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Welcome to July everybody!  I guess it goes without saying that next month is…wait for it, wait for it, wait for it…National Romance Awareness Month!  Oh wait, maybe it’s that too, but it’s also Burning Man!  We are now exactly eight weeks to the day when TTITD begins.  And as always we like to begin these informative newsletters off with something Barbie Death Camp & Wine Bistro related.  Here is a video of our old piano being played at our camp.  Our new piano is even better, especially since the old one got completely trashed.  Playa dust will do that to musical instruments except, unfortunately, bagpipes.  Enjoy!
Let’s get right down to business and go over our wish list and the things we’re going to need on the playa.  If anybody can help with these items, please let Felony or me know ASAP.  First off, we need 6000 square feet of carpeting to keep the dust down in the central part of our camp.  Old crappy end pieces work just fine.  Most of the carpeting gets thrown away after the event so it needs to be replaced.  If you have an old “My Size Barbie” we need a few more to decorate the art vehicles.  We also desperately need a piano tuner.  Pianos go out of whack really easily on the playa and as you just heard, we pride ourselves on having the finest piano in the finest Village in Black Rock City. If you know of a piano tuner who’d like to join our Village we will supply for you and the tuner early arrival passes.   We need about five cases or 30-packs of extremely cheap and lousy canned beer for our daily Fizzball game.  And from The Volunteer Spot http://vols.pt/7gDcSz we need Moop Patrol people every morning, 12 more chili chefs for the Monday night chili cook-off, 5 cases of cheap champagne for the Naked Bike Ride & Pub Crawl and Pancake Pork-out, and another half dozen or so gas powered (preferably) grills for the Pancake Pork-out.  Please volunteer for something.  In order to get an early arrival pass you must have signed up for something to contribute back to Barbie Death Camp.
I mentioned our Fizzball game.  They will be held daily from about 12:15 p.m. until 1:00.  We have a new Fizzball Nazi!  Dima has stepped up and will take on that role.  And when he cannot make it or is in need of a rest, his two newbies (they are introduced below) will take on the mantle and if they cannot do it then I will step up and pitch in.  Nothing like naked Fizzball in the early afternoon to get the smell of Pabst Blue Ribbon or Keystone Lite thoroughly ingrained into your consciousness.
Speaking of volunteering, Christine will not be making it to the playa so we were in need for someone along with Teri to head up the Chili Cook-off Monday evening.  Mindy has stepped up and is anxiously looking forward to assisting Teri.  Like I just mentioned, we do need another dozen or so chili chefs, so if you’re looking for something to give back to Barbie Death Village and will be on the playa no later than Monday mid-afternoon, now is your chance to poison your, uh umm; I meant to say, now is your chance to shine.  Yeah, that’s what I meant.  You can contact Mindy or Teri.
Here’s a glimmer of sunshine for sure:  Work on The Cloud Car began this past weekend.  We need all local Villagers and Barbiebarians able to lend a hand to contact Jim or Rob  to make arrangements to work on the car.  We got a late start this year and need all hands available.  If we don’t get volunteer help, The Cloud Car might not make it out this year.  Please don’t let this happen!!!  Contact Jim or Rob right away.
Speaking of volunteering and art cars, we are always on the lookout for sober drivers for the mutant vehicles on the playa.  Last year we had people sign up ahead of time with mixed results.  We’re going to try it again this year and see what happens.  If you would like to drive The Cloud Car or Barbie’s Mobile Wh0reh0use, please send Chris with your name and which shift (8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. or 12:30 a.m. to when the cows come home) you’d like to work.  Having an art car is one thing, but with no sober drivers to man them they become somewhat superfluous.  Thanks for stepping up.
The BMOrg has changed its policy for Early Arrival passes.  I’m not sure this will necessarily change hardly anybody’s plans, but a heads-up is in order.  The passes are still good beginning at 12:01 a.m. Thursday morning, but they must be used by midnight Saturday/Sunday 12:00 a.m.  They might let people in on Sunday, but their attitude (which I happen to agree with, for a change) is you need to be in by Saturday to build your camp/village and since they open the gates around 6 p.m. Sunday anyway, people showing up on that day are essentially useless for actual work.  According to my records, right now only Mischa and Henk are scheduled to arrive on Sunday. You two, and any others planning to arrive on Sunday, need to plan ahead and decide which way you’re going to go.  Also with the EA passes, if you haven’t paid camp dues (the only exceptions are those of you from outside of the USA) when we reach our allotted limit of 107, you are in serious jeopardy of forfeiting your pass.  Once anyone who has already paid camp dues requests a pass we have no choice but to cancel those who are delinquent on their dues.  Fair is fair.  And now all dues are $100 and can only be paid via PayPal
We are now beginning to make preliminary steps of mapping out Barbie Death Village.  Unless you are in a theme camp where they place themselves (such as Dread Pirate Barbie, the Czech CORE Group, or Dye With Dignity) you must request placement through Rob .  Also you must have paid camp dues, naturally.  All requests should be divisible by 10 (for example, 10′ X 30′ or 20′ X 40′) and if you have special circumstances, such as arriving later in the week or needing to leave early, we absolutely need to know that so you can be placed along an access road.  Anyone not requesting a space will simply be put, at Rob’s discretion, somewhere in Loose Nutz.  Happily, there are no bad spots within Barbie Death Village.
It is the time of year when we begin piecing together our rides out to the desert.  There will be a caravan leaving Auburn/Newcastle at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, August 24th.  We will be stopping at the Donner Lake Rest Area around 9:45 (CA exit 176), the Sands Regency at 11:10, and the USA Parkway Minimart (NV exit 32) at 11:45.  As you can see we’re pretty anal about our scheduling.  Everyone with an early arrival pass heading in from California/Reno are welcome to join us.  We do have people still looking for rides out of the Bay Area any time and Reno on Tuesday afternoon after 4 p.m.  If you would like to be part of the Barbie Death Camp caravan please let us know within the next couple of weeks and if you can offer a ride we need to know ASAP.  And don’t forget, Indian Tacos in Nixon, NV are da bomb!  Here, I’ll prove it:
This is the last month to order your BDC&WB shirts and hats.  This is our only fundraiser to help defray the cost of the wine we so generously provide to the unwashed masses in Black Rock City.  They will be available to be picked up at the pre-party (more on that upcoming) or from Frank on the playa.  Hats are $17 and shirts are $22 and range from S to XXXL, men’s or women’s cut, tank top or regular tee, and either gray or pink.  You can order your swag from our website www.barbiedeathcamp.com.  Certainly they are destined to become collectors items…in about 120 years.
“So what’s this about a pre-party?” I hear you cry.  Yes, our annual Burning Man pre-party, which will be attended not only by our fellow Barbiebarians but also burners from up to six other camps, will be held on Saturday, August 17th beginning at 4 p.m. at Doc’s humble abode, 8577 Balmoral Drive, Newcastle CA.  Directions upon request.  We will not only be handing out shirts, hats, and early arrival passes, but will be loading the piano and foosball table onto the flatbed, checking out and packing out “new and improved” shower, organizing the various trailers, cooking up hamburgers and drumsticks, pouring margaritas, and the swimming pool will be open.  Because this is mostly a “family friendly” event, swimsuits must remain on until, oh I don’t know, say sundown.  Or thereabouts. Feel free to invite other burners in the general Sacramento-Placer region as a splendid time is guaranteed for all.
Just a brief word on bike rentals.  According to the ePlaya on the main Burning Man website, Rat’s Bikes in Reno seems to be either out of business or in the business of ripping off burners.  They are not returning calls/emails, refunding deposits for bikes, or much of anything else for that matter.  If you plan on renting a bike, go to the link below.  I guess he’s called Rat for a reason.
And before we close, I promised the Israeli CORE group that I’d show them some love.
Now on to the introduction of newbies.  From Seattle, Dima has invited Gooch and Cheese ; joining Meercats is Yuri ; from Walla Walla, who just turned 21 three weeks ago, welcome Ty ; from Granite Bay an old friend of BDC&WB welcome Guy ; just what we need, more Australians, please welcome Mark , Matt , Anna , Matt ; Jon , and Liz ; with Mel welcome Kerry ; with Will another 18 Aussies including Verity , Zoe , Lily , Adelle , Anthony , Oscar , Jessica , Sara , Huw , Thomas , Jia Jia , Laura, Holly , Michelle, Elliot, Tim , Chai , and Will Bill; meet Dutchman Edwin and his Columbian girlfriend Lucia; with Russell and Sachi from San Francisco here are Talina and Damian ; from Germany joining up with Ansgar say hi to Thomas , Matthias , Sara , and Stefan ; joining Misa with the Czech CORE Group please give a warm welcome to Linda , Martin , Pavel , Tomas , and Hana ; and from Seattle welcome Vortex and Poppet .
And in case anybody’s keeping count, I show 77 people coming from outside the USA, not including Canada.  Wow. Welcome everybody!
The Man burns in 61 days )’(
Respectfully submitted,
Doc Pyro and Felony Arson

