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Photograph by Dustin Faulk.<\/p><\/div>\n

Last Friday afternoon, the first in a series of downpours began in northern Nevada just as Burning Man was preparing to wrap up. Life in Black Rock City, the temporary settlement created for the event, ground to a halt as the hard-packed desert clay turned into a particularly sticky species of mud. Wheeled vehicles from bedazzled bikes to fire-breathing art cars instantly became useless. For approximately two and a half days, festival organizers forbade travel into and out of the city. Burners were asked to conserve food and water, and to live out their espoused principle of radical self-reliance.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the lockdown dragged on, news reports from Black Rock City were limited and at times sensational. (Rumors of an ebola outbreak on Saturday were quickly debunked.) Social media commentary on the waterlogged festival was, predictably, infused with heavy doses of Schadenfreude. But one source struck a slightly different tone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

BMIR 94.5, a radio station which surfaces annually for the festival, quickly adapted its programming to the shifting conditions. The station\u2014located in a DJ booth in the makeshift city\u2014allowed walk-up studio guests to mingle with on-air callers from the \u201cdefault world,\u201d as attendees dub the universe beyond the Black Rock City gates. Over the long weekend, I periodically tuned in online from New York, listening for the vibes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every ten minutes or so, BMIR played a series of prerecorded PSAs. Some were earnest exhortations, if slightly surreal: \u201cPlease do not climb on art. There are muddy, unsafe conditions on playa and very limited mobile emergency services,\u201d one message went. \u201cAlso, refrain from entering the man.\u201d (This refers to the towering wooden effigy ritualistically set aflame at the conclusion of every festival.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But most bulletins were conveyed with a bit more panache. A lisping voice, sounding like a certain Scottish actor, delivered ground transportation updates. \u201cWell hello there, this is Con Seannery with information about the Burner Express: All buses have been postponed until further notice!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another recognizable character provided more general encouragement. \u201cPatient we must be to create safe conditions for the departure,\u201d X-Rated Yoda periodically announced in his swampy accent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes, PSAs were vocalized by a couple of self-described buttholes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDude, it\u2019s Butthole Steve!\u201d Butthole Steve intoned over a shredding guitar riff. \u201cI went wandering around on the playa last night without any gear to keep me warm or dry, and now I got trench foot on my butthole. It’s gotta be amputated! So stay warm, stay dry, don’t wander around without the right gear \u2026 or else you\u2019ll end up like me: Butthole Steve without a butthole.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Butthole Barb took to the airwaves over the <\/span>Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/span><\/i> theme music. \u201cHi, it\u2019s Butthole Barb and I just came down to BMIR to <\/span>complain<\/span><\/i>,\u201d she whined, \u201cbecause I have been looking forward to Burning Man all year long and I can\u2019t believe the man burn is canceled for tonight \u2026 ugh!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Still other announcements were more existential. Accompanied by eerie organ music, a deep voice\u2014could it be Con Seannery?\u2014recited the following verses of William Blake: \u201cThe Lamb misusd breeds Public Strife \/ And yet forgives the Butchers knife.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Once these bulletins ran their course, DJs looked for ways to pass the time on their live broadcasts. During a Sunday-afternoon set, DJ David Cooper, a professional comedian and radio host in the default world, phoned his mother on air to reassure her that things on the playa weren\u2019t as bad as they were being made out to be in the media. Then he quizzed her about her sex life on live radio. Why, for instance, is the vibrator kept on her husband\u2019s side of the bed?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows how to operate it,\u201d she replied, chuckling. \u201cI\u2019m challenged when it comes to those mechanical kinds of things.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s gatekeeping,\u201d said a cohost, who went by the playa name Red Scare.<\/span><\/p>\n

After saying goodbye to his mom and thanking her for being a good sport, Cooper returned to the nitty-gritty of life in Black Rock City. \u201cDon\u2019t eat too much fiber because those portapotties are gonna eventually become full,\u201d he advised. One of his cohosts pointed out that sanitation trucks had recently been seen servicing the portapotties. \u201cOkay, good,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cEat your fiber. No need to take Imodium. We are all clear.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, be kind to the porta-potties!\u201d the cohost said. \u201cYou can have a dick, but don\u2019t be a dick.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Above all, Cooper added, \u201cDon\u2019t be a Diplo,\u201d referring to the electronic musician who, along with the comedian Chris Rock, escaped Black Rock City while the gates were still closed on Saturday. (A \u201cfan\u201d happened to pick them up after they trudged six miles through the mud on foot, according to Diplo\u2019s Instagram.) Other celebrities waited to leave with the hoi polloi. \u201cChanning Tatum stayed put because he’s a frickin\u2019 national treasure,\u201d one guest noted.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Between studio banter, PSAs, and station identification\u2014\u201cBMIR, the voice of the <\/span>meow<\/span><\/i>\u201d\u2014DJs spun thematically relevant tunes. Isaiah Rashad rapped \u201cStuck in the Mud.\u201d The Carpenters sang \u201cRainy Days and Mondays.\u201d Once the gates to Black Rock City finally opened and cars began queuing up for what would be an hours-long exodus, Iggy Pop droned, \u201cI am a passenger \/ and I ride and I ride.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday morning, one cocksure studio guest gave departing burners a pep talk. \u201cWhen Woodstock got rainswept, people danced in the mud and helped each other out,\u201d he said. \u201cWe got that Woodstock spirit! We don’t want to ruin that story by having people do a kind of <\/span>Mad Max<\/span><\/i> exodus.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPractice tantric exodus,\u201d he went on. \u201cIf you ask the road for consent and it gives you a green light and the road says, \u2018Yeah, daddy, hit this shit,\u2019 then you’re going to have a great drive home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ben Schneider is a freelance journalist and erstwhile burner based in New York.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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