Show threadCory DoctorowSep 9, 2023

Why was I offline and away from my blog? I went to the #DirtRave. Yes, I was one of the 70,000+ people stuck in the mud at this year's #BurningMan, and when I emailed my editor at the #NYTimes to say I might be late on the op-ed I was working on, she asked me to write about what this year's mud crisis meant:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/opinion/burning-man-flood-playa-climate-change.html

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Opinion | Burning Man Is Always a Crisis. But Burners Like Me Know This Time Is Different.

The festival has to change, as does everything else.

The New York Times
doctorowAug 8, 2019
Just as agriculturalists of old would use the evenings at the waning of the summer to sharpen the harvest implements, so, too do I use these nights to stitch EL wire into garments and backpacks so as not to be a #darkwad at the #dirtrave