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Hoop Path, hoop dance workshop in Austin

Amaranth — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:36:49 GMT

HOOPDANCE WORKSHOP

SAT/SUN, NOV 14th & 15TH, 3-6pm

Cost: $120, two people $100 each,
Three people or more $80 each
(Places will be allocated on a first to register basis)

ANN HUMPHREYS OF NORTH CAROLINA’S HOOP PATH WILL TEACH A 2-DAY WORKSHOP INTRODUCING NEW HOOPERS TO THIS GROUP’S UNIQUE, CENTERING, MEDITATIVE PRACTICES WITH THE HOOP. JOIN US FOR BOTH DAYS OR DAY 1 ONLY. BEGINNERS WELCOME, but must attend 1st day of workshop. HOOPS will be PROVIDED.

CONTACT: ANN@HOOPPATH.COM To register: go to www.hooppath.com

Location: PREMIER LADY FITNESS, 6800 WESTGATE BLVD. AUSTIN, TX78745
(512) 707-7700

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FLIPSIDE 2010 THEME NOMINATION AND TOWN HALL MEETING

jana banana — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:03:05 GMT

Hi Flipizens!

Have you added your theme nomination here? http://plasmator.net/fs/theme.php

Well you better git after it!

If you haven't been to a Town Hall Meeting, you just gotta.
We'll vote for the FS2010 theme and have tons o' funs.

Please mark your calendar for our first Town Hall Meeting for Burning
Flipside 2010.

The meeting will be held at the Warehouse (1023 Springdale Rd., Austin, TX) on

**SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH, 2009**

Tailgating begins at Noon.

You will receive more info in the following weeks regarding the agenda, etc.

Start planning your theme-camp-pimpin' now!

Many thanks,

The Combustion Chamber
and Austin Artistic Reconstruction, LLC

--
Jana Banana
CC Member / Scribinatrix
365 (off-season) Event Coordinator

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Got MYSCHIEVIA? (North Texas' Regional is ON- October 8-12)

majortom — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:29:53 GMT

If not, you're sure to catch the fever, and soon we're gonna BURN!!! http://www.ntxb.org/

Today's the last chance to get your tickets for $45- they go up to $55 after midnight! Sales end October 5. Buy yours NOW! http://www.ntxb.org/ticket-sales/disclaimer

Still undecided? What, are ya LOCO? We'll have:
Not one but TWO effigies to burn (The Flowerpot and the Freak!)
A huge choreographed Burn Procession,
Bad-ass Theme Camps: http://www.ntxb.org/registered/theme-camps
Awesome art installations and sound camps,
A Kitty Cat costumed Rampage, a professional 11x17ft trampoline,
and more hugs and dancing and mischief than you can shake a stick at!!

See-you-thereingly, and I-can't-waitingly,
Major Tom

PS: We need volunteers, STAT! I'll be sending out a Firecracker imminently, but come on, ya'll, PARTICIPATE: http://www.ntxb.org/participate

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Starr Memorial this Wednesday at the Warehouse

jana banana — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:05:17 GMT

Dear Flipizens,

A community memorial service will be held to say farewell to Starr
this Wed., 10/7, at 7:30pm at the Warehouse (1023 Springdale).

Come dressed fabulously, there will be a brief ceremony and ceremonial
fire. Bring snacks, love and Starr stories to share.

Starr was a peaceful warrior and wouldn’t want us to mourn too long.
She will live on through us and in the ripple effects of all she did
in her life. We were fortunate to walk a bit of the path with her. May
you all find peace and strength in this difficult time.

If you would like to volunteer to help Wednesday (parking, greeting,
etc.), please email me at vajanabanana@gmail.com.

In lieu of flowers, please contribute to Art Garden and/or Austin
Hospice’s Christopher House.
www.texasartgarden.org
www.hospiceaustin.org

Thank you!

p.s. Please, please, please CARPOOL!

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Myschievia Tickets are on sale NOW! Event is October 8-12!!

majortom — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:54:45 GMT

Myschievia, http://ntxb.org/ is the North Texas Regional that takes place from October 8-12 in Hughes Springs Texas. Last year attendance was 250-300 people and it's always a wonderful time. There's NEVER a burn ban in the piney forest, and this year not only do we have our own awesome effigy, but we'll be burning The Freak from Flipside!!

Tickets are $45 til the 20th, then $55 til October 5, when ticket sales end. There are NO TICKET SALES AT THE GATE!!

Please join us- we'd especially love to see folks who went to the Playa, who likely need to Decompress!!

Invitingly,
Major Tom

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my bike needs a ride back from the burn

Luciån — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:04:47 GMT

if anyone has room for an extra bike to take back to Austin from Burning Man let me know. I will pay for its transport. Thanks!!

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Seattlite looking to connect

Carla — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:36:01 GMT

After living in Seattle and sharing in the Portland community I am missing the unity and flow. Even thought I was born and raised in Texas it still seems to lack the essence of what burning man is. I'm hoping to connect to a free radical, leave no trace community and if fellow pyros (staff, poi, tether ball) are involved all the better. I can not make it back to BM this year but I am hoping to connect to an after burn and am willing to help. How active is the Texas BM community ready to be??? As a native I subscribe to "Go big or go Home" what do you say??

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Looking for BM passengers

jnowzar — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:39:35 GMT

Hey we need passengers from Austin. Please let me know if you or anyone needs a ride.
Thanks, Jen

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BM ticket available

bettis — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:57:43 GMT

i have a burning man ticket available for $260. i am posting this to the austin burners first to see if any of ya'll are interested. e-mail me back and let me know.

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rIde share

Campy Chameleon — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:24:57 GMT

Pleae help me out. I am needing a ride from AUstin to the Playa this year. I went to the Playa in 2007 and I need to return. I am camping with Get Lost... The Austin Temple Crew this year. Please help me. I have some money for gas, and already have a place to camp. I have two cases, a bike and a tent. PLEASE HELP.
Email me back asap so I can get this settled.
I thank you for your time and I hope this works out.
Joshua

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SD Burners Give Luv to Flipside

logicianh2o — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:10:19 GMT

The San Diego Regional being interviewed on the local PBS radio station.

I had to give out props to Flipside for getting me started.

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/jul/20/enduring-appeal-burning-man/

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Truck hauling gear from Austin to the Playa

megan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:23:04 GMT

Hello all Texas burners! We have a 16 foot box truck that we are taking to BM. We would like to share space on this truck for people who need an inexpensive way to haul gear to the playa.

General Info:

-Space is first come first served.

-We will leave out of Austin on August 28th around but not before 3 PM but will except items to be hauled at our house for a week in advance (as long as they are items easily loaded onto the truck by two people).

-We will be at BM when the gates open.

-We camp at stag camp at 8:30 and fossil. Items on the truck can be picked up at that location (no personal delivery). You will need to unload your own gear.

-We will return on Sunday evening after the burn an plan on being in Austin on the 9th or 10th. Items can be picked up from our house in austin up to the 12th of September.

-Gas cost will be calculated using volume and weight. (We estimate most items will be 3-6 dollars per cubic foot. If we do not use all of the gas money it will be divided and returned to you.

-No explosive, flammable, or hazardous items. Sorry guys.

-No illicit substances.

-No perishable foods.

-We will fill water barrells up in Reno but prefer not to since this is a pain in my ass.

-All space will need to be reserved and paid for a week before departure. We will only except extra items on the 28th if there is room.

Drop me a PM if you are interested!

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PSY DJ MIXES 4 DL 8-)

Jacquelyn — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:41:13 GMT

i have 3 new psy-mixes published and also a 1X1Tag-mix w/Machine posted up at the Unique Freaque Site (http://ssk.uniquefreaquerecords.com)....

SSK's - Heavy Bender vol.1 TRIPhilosophy --> http://ssk.uniquefreaquerecords.com/files/dj_SSK_-Heavy_Bender_vol1_TRIPhilosophy.zip
SSK's - The Adept --> http://ssk.uniquefreaquerecords.com/files/dj_SSK_-The_Adept_vol1.zip
SSK's - Serial Muse (onzifly session 1) --> http://ssk.uniquefreaquerecords.com/files/dj_SSK_-Serial_Muse_(onzifly_session1).zip
SSK-vs-Machine - TripDazeGaze '09 Promo--> http://ssk.uniquefreaquerecords.com/files/SSK vs Machine - Tripgazedaze (2009) promo.zip

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People looking for People

Ball-Z — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:29:41 GMT

So, maybe having a mass post of this will end up being confusing, but giving it a shot anyway. This post is for anyone trying to find/contact that person who you wanted to keep in touch with from Flipside '09 but were having such a great time you never managed to have a pen and paper or memory available to get the all important contact info.

As for me, i would love to get find a way to get ahold of Mirabelle. We were at a hooping/spin class and i tried to help her out with some contact juggling. She currently is residing in austin as far as i know, and is originally from canada. If this is you or sounds like a friend you know, feel free to shoot me a msg and i will pass along my contact info. :)

And to everyone at the event, it was amazing, thank you all for making it successful and beautiful.

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Flipside lists/threads/discussion groups?

weazie — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:08:19 GMT

This was my first flipside, and I had such an awesome time that I'm already thinking about next year.

I have some ideas for a theme camp, but I would need help to execute it. Besides this tribe, what are some other resources for finding people who might be interested in putting together a theme camp for next year? I know there's the lists associated with burningflipside.com, and there's a (really quiet) group on facebook, but are there other sites where people virtually hang out and talk shop about putting together a theme camp?

Thanks!

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Dad is great gives us chocolate cake / Bill Cosby remix

kristy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:56:40 GMT

Where do I find the "Dad is Great...gives us chocolate cake" remix I heard during bacon and chocolate cake breakfast hosted by Stone Soup?

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Facebook page???

cathywhite — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:31:02 GMT

Since Tribe is down so much of the doggone flippin' time, I have taken to mostly hanging out on FB...has anyone set up a page there???

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photo booth pictures

Panda — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:45:53 GMT

where do I find them?

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dance music from flipside available now!

