Does any of this discussion strike you as odd? I mean don't you all feel like a specimen of some sort. Being watched and probed by the aliens? All this talk about, "well its not how I would of reported it" just makes me think that we are accepting this type of study on our personal cultures. Am I the only one who thinks that BM is done and over with and the rest of burners everywhere are holding on to a utopia that does not exist in its truest form anymore? I went a few times and I left feeling inspired artistically and I had an overwhelming feeling of individuality from all the trips to BM. I mean we built our home and lived in it. Some burners took cover in our home while their camps were being blown away by the crazy winds! I got consumed by a dust storm or two and on my last trip. Those are just a few of the many adventures I can recall without making this too long of a story. Overall I felt like I could never make this an every year thing. It was too wonderful for me to water down by going all the time and making it a part of my yearly traditions. I already have things in my life that are redundant so, I made the last trip my last and when asked if I was going, I said with confidence, no. It probably was on its way down when I got there in 2000. I'm just reading all this about Discovery Channel doing a documentary and feeling like I made the right decision to take my experiences and store them in my head. No one can take that from me. Feeling like an ant next to big art piece or giving my boxers to someone for a drink of booze the list goes on but its all mine! I haven't been to BM in years and you know what it doesnt bother me. I came I saw and I was inspired. Shit where I work we make cartoons for this channel and it just seems weird to have Burning Man cross with my daily grind as if the charcters in the cartoons we produce for preschoolers are in the green room with Larry? When my co-worker who frequents Coachella and used to make fun of me for being a dj says hes going to Burning Man in an RV I just had to laugh and say have fun dude! To him it was just a place to get fucked up and party. When he came back to work with stories from BM none of them were about the art or the people. To each his own I always say. But c'mon if the private, secret, holy journey you take every year is on TV then its not so sacred anymore is it? And all this talk about who was watching is missing the point I think. Just my two pennies.