this just happened!

in 2002 Burning Man
casted off from shore!

[aside from that little part about how the announcement and implementation of Burning Man's artistic themes is just about this close to the announcement and implementation of the Rose Parade's artistic themes] announcing that everyone in the dry lakebed is now under water throws one fact into high relief:

we must retool at once.

whatever we were using to keep us on terra firma (and admit it, that was basically a xanax and a couple stakes of rebar) is now going to have to keep us afloat.

house of zoka is patently unprepared for watery immersion, what with us being shot through and through with ul-listed devices.

you're likely in the same boat.

use this supplement to the survival guide to endure not only the physical punishment of the Nevada desert, but the mental torture of BMorg's aquatic metaphors.

listening to someone yap about their installation plans, not to rain on anyone's inaugural year, or triumphant sophomoric return, is a god damn bore.

for this reason, house of zoka gave you

one link

so you could have (and still can) retrieve the score

and this link

so you could have known when to show up and

this link

to read about what actually happened