Mister Glister — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:44:23 GMT

hey flipizens...i just posted the dj set i played under the big pyramid saturday night, check it out and enjoy:

http://www.xstreamist.com/members/5276/audio.php

i will also put up a downtempo set next in the month or so with some of the tracks i played friday down at the creek when we put on the hoopmaking workshop.

i really appreciate all the love and support that came my way this year. thank you for your gifts!!

blessed be thy beats,
joe
www.myspace.com/misterglister

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what was the documentary i walked past?

victimless — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:48:39 GMT

i walked past a documentary playing, i heard in the distance about MAPS and rick doblin, dmt, so forth. right when I got to the theater it ended. i think also talk of ayahuasca, i had not seen this and it looked very good, thanks guys - adam

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Anyone have an extra ticket???

cathywhite — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:56:23 GMT

Its Thursday night, I know most of ya'll are already gone, but does anyone have an extra for my son? If he comes, that will make 3 generations at Flipside this year...My mom & Brother are already there, I'm getting there Friday...
PM me if you can help me out, yo!!

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Downtempo @ Dawn!

~Renevatio~ — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:23:11 GMT

We will be collecting after a night of raucous revelry, doubtless debauchery, or other such goings on...at the effigy, to relax and gracefully welcome in the dawning new day, with easy music and some spicy Chai Tea...courtesy of Sunkyst, with additional musical support by Aaron, also known as Artificial Life Preserver.

Bring some pillows or a blanket, bring a cup for some delicious core warming Chai, and sit with us for a while, as we introduce the day to all around. Sit back, cruise into the morning, let all the previous night's concerns and catharses melt into a celebration of the new beginning, the birth of the new day. Hoop, dance, sway, or simply chill. It is up to you!

Saturday at daybreak, at the effigy stage. Chai while it lasts.

Mornin'!

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Anybody got room in thier car for one more?

anthony — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:55:39 GMT

My ride backed out last minute and everyone else I know is full. I'm thinking about taking the amtrack train, but uh... I'd rather not. I'd pay more than my fair share in gas and help you and your camp out in anyway I can...

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calling fire performers and friends of fire

adamrice — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:59:14 GMT

If you or a loved one are a firespinner/breather/eater, please read:

1. Circle of Fire, right by the effigy, will be holding fire jams nightly. Come on by. Camp Resurrection down in Sound Town will also. Because of the unusually high danger of brushfires this year, we're restricting fire performance to these two venues. CoF will also be hosting no-fire spin jams in the Grove on Friday and Saturday at 2:00.

2. Circle of Fire will be holding spotter training workshops at 5:00 PM on Friday and Saturday. We always need more spotters, especially for the Burn Night fire procession. These workshops help bring novice spotters up to speed.

3. All fire performers, jugglers, hoopers, and other object manipulators who want to participate in the Burn Night fire procession should assemble at Circle of Fire at 8:00 PM with an eye towards actually going on at about 9:00. And spotters. Like I said, we always need more spotters. If you plan to be a spotter, please consider attending one of the workshops.

4. Although we don't actually get to burn the effigy on Burn Night (we really need another name for that,don't we?), fire performance is still a go, unless we get a Red Flag warning, which is unlikely. So flame on!

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Courage, Synchronicity, and the Technology of Magic: A Flipside Tale

tonyvigorito — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:48:29 GMT

Hi all. Just to get us all in the flow of what we're in for, I thought I'd post an essay I finally finished on my Flipside experience last year. You can read the whole story below or link to an easier-to-read version here: http://www.tonyvigorito.com/blog/courage

En-joy!

Courage, Synchronicity, and the Technology of Magic

I have often been staggered by the forces of the ordinary that cajole the human experience into cowardice. Relentless mass-mediated daydreams croon lullabies to nightmare; meathook economic rackets hijack freedom with student loans, predatory credit, and eternal mortgages; narratives of responsibility harass the mind with financial planning, time-management, highly-effective habits; and illusions of security, insurance, and retirement prod us into proper place. Lurching through life in the midst of such clamor, is it any wonder that so many trade the tremendous for the trivial, that the ecstatic fantastic wow of existence dims into murk and shadow, flickering into fluorescence like some stepped-on plastic geranium?

But this is not to be some hand-wringing howl of quiet desperation. The walls are high, yes, the challenges are great, but today I’d like to invite an exploration of what it is that happens when this drear occasionally clears, when we see something, something that matters, something possessed not merely of meaning, but of magic? In a previous essay entitled Chaos, Collapse, and Synchronicity, I explored how synchronicity is likely to emerge during and after ego-shattering experiences. Because the ego demarcates the presumably phantasmic boundary between your consciousness and the rest of the universe, the experience of synchronicity can be understood to be the face of the perception of undivided unity. Here, I would like to venture beyond mild-mannered explanation and into wild-eyed exploration. In other words, if synchronicity is the perception of undivided unity, what is the technology of this magic?

In one of his most potent remarks, Arthur C. Clarke asserted that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Taking him at his word, then, the prickling astonishment that follows the experience of synchronicity—the sensation that something magical has just occurred—this is but an artifact of our limited technology of mind. Synchronicity is only astounding, in other words, when we persist in the delusion that we are distinct from the all and everything. Expanding consciousness beyond the limited point of view of oneself and into the unlimited point of view of undivided unity, this—as if it were so simple—this is the technology of magic.

And in case disclaimers need to be stated, I certainly have not mastered this magic. Very contrary, my daily failings would be the envy of any hypocrite. But I like to live out loud, and this full blast introspection is simply that. So now I want to tell you a story:

I was at a festival a year ago, and as festivals have long functioned as temporary autonomous zones where everyday boundaries are suspended, it should surprise no one to discover that synchronicity was pandemic at this festival. The festival in this case was Flipside, and I made it my business to blast around offering one-card tarot reflections to people that I met, just for fun and synchronicity. Late in the evening of the last night, I met a woman, and we talked for a few hours, and as we parted I offered her a one-card reading. She drew the Courage card, displaying a picture of a flower growing through a crack in a rock. As she was recently coming though a break-up of her own, this had a particularly poignant meaning for her, so much so, in fact, that I had an unprecedented impulse to tell her to keep the card, which she did—though upon reflection I must admit that I was single at the time and so was probably also just being a cheesedick trying to charm another meeting with a beautiful woman. But in any event, I never saw her again, and since I open my tarot deck nearly every day, I inadvertently compelled myself to contemplate the absence of courage not only from my deck, but also from my very own life.

But first, immediately after we bid each other good night, I walked toward the main road and happened across a friend of mine who was in his car leaving. The backstory is that he’d spent the night before with a woman and she’d sparked his heart and he’d hoped they’d hang out again but it was a festival after all and it just didn’t flow that way. It’s a common enough story, isn’t it? Despite the shallow exhortations of our beer-fisted and bikini-clad media, sexual intimacy is often a tremulous endeavor with potential both for enormous healing and enormous pain. In any event, I saw him leaving and I wished him safe travels and asked him how his night went. He responded with a shake of his head, dismay and defeat palloring his expression, issues of childhood abandonment clearly having been triggered. Myself, I was in a roaring good mood, so I slapped the hood of his car and told him to go park it and walk with me, which he did, parking about fifty yards up the road. As it turned out, however, by the time he had walked back toward me the woman whose encounter had sparked his healing crisis was wandering toward me as well from the other direction. I didn’t have to do anything but step out of the way as they met where I was standing, for life is not just about me, and here I was mere servant to their synchronicity.

Then, at a book signing a couple of weeks later during which I read from my second novel, Nine Kinds of Naked—which revolves around the theme of synchronicity—a young college student who happened to be in the store and hear my talk approached me afterwards and told me she had never heard of synchronicity and wanted to learn more about it. I was meeting friends for dinner, but I promised her I’d permit her to interrogate me over tea sometime, and we met for tea a few days later. It was a full and stimulating conversation, her wanting me to specify the precise metaphysical mechanism by which synchronicity occurs, and me explaining about non-duality and the illusion of separateness and how we’re all dreams in the mind of God and yes maybe so but maybe also mealy mysticism and ultimately what really matters is that there’s a correspondence between the inner world and the outer world and if it has meaning for an individual and clarifies their confusion and lights their path then it doesn’t really matter if we’re all temporarily stable matrices of energetic probabilities, knots in a doily, or concentrations of consciousness in an infinite field of experience. What matters is that the co-incidence had meaning for the individual, carrying a potential psychological breakthrough. Tarot, I say, is essentially intentional synchronicity, seeking a window into one’s psyche to focus a particular issue. I then proceeded to tell her about the woman I met at Flipside who pulled the Courage card and who I let have the card and how the co-incidence of the card served her—and me—so profoundly.

“Here,” I say, cavalier as I pull out my tarot deck. “Lemme show you how synchronicity works.”

“Hey,” she interrupts. “I have that deck.”

“You do?” I reply, surprised that someone who’s never heard of synchronicity would have a tarot deck.

“Well not really,” she concedes. “I received it as a Christmas present from my mom a couple of years ago. I actually cut the whole deck up and made a collage out of it.” She pauses. “Well not the whole deck,” she admits. “I kept my favorite card.”

“Which card?”

“The Growth card.”

“The Growth card,” I repeat, pausing as I scan my recollection of the deck. “I don’t think I know the Growth card. What’s on it?”

“Umm, it’s a picture of a flower growing through a crack in a rock.”

I cock my head incredulous. “That’s not the Growth card,” I say. “That’s the Courage card I was just telling you about, the card I gave away.”

She’s skeptical, and says she’s pretty sure it was the Growth card, and so I pull out the little book that accompanies the deck, demonstrating that it was indeed the Courage card that she kept, and also demonstrating that there is no such card as the Growth card. She’s amazed, as am I, and ultimately she was so impressed by the synchronicity that she went home, located her Courage card, and gifted it to me a few days later. It’s all shiny and new and really stands out in my beat-up old deck, and every time the card emerges I am reminded of this sequence of events and the contemplations that followed. Did you know, for example, that courage comes from the Latin root, cor, meaning heart? Courage is locating oneself in the heart rather than the head, and the expansiveness of the heart—in contrast to the constriction of the ego—this is love, and this is the space we truly share in common. Hammered out of boundaries and convinced it is alone, the ego can only blink stupidly at the grace, the immensity, and the magic of the heart’s experience.

