We’re on our way home! Keep an eye out for PDFs.

We’re off to the desert today!  Half of us anyway. The rest of the staff will be departing on Monday. We plan to have PDFs of this year’s issues on this site for you to enjoy by then!

 

 

 

 

Burning Man zodiac tee shirts!!!

Nobody Likes a Sparkle Pony

Here it is, the very first Burning Man zodiac tee shirt!  One of our adoring fans has taken her dislike of sparkle ponies, and love of The Shroom, to new levels!  She’s created this shirt for sale in time for Burning Man. All proceeds will go to help fund The Shroom’s printing needs so we can keep the citizens of BRC informed of important information, like Larry Harvey being a shape-shifting vampire. Not to mention making sure the zodiac reaches the masses.  You can purchase the shirt here.  We hear the rest of the signs are in the works!

Shroom Fundraising drive!

Over the last forty-seven years at Burning Man, The Shroom has grown from a hand-mimeographed single sheet being handed out by a lone jester roaming the Playa to what Larry Harvey called ‘my favorite Burning Man moment of 2009′. (No seriously, between 1961-67 we only printed one copy of the Shroom. This of course excludes our 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis/Reefer Madness issue).

Since 2004, due to an increasing playa presence, the number of copies of each playa issue has increased more than two-hundred thousand percent from one copy to 400 of each issue. This year, the demand has grown beyond the ability of the people responsible for the project to afford to print it overnight on their day job’s color copiers.

This year, with your help, we will print a Sell-Out issue and a Rites of Passage issue in quantities large enough to spread playa-wide.

Our goal this year is to make sure that everyone on the playa who can read, laugh and laugh at themselves, and the sanctity of BM, can enjoy an issue of The Shroom. We estimate this number to be around 1000 people, but intend to print 10 times that number just in case.

The money we raise will be used to print copies. This year we’re aiming to have 10,000 total copies of The Shroom available in Black Rock City. That’s 5,000 copies of each issue, plus our special Burning Man Zodiac insert with 12 unique astrology signs specific to Burning Man.

Please donate generously here!

P.S. Larry Harvey is a shape-shifting vampire.

If you show us yours we’ll show you ours.

Every staff member sports this tattoo right on their arse.

We at The Shroom pride ourselves on knowing our audience. But simply knowing how to make you giggle, snort, wince, groan, grumble, or guffaw is just not enough for us anymore. We want to get personal. How personal? Great question.

We wanna see your ink. Email us a pic. Post to our FB page. We simply ask that it’s YOUR tat we’re getting and not something you googled or found on a ‘worst tattoo ever’ site. We’re hoping to feature a couple of the ones we like best in upcoming posts.  We’re also looking to create a Fan photo album just for you!  Anyone with tattoos of shrooms in any size, shape or form gets preferential treatment of course .

No need for head shots, unless you got yourself a beaut of a tat on your face. Pics of private parts and naughty bits are fair game so long as they’re inked and they’re yours. So no matter how old, new, significant, silly, sexy or odd your ink we want it! If there’s a story behind it, especially a funny one, we want to hear it. We may even hold a contest and make up some categories on the fly.

We’re pretty sure many of our burny friends and relatives are inked someplace, and we’re betting yours are as well. Bring ‘em along; the more the merrier.  Just have ‘em drop by the FB page and ‘like’ us so they can post.

To our readers, and especially our commenters: THANK YOU!

We love our readers; we adore our subscribers.

We APPLAUD our commenters! You are the conscience of the Burning Man community. You are the ones who make it possible to KEEP SHINING A LIGHT ON THE TRUTH!

We’ve been reading what you have to say on the WikiLeaks story with rapt attention. Do not hold back! Speak up, tell everyone what you really think! This WikiLeaks scandal is only the beginning. There are revelations of plans within plans yet to come. More lies, hypocrisy, greed, and other sordid affairs. It’s time to fight back and expose the New Burning Order for what it really is…

The Shroom’s first official corporate sponsor!

The Shroom is proud to be sponsored by Radiant Farms, the distributors of fine canned Unicorn meat products.  Make Radiant Farms Unicorn meat products a part of any magical diet. Fortified with sparkles (NOT glitter) Radiant Farms Unicorn meat is sure to put a smile on all of your campmates.  Let Unicorn meat from Radiant Farms supply your meal plan next year!

WikiLeaks to release classified BORG documents.

The Shroom has learned that Wikileaks has obtained classified BORG documents which will provide the Burner community with some stunning revelations. Our staff is going over the many tens of pages before we post them to carefully redact the names of anyone we know so they won’t be defriended by people on FB. We can’t say exactly when this extraordinary development will be posted publicly for our readers, but it will be soon.

WRITING CONTEST!!!!

The LA Times has pointed out the academic researchers have been attending Burning Man to conduct observations on the way our wonderful city ticks. As a result there’s been an increase in the number of academic papers and dissertations on the culture and phenomenon of Burning Man.

The Shroom wants to know what dissertations YOU can come up with!  We’ll start you off to give you an idea of what we’re looking for to get your snarkiest juices flowing. Please leave your entry as a comment. The winner gets an official Shroom tee shirt!

1. Anthropology: On the statistical constructs behind creating chaos, the gift economy and getting my dick sucked.
2. Abnormal Psychology: The Apotheosis of a Shirtcocker.
3. Sociology: Dubstep, Steampunks, and the emergence of douchebaggery in the counter-culture.

PDFs for All!

PDFs of our 2010 editions without needing a google docs sign in: http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/2/725410//ShroomDB.pdf
and 2:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/2/725410//ShroomDB_2.pdf

The Shroom 2010 is ONLINE!

Photo Illustration by Jason 1969

The 2010 Shroom is now available online for you to download! We are having some printing issues so there will only be a limited amount of copies on the playa.

Please download and print for your enjoyment on-playa and off, or for something to read on your ride up to BRC.

Issue #1 https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0w-de40rad6ZDZiZTU3OTgtZmJjNi00ZWFiLWIxOTItMmExMmI0YWEzYjlj&hl=en

Issue #2 https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0w-de40rad6ZWZlOWY2OTItN2Q0Ny00YmQzLWFjOWQtMjhkMzMwODY2NzY1&hl=en