Dust and Illusions

Today I went to go see a movie about the Burning Man Festival called "Dust and Illusions" . I had heard about Burning Man in the past and had considered going this year. After seeing the movie I will not be going anywhere near the burning wheel. I think that it's hard for me to remember that even the coolest ideas will be slowly whittled away at over time and it hurts to see that happen. I felt like I was watching a documentry about NERO or about some of my favorite bands or fiction works. What happened to the Burning Man is that was focused on being outside of culture is now it's own clulture. Like when they tried to do Woodstock in 1994 and everybody was dissapointed that even though they had the biggest bands in the world there putting on a show there was not that spark that would make the whole thing work. The trouble with that spark is that it is not something that is easy to identify and sometimes it's not sustainable. One of the things that struck me most about Burning Wheel was the conversation that I had on the cliffside the last time that I was at batch. While we were sitting there on that rock there were people that were canoeing down the river and there were college kids partying in the next camp with 4 wheelers and the whole place stopped being somewhere special and it started being just another park like Racoon Creek or something like that. That feeling of loss was exactly what this movie brought out in me. I felt like while I was watching the movie I was seeing something that was dying and in some ways it was unavoidable.

And so it was...

Well I need to start writing. I don't really have a need to do game fiction and to be honest I'm not sure how rewarding that will be to me going forward. But I do need to get my thoughts in order and I need to practice writing and the only way to do that is by actually writing. I also think that I could do to be more open. So here goes nothing. I am going to try to do one entry a day of some reasonable length. Also I will post them each day instead of agonizing over them like I am want to do. So here goes.