Love, by the way, is not all hugs and backrubs. Primarily, I think, love is a prank. To borrow a theme I’m developing in my third novel: Love is a prank played on the ego by the spirit to teach the ego the one thing that it does not want to learn. In my own life, I’ve been scalded by love, and I’ve even been so tough boots as to believe that I needed to protect my heart. But as a result of my accidental contemplation of courage, I realized—or I remembered—that the heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the cowardice of ego would presume that it requires protection. Actually, love is the only force capable of overcoming the ego, and so the ego would naturally like to avoid this prank, never having to learn to give up control. Courage is simply allowing this vulnerability, embracing the uncertainty, accepting that we may be hurt, yes, that it won’t always be easy, and that not only can we take it, but that we actually have no idea how much we can take. In this “Age of Uncertainty,” courage necessarily means being true to one’s heart, stepping towards a future uncertain rather than securing oneself to a predictable past. Courage is without caution, it is passion, it is a flee from security and into synchronicity. A flower growing through a crack in a rock, courage abandons the familiar and secure shell which protects us—and limits us—and dares us to emerge, to grow, and to trust that life will nurture us despite its challenges.

This expansion of consciousness is necessarily the reduction of ego, and is there anything more expansive than the feeling of love? It is not uncommon for lovers to recount the synchronicities of their meeting, to recognize a strangely inevitable magic in their rendezvous, and such magic is only the beginning, a dim glimmer of a spectacular sunrise, patient as we find our courage, tender as we surrender, daring us to give, to forgive, to reside more fully in our heart, to remember that we are never alone, and ultimately to realize that we are nothing if we are not servants to one another. It is love that erodes our ramparts, that relieves us of our armor, that tames the teeth protecting our trauma, and it is love that will heal us all the moment we have the courage to face the magic.

This is what I believe more than anything, and this is what gives me hope.

May you be ever overwhelmed by how many people you love~

Tony Vigorito
www.tonyvigorito.com
© 2009 Tony Vigorito... feel free to forward as far as you see fit...

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SCHEDULE FOR THE GROVE!

jana banana — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:30:25 GMT

Thanks to everyone who has stepped up to throw an event in the Grove. We've got a great lineup of activities ranging from daily yoga and chi kung classes to a wine and cheese social; sq'are dancin'; rubber chicken revivals; chocolate cake, creepy hug, and bacon breakfast; poi spinning practice; tango lessons, and the ever mysterious relaxotron!!! come on by the Grove and check it out!

THURSDAY

9 pm ish The Relaxotron - An Advanced Auditory Feedback Acoustic Isolation Kit [AFAIK] (P.S.S.T Labs)

(A.F.A.I.K.) The Relaxotron is a multiuser brain calming device. An advanced Auditory Feedback Acoustic Isolation Kit (AFAIK) the Relaxotron produces a unique calming effect that has proven to reduce stress levels in primate test subjects. P.S.S.T Labs is currently conducting Beta tests on Human subjects and will be looking for volunteers at Flipside. Look for the Agents with the Relaxotron unit at the Grove, Creek and various other Locations throughout the event.

FRIDAY

10 am - 11 am Shamanic and Far East Chi Kung (Koala )

11 am - Noon Kundalini yoga (Maharaj)

12 noon High Noon Sq'are Dance Ho-Down !!!

2 - 4 pm No fire poi spinning (Circle of Fire)

SATURDAY

9 am - 11 am Chocolate Cake, Creepy Hug, and Bacon Breakfast (Gigsville)

10 am - 11 am Shamanic and Far East Chi Kung (Koala)

11 am - Noon Kundalini yoga (Maharaj)

2 - 3 pm No fire poi spinning (Circle of Fire)

3 - 4:30 pm Tango Lessons (KaiSarahTops, ISH)

7 - 8:30 pm Wine and Cheese Social (BUTTER-LOVE B-STRO)

Saunter on over to the Grove for the wine and cheese social. If you're an oenophile, bring your favorite bottle of wine for sharing!

SUNDAY

10 am - 11 am Shamanic and Far East Chi Kung (Koala)

11 am - Noon Kundalini yoga (Maharaj)

Noon - 1 pm Rubber Chicken Appreciation Revival (Phurst Church of Phun)

Katherine
Grove Host '09

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Come on people, get a little excited!

Robin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:17:45 GMT

3 WEEKS!!! That's all folks. Are you ready to play or what? Coming from Colorado myself and hope some of this precipitation we have been having starts heading south. I have plenty of good vittles and toys that I can't wait to share...what are you planning?

See ya soon,

Robin (tinkle on the playa)

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VERY IMPORTANT REMINDER!

jana banana — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:13:32 GMT

hello flipizens,

while you're busy packing everything but the kitchen sink,

don't forget to pack *****YOUR TICKET(S) and your ID*****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

see you on the flipside....very soon!

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THEME CAMP REGISTRATION OPEN!

jana banana — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:59:09 GMT

A message from your City Planning Team

Yes, the rumor is true, Theme Camp registration is up.

Yes it’s up. You’re still here reading this? GET GOING!!!
http://www.burningflipside.com/camp_registration

One request from all us volunteers. If you submit a camp, please try to make it a final draft and check the final registration box at the bottom. Otherwise we get to go
review your application all over again with every revision.

If you really have to change something, we can get it done
(most of the time). E-mail us at
themecampplacement09@burningflipside.com

RV=theme camp
You will need to register on the Theme Camp Registration form if you are bringing an RV and not with a theme camp.

Some of our roads are kinder to RVs than others and this will assist us in placing you accordingly. Under camp name, please submit RV – General Camping and fill out the
form as complete as possible.

Be kind to your City Planning Team and get you s**t together early and complete!!! We assembled the best of the best for you, and our volunteer team is united and efficient.

As our motto states, “MIND OVER MATTER”.

Remember, Flipside is the biggest and best thing going in Texas!!! You’re invited!!! Any spot puts you in the ho-down, so be easy like Sunday morning.

Seeya on the Flipside!!!

Hope this finds you smiling!!!

~PoRn
Burning Flipside Placement Lead

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Megaphone request

adamrice — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:41:13 GMT

Do you have a megaphone? Are you bringing it to Flipside? (I mean, if you have one, *of course* you're bringing it to Flipside, but I'm asking anyhow.) If your answer to these questions is Yes, then I would like to ask a favor: I would like to borrow said megaphone for about half an hour on burn night. I'm the cat-herder for the fire procession, and some vocal amplification would come in handy. Please drop me a line. Thanks.

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2 Playa/Transformus burners seek Pyropolis camp to contribute to

FLICKER or EDWARD — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:25:38 GMT

Hear Ye, Calling All Welcoming & Friendly Flipizens!

After trying for the past 3 years to get to Flipside, my pal GIZMO (aka Kevin) and I finally have our tix in hand and will be making merry at Pyropolis May 21-25.

Does anyone have any room in their camp for 2 handy, creative and self sufficient burners from ATL?

We'll arrive with our own small tents + food, water, drink, costumes, artmaking stuff, instruments, etc.

We always ready to lend a hand in any way you might need.

(We even have burner and non-burner references, if you need 'em.)

Between the 2 of us, we've been participating in burns at Black Rock City, and more recently Mysteria, since the mid '90s.

We don't know how long it will be before we get back to Freakalicious Safari.

That's why we want to make this best of our first Flipside experience!!!

We'd love to camp as close as possible to the MEZZANINE, if at all possible.

If anyone thinks they have room in their camp area for 2 more small tents, please let us know!

I look forward to talking to you..and meeting you and your friends 16 days from now.

Gleefully, and gratefully,

Flicker

aka Edward McNally
Bioneer and founder, Above The Fold Green PR
Atlanta, GA
cell: 404.281.6419 / home/office: 404-371-8554

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GOT TINS?

jana banana — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:41:52 GMT

Bring your Altoid Tins to Flipside!!!
Call for Tins

Got any empty Altoid tins or the like? Bring them to Flipside! Drop them off at the Recycling Station. We will decorate them and put them out for people to grab and carry around with them for use as ash trays or whatever else they made need 4x2ish inch containers for. So bring us your tins!!!! Thanks!

Claudia
Earth Guardian Lead '09

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The almighty power...

kristy — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:59:54 GMT

anyone got a creative idea for charging my Ipod at Flipside? (other than a full-on generator)?

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Ice, Ice, Baby!

jana banana — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:05:14 GMT

Greetings Folks!

Every night is Church night until we get it all loaded out... come out and help and get into the groove with us! Ice Krewe is working on getting all the Ice and Ranger playatech furniture ready for another round and could use help and I'm sure lotsa other stuff is being finished up too. Lend a hand?

Ice still has a few shifts open, we mostly need folks at Lost Ice. Ice is cool! Ice is fun! Ice makse things yummier! So get over to the wiki and sign you and yer campmates up for a shift (you gotta log on to edit the wiki):

www.burningflipside.com/wiki/ice

Thanks to all the fine folks that have signed up for shifts and/or have already been busily helping get things set up on the front end for Flipside! Ice or otherwise, you volunteerific people kick ass! Happy packing!

XOXOX
Marva
Ice Lead 09

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GREETERS WANNA PARTY WITH YOU!

jana banana — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:31:49 GMT

Hello all you lovely people!

Want to hold a party at Flipside but don't know where? Looking for that extra chance to DJ? Greeters has the answer!

Late night party shifts!

We have shifts from 9p-10:30p and 10:30p-12p that are just waiting to be filled by you and your friends. All of you should go over to the wiki
(http://www.burningflipside.com/wiki/Greeters) and sign up for a party. Enjoy the ill-gotten gains of a day of greetering, and welcome people home!

Sign up today, and as a special bonus, you can attend greeter training at Church Night tomorrow, 7:30pm! You'll get to learn all about Pods and Fire!

