In a message dated 2/2/2005 5:30:49 PM Pacific Standard Time,
steve@syncro.org writes:

The link is not work safe, so click at your own risk.

This is off topic, but the e-mails from east-coasters ridiculing my last
post as exaggerated fiction leave me no choice but to defend my honor and
that of all syncronauts on the west coast.  I searched in vain for a pic
from the aforementioned corral to prove it was real, but no luck.  Instead,
i found a pic on the web from the following year, when instead of an old
west themed camp, Roland had an ancient Greece themed camp.  Remarkably,
the sculpture looks just as at home in a corral in the old west as it does
in ancient Athens.  But instead of a scantily clad woman, there is a winged
fairy riding it in this photo:

http://www.syncro.org/sitephotos/BMpenis.jpg  (caution, not safe for
viewing by followers of Jerry Falwell or Collin Powell, Jr.)

On the tech side, the sculpture has a commercial grade paper vibrator
inside of it....used to straighten and stack large paper stock.  It's like
the old motel beds with "magic fingers," except lot more powerful.

Anyway, i'm tired of everyone calling us californians "crazies" and "nuts,"
especially two balding, overweight guys from Cambridge.  We're perfectly
normal people.  Burningman is just a big backyard BBQ picnic for 35,000
people held in the desert, that's all.  Of course you will find syncronauts
there.
Hey Steve, how ya doin'?
I've got my tickets already !
And two day's ago I got to talking to my buddy at work,
telling him he really ought to go,
and, by golly the very next day,
he emails me telling me he just bought two tickets !
I'm proud of imm !!!
I'm always on the look out for list stickers,
so, hope to see you all there !!!
I'll be the bald headed old man in the florescent, Hot pink tutu !!!!
Nothing else on (of course ;o)
John C.
SLC, UT
85 burning bus !!!!