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Thursday, June 27th, 2013
Doc Pyro – This sucks. Our three main generators, the 5500-watt for the camp and the two 2500-watt gennies for The Cloud Car and Barbie’s Mobile Whorehouse were stolen. So now we have to spend a buttload of money to replace those gennies that had been paid for just to get the basic infrastructure up and running. This not only really sucks but completely screws our budget. If anyone has a suggestion (we’re looking at Craigslist today) I’d love to hear it.
Bobbin – If you can possibly afford to squeeze in a few extra dollars to help replace these it would be a big help.  Just use the BDC Gear link at the top of this page to get to the donate button. http://barbiedeathcamp.com/2013-barbie-death-camp-and-wine-bistro-gear/
 
Welcome to June everybody!  I know it isn’t quite yet June, but it will be in three days.  And with the deadline approaching for the increase in camp dues, Felony and I wanted to make sure everybody has the chance to get in on the discounted rate.  More on that upcoming.  But first, we like to start these brilliant tomes off with something Barbie Death Camp related.  There are a few pictures of our wonderful camp, and if you scroll all the way down there is a brief description.  Maybe we’re not portrayed in the most favorable light imaginable, but all publicity is good publicity, right?
This is the time of year when things really start jumping, and let’s start off first with the subject of art vehicles.  This is where if not a majority, then certainly a plurality of your dues go.  People begin to have what has been described as “Theme Camp Amnesia”.  People forget just how much work is involved in getting the various mutant vehicles ready for the playa.  Indeed, most of you (and this is true for everyone in all of Black Rock City) haven’t laid hands on the actual labor of piecing together one of these extraordinary and expensive mobile works of art.  It takes a helluva lot of work!  We recognize that over 70% of you live further than a 75-mile radius of Sacramento and are therefore “geographically undesirable” (as my old girlfriend from Mission Viejo used to accuse me of) for being much use for labor.  But for the rest of you, please try to free up at least a weekend or two over the summer to help out.  I am reminded of the story “The Little Red Hen“.  In the tale, said hen finds some grains of wheat and asks for help from the other farmyard animals to plant them.  No animal volunteers to help. At each subsequent stage (harvest, threshing, milling and baking) the hen again asks for help but again she gets no assistance.  Finally, when hen has completed her task, she asks who will help eat the bread.  This time, all of the previous non-participants eagerly volunteer.  However, she declines their help, stating that no one aided her in the preparation work, and eats it with her chicks, leaving none for anyone else.  The moral of the story is that those who show no willingness to contribute to an end product do not deserve to enjoy in the end product.  As it says in Scripture, “If any man will not work, neither shall he eat.”  That said, you can contact either Jim McAlister , Cap’n Joe , Felony , or Mike  and learn where and when you will be needed.  If we don’t get them properly mutated to pass DMV muster, they will not be taken out to the playa and that, ladies and gentlemen, would be a damn shame.  And for those of you who are “geographically undesirable” an extra donation for the building and decoration would go a long way to assuring their arrival on the playa.
We have an open space in a luxury trailer for an individual looking to have all of the creature comforts at their fingertips!  Currently Jewellee, James, and Randy want one person to join them, male or female, it doesn’t really matter.  It will be available should you have an Early Arrival pass.  To learn more about the specifics involved, please contact Jewellee directly.
Speaking of Early Arrival passes, now would be a good time to talk about that.  We still haven’t heard back from the BMOrg on how many we are going to receive, but we have requested 117 of them.  We need to set aside 10 “for emergencies” like for the people who haul out our infrastructure or are laying out the grid of the Village.  We have 18 left to award.  Should the BMOrg not give us what we have requested, many of you (mostly newbies who have asked for passes) will not be allowed into the city until midnight Sunday/Monday.   Hopefully it will not come to that.  You have to request a pass in order to be put on the list!  Do not go in with the attitude that “Felony and Doc know I need a pass!” because we don’t know that!  With so many people in the Village, and many of you are Rangers, with CORE, or perhaps DMV all of whom can get EA passes elsewhere, it is impossible to keep track of each and every one of you.  Frankly, we’ve stopped even trying.  If you’re not sure whether or not you’re on the list, contact me and I will respond to you on Tuesday.  And if you have requested Early Arrival but now don’t need it, please let us know that as well.  These things are like gold on the playa.  And remember, if you want an EA pass, you have to have signed up on the Volunteer Spot with your first and last name (see below) to work while there. If we wanted any more freeloaders I’d have myself cloned.
As many of you know we have instituted a new event on the playa, the Tour de Franzia.  And you also may be aware that our in-house mad scientist Wildman will be bringing along his liquid nitrogen to instantly freeze whatever needs to be frozen.  He has developed a system whereby he can follow along the TdF’ers and quick freeze grapes.  But he needs your help.  If you can volunteer to bring along several pounds of seedless grapes, he would be most obliged.  I can just about hear his maniacal laughter right now. Speaking of the Tour de Franzia, Henk is making shirts for everyone who is involved in the event.  Anybody who might like to help him or contribute to his art, please contact him directly.  Keep in mind he’s coming in from Holland and is a newbie, so any guidance you can offer would be most appreciated indeed.