I have more exclamation points, and I am not afraid to use them. Please take a moment to sign up and help us fill out our last shifts. It's one of the funnest ways to volunteer at Flipside, so don't let it pass you by!

--Zac

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Can we rent YOUR car?

deadletterb — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:45:43 GMT

Hey kids... over the course of 7 days we have 8 different people needing to
be picked up at the airport, ferried to places to stay, out to the property,
etc. Said peeps are working Ice, DAFT, Transportation, deadletter and more,
and we were just about to rent a vehicle for 7 days to be able to handle all
our own picking up and dropping off.

And then it occurrred to us: Is there a person in Austin with an extra
vehicle they aren't using? Something mini-van like would be excellent, or
any sort of car or truck. We could give you at least $150 and insure the
vehicle ourselves, or pay you more if you are already carrying insurance.
Either way, we'd save a little on the $240 minimum we've been looking at,
and the money stays in the community.

Any takers?

deadletter@speakeasy.net

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Deadline for Flipside Event Registration

jana banana — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:10:25 GMT

Planning an event/party/class/gathering for Flipside? Want people to come to it?
Then list it.

Just go online, sign-in, and fill-out this short form:

http://www.burningflipside.com/camp_events

There's a form for theme camp events (part of the theme camp registration)
and another for non-theme camp events. Use whichever fits.

New this year: in addition to the main Disinformation Station at the grove,
there will be several mini-stations in our lovely city with a map and a
What/Where/When listing.

Events listed with the online form will be printed and posted at all the
disinfo stations. Help us help you get the word out.

Deadline: THIS Thursday, May 14.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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goin to flipside? have space on my trailer for your big stuff

rob — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:36:58 GMT

Hey all - I'm pulling a trailer out to flipside this year. Our krewe has a bunch o shit, but theres still space. To offset the cost I'm asking for a 'donation' in the form of $$$ or party goods and I'll haul your stuff to and fro. Lemme know!

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wanna perform on the effigy stage?

jana banana — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:38:03 GMT

LIsten up - if you have a *BAND* (with a drummer, singer, people playing
instruments with strings or made of brass, etc) that will be out at Flipside
this year, or a *performance troupe* (burlesque, dancing, marching band,
magic), or some wikkid kewl awesome theatrical act, or maybe doing a *Gong
Show* *cough* burningglam *cough* we really NEED you to *sign up*, like
TODAY. Get on it folks!

Read the info on our wiki page -
http://burningflipside.com/wiki/Effigy_Events_Schedule - to find out more
about the stage and what WE need to know from YOU, and then email Michelle
at chick@margaritachick.com -- or -- Jeremy at lists@aweattack.com to get in
on our submissions list. We'll announce the final picks on Friday, *DEADLINE
IS THIS WEDNESDAY THE 13TH*.

We've got 2 nights for performances and we want a nice big selection of
interested bands and performers so we can bring the BEST our Flipside
community has to offer. This is a great opportunity to put on a fun show for
our Flipside audience, and hey folks this is the deal right here: Y'ALL
ASKED FOR A STAGE ON THE EFFIGY, WELL YOU GOT ONE! =) So let's fill the
stage with some music and performances and other awesomeness. But you gotta
DO IT NOW! DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS THIS WEDNESDAY!

What? When is the deadline for submissions?

THIS FREAKIN' WEDNESDAY THE 13TH! Holy crap! That's like, 2 days away...
sheesh Monk why such a late notice? SHADDUP AND BRING ME BACON! >.< And sign
up now! =)

We're doing some shorter sets, so not really looking for a 3-hour DJ set or
space jam or anything, more like a 1-hr set for each act, but we might be
able to feature some solo songwriter kinda stuff in between some sets, or
possibly stretch the time for a daytime slot, whatever you think would be
really entertaining for folks gathered around the upper field. Daytime slots
will have limited sound/stage support - specify on your submission if you're
looking to perform before 8pm.

You want to make magic? WE want to make magic. You want to bring Awesome???
WE WANT YOU TO BRING AWESOME! It's like, such a damn sweet win-win situation
here :D

*So, to recap:
*Go here:* http://burningflipside.com/wiki/Effigy_Events_Schedule
*Email Michelle: *chick@margaritachick.com *-- or -- Jeremy:*
lists@aweattack.com
*Bring: *AWESOME
*Bribe: *With Bacon
*By: *THIS WEDNESDAY THE 13TH OF MAY*

Do it do it do it! Tell all your friends!

<3

--
\d/ >.< \m/

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Flipside Ticket Raffle - Benefit for Hollis

jana banana — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:44:53 GMT

(reposting this for Face)

Austin has postponed Hollis' Fundraiser until after Burning Flipside.
But we can still make he some dough.
It's online raffle time!
The prize: 1 ticket to Flipside
Raffle tickets are $5 a piece.
No one person can spend more than $80 on raffle tickets.
Please honor this.
I will be collecting money through my paypal account.
FacetiousTexan@gmail.com
I will close the raffle next Saturday night at midnight.
Anne Bonny and I will will out each raffle ticket according to how much money you spend (paypal will notify me each time someone adds money) and put it in a bucket.
We just love buckets.
The next day during DaFT at the Flipside Warehouse we will draw the name for the ticket.
I will announce online who the winner is.
100% of the money for this raffle is going to Hollis Hawthorne.
http://friendsofhollis.blogspot.com
Please repost everywhere. If you repost, please make sure you include this: --this is not affiliated with and/or sponsored by AAR, LLC--
I want to make Hollis as much money as possible, and there's only a week to pull this off.
Thanks guys, and good luck!
Love,
Face
(this event/raffle is not affiliated with and/or sponsored by AAR, LLC)

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Volunteers needed at Flipside!

jana banana — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:43:57 GMT

(reposting for Face)

Hi kids!
How excited are YOU?
Only 14 days till we're all back together at Flipside.
One big reason we can keep playing each year at Flat Creek is due to the efforts of a handful of solid human beings that volunteer time cleaning up and restoring the area.
Well my friends, now is the time to build this year's team.
I need some quality volunteers.
Check out he wiki:
http://www.burningflipside.com/wiki/Sign-off/Volunteering
See what job, day and time suits you.
Sign up on the wiki and please, let me know you did.
Not only will hold your head high knowing you did your part, but there's other perks to volunteering.
The party Monday night is AWESOME.
Only people that worked the festival are around, so more intimate, and yeah, pretty rowdy.
We close it out well, that's for damn sure.
Another perk.... not breaking down your stuff with a burn night hangover.
You leave after the masses, no traffic!
Imagine what it's like floating in the creek NOT surrounded by dirty hippies!
Sign up now.
Who knows.... you might have fun ;)
Love,
Face
Clean-Up Lead, DaFT
FacetiousTexan@gmail.com

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EVENT AT FLIPSIDE??

jana banana — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:56:48 GMT

Planning an event/party/class/gathering for Flipside? Want people to come
to it?
Then list it.

Just go online, sign-in, and fill-out this short form:

http://www.burningflipside.com/camp_events

There's a form for theme camp events (part of the theme camp registration)
and another for non-theme camp events. Use whichever fits.

New this year: in addition to the main Disinformation Station at the Grove,
there will be several mini-stations in our lovely city with a map and a
What/Where/When listing.

Events listed with the online form will be printed and posted at all the
disinfo stations. Help us help you get the word out.

Deadline: Thursday May 14.

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Volunteers! Time to run away to the Jungle! (with a Special Request for Stage Geeks!)

XTC — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:45:43 GMT

Hi there fearless explorers,

I can hear the trumpets now from this Freakalicious Safari we are about to experience. And I, as your Volunteer Coordinatrix, am still looking for a few (or more than a few) good folks to help make this thing rock the house like I know it will. We still have several shifts in several areas open. (Where are my late night shift people at?) So if you still want to help, (even if you were good and filled out your volunteer profile but the ball was dropped and you haven’t been contacted,) please email volunteerinfo@burningflipside.com and I will put you to work!

******************************************

Calling all Stage Geeks! Looking for people with mad skills (Stage Manager, Sound Techs, Lighting Techs, and Stage Hands) to help make this the best Effigy ever. (And like all brilliant productions, we are looking to make it happen with less time than normal humans would think possible.) If you got the goods, please email volunteerinfo@burningflipside.com asap with a short bio to let me know where you best think you can help.

******************************************

Yours in ever faithful fire,
XTC

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GOT A TICKET TO SELL?

jana banana — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:37:13 GMT

please don't forget about all the peeps who have been begging on
!Bob's list
http://plasmator.net/bobslist09/index.php

:)

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Tickets and the ever evasive Sold Out status

boarhead — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:22:11 GMT

It's been asked before, but the question was mired in double-talk so I'll ask it here publicly in an attempt to get a complete answer:

Known Factoids:
1.) Ticket sales are over.
2.) The event isn't sold out.

If the above two statements are correct, the people who have yet to get a ticket should do what exactly (and yes, everyone already knows about Bob's List, so please address the factoids above)?

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Pink Flying Monkeys need tickets!!!

Toast — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:15:02 GMT

Hello Flipizens! The Pink Flying Monkey camp would love to find some extra tickets for our wayward monkeys! You can dance on our mutant vehicle and visit our comfy cozy hammocks and have delicious mojitos!!!!! Good Karma would come to those looking to sell thier extra tickets! I would personally sell my first born for miracle! I need a miracle!!!!!

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ticket....

billy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:45:11 GMT

ok guys....bob's list hasnt been of any help.
i just need one ticket. I will pay what its worth and help your camp in any way i can
helppppp

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need a ride from austin airport friday 5/22 @ 10 pm

camella — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:55:39 GMT

i won't have much stuff with me since i'm meeting my people at flipside. happy to contribute for gas.

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please READ - message about !Bob's List

jana banana — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:35:48 GMT

Hi folks,

It's about that time. Flipside is a couple weeks away. At this point,
people don't have much time left to make plans or ask off from work or
get plane tickets or anything else. Soon, everyone with a spare ticket
is going to start trying to sell it.

