Pilgrimage to Burning Man Begins

Can’t make it to Burning Man 2009 this year? Here are a few ways you can experience the event remotely through the wonders of the Interweb.

Man, this is the way life should always be
It's sort of amazing out there. There is a refreshing lack of general whiny uptightedness. There is almost no fear of sex or inebriant or personal expression (to a fault), no brittle dogma, no two-faced political scandal, no shrill Republican screeching. There is no money changing hands, no economy per se, almost everything is free, including and especially the art, which is everywhere, and copious, and very much like nothing you will see anywhere else on the planet.