All right, let’s get dues out of the way.  They are currently $75 but will go up to $100 at midnight on Saturday.  If your envelope is postmarked June 1 or earlier, or if we receive your dues via PayPal prior to the first, you get the discounted rate.  Anybody coming in from outside of the USA who hasn’t otherwise paid via PayPal can simply pay $75 in cash on the playa, though we would really appreciate the dues before then.  You can access PayPal (please add $3 for their usurious fees) .  The next dues increase to $125 begins August 24.
Many of you are into social media, and we Barbiebarians are always on the front lines of these sorts of developments.  Everybody knows by now we have a website www.barbiedeathcamp.com.  Did you also know we are on Facebook?  Yes, Barbie Death Camp has a FB page.  Go ahead and like us, even if you don’t.  Also use the website to order your Barbie Death Camp tee shirts and hats.  We really do need to sell a few more shirts, m’kay?
As most of you know, we map out the Village so everybody has a reserved space.  If you have not requested placement, please contact Rob [email protected] so you are on the list.  Make sure your space request is divisible by 10 (for example, 10′ X 30′ or 20′ X 50′).  If you know you will be arriving late in the week, no worries.  We will assign you a space alongside one of the access roads so arriving late or, heaven forbid, leaving early will not pose a logistical problem.
It’s always nice to talk about the events we have planned for during the week.  I want to take a moment, talk a bit about each major event and the go-to person in charge, and what we need.  You can email the main coordinators of the event if you have a question or comment and check out our Volunteer Spot http://vols.pt/7gDcSx to see what else is required. SATURDAY (before the gates open):  Pizza feed for everyone in early who is help setting up camp.  SUNDAY (before the gates open):  Lasagna feed for everyone in early who is help setting up camp. Thank you Drew and Mindy.  MONDAY: The Annual Chili Cook-off and Cornbread Bake.  We need no fewer than 12 chili chefs and preferably closer to 18.  Teri and Christine are in charge.  TUESDAY: The Tour de Franzia (everyone needs to bring their own box of wine to gift), and we could use somebody to head that up.  Also The Greeters Shift, 8 p.m. to Midnight.  Burny is our leader for that.  WEDNESDAY: This is a biggie.  We start off with the Naked Bike Ride & Pub Crawl in which Vulture Chow and Sharen are in charge of.  The Volunteer Spot shows we need three cases each of white wine, red wine, and champagne; experience has shown we need at least that much.  Those nudists get thirsty!  Also the ePlaya Meet & Greet is that evening and Mel is the mistress of ceremonies .  Everyone who attends this private social is required to bring either something to eat, drink, share, or ice. THURSDAY: Our second Tour de Franzia and in the morning we have both the Black Rock City Yearbook Picture and our Crumpagne Village Social (a good time to get your drunk on is 10 a.m.) of which Felony and I are in charge of.  FRIDAY:  Everyone’s favorite all-day activity, painting the lovely sirens of Black Rock City for Critical Titts.  Luis is “in charge” but everyone can volunteer as the mood strikes.  And for some of you the mood strikes often.  SATURDAY:  Our biggest single event, the Pancake Pork-out where we will serve between 200 and 300 people pancakes, bacon, coffee, Bloody Mary’s, mimosas, and more bacon.  We’re still in need of gas grills and cooks, champagne, and a few odds and ends.  Reece is squarely in charge.  And after The Man burns, our annual on-playa weenie roast where we will serve between 300 and 400 hot dogs (with condiments) to the hungry and unwashed masses.  Felony is looking for people to help her out with this.  And EVERYDAY we have Fizzball (we need a Fizzball Nazi!) in the noon hour, MOOP Patrol from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m., lumpia feed at midnight, and of course wine!  Also Barbie’s Day Spa will be open to cater and indulge our visitors, Dye With Dignity will be dyeing away, and rumor has it the Ohio Boyz will be having their famous jello shots on a daily basis as well.  Sounds decadent indeed.
A quick word about rideshare.  We have people needing rides to and from the playa.  Currently we have one lady from the Bay Area/Tiburon looking for a ride any time, an Aussie needs a ride from The Sands after 4 p.m. on Tuesday, and one of our newbs needs a ride from The Sands Friday or Saturday.  We will be caravanning from Sacramento/Auburn and will be picking people up in Reno around 11 a.m. on Saturday. My RV has eight in it so it is full to the brim.  If you can offer a ride or need one, please contact me and I will try and match you up with those in need.
It looks like we’re being invaded by Aussies!  Last year we had 15 people in our Village from the Land Down Under, several of which resembled large flesh-colored marsupials.  I just heard from Will and besides the three veterans with him, he’s looking to add an additional 15 Australians.  If my count is correct, that puts us at 28 Aussies.  So we’ll be long on vegemite but short on people who actually speak American.  Uh, I mean ‘Merican.
This segues nicely into the introduction of newbies.  From NorCal, let me welcome Tremor newbie Elisabeth would like to introduce from Mexico Gabo , from France Lea , and from the USA Jeremy ; Aurelia has two international newbs currently living in San Francisco, Sieglinde originally from Germany  and from the Czech Republic Simona ; from Australia welcome Ben and Amie ; locally Brendan and Warren are bringing in a host of newbs, Michael , Jay , Stephanie , Sonia , and Susan ; from Pennsylvania welcome veteran burner Cammi ; joining Dye With Dignity from Sonoma are veteran burners Sachi , Russell , and east coast newbies Steve , and Tine ; with Meerkats welcome Brian ; Steve and Carrie have extended an invitation to Terry and Moses ;  and coming in with Steve Davis welcome Liz .
The Man burns in 94 days )’(
Respectfully submitted,
Doc Pyro and Felony Arson

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Sunday, May 19th, 2013

Help is needed getting the cloud car in shape for this years burn. Contact Capn Joe at capnjoesmarine(at)yahoo.com