If you have a spare ticket, go to Bob's list now. Find someone who
looks like they would contribute to our collective experience and
contact them. If you wait another week, you'll be dangerously close to
the point where you're out 80 bucks and some poor soul is out the
experience just because you decided to slack.

I've been running Bob's list for about 6 years now, and every year
there's a flood of people at the end, overwhelming my mail server and
the few people who still actually want to go. Do yourself a favor, act
now. I got stuck with a ticket I couldn't find a buyer for a few years
ago. I run Bob's list and I couldn't find anyone to buy my spare
ticket. Don't put yourself in that situation.

Bob's list is at http://plasmator.net/bobslist09

Bob's list is in no way affiliated with AAR, LLC. It's my personal
project that I pour time, money and effort into because I'm an idiot and
I like punishing myself.

!Bob

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Houston Art Car Parade

cathywhite — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:41:03 GMT

This Saturday, May 9th, on Allen Parkway!! Come & get your Art Car on with the biggest, best, baddest-ass ACP in the world! There will be some amazing pyrotechnics including burning Viking ships as part of the Tom Kennedy tribute Firday night & the Art Car Ball (best party ever) Thursday night, so come on over for the whole darn weekend!!!
See you on the Flipside! Take care ya'll!
Dr. Livingstoned, I presume

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Zion Communal Kitchen Members need tickets to Burning Flipside 2009 - Please Help!!!

Elder Warlock — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:59:04 GMT

Name: Elder Warlock of Zion's Flame
Needs: 4 tickets
Sob Story:
WE have members of our camp that were unable to get their tickets due to various different reasons (financial, missing the open ticket sales, forgetfulness, just being away at the time...). Nonetheless, they are essential members of the camp and help out very much with not only our camp but the community. We are

Zion Communal Kitchen & Hookah Lounge
("That MEAT Camp!!!")

We have been on the main playa for the last 4 out of my 5 years attending Flipside. We enjoy brining out the communal kitchen for all to use if they have food and no where to cook it, help out in the kitchen making food and feeding people, conversing and enjoying each other's company, along with running a Hookah lounge where many can come to flock and relax in the shade during the heat of the day.

We are searching for 4 tickets at the least but if possible would like to get 6 for others that are interested if there is an available ticket.

Please by all means get back in contact with me and We have the funds available at full price along with throwing in a meal cooked just for you, some great times together at the event and if you have every enjoyed a nice aromatic smoke, sharing a hookah bowl with you at the event.

Other offers of volunteer work is offered where ever you need it. Many member are active withint he comunity in Houston and at Flipside and are always willing to lend a helping hand where needed and even when not asked.

Help out the Kitchen so that we are able to have more individuals that you know will be there when you need them...

Thank you everyone that reads this and is able to assit with our ticket needs, looking forward to seeing you on the Grassy Playa!!!

Only 18 days left till we can all return home!!!

With Love & Respect,

Elder Warlock
832-978-6591
on_my_own169@yahoo.com
Zion's Flame (Houston, TX)
Zion Communal Kitchen & Hookah Lounge
[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zion_Communal_Kitchen/]

Request Submitted On: 2009-05-06

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A P!NK PLEA

Jay — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:12:30 GMT

GreetinGs and SalutatiOns burners and weirdos, cupcakes and bacongrease

I present to you a plea, if you will, from TeamPinK.
We are in search of a wildly perverse ThemeCamp with room for four! We being: Jay(FAB), NadyiA(coonass), Panda, and Miss David.
WE're queens of all trades, and anything we do we'll most likely do showing PINK, and in platforms ;) we cook, We Clean, we take care of your mother. Some of us can hOOK, some of us can TRICK, and all of us can fuck shit up, FABULOUSLY.
just a few things: weve got supplies, and moneys. this is our 5th year. we no like moop. I live in austin, and would be tickled (duh! pink) to attend future camp meetings. The rest of team pink is up thurr in the DFW area... they'd show up to YOUR meetings azwelllll
[i know it iss a little late in the game to be asking this of anyone.] [however] [there] [i did]
If your theme camp could stand a magiKal PInk anema, (quite enjoyable) feel free to shoot some shit to either myself, nadyia or Panda.

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FWD: W@t3r - FIGHT 5.O (Flipside ~Saturday)

Simple — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:32:52 GMT

@ the Creek

All Day fucktardary. Bring It!!!

(this is a LNT event)

Cordially,

Simple C.
C.O.L.D.tripleAgent

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CC Meeting Monday, 5/4/09

jana banana — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:34:54 GMT

Hello Flipizens!

Just a reminder, the Combustion Chamber meetings are open to all. We will be discussing Decompression at Monday's meeting. The meeting will be at the warehouse (1023 Springdale Rd.) and begins at 7:42pm.

FYI: this is our last CC meeting before Burning Flipside 2009 (only 19 days away! Wahooo!).

Thanks.
:)

--
Jana Banana
CC Member / Scribinatrix
365 (off-season) Event Coordinator

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In Austin for the weekend.

Cox — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:04:10 GMT

Looking to meet some new people
maybe spin some fire and hang out

Shpongle tomorrow night.
Camping the rest of weekend
March on Saturday

Anyone else gonna be at any of these?
Hit me up. I need to meet some new people.

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flipside flame issue 7

jana banana — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:21:12 GMT

Issue #7:
http://www.burningflipside.com/files/flame/Flame2009-7.pdf

This issue comes to you two days shy of May.
Yep, we're coming up on crunch/crash/crazy time.
This issue:

- Ponder the misconceptions you may have about the community.
- Finish up your theme camp stuff.
- Send Starr some love.
- Help make stuff that will make your Flipside better.
- Become a DJ.
- Take a breath.

Help keep The Flipside Flame burning strong:
Send art, words, information and/or magic
to flipsideflame@gmail.com
by this Friday, May 1st.

If you can't make that deadline, send over a note:
tell me what you got, when you think you'll have, what kind of help you
need.

You can do it, kid.
You are awesome!

delia

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Seeking fire-circle sponsors

adamrice — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:19:33 GMT

We are in the midst of a historic draught right now, and fire arts at Flipside will need to be a little different this year. I recently attended a meeting of about 15 people concerned with fire arts and fire safety at Flipside. One of the decisions that emerged was that fire performance (firedancing/breathing/eating, not installations) would be limited to a few designated fire circles.

I'm the theme-camp lead for Circle of Fire, and CoF will be one of them. If we're going to have more than one fire circle at Flipside, other people will need to take responsibility for them. This means obtaining and bringing safety equipment and fuel-depot equipment, and ensuring that the fire circle is maintained. Ideally these other circles would be distant from the main field, to provide good coverage of Flipside (there's a spot in Sound Town that would work).

I am looking for people with a background in fire performance and an interest in safety who can step up. Please contact me directly.

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message about theme camps

jana banana — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:37:01 GMT

(this is from the Theme Camp team, not me. Please respond to them at the email below. thanks.)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello ALL!!! An e-mail went out to all the leads of every camp on the registry earlier this week to make sure that their Registration was checked as final. If this is not done, your camp may not be placed due to the fact that Placement doesn't see it until it goes final. If you have yet to register your camp, well, FORGET IT NOW!!! Just kiddin', stop freakin' out man................OK.................... Done?

You can still register your camp up to May 1st, but please realize that most of the prime camping spots (North Terrace, South Terrace, Mezzanine) are completely full. Please play nice, we volunteer for this (can you believe that?) You still get in, so don't worry. It's not about the club ya bring to Flipside, it's about the community as a whole. WE ARE ALL TOGETHER!!! If you planned to stay at your camp all weekend, then get out there and stop being a SPECTATOR!!! Have some fun. Meet some new people. Have some dip!!! Remember Citizens, it is a No Spectator policy in the spirit of TTITD (Burning Man).Thanks for being part of the best community since the Manson Family!!!

Flipside Theme Camp Registration closes on May 1st. You can go to http://www.burningflipside.com/ , log in to your account and go to Theme Camps - Directory.

Click on "view camp profile" under your camp name.

Click "edit/review" by "clicking here".

At the bottom of your registration, check the "final" checkbox and Submit.

Then check the Camp Directory to ensure that your camp is seen.

Any problems from there and you can e-mail us at themecampplacement09@burningflipside.com

Hope this finds you smiling!!!

~PoRn
Burning Flipside Placement Lead

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Shooter wake tonight

Face — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:31:11 GMT

For those that want to gather.
Tell stories, or not.
We have opened our home to friends of our friend.
BYOB.
In memory of Shooter.
Come gather, feel what you need to.
3616 Pennsylvania Ave 78721
Love,
Face, Shep, Anne Bonny, and Lenell

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Calling all Victorians, Edwardians, Steampunks, Goths, Lolitas...

Crashgrab — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:05:42 GMT

Saturday, April 25th
1:00 pm

Victorian Picnic at
Wooldridge Square Park
900 Guadalupe

Come in your best finery for a lovely picnic in the park to celebrate my birth. Bring a picnic basket for yourself (food/drinks) and blanket. There will also be games of giant chess and croquet. It's sure to be a lovely day.

For inspiration:
http://www.slide.com/r/kkDbJMPK5z9z8PNANAC9k6ReJppsdF1m?previous_view=lt_embedded_url

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ATX for Hollis POSTPONED

Face — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:02:32 GMT

Hi kids,
I am sad to say, the benefit for Hollis needs to be postponed.
Between the torrential thunder and lightening storms AND tornado warnings, it's just too dangerous.
In addition, last night, the community lost a friend.
Caleb "Shooter" Schaber took his last call.
Damn near everyone involved with the benefit for Hollis is now in mourning.
Hollis' bills aren't going anywhere.
We will announce the rescheduled date as soon as we have it.
Thanks for being understanding, gang.
AND DON'T FORGET....
The DIVE BAR is having a benefit tonight as well!
$15 gets you an open bar!
(dear lord)
Head to the Moose lodge tonight and drink till you puke.

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This Saturday - Save the Dive Bar!

wesleann — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:12:17 GMT

Howdy Campers!

