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(Affiliated with Joseph Dunphy's Cowboy Wannabee Site and the Unofficial Alternative Burning Man network)
Let me be perfectly honest with you from the outset. I don't like to spend a lot of time online; studies, research and family should and do come first in my life. For that reason, you're probably not going to see me playing "daddy" on this board a lot. That being the case, this board comes with no promises and few guarantees. I do reserve the right to eject people who, in my view, are acting like nitwits. I do not promise that we will exercise that right, or even that I will read the postings to this board. It's here for your convenience. Think of this as being an online coffeehouse, minus the caffeine. The only company that you can be sure that you'll have is the company you bring with you, and from time to time you will meet somebody who needs to switch to a decaf.
Why bother, if I'm offering you so little? Because I am offering you more than that. This board is connected to a number of sites which do extremely well in the search engine listings, and so the remarks you leave here are likely to be seen. If you're here to write about Burning Man, then you should know that this forum is not run by BMORG or any part of BMORG's fab club, so if you've found yourself blocked or censored by the "burning moonies" (as somebody once called them), this may be your best place to be heard, as those "burning moonies" are the people we're likeliest to block ourselves. As for myself, while I've written something on that topic in the past, I'm not likely to do so in the future, and as I feel that it's becoming old news.
If you haven't been there, the concept of Burning Man is a simple one - get far enough out into the wilderness that you don't run into a lot of people and that you drop off the government's radar screens a little, and be left alone to do whatever you want to do for a week, with almost infinite space to work with. The sad, if not completely surprising news was that what a lot of people wanted to do, once they were left alone, was break out the drugs, and that's had a real impact on the rationality of many of the people and on the subculture itself. At some point I, like many before me and I'm sure many to come after me, just gave up on trying to work with these people, and largely even got tired of even talking about them. The topic of this board shifted accordingly.
Right now, it's about travel, the arts and culture in the Desert Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, a large chunk of inland California, and maybe a little piece of Colorado). Everything from Indian pottery to history and landscape photography. We'll never run out of subject material, assuming there ever is a "we" posting here. We'll see. This board is password protected in order to keep spam under control, so if you do want to take part, you'll need to write to me. The best way to do this is to sign up for my homelist, and post a message saying that you'd like to sign up for the Saguaro Lounge. Please be patient, as I don't log in every day, but I'll probably get back to you with the password, unless you've given me some legitimate cause for concern about that.
You can also find a mailform at the bottom of this page. Nothing more to read here, so let's go to the board. This page is part of the Saguaro Lounge Site. If you're trying to return to one of the rings that the network belongs to, you should be able to find the navbar you're looking for here; if you're trying to return to any other ring one of my pages is on, you should try the global ring return page for my sites.
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