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

Welcome to May everybody and this month’s enlightening Barbie Death
Village newsletter. I am reminded of the quote from Edwin Way Teale:
“The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible
in May.” Ain’t that the truth? I was considering quoting Tom
Lehrer, but that may have been too deep for some of you. As is our
wont, we like to start off these newsletters with something Barbie
Death Camp related. Here is the third, and final, installment in a
series of videos of life in and around our camp and the playa. They
cover everything from Critical Titts to Burn Night. Suffice it to
say some of them remain Not Safe For Work. Enjoy!

http://sharing.theflip.com/session/6161e97f6dbabedc87951cd7bb0abd6b/video/159228501

We would like to begin with trying to help one of our camps within
the Village. Dye With Dignity has launched their Indiegogo project,
which is a fundraising technique in order to supply the scarves and
dyes which they so generously give to the burners who drop by their
camp. Their goal is $3500 and as of this writing are about half way
there. They are also awarding some nice prizes for those who donate.
Please click on the link below and try to help your fellow Barbiebarians.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dye-with-dignity

Staying on the general theme of camps within the Village, we have
a few modest changes. First off, Eden has reinvented itself and will
from this point forward be known as Meerkats. You know, like the Kalahari
Desert weasel. I learned all I know about them from the show Meercat
Manor on Animal Planet, but I digress. Mel has formed a brand new
theme camp called Camp P6. I suspect it will be something like an
Australian ghetto with art. We shall see soon enough.

Many of you will recall we had the Lithuanian CORE Group in our Village
last year. This year we’re going one better! Misa is having the Czech
CORE Group staying in Barbie Death Village and they will be making
a 15-foot tall beer stein which will be incinerated along with the
other CORE projects on the open playa Thursday night. There will be
about 10 members of the group in all. Their motto ought to be, “We’re
the Czech CORE Group: Better Beer, Fewer Terrorists.” It’s nice
to see we are keeping our international presence within the Village.

Felony and I wanted to take a moment and go over what your dues
cover. The veterans certainly already know, and those newbies who
received the January newsletter also have a clue. We will not go over
everything, space won’t allow it, but we do want to touch upon a few
things that may not just jump right out at you. The Village supplies
glowstix every night, or as we like to say, Individual Darkwad Prevention
Stix. We hate to see you getting run over in the dark. Well, at least
most of you. We will be supplying 200 gallons of gasoline, though
some of that will be donated. Thank you Chris. Plus around 300 gallons
or more of propane for the fire cannons. We had to buy another piano
and foosball table, and the piano needed to be tuned. Every night
at midnight we have a lumpia feed. They just don’t give away Fizzball
beer, we tend to supply some champagne for parties during the week,
our BRC ovals that we hand out are expensive, art truck insurance/registration/decoration
is a huge expense, Barbie storage runs $1300 a year, even the pizza
supplied to those who have Early Arrival and set up the Village is
a tidy expense. And on it goes. What most people take for granted
has been paid for by somebody, and that somebody is you. We appreciate
all the support we get; we cannot thank you enough.

With so many people coming in not only from the USA but all over the
world, occasionally the idea of sharing storage space comes up. Vulture
Chow, who hails from New Jersey, is looking for campmates to share
a storage unit in Newcastle next to where we keep all the Barbie stuff.
If you pay for a year in advance they give a 10% discount. Rather
than hauling out tents, sleeping bags, ice chests, etc. year after
year, it might just be easier to haul it back to Newcastle and store
it there. You would need to arrange retrieving it the following August.
A small unit rents for around $600, or split three ways somewhere
around $200 apiece. If you have an interest contact Vulture Chow.

We have a winning design in our tee shirt competition! One of our
newbies from Belgium, Mischa, has done a wonderful job. I’m not able
to cut and paste the design here, but the design can be seen on our
website. We had a tie for runner up: Big Dane and Carrie will each
be awarded a free shirt as well. If you want to order a shirt the
links are up and running on our website www.barbiedeathcamp.com .
Sizes are from S to XXXL, men’s or women’s styles, regular tee or
tank top, and in either pink or gray. Proceeds from the sale of hats
and shirts helps defray the cost of the wine we so generously pour
for the dusty denizens of Black Rock City. Hats are $17 and shirts
are $22.

We have added another Tour de Franzia event onto the playa calendar.
Tuesday afternoon, as well as Thursday, from 4 until 6 we will be
inflicting cheap wine on the unwashed masses of BRC. This is a new
event and surely will become a favorite every year. Please go to our
Volunteer Spot link http://vols.pt/7gDcSz
to add your name to the festivities. We can accommodate another 25
riders! Speaking of the Tour de Franzia, Felony and I would like to
thank Just Henk (yet another newbie from Belgium) for designing and
gifting to our camp jerseys that will be worn by all who ride in the
event! We’re keeping a lid on the final design, but our absurd
corporate sponsors will surely be proud. If you can somehow assist
with the shirts, contact Henk.

We still have some items on our Wish List. We are in need of a few
more My Size Barbies, you know, the ones that stand about 3 feet tall.
Between being dropped 4000 feet while skydiving to getting run over
by mutant vehicles, they seem to get trashed every year. If you have
one or see one at a garage sale, please snag it. Since they retail
for about $200 apiece, there’s no room in the budget just to run out
and buy them. We also still need a piano tuner for on playa tuning
of our new piano. If any of you know someone coming to Burning Man
who is also a piano tuner, and they would be a good fit for our modest
little village, please extend the invitation. They and you will be
guaranteed early arrival passes. We also are now looking for wine
and champagne to give out for the Naked Bike Ride & Pub Crawl.
We need three cases each of white, red, and champagne. If you can
donate please contact Vulture Chow or Sharen or link it to our Volunteer
Spot
.

This would be a good spot to remind people about our Barbie Death
Village Reno hotel deal for 2013. If you need a cheap place to crash
before, during, or after TTITD (and it is an excellent place to meet
up with people who are looking for rides) consider the Sands Regency.
Sure it’s a dump, but it’s our kind of dump. They have taken down
several floors just for us! Here are the dates and rates, not including
taxes: Friday August 23 and Saturday the 24th: $57; Sunday August
25 through the 29th: $27; Friday August 30 to Sunday, September 1:
$57; and Monday September 2 to Thursday the 5th: $27. They have free
shuttles to and from the airport, a free Jacuzzi, sauna, steam bath,
large swimming pool, and ice machines on every floor. The rooms are
mostly double queens (there are a few kings available) and hold up
to four people, 12 if you’re sponsoring the orgy. You will need to
call (866) FUNSTAY [(866) 386-7829] and ask for BURN13. Also, for
those of you staying after the burn, Kevin and Jonathan from Belgium
will be hosting a party, so get ready to keep your groove on! Membership
has its privileges. Holy moly, is everyone from Belgium?