This year, everyone's favorite Flipside hang-out need some extra help getting home! Providing us with all that booze comes with a pretty decent price tag, I'm sure you can imagine! So this Saturday, we're throwing a benefit to Get the Dive Bar to Flipside!!

The Dive Bar (or Monkey Bar as it will be known this year) will be at the Moose Lodge this Saturday, April 18th from 8pm to 2am.
a $15 cover charge gets you an OPEN BAR - all night long!!

Bring some singles, because there will be:
a shot bar (liquor and jello shots available)
a kissing booth
Dollar hot dogs

Some of your fellow citizens will be on hand to perform fabulous fire dances and provide some killer music for your dancing pleasure.

If you have never been to the Dive Bar, it's time to start practicing! Flipside is not too far away!
So head over to the Austin Moose Lodge Saturday Night!
2103 E M Franklin
Austin, TX 78723

You read the part about an OPEN BAR, right?

Got questions?
doomsdame@gmail.com

Can't make the benefit but still want to make a donation to Save the Dive Bar?
paypal donations accepted! send to ann4am@hotmail.com

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KFLIP Contact Info?

kristy — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:48:50 GMT

Anyone know who I can contact about KFLIP?

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huge party fundraiser for hollis @ flipside warehouse

AnneFuckinBonny — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:53:01 GMT

this is a benefit party for a dear friend of mine, DPW and of the greater BM community, Hollis (who some of you know), has been involved in a horrible motorcycle accident and now needs the support of the community more then ever. so STEP UP!

you can read her story here:
http://www.friendsofhollis.blogspot.com/

SATURDAY APRIL 18TH
FLIPSIDE WHERE?HOUSE?
featuring
THAT Damned Band
Esmerelda Strange
GutBunny Revival
Special Surprise Guest DJ
Raffle for fabulous prizes
Games include:
Chicken Shit Keno
A Dance off
tall bike jousting
ending with a movie night featuring "The Jerk"

EVERYTHING will be on donation only, SO BRING YOUR FRIENDS! lets make this into a HUGE party... it could be fun

i still need some supplies, volunteers, and PERFORMERS.
if there is anyone who wants to come play some music, put on some kind of act, or bring a game, email me and ill get you set up.
a PROJECTOR, if anyone has one that they can lend for the event it will make it WAY easier to actually show the movie

volunteers:
set-up
clean-up
anyone involved in film (as a hobby or otherwhise)
-hollis' doctors said that it is important for her brain to be stimulated for it to heal quicker, so i was thinking it would be a good idea to have someone make a bright loud colorful documentary of the event to send to her.
some information boards need to be made up so that people know what our cause is, i have pictures and info if there is someone who wants to put that together.

we currently need donations for raffle prizes, so go through your stuff and see if you got some neat, goofy, artistic, or useful stuff.

100% OF ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO DIRECTLY TO HOLLIS!

if you would like to help please call or email me
ChickenMcFetus (at) gmail (dot) com
(425)691-0985

Anne Bonny

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Need Tickets to Flipside? !Bob's List info

Princess — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:38:46 GMT

It's up: http://plasmator.net/tickety08

My server's still having problems sending mail with a third party
server.
Looked like it was working at first, but that seems to have been a
mistake.
I may move it elsewhere sometime before Flipside. In the meantime,
it's
rate limited to 150 messages per hour, 750 per day. Messages are
queued,
then sent in random order, so you've got as much chance to be in that
first
150 as anyone else. Good luck.

Let me know if you have problems with it or spot any old references to
07,
etc. I'll keep an eye too. Just not enough hours in the day for all
the
stuff I've got going on at the moment.

!Bob...tired.
_______________________________________________
austin-list mailing list
austin-list@burningman.com
https://lists.burningman.com/mailman/listinfo/austin-list

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An idea whos time has come. Bacon flavored lube

RH — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:55:56 GMT

NO affiliation, I just think this is awesome, I wonder if it contains nitrates ?!?

http://failblog.org/2009/04/01/product-fail/#comments

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Camp B3 Fundraiser @ The Art Authority Monday April 6th!

Lady Orifice — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:12:34 GMT

B3 presents an evening of dark visual art with experimental noise performances.

Help us raise funds for art projects! Also come support the local experimental scene!

All ages! $5

We will be auctioning art and other goodies!!

The lineup:

8pm Aunt's Analog (http://www.myspace.com/auntsanalog)
8:20pm Xathax (http://www.myspace.com/xathaxoise)
8:40pm Static Storm System (http://tinyurl.com/5pc37n)
9:00pm [M30W]
9:20pm Space Between Thoughts
9:40pm Douglas Ferguson (http://www.myspace.com/douglasferguson)
10:00pm Photon Ghoul (http://photonghoul.com/)
10:20pm Venison Whirled (http://www.myspace.com/venisonwhirled)
10:40pm G.G. Elliott and the People's Army
11:00pm Destroyed for Comfort (http://www.myspace.com/destroyedforcomfort)
11:20pm Never Acid Again

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Synergy: an intentional dance experiment

Lydia — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:20:21 GMT

We are an ever growing group of individuals who have connected deeply through our experiences with breath, movement and music. Our intention is to co-create a dance experience with others who have the desire and curiosity to explore this medium of mind-body and space awareness.
Throughout time, humans have gathered and danced in ceremony. We have used dance as a means to get in touch with our inner and outer landscapes and as a tool to conjure light and dark energies. These energies are inherent parts of each of us. "Synergy" will be a supportive environment where we shall examine and express all aspects of ourselves, while remaining mindful to our dynamic and impact in our shared space with others. By building community with one another we create a safe, connective container within which we can develop deeper relationships to authentic self- expression and integral health.

Please contact us if you are interested in helping us manifest this collective vision.

synergy.ide@gmail.com

The date of the event shall be on April 10th.

We would love to hear from other artists who are interested in collaborating in guiding the sacred space.

*synergy: (sĭńər-jē)
[From Greek sunergiā, cooperation, from sunergos, working together.]

1. The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects.
2. Cooperative interaction among groups, that creates an enhanced combined effect.

***P.S...This is not a psy-trance event (though there will be some). It is an experiment to bring multi-genre music and dancers together through intention and an openness to experience something new. This is an organically evolving process. If any one has any questions or would like to know more about what is brewing please contact this post or the email provided. More details and flyer coming soon...

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Red Flag Warning TODAY - Travis County

jana banana — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:14:46 GMT

hey pyros,

... Red flag warning in effect from 9 am this morning to 8 PM CDT
this evening...

The National Weather Service in Austin/San Antonio has issued a
red flag warning... which is in effect from 9 am this morning to
8 PM CDT this evening.

Expect strong 20-foot level winds of 20 to 25 mph today... with
relative humidities falling into the upper teens by late this
afternoon. The winds will diminish to below 15 mph by early this
evening... but a dry air mass will remain in place through Sunday.

A red flag warning means weather conditions will promote fires
that are difficult to control across the warned area. A red flag
warning is completely separate from a local burn ban which is
issued by local officials.

from www.kvue.com

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Vote for Flipside Street Names

jana banana — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:11:49 GMT

Greetings Carousing Fire Prancers,

I have changed my mind about the deadline in order to get them done in a quicker and more efficient manner especially since I am also helping with a theme camp. So the new dead line is Wed. April 1st by 11:59pm. If you are a person that cares about the names and haven't voted yet, this is your chance. And, please do it by the deadline.

So, to vote go now to the website: www.burningflipside.com/street-names

On April 2nd everything will be official. Thanks for voting.

Much iridescence, Shimmer
ps. Feel free to come help paint the signs on church nights

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Flipside updates now on Twitter!

TexasIceQueen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:10:19 GMT

http://twitter.com/BurningFlipside

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Flipside Flame Issue 4

jana banana — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:53:44 GMT

go here and read stuffs :)
http://www.burningflipside.com/flipside-flame

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Work Weekend II! Next Weekend!-March 27th-March 29th

XTC — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:28:34 GMT

Hey guys and gals,

Well, work weekend I has come and gone but we still have work to do, so Work Weekend II is coming up next weekend, Friday March 27th -March 29th!!!

And we still need more volunteers
The last weekend after this is:
April 17th-April 19th

Q:**What is a Work Weekend?
A: It is a chance to go out to the Flipside land and help make it habitable
for your fellow Flipcitizens. It is also the chance for a little R&R
without ALL of your fellow Flipcitizens on this gorgeous property.

Q:**What are the rules to attend?
A: People can arrive on property any time after 5pm Friday. People have
to be out by 6pm Sunday.
All people arriving Friday are expected to work Saturday 10-2. All people
on the property are expected to work at least one shift - no exceptions.
If you want to come out but have a limitation where you cannot do regular
physical work we will attempt to find something for you to do.

Work is arranged in shifts. People should indicate which shift(s) they'll
be working.
Shift 1: Saturday 10-2 (must be worked if your arrive on Friday) (12+ people
needed)
Shift 2: Saturday 2-6 (16+ people)
Shift 3: Sunday 10-2 (12+ people) (Here is where we are currently still
especially lacking)

Q: **What kind of work will we be doing?
A: The work is going to be primarily brush clearing. We'll need people to
run chain saws, bring chain saws and pull brush out to the road. We may
also have a chipper in which case we'll be feeding that thing as well. We
may be doing so road and trail maintenance as well.
Tools and protective gear will be provided but BYO tools (chain saws, rakes,
shovels) and protective gear (goggles, gloves, earplugs) are encouraged.

Q: **What happens if the weather is bad?
A: If the weather is bad enough to prevent work we'll send out emails to the
people who signed up and let them know it's cancelled. If they are signed
up they should assume we're working unless they hear we're not. If the
weather is dicey we'll send out a notice that we ~are~ working as well as
one we're ~not~.

Q: **How do I sign up?
A: Email volunteerinfo@burningflipside.com.
Include:
Real Name:
Nickname:
What shift(s) you want to work:

Any other questions also email volunteerinfo@burningflipside.com!

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2nd Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational-March 14th-Registration Open!

