Live From Burning Man

Brian Doherty is blogging from Burning Man and the results are up at Wired's web site. From his first dispatch, reporting on the arson of the Man that lit it up way ahead of schedule:

Larry Harvey, Burning Man's co-founder and director, was on a platform in his camp watching the eclipse when he noticed his Man on fire. Once realizing that the fire was under control and no one was apt to be hurt, he says, his immediate reaction was laughter.

The early burn, he said, will help show that the Man itself is "nothing but a wooden doll," and that the event is really about the joint effort of attendees to create it. It will turn this year's Burning Man into a "narrative of community and redemption" as the attendees get to see or assist in the public rebuilding of the statue, he said.

More posts will be up here. Doherty diavlogging about Radicals for Capitalism here.