Dues are due. We have already received money from about 50 of you
and for that we thank you. Dues are currently $75 but go up to $100
a month from today, so don’t procrastinate! If you are coming from
outside of the USA you may simply pay $75 cash once you hit the playa.
The rest of you can either send them in by mail to Jim Jacoby or via
PayPal . If you use PayPal please add $3 for their outrageous fees.

Before I close this newsletter out, there’s something my good friend
and fellow Barbiebarian Dyna-Lite (many of you just know him as Chuck)
once told me: “Barbie Death Camp is the closest thing that Black
Rock City has to royalty.” And you want to know something? He’s
right. We have been called everything from royalty to rock stars,
and perhaps a few unmentionable things in between. We are the lap
of luxury but we do not take our status lightly. Probably not the
best idea to start believing our own press releases, even if they’re
true! All I can say is that it is good to be us.

Now to our introduction of newbies. Steve and Carrie would like us
to welcome Ruben and Katharyn ; locally I would like to introduce
Mike , from Arkansas Lolly and Amy , and from Mississippi Brittney
; joining Dye With Dignity is an old friend and wily veteran Elorrum
; Mel is bringing into the fold yet another Australian James who in
turn will be bringing in four Brits: Helia , Bleddyn , Dan , and Dilly
. Welcome to BDC and Dye With Dignity, a long-time playa and ePlaya
veteran CfM who also is known as as well as Emma Berry who is I am
assured “…made of awesome…”; Felony would like
to say howdy to Meghan and Ross, who go by the playa handles of Megatron
m and Magician .

The Man burns in 122 days. )’(

Respectfully submitted,

Doc Pyro and Felony Arson

NOTE! – For safety all personal contact information has been removed  before posting this.

Monday, April 22nd, 2013

I am working on getting our web site up to date and having some trouble
with the photo page. All the photo links prior to 2009 are broken
and I assume the yahoo account they were hosted on has been closed.
Anyone who has info about that please contact me. Furthermore no links
have been added since 2009 so basically all we have are photos from
2009 at this time.

Meanwhile if you have a photo collection from any year and would like
to have it linked from our web site please pm
me
or post a link here. Please include the year of the collection
(if known) and the name of the photographer.

Bobbin

Welcome to April everybody. Yeah, yeah, I’ve heard it all before: April
showers bring May flowers which in turn bring allergies. Well here’s
nothing to sneeze at: This month’s engrossing Barbie Death Village newsletter!
As always we try and start out with something Barbie Death Camp related,
and this month we have the second in a set of three video montage groups
of life in and around our wonderful camp. Some of these are very not
safe for work, so let the viewer beware. They cover the events from
the Naked Bike Ride & Pub Crawl through the ePlaya Meet & Greet.
Enjoy!

http://sharing.theflip.com/session/ff1a7b94b80d9493cf80623c285f5dd0/video/159226031

Let’s begin on a happy note and talk about tickets. So far it seems
that most everybody who needed tickets have gotten them. Our inside
"tickets wanted-tickets for sale" method seems to be working.
We started out having four extra tickets, all of which have found a
nice home. I’m sure Robert, Angela, James, and Crash’s friend Jim are
delighted. If you have an extra ticket for sale let me, Felony, and
Mel know and we will find a home for it with a Barbiebarian (or friend
of BDC&WB) having the first crack. We do look out for one another.

It’s never too early to start planning the heavy logistics for TTITD.
It looks like we have our water situation handled. We will be (hopefully)
receiving upwards to 500 gallons of water on the playa from one of our
circle of friends, and Tinkermom will be bringing up another 100 gallons
or so. That, along with some conscious recycling, should keep our shower
running for the duration of the week. Wildman has been working on a
new power system, using a generator rather than batteries, to power
the sprayer and it should be up and running the moment we hit the playa.
Though here some compromises have been made, and these decisions were
made with your feedback over the winter. Last year people took entirely
too long in the shower, mainly because we had the vanity screens up.
This year there will be modesty curtains, but likely only from the knees
to just above the waist. Hay, it’s Burning Man, if nudity offends you,
go to Disneyland. Also we are going to implement a "gentleman’s
agreement" that showers last no longer than four minutes, six if
you’re "showering with a friend". And please try to keep the
water usage under three gallons. Last year the line at times was five
people deep and that is unreasonable. If you want a longer shower, bring
your own. And to be on the safe side, you should probably also plan
on bringing in water of your own. To quote Robert Burns: "The best
laid plans of mice and men oft times go awry."

The other heavy logistic is the transportation of gasoline. We will
be needing, if last year is any indication, 200 gallons of gas. This
is to run the various generators and mutant vehicles. We do have barrels
that can carry at least half of that, but they will need to be towed.
The balance will be brought up in 5 gallon plastic containers unless
somebody has a better idea. They will be filled at the mini-mart at
the USA Parkway exit in Nevada, shortly after Sparks. If you can haul
out our gasoline, please let us know as soon as possible. Anyone hauling
out the gas (and other camp-related items) will be at the top of the
list for Early Arrival passes.

Which segues nicely into the subject of EA passes. Last year we had
117 of them, all of which were taken. There is no guarantee how many
the BMOrg will award us this year, but we cannot assume we’ll be receiving
any more than that and could end up with fewer. A lot fewer. That’s
a problem you can encounter going from solid green to yellow on the
MOOP map. If you want to be on the Early Arrival list you must sign
up. We will not just take for granted you need a pass. Email me and
I will put you on the list. There are criteria on who gets a pass; simply
because you request one doesn’t mean you will necessarily receive one.
There five are levels: 1) Anyone hauling out the Village infrastructure
and those mapping out the Village get first priority; 2) Those with
seniority who have been dues-paying members of the Village get the next
tier; 3) Those driving the furthest or those flying in from outside
of the western United States catching a ride with someone who needs
to arrive early are next in line; 4) How much do Felony and I like you;
and 5) Lottery. It will not get to five. And remember, you must also
volunteer for a work detail to obtain an EA pass. Please use our Volunteer
Spot link to sign up: http://vols.pt/7gDcSz .

We have begun organizing ride shares. If you can offer a ride, please
let me know from where you’re coming from, which day you can give the
ride, and how many you can take. If you need a ride please be as specific
as possible with when you are available and where you can be picked
up. And may I strongly suggest you also list rides offered on the Volunteer
Spot. It’s always good to have an extra layer of bureaucracy when it
comes to logistical considerations.

I have excellent news for the art vehicle. We have a place to work on
The Cloud Car! And in a further bit of serendipity, it will be at the
same place Kara and Steve’s creation Gunther the Six-Legged Bison is
being worked on. I want to say thank you to Mary for putting her place
up for our use in Citrus Heights. Come May we will begin mutating the
vehicles again and we really need all the help we can get. If you can
help please contact Cap’n Joe . And should things change (they seem
to do with an annoying degree of regularity) keep your eyes and ears
open for other places to work on our crafts. You can’t be too careful.