XTC — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:21:08 GMT

HELLO GRILLED CHEESE ENTHUSIASTS!

It is with nearly-orgasmic pleasure that I tell you we have solidified the date for the

2nd Annual Austin GRILLED CHEESE INVITATIONAL!

And that date is SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2009 (The Curds of March)

http://grilledcheeseinvitational.com/austin/

Registration is now open!!

What is a grilled cheese invitational? What's new for this year?

For the second year, the Grilled Cheese Invitational will be happening in Austin, Texas. The winners of this regional will be offered places to compete in the National Invitational in Los Angeles in April, and the highest scoring sandwich will win 1 plane ticket to sunny southern California for the event. There will be trophies. There will be cheese. It will be amazing.

Details about location will be available soon (it is an invitational after all), but do mark your calendar and let everyone you know to mark their respective calendars.

There will be only 40 competitors, no exceptions. So before you go to register, be thinking about what category you will compete in, what the name of your sandwich will be, and whether your sandwich will be vegetarian. (All of this information will be required at registration.)

Note: If you only plan on eating, there's no need to register. Only register if you are going to compete.

Categories:

The Missionary Position: Standard bread, standard butter, and standard cheese.
The Kama Sutra: Exotic or standard bread, butter, and cheese plus additional ingredients.
The Honey Pot: Exotic or standard bread, butter, and cheese, but a sandwich that is sweet in general, or would best be served as dessert.
Lambada: This is a new regional addition. Quesadillas!

Doors to the event will open at 6:00pm and the grilling will start promptly at 7:10pm. All those planning on grilling should be there and ready at 6:30pm.

ITEMS/RULES YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF:

1) All sammiches must be pre-registered. There will be no on site registration WHATSOEVER!

2) There will be a maximum of 40 competitors, no exceptions.

3) Each competitor will be allowed only 30 minutes to grill per category. So save yourself the time and do as much prep-work ahead of time. You can compete in more than one category.

4) All contestants must present their sandwiches on the official plates provided. This is to insure that every sandwich gets it's 20 votes turned in. You can have additional items with your sandwich (pamphlets, drinks, etc), but they MUST fit on the plate provided.

5) All those looking to eat sammiches must get them at the judging station and not at the cooking area or by the chefs. Competitors should provide their own runners who will go and get sandwiches and bring them to the judging station. NO EXCEPTIONS. We will have some volunteer runners to assist, but the competitors should not rely on us to have one for you.

7) While we are tabulating the results, there will be entertainment including Arc Attack!

Please note, all other rules still apply. Please note there are a few regional differences to the rules, such as only 40 competitors and the supplies you will be provided are different. Once you sign up you will be sent a full list of rules with the minute changes.
http://grilledcheeseinvitational.com/rules.html

P.S. WE NEED YOUR HELP!
It takes a lot of work to make this thing happen. We need help in all sorts of areas including the ID checking, Merchandise Table, Data entry, clean up and set up. It's a really fun time and you might get paid your weight in cheese. If you would like to give us a hand in putting this ridiculous spectacle on, go ahead and email me at grilledcheeseaustin@gmail.com Please indicate which department you'd be willing to help with.

Who will be the ULTIMATE grilled cheese champion? YOU DECIDE!

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Tiles for your project

Barbie — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:11:12 GMT

I have a bunch of the old 12 inch linoleum tiles with flecks of color in them. There are many that are unbroken. I hate to throw them away but I can't think of what to do with them other than the normal floor installation. They are mostly off white or tan. I can get a count if you need a better idea of how much is there, very roughly a foot and a half stacked up of unbroken ones. Maybe there is something creative you can come up with or just need some cheappy flooring for your garage! Of course I want nothing for them, just a good home. PM me if interested.

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Flipside Flame Issue 3

jana banana — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:10:28 GMT

Third time's a charm(er).

http://www.burningflipside.com/flipside-flame

This issue contains info on tickets.
And bunnies! Lots of bunnies.
Grilled cheese and cold hard cash.

I gotta think up a better way to say it:
Submit to me now.
Deadline for Issue Numero Four is March 20th.

Give it to me, baby.
Delia

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Theme Camp Registration

Larisa — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:54:30 GMT

Hey so.. When can we register our theme camps? And where can we do it?

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2009 Flipside Tickets - !Bob's List is up

jana banana — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:58:40 GMT

!Bob's List

Oh, it's over there:
http://plasmator.net/bobslist09

It'll be in a future flame, but figured I'd send it along now for those
who've been bugging me and the ticket team.

Repost, bend, spindle, mutilate, set on fire, etc.

!Bob

(!Bob's list is not affiliated with Austin Artistic Reconstruction, LLC)

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Anyone else think this might become interesting?

Xak — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:17:06 GMT

2750 (tickets requested)
2468 (tickets granted)

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Generator free camp?

Crashgrab — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:41:12 GMT

Hello, my theme camp is interested in going generator free. We've done a little research and aren't finding much on how to do it. I've heard you can do it with car batteries, but it doesn't look like you could use that to power a sounds system.

Is there anyone out there who knows how to power a camp without generators?

Thanks,
Crashgrab

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Paging: Camp Placement...

deadletterb — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:35:21 GMT

Can a person from placement write me at deadletter@speakeasy.net?

k thx bye

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BACON SALT!

ganeshaxi — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:28:33 GMT

Yes, you can now season ALL of your food to taste like BACON! \o/ Annnnd it's kosher, meaning it has zero pork, so for us veggie-munchin people we can have our bacon back... Well, not really. But kinda! :D http://baconsalt.com (I just got two yesterday and it's really made me happy!)
I may have to bring some along to gift at FS too ;D

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event further south...

bosquevillage — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:40:41 GMT

We are looking for folks to host theme camps or come play at a burning man inspired event down in Mexico... not so far from Texas...

If you are interested please let us know! We plan to have a great cultural mix!

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Glam Camp

Xak — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:40:35 GMT

If anyone knows how to get in touch with someone from Glam camp, please PM me.

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Please CARPOOL to Town Hall!

jana banana — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:52:16 GMT

Hello Flipizens,

Well, the big day is tomorrow, Feb. 7th!

The Burning Flipside Spring Town Hall Meeting starts at 2:34pm, tailgating begins at 12noon.

Please come out!

Also, please CARPOOL! Parking is very limited at the warehouse. We will have people directing you into parking spots. Once those are gone, that's it.
So grab some buddies and CARPOOL!

Yaay!

--
Jana Banana
CC Member / Scribinatrix
365 (off-season) Event Coordinator
Burning Flipside

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Reminder - Spring Town Hall THIS Saturday!

jana banana — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:01:08 GMT

Hello Flipizens,

Just a friendly reminder - the Spring Town Hall is THIS Saturday, Feb. 7th.

Come to the warehouse!

Tailgating starts at 12 noon
Meeting starts at 2:34pm

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Spring Town Hall Meeting Agenda

jana banana — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:28:43 GMT

Hello Flipizens!

Here is the agenda for the upcoming Spring Town Hall Meeting, Saturday, February 7th, 2009.

Please come and pimp your theme camp! Please come and volunteer for Freakalicious Safari! Please come!
-----------------

Town Hall Meeting Agenda, February 7, 2009
Start time: 2:34pm
Set-up: 1:23pm
Theme camp tailgating: Noon

Intro
Meet your Area Facilitators & Leads
Volunteers
Grove
Earth Guardian
Church Night
Shaven Apes
Sound update
Work weekends
Ticket update
Budget
City planning / Theme Camp 101
Special announcement
Break
Acknowledgement of proposals, Church Night
DaFT & effigy preview, No Burn plan/Burn Rules
Burnable Art/No Burn plan
Art Garden
Art hype
Warehouse move / Land search
Community announcements: Grilled Cheese Invitational, Burners without Borders, Church Night
Q & A
----------------------

Thanks!
--
Jana Banana
CC Member / Scribinatrix
365 (off-season) Event Coordinator

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Flatcreek (Flipside) Work Weekend 1!

XTC — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:03:32 GMT

PS-Don't forget tlast day to postmark tickets is tomorrow-02/27

******************************************

The first Work Weekend is coming up Friday Feb 27th -March 1st!!!

The others are:
March 27th-March 29th
April 17th-April 19th

Q:**What is a Work Weekend?
A: It is a chance to go out to the Flipside land and help make it habitable for your fellow Flipcitizens. It is also the chance for a little R&R without ALL of your fellow Flipcitizens on this gorgeous property.

Q:**What are the rules to attend?
A: People can arrive on property any time after 5pm Friday. People have to be out by 6pm Sunday.
All people arriving Friday are expected to work Saturday 10-2. All people on the property are expected to work at least one shift - no exceptions. If you want to come out but have a limitation where you cannot do regular physical work we will attempt to find something for you to do.

Work is arranged in shifts. People should indicate which shift(s) they'll be working.
Shift 1: Saturday 10-2 (must be worked if your arrive on Friday) (12+ people needed)
Shift 2: Saturday 2-6 (16+ people)
Shift 3: Sunday 10-2 (12+ people)

Q: **What kind of work will we be doing?
A: The work is going to be primarily brush clearing. We'll need people to run chain saws, bring chain saws and pull brush out to the road. We may also have a chipper in which case we'll be feeding that thing as well. We may be doing so road and trail maintenance as well.
Tools and protective gear will be provided but BYO tools (chain saws, rakes, shovels) and protective gear (goggles, gloves, earplugs) are encouraged.

Q: **What happens if the weather is bad?
A: If the weather is bad enough to prevent work we'll send out emails to the people who signed up and let them know it's cancelled. If they are signed up they should assume we're working unless they hear we're not. If the weather is dicey we'll send out a notice that we ~are~ working as well as one we're ~not~.

Q: **How do I sign up?
A: Email volunteerinfo@burningflipside.com.
Include:
Real Name:
Nickname:
What shift(s) you want to work:

Any other questions also email volunteerinfo@burningflipside.com!

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Last Chance for Flipside Tickets! Today!

TexasIceQueen — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:24:45 GMT

Don't forget, all money orders and ticket requests must be postmarked today. Sadly, even I have not done mine yet. Don't forget to decorate those envelopes!

