Live (previously recorded) from The Man
I arrived in Black Rock City late Saturday — pre-event — and had the pleasure of seeing the city unfold around us. Sunday night, just before 9pm, we were invited by Kate, one of the Med Chiefs, to go hit Frog pond, a local natural hot springs before the event started. Of course, we accepted. We were a bit rushed; with Linz’s feet still hanging out of the car, we had to chase down the other vehicles. Driving on the Playa is aventurous in a 2 wheel drive car — doing it at night is amazingly nutty: all you can see in every direction is dust. The whole goal of driving at night on the Playa is to keep the previous car’s tail lights visible at all times — HOLY SHIT, where’d they GO!?
At 80 mph, losing sight of the previous car’s tail lights was not an option. It happened. Speeding up to catch them would be equally stupid. The only option at this point was to use the radio and ask the other cars to wait up. By the time the dust settled, I was 1 mile behind.
Next day, I had my first med shift. Linz scheduled all her shifts at times that I didn’t, since we were both busy and neither of us knew when the other was scheduling for. The only shift we had in common was a RIT (Rapid Intervention Team) on the burn night (more on that later). They had flaming jump rope burn night, which was awesome, but so many people fucked up — Linz and I both jumped many times, and thought a few people would for sure catch on fire. Nope, no injuries, no problem. Just a shit load of great pictures.
However, some adjitated ranger came up with a “Medical Emergency” right as the man was going off big… GRRRR! Turns out the guy was just drunk and taking a nap. He needed no help at all. FUCK! We missed most of the kick ass fireworks….. oh well…
The whole week was insane (as it always is). The artwork this year was bigger and badder assed (a new adjective I invented).
Also, I got told by Seth that I was being slated for a supervisor position, and Mike asked if I’d be interested, because Kate wanted names of recommendations. Its awesome that people are thinking of me for this!