It is time to begin to seriously think about space and placement within
the Village. Like last year, we will map out the entire area in 10′
X 10′ sections and you may have as much space as you reasonably need.
For example, an RV might ask for 20′ X 40′, a set of yurts 30′ X 30′,
or a theme camp like Dread Pirate Barbie may well request 70′ X 70′
with frontage along the "numbered road". Be as specific as
you can. If you need street frontage, or are fine being inside the Village
perhaps along an access road, we need to know that. We will be on 3+
acres (last year we had over 190,000 square feet of prime playa real
estate) so we can accommodate almost any request. Please send all space
requests to Rob . The earlier you put in your request the greater your
chances of having the wish granted.

One of our very popular sub-camps, Dye With Dignity, is looking for
pictures from 2012. If any of you have taken any shots of DWD, especially
earlier in the week when the line was around the block awaiting to get
some personal dying done, please send them to Tamara.

Being the most popular theme camp and village on the playa takes a certain
toll. But what it does promise is a planned activity every day of the
week. For the benefit of our newbies and to refresh the nostalgic memories
of our veterans, here is what we currently have planned: MONDAY: Annual
chili cook-off and corn bread bake; TUESDAY: Greeters Shift from 8 p.m.
until midnight; WEDNESDAY: Naked Bike Ride & Pub Crawl, Annual ePlaya
Meet & Greet; THURSDAY: Tour de Franzia, Black Rock Yearbook picture,
Village breakfast time crunk-pagne social; FRIDAY: Black Rock City Body
& Paint hosts Critical Titts; SATURDAY: Annual Village Pancake Porkout,
on playa weenie roast after The Man burns. And remember, every day we
will host Fizzball (we are still looking for somebody sober enough to
be in charge of this) and every night at midnight we have a lumpia feed.
And of course within the Village there are plenty of other activities:
the aforementioned Dye With Dignity dye shop, Barbie Day Spa will be
offering massages and facials, BDC&WB will be pouring wine all day
long, and plenty of other decadent and intoxicating events to kill even
the most steadfast of brain cells. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Camp dues are due. They are currently $75 but in two short months increase
to $100 unless you’re coming in from outside of the USA. They can be
paid either by PayPal using the email address (if you use PayPal, please
add $3 to cover their usurious fees) or by mail to: Jim Jacoby. Now
is also the time to buy shirts and hats. They can be purchased right
now (see the link at the top of this page) and run $17 for hats and
$22 for shirts. Shirts are from S to XXXL, men’s or women’s style, tank
top or regular tee, and come in either pink or gray. Remember, this
is our only fund raiser to supply the wine we so generously gift to
our fellow burners. We thank you for your support. We also have closed
the t-shirt design contest. We will be announcing the winning design
in May.

For those of you who crave creature comforts, we have a bed available
for one person in a nice trailer. It will run you $750 for the week
and will be available for early entry. Currently there are two men and
a woman in the rig, so there will be no more than four people. If you’re
interested email Jewellee.

We have our Black Rock Year Book 2012 picture! Check out page 64!

http://www.blackrockyearbook.com/2012/2012_files/BRY%202012%20v1.pdf

For those of you in the general Northern California area, Barbie Death
Camp will be a sanctioned camp at the Digital Renaissance Faire, May
23-27 in Pioneer, CA. You can purchase your ticket until they sell out
at the DRF website (just Google it). Though this is not a Burning Man-sponsored
event, the place will be loaded with burners and should be a lot of
fun. I know a bunch of our fellow Barbiebarians, including yours truly,
will be in attendance. So if you have nothing else to do over Memorial
Day weekend, like running the Calgary Marathon, come join us in Pioneer.
A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

Now on to the introduction of newbies. From Hawaii, please welcome Sigmund
; from Australia with Suzy please say ‘ello mate to Daniel ; Rob and
Yvonne are bringing along Ralph ; Alon and Kris have invited Dusty Ducky
; Big Dane has invited Dave ; from The Netherlands Wen is bringing along
Just Henk as well as Mischa ; Jewellee is being chaperoned by her father
Randy and his friend James ; I would like to welcome Mary and Brian
; and Crash is bringing in Jim and DeAnna .

The Man burns in 152 days. )’(

Respectfully submitted,

Doc Pyro and Felony Arson

Edit Note: I am getting the site caught up
with back newsletters. Any personal information such as street addresses,
phone numbers, or email addresses have been deleted for safety.

Welcome to March everybody! In like a lion, out like a lamb; beware
the Ides of March, and all that nonsense. Here we are on the Burnal
Equinox which means we’re half way home. So before we get into this
riveting issue of the Barbie Death Village newsletter, we like to
do something related to our wonderful Village. So for this and the
following two newsletters, we will have a dozen or so videos each
month which chronicle the week in and around BDC&WB. Not all of
them are safe for work (this is Burning Man after all), but enjoy!

http://sharing.theflip.com/session/b167d2bd44225ab6460c5c133b79283c/video/159221381

The first order of business has to do with one of our mutant vehicles.
Many of you who joined us last year will recall Cap’n Joe’s huge vehicle
"Hay You Get Onna Our Cloud", AKA The Cloud Car. For those
of you who haven’t seen it, visit the Barbie Death Camp Facebook page
and our camp’s picture was taken aboard and around The Cloud Car.
It can hold 30-40 people in comfort while tooling around the playa.
The problem is that it needs a lot of work. We had a large storm in
December that beat it up pretty well and it needs regular maintenance.
Right now it is sitting in Placerville and needs to be moved to Sacramento
and housed so it can be worked on. Everybody wants to ride on it,
but nobody really is interested in doing the hard labor necessary
to get it playa-ready. Unless we can find a home for it in the general
Sacramento region (preferably in a barn so it can be worked on out
of the blazing sun; we don’t need electricity, we have a generator)
it will be moved to Nevada and lost forever. Please, if you can see
your way clear to house The Cloud Car for a few months this summer,
and if you can spare a couple of days over the summer to work on it,
we really need your help. And I’m not kidding either. We could even
throw in a financial incentive if that helps. Pretty please?

Now on to other matters at hand. We have a change in one of the heads
of the Annual Naked Bike Ride & Pub Crawl. The lovely Rellie looks
like she will miss TTITD this year but gave us the head’s up well
ahead of time so we could find another person to, along with Sharen,
spearhead the arrival of the naked cyclists. I would like to thank
Vulture Chow for stepping up and heading this very important annual
event. I think it’s safe to say the arrival (and subsequent shenanigans)
of the inebriated hoards have been a highlight for many of us for
the past six years. Hay, you have your demented traditions and we
have ours.