1. Log onto the ticket website (www.burningflipside.com) and submit your ticket order, then print it
2. Get a money order for the total ticket amount
3. In your most legible handwriting possible, make the money order payable to:

Austin Artistic Reconstruction

4. Print out your order and put it in an envelope along with the money order
5. Decorate the envelope (it will be used for an art project)
6. Put your return address on the envelope
7. Ensure your envelope will be postmarked between 1/20/09 and 1/27/09
8. Mail your envelope to:

Austin Artistic Reconstruction, Ticket Request
PO BOX 9987
Austin, TX 78766

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Looking for a DJ....

cathywhite — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:22:42 GMT

To play at the American College of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Chinese New Year's Celebration in Houston. If you/someone you know are interested please contact me thru Tribe message first, and I will call you.
Thanks, and take care!
Cathy
Information Officer, ACAOM Student Council

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TOWN HALL MEETING - SAVE THE DATE!

jana banana — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:51:30 GMT

Greetings, Flipizens!

Our spring Town Hall is rapidly approaching.

Save the date:

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2009

@ The Warehouse
1023 Springdale Rd.
Austin, TX

Exact times and an agenda will be sent soon.

Theme camps - plan to come early and pimp your camp.

Come meet your fellow burners. Learn about exciting volunteer
opportunities. Find out about the after parties!

The Combustion Chamber
and Austin Artistic Reconstruction, LLC

--
Jana Banana
CC Member / Scribinatrix
365 (off-season) Event Coordinator

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Just pulled in from Los Angeles!

Dancer Nathan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:26:39 GMT

Hello to all you beautiful Austin burners! My name is Nathan and my girl friend and I are on a journey driving around the country experiencing as much as possible. We just pulled in to San Antonio and will be here a short time until we head up to Austin! Anyways, we would love to meet with some people here in San Antonio if you know anyone and would definitely love to meet you once we get to Austin. So I hope to hear from some of you soon. I don't know when I'll be able to check into this tribe again but if you send me a personal message I'll hopefully get it in time. I hope all goes beautifully well in your lives!

With love, light, and happiness,
Nathan =)

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room4rentyouguys?

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:42:58 GMT

anybody got a room open at the moment or know of one?

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Burning Flipside Tickets - ticket request postmarks starting tomorrow!

TexasIceQueen — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:31:18 GMT

OK folks, the time has almost arrived! If you haven't yet done so, now is the time to go register for your Flipside tickets and get your money order. There are only 8 days (Jan 20 - 27th) to get those postmarked. Don't miss it. Here's what you do:

1. Log onto the ticket website and submit your ticket order, then print it
2. Get a money order for the total ticket amount
3. In your most legible handwriting possible, make the money order payable to:

Austin Artistic Reconstruction

4. Print out your order and put it in an envelope along with the money order
5. Decorate the envelope (it will be used for an art project)
6. Put your return address on the envelope
7. Ensure your envelope will be postmarked between 1/20/09 and 1/27/09
8. Mail your envelope to:

Austin Artistic Reconstruction, Ticket Request
PO BOX 9987
Austin, TX 78766

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BURNIG FLIPSIDE 09 EFFIGY AND GROVE HOST ANNOUNCEMENT

jana banana — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:18:10 GMT

Howdy, Flipizens!

Things are really ramping up for this year's event, and we'd like to take
this moment to announce your DaFT Lead and Grove Host for 2009's
Freakalicious Safari!

The Daft Proposal committee, helmed by previous DaFT Leads, received some
amazing proposals this year, and the decision was tough. We're happy to
announce that this year's effigy will be 'The Freak' designed by the Demon
Monk himself, Eric Meyer!

Also, we're pleased to announce that Katherine Searcy, aka Systah Rabbit
will be this year's Grove Host!

And to put the Art trifecta into play, we'd also like to announce that
Genevieve Sprinkle has accepted the role of this year's Art Area
Facilitator!

...wow, that's a lot of exclamation points. Whew. Many thanks to everyone
who contributed and participated in in this year's effigy charette
process. Stay tuned for more information on how you can help with these
projects as well as other volunteer opportunities to make this Flipside
the best yet.

(Oh yeah, in case you forgot: ticket sales start next week! Head on over
to www.burningflipside.com/tickets, fill in and print out your ticket
order form, get your Money Orders, and send them in sometime between Jan
20th and Jan 27th. FYI: Decorated envelopes aren't required, but they're
awfully pretty to look at while we're filling orders.)

Viva la Volunteer! Viva la Freak! Viva la Safari!

Sincerely,
Austin Artistic Reconstruction, LLC
llc@flames.burningflipside.com
www.burningflipside.com

_______________________________________________
Announce mailing list
Announce@flames.burningflipside.com
http://flames.burningflipside.com/listinfo.cgi/announce-burningflipside.com

P.S. PLEASE DON'T REPOST ANNOUNCEMENTS. THANKS.

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Burning Man Tickets on Sale Wednesday, January 14

Dillo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:58:17 GMT

Tickets for Burning Man 2009 go on sale Wednesday, January 14th, 2009, 10am (Pacific Standard Time).

http://tickets.burningman.com/

First Level:
9,000 tickets will be available for $210 each, while supplies last.

* Limit 2 tickets per person
* Available through the Internet sales ONLY

Second Level:
9,000 tickets will be available for $240 each, while supplies last.

* Limit 2 tickets per person
* Available through the Internet sales and Mail Order

Third Level:
9,000 tickets will be available for $260each, while supplies last.

Fourth Level:
9,000 tickets will be available for $280 each, while supplies last.

AVAILABLE THROUGH MAIL ORDER (cashier's check or money order ONLY - NO CHECKS)
Also available through Internet Sales
Depending on supplies, MAY be available through Walk-in Ticket Outlets

Fifth Level:
tickets are $300, while supplies last

Available through the Internet Sales, Mail Order, and Walk-in Outlets
Absolutely No Mail Order sales postmarked after 6/30/09.

http://tickets.burningman.com/

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Burning Flipside Tickets!

jana banana — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:28:08 GMT

the registration for tickets has begun.

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to stay up to date on all the important info.
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NYE Clocktower Burn Downtown?

Desertstarchild — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:59:34 GMT

I received an email from a friend that spoke of a Clocktower effigy to be burned downtown on NYE. I've checked the First Night site but can't find any info on it.

Is this still happening? We are fairly new to the area and now sure what is going on that is worthwhile, so doing something like this would be a truly awesome experience!!

Thanks in advcance :)

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looking for a place to live before 2009? $1275 East Side House

commander awesomepants — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:35:55 GMT

my buddy brandon, a pre-burner (he's there in spirit, just hasn't physically made it yet) is looking for someone to move into his place so he doesn't have to give it up. he wants a burner to move in because he digs our style. below is a copy of his CL ad. please email him at brandonshade@gmail.com if you or anyone you know is interested...

My housemates, who have the lease under their name, are having to bail
by the end of the month; this means that I disappear by January 1st as
well or I find a replacement. I don't care if there's one or two of
you and I don't care about your race, gender, or orientation; age
would preferably be in the 20's or 30's to keep the chemistry
balanced.

Location is a clean and safe suburbanite bubble off of Riverside
between Montopolis and Pleasant Valley, near ACC. Rent and bills would
be split in half. You get the largest room with its own bath. Spacious
and sunny commons area--spacious enough for your own furniture, or
equipment if you play or DJ, and definitely enough to entertain
guests. And there is a spare room for whatever. Central AC/heat,
garage and driveway, big backyard with a deck, plenty of trees, close
to downtown and the river.

I have a dog, so you and whatever animals you have, if you have any,
have to get along with her. No smoking in the house unless it's green,
coming from a hookah, or kept in your room. I don't bitch at anyone
for not being as clean as I am, but don't leave messes for me to clean
up on the regular. Other than that, as long as we're likeminded (I'm a
bit of a freak) and have some similar tastes, do whatever you want,
I'm as easy to get along with as a village bicycle.

Artists, burners, bar people, party people, musicians and DJ's,
hippies and hipsters--all need apply.

But what I'm really stretching and hoping for is someone to pick up
the lease, which will be up in May, in which case I'd be living in
your house and under your law.

Email me at brandonshade@gmail.com any time between now and December
31st and we can chat or you can just come by and check the place out.

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Shpongle, Hallucinogen, Init String, Govinda, ALP live in Austin tx Dec 13th

syncronic — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:16:38 GMT

Actions of Awareness presents:

Saturday December 13th 2008

SHPONGLE - Twisted Records – UK
shpongle.com
myspace.com/therealshpongle

HALLUCINOGEN (Live) – Twisted Records – UK
myspace.com/hallucinogen151

GOVINDA (Live) – Intentcity Records – Austin, Tx
www.govindamusic.com
myspace.com/govindamusic

INIT STRING (Live) – Psymbolic Sounds – Austin, TX
initstring.org
myspace.com/initstring

ARTIFICIAL LIFE PRESERVER (Live) – Psymbolic Sounds – Austin, TX
www.artificiallifepreserver.org
myspace.com/artificiallifepreservermusic

with guest speaker:
DANIEL PINCHBECK – Author of Breaking Open the Head
www.breakingopenthehead.com

Location:

In Austin, Tx @

The Sustainable Waves Warehouse
4704b Cesar Chavez Suite 120
Austin, Tx
78702

Solar powered sustainable energy sound by:
Sustainable Waves
www.sustainablewaves.com

Lighting/Visuals/Deco:

Dreamtime Visuals
Inside Image
Dstar Designs
Mynd Gamez Visual Collectiv
Hypnostik

Live Painting by:

Odenedo
Vorcan
JC Campbell
Tourmaline Todd
Tyler Ristow
Katie Levy

For tickets go to:

www.actionsofawareness.org
Doors open at 8:00 PM
price – 25$

More info:

www.myspace.com/tribal_elements
www.twisted.co.ukjavascript:document.postTopicForm.submit()
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www.psymbolic.com
www.intentcity.com

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