists, djs, hoopers, and fire-spinners to the impressively creative theme camps and all you fine folks who gifted everything from breakfast tacos, fruit kabobs, hot coffee, everclear-soaked cherries, absinthe (ahem!)... Too many class acts to count.

another moment of great beauty - hanging with Koala and his sweet lady at red camp - they were gracious and beautiful, cooking veggies, and meats, and making margaritas, and sharing with all passers who stopped to enjoy the company as well.

So many! The Effigy totally hypnotized me, that ramp was just so beautiful. Walking up it Saturday night, I got "stuck" up top while some Mutaytor folks were taking pics (met Buck & Roo, just lovely.) On the way down, I saw my boyfriend at the bottom of the ramp. He had just arrived at Flipside. I met him at Flipside '04, fell in love with him that night, & so Flipside is our anniversery and folks, all was right with the universe. My friend Juliana, whom I met first thru Tribe, than when I met her in person in SF in January, moved back to TX from SF to be with her sick mom. She also came to Flipside, & we got to spend great quality time . My best friends came to their first Flipside. I got lots of great moments with random & deliberate strangers, lots of random moments with great friends, and so many positive manifestations of wonderful intent that my head is still spinning trying to process them. Sunday night before the Burn Dave, Shay & I were waiting at the top of a trail by Wonderlounge, and Shannon told me she wanted to meet Terry, whom she had seen on Tribe. Not 30 seconds later, he came strolling up & I grabbed him & made the introduction. Talk about positively manifesting! That was such a sublime moment, literally ask & you shall receive. Spin Camp with the fire bricks totally rocked, those were gorgeous! After the Burn Sunday, I was wandering around & pulled out my emergency metallic blanket (fyi, the best blanket! Waterproof, very visible, easily packable) spread it out on the ground, and just layed back watching the people, the lights, the floating lanterns, etc etc etc go by for a while, and Kevin, the naked double staff spinner, came & sat down when I invited him. I just laughed when he said he didn't want to get an "ass stripe" on my blanket, I was pretty sure any possibility of that was singed away during the processional....:) So, I come to find out that Kevin was indeed the man responsible for the "Fire Kickball" game that rocked my world at Decompression last year and he just had the best energy & aura. I most definitely got the Drift, that beautiful man camped near & was such a wonderful addition to the energy. It seemed like there were loads of people from out of state, that was sweet! I thought there was less of the smaller art stuff, but more of the bigger, cooperative installations. Giza was incredible, the Observation tower was bigger & better, and the showers rocked! (Thank you Dan!) And while I was somewhat melancholy it ended, I know Decompression is right around the corner. And then Orfunner.
Take care my precious people, of yourselves and each other. I will see you down the road....

>Chilling at Ish with Raven and Eeyore.

Not going to forget that either.

Oh, and:

Waking up to wonder why the hell my boyfriend was wearing my panties... <grin>

The one moment that will forever be crystallized in my memory is hanging the "flower" in SMASH. It was still under construction the evening of ASS, and I was wiring madly on it outside the dome... I had been told that they would hold the show for 1/2 hour if I thought I could hang it by then... So we went for it. I was atop an extension ladder, at the top of the dome, the air must have been 110 degrees due to the body heat of the better than hundred people sitting on the floor awaiting the beginning of the show... And sweating profusely knowing that all eyes were on me, both to get the thing up, and to get on with the show.

Keep in mind, I had just finished wiring this thing outside...it was untested when it went up. So, as we dropped the ladders and untied the lines from it, my prayers went up to the cosmos that there wouldn't be a faulty wire somewhere in there...and the resultant sparks and thrown breakers.

I wipe my brow, grab the plug, and....


....it comes alive, UV light beaming out brilliantly.

Then, it begins to turn.


The cheer goes up...and the show begins.




I loved it all...and will hold that moment with me forever. The show went flawlessly. The dome looked simply badass.




What a night.

* when my boyfriend called me the love of his life
* meeting jungle girl on the dance floor-hopefully that will turn into a good friendship
* running into old friends from the midwest-gosh I miss those guys
* running into a guy from my hometown - There are other burners from Wichita Falls???
* feeling useful during my sanctuary shift
* taking shelter with lick n' suck during the storm...thanks for the money shot!
* walking through the labyrinth with the love of my life
* never catching a sunrise cause there was too much fun to be had in the tent ;)
* the lover's temple
* the effigy in general...you guys put so much work into that and it was so awesome!!

there were so many great memories, but these are the ones that stick around weeks after. I'm so happy that I met new friends that live in Austin cause I just moved here and I'm kind of lacking in that department. And I'm so happy that I got to spend all of this with Alex. He makes everything more memorable.