We have arranged another stupendous deal with the Sands Regency in
Reno for burners travelling to and from the playa. Naturally Barbiebarians
get first crack at the rooms. For those arriving before the event
begins, from Friday August 23 to Saturday August 24 the rate is $57.
From Sunday August 25 until Thursday August 29 the rate is $27. From
Friday August 30 through Sunday September 1 the rate is $57. From
Monday September 2 until Thursday September 5 the rate is $27. In
order to reserve your room call (866) FUNSTAY [386-7829] and use discount
code BURN13. Each room can hold up to four people in two queen beds
(12 if you’re sponsoring the orgy) and there are ice machines on every
floor, free use of the spa which includes Jacuzzi, steam room, and
sauna, as well as tons of free parking. They even have a huge pool
for our enjoyment. And after the event Kevin from Belgium is going
to hold a post-Burning Man party which you certainly won’t want to
miss. As you can see, membership has its privileges.

Now another word about volunteering. As you may recall, Reece has
set up a Volunteer Spot site for us to use. In order to obtain an
early arrival pass, unless you are hauling out the camp’s infrastructure,
you must sign up to volunteer for a work detail. Setting up and tearing
down the Village are the most important, but working the Pancake Porkout,
working Greeter’s Shift Tuesday evening, organizing the Tour de Franzia,
heading up the daily Fizzball game, or being MOOP Patrol Nazis are
all important duties and must be headed up and manned by someone.
Someone like you. We have decided the simplest way to do this is to
have you, our fellow Barbiebarians, follow these three easy steps:
1) Click on this link to go to our BDV 2013 Volunteer Opportunities
invitation page on Volunteer Spot:
http://vols.pt/7gDcSz
; 2) Enter your email address (you will not
need to register an account on Volunteer Spot); 3) Sign up! Choose
your spots, then Volunteer Spot will send you an automated confirmation
and reminders. If you can’t manage to do this simple task, then you
really didn’t want early entry in the first place.

Since I just mentioned the Tour De Franzia, maybe I should explain
what this brand new activity is all about. We are looking at Thursday
from 4 until 6 in the afternoon, but if we have enough interest it
can be expanded to several other days, perhaps Tuesday and Saturday.
We need as many people as we can get to place a box of the cheapest
Franzia wine imaginable on their handlebars in a fashion that allows
the wine to be poured without having to be removed. We anticipate
every participant to have either a BDV shirt or "Tour de Franzia
Participant" shirt, and the group of riders pedal together very
fast (well, fast by our otherwise sloth-like standards) from camp
to camp dispensing wine from their handlebar box. Doesn’t that sound
like a hoot? You can sign up on the Volunteer Spot right now for Thursday
and we’ll expand it from there if there is enough interest.

Now let’s talk about money. We are coming up short for donations for
the box truck we wanted to buy for the good and welfare of the Village.
If you can see your way clear to toss in a few dollars into the kitty
for this very important purchase, please do so. This is particularly
important if you’re coming in from outside of Northern California
and, because of the logistical considerations that come with dealing
with great distances, wish to (as an example) contribute to the box
truck or to making the art vehicles properly playafied so you yourself
can ride around the playa in comfort, then damn it show us the love!
We have also stepped up, screaming and kicking, right into 2009. You
can now pay your dues and added donations to us via PayPal. We do
ask that if you use PayPal to add $3 onto your dues for their processing
fees. Or you can always simply write a check. Dues are $75 until June
1, except for those of you coming in from outside of the United States.
Make checks payable to Jim Jacoby

We are still looking for designs for the 2013 version of the Barbie
Death Village t-shirts. As of this writing we’ve had a total of no
submissions. If you would like to design this year’s shirt, please
email your creation to Frank the Vintner. Please single color only
(and that color should be black). The winning t-shirt design will
receive a free shirt (as well the first runner-up if in fact we have
a first runner-up). T-shirts and hats are now for sale on the main
Barbie Death Camp website www.barbiedeathcamp.com. Shirts are $22
and come in either gray or pink, men’s or women’s styles, tank top
or regular tee, from S to XXXL. Hats are $17 and are pretty much one
size fits all. This is the only fundraiser we have to pay for the
wine we so generously serve to our fellow citizens of Black Rock City,
so please everyone, buy a shirt, m’kay?

On our wish list is still the need for a piano tuner for our camp.
If you happen to know of somebody who would be a good fit to our Village
and can tune an upright piano, please invite them along. We will secure
for them (and for you) early arrival passes. Otherwise we have to
get the piano tuned off playa and run the risk of maybe finding a
tuner once we’re there to have it re-tuned, and I am not a big believer
that "…the playa provides…" because I have seen
plenty of occasions where it doesn’t. Oh, the playa is great at providing
us with Sparkle Ponies, but piano tuners? Not so much.

If you were wondering where our Village’s picture is in this year’s
Black Rock Yearbook, the answer is: I don’t know. It was due out six
weeks ago, but since the BRYB people hit the hookah more often than
Larry Harvey and his brain-dead stoned sycophants, it’s anybody’s
guess when it will arrive. But believe me, when it does (and if they
had their act together enough to actually include us) it will be linked
to that month’s newsletter. But for now, they’re still MIA.

I was recently asked if most of our members come from California.
The answer is no. Looking over last year’s data, out of 234 people
in Barbie Death Village, 86 were from California, or 37%. (None of
these numbers include the Burn Wall Street crew.) What was astonishing
is that 68 people, or 29%, came from outside of the country with Canada,
Australia, and Lithuania having 15 people each. 45 were west of the
Mississippi excluding California (19%) and 35 came from east of the
Mississippi (15%). What that says about our Village is simply this:
We are very inclusive and diverse and welcome people from all walks
of life. We do not care where you are from, your sexual orientation,
or your politics. What we care about is that you are a contributing
member to TTITD and show some self-reliance and aren’t a useless pain
in the ass Sparkle Pony. You all should be proud being part of the
best theme camp at Burning Man.

We do have a couple of lovely newbies looking to share an RV. Su from
London and her friend Suzy currently residing in China (nothing confusing
there) are looking to share an RV with somebody who has already secured
one. They will be flying into Reno and are happy to travel nearby
to meet up if necessary. They’re more than willing to share in rental,
gas, and clean up. So if you’d like to have two newbie ladies from
overseas gracing your presence, then please contact Su directly if
you have space.

And finally, let’s welcome the latest additions to our wonderful Village.
From Australia, Mel has invited along Jane and Andrew; from The Netherlands,
say hello to a real Dutch treat ; keeping it on the continent across
the pond from England please welcome Masterkyte and Finus Maximus
; Kevin from Belgium has invited a number of people, some of whom
are veterans, please welcome from Mexico Marko , Carola from Madrid
, Ryan and Lilli from Sydney , Hasan from L.A. , Kris and Alon from
the UK; Lucky420 and Dye With Dignity have brought into the fold Hentjie
Apag ; Felony has invited Mike ; and Amanda and Jake have invited
from Southern California Alise and another Mike .

The Man burns in 183 days. )’(

Respectfully submitted,

Doc Pyro and Felony Arson

Edit Note: I am getting the site caught
up with back newsletters. Any personal information such as street
addresses, phone numbers, or email addresses have been deleted for
safety.

Welcome to February everybody! I am on my way at this very moment to the Super Bowl in New Orleans to watch the San Francisco 49ers hopefully beat the Baltimore Ravens. For those of you who have been to Nawlens, either with me or on your own, rest assured I will have a hurricane at Pat O’Brien’s in your honor. Hurricanes and beignets: The breakfast of champions. Or something. But that has little to do with this month’s newsletter, so let’s move this along, shall we?

As always, we try and start this off with something Barbie Death Camp related, and this is what we have. A little something from the Urban Travel Blog. Enjoy!

http://www.urbantravelblog.com/feature/burning-man-festival

First off, let’s go over tickets. Two days ago the first-come, first-served Directed Group Sale began. They set aside 10,000 tickets for those of us lucky enough to be part of that program. As I had so correctly prophesized in last month’s newsletter, if there were any way for Larry Harvey and his stoned dreadlocked minions to screw up the process, they would figure it out. And they did. Instead of giving us an allotted number, in our case 72 tickets, they made everybody sign up for something called a Burner Profile and if you didn’t fill one out, you didn’t get in. End of story. I know not everyone of you did that because both Felony and I have received enough grief from many of you to last us all year. It was out of our hands, sorry. So if you did not get in on the original 10,000 please go to the main Burning Man website, fill out a Burner Profile, and at noon PST on Wednesday, February 6 you can sign up for registration for the next 40,000. Then on Wednesday, February 13 beginning at noon PST those tickets will go on sale on a first-come, first-served basis. But you must have filled out your own Burner Profile! If you haven’t done that or are unable to do that, well, no dust for you. Also, if you happen to have an extra ticket, please offer it to your fellow Barbiebarians and Village mates first. We look after one another because damn it, we care. Felony is the go-to person for ticket redistribution.

Next on the agenda is our Volunteer Spot. We encourage every one of you to check out our site at www.volunteerspot.com. Reece is heading this up and has done a wonderful job. If you have a question on logistics, contact Reece directly. Everyone who is awarded an Early Arrival pass must have signed up for a job on the Volunteer Spot site. There are no exceptions. We absolutely need to step up and get a MOOP team together for daily MOOP sweeps. Last year our camp got, shall we say, trashed and we want to avoid that unseemly happenstance this year. MOOP patrol will operate Monday through the following Monday, 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. We also need a coordinator for the Tour de Franzia and Fizzball, art car decoration upon reaching the playa (volunteers not coordinators), hot dog cookout and lumpia chefs. We also need people to sign up to drive the art cars, etc. If you want to contact the heads of some of our more pressing issues, for the Monday night chili cook-off and corn bread feed contact either Teri or Christine the Tuesday evening Greeter’s Shift contact Burny the Wednesday Naked Bike Ride & Pub Crawl is headed up by Rellie and Sharen the Wednesday night ePlaya Meet & Greet will be led by Mel the Thursday morning Black Rock Yearbook picture head cat-herder is Doc Friday’s Black Rock City Body & Paint for the lovely sirens for Critical Titts is led by (who else?) Luis the huge Saturday morning Pancake Porkout is headed up by none other than the man himself Reece; and the on-playa hot dog feed is still looking for a leader. Maybe that should be you? Set-up and tear-down will be led by Julia and Graidawg and our Trash Nazi is Wildman Rob and Tracy are heading up plotting out the village again. Rob will actually assign physical space, so make all requests through him and Tracy will map out the village once the BMOrg gives us our allotted acreage.

Now on to our wish list. We have procured a new piano, a nice upright. But what we have lost are our piano tuners. Freesponge and Fufa will not be making it back to the playa this year, so we are in the market for a piano tuner to join our camp. If any of you know a piano tuner that would like to go to Burning Man, feel free to invite him or her to join us. That would be their “volunteer” job and we will assign them an early entry pass for their efforts.

Something else on our wish list is a new foosball table. There was a huge storm the first weekend in December and our table got completely trashed. It was fun to mutate it and have Barbies as the foosmen, and we see no reason why we can’t do it again. The foosball table got a ton of use and should be replaced. If any of you have an in on a foosball table, the camp would be willing to purchase it, within our budgetary limits. Please let Felony know if you happen to know of one.

It’s time to start thinking about your 2013 Barbie Death Village swag! I’m specifically referring to shirts and hats. We are having another design contest this year, and the winning entry and first runner-up will receive a free BDC&WB tee shirt! Isn’t that exciting? Shirts are $22 and hats are $17, and may be purchased via PayPal on our website www.barbiedeathcamp.com once Frank gets it up and running. All proceeds will be used to help defray the cost of the wine we gift to the dusty denizens of Black Rock City. Shirts can be either gray or pink, tank top or regular tee, men’s and women’s cuts, from S to XXXL. For the design, please make it one color and email your creation to Frank at. All entries must be received by March 1.

We are still in the market for a box truck for our Village. We are taking donations to help defray the cost, which we anticipate will be between $4000 and $6000. This should be a one-time expenditure, less on-going DMV and maintenance fees. If you would like to help out, please donate what you can afford. Speaking of vehicles, if you joined us in 2012 you’ll remember the Hay You Get Onna Our Cloud art car that Cap’n Joe built. It was a large mutant vehicle that could easily hold 30 revelers in a double-decker configuration. If you ever wanted to run point with this mutant vehicle (decoration and design) and be the envy of Black Rock City (I mean, more so than we already are), here’s your chance. Contact Cap’n Joe at if you’re interested.

Now on to dues. We are already beginning to run up some expenses and a handful of you have already chipped in. We appreciate it. For the rest of you, the time is now. Until June 1 dues are $75, at which time they will increase to $100. Anybody coming in from outside of the United States, you can simply pay $75 on the playa. These are the only exceptions. Please send your dues checks and donations to: Jim Jacoby. Also, by next month I intend to have a link for dues to be paid by PayPal as well. Stay tuned.

I would like to introduce our Village newbies, or perhaps newbie wannabees. You might recall we are not actively pursuing new campmates this year, at least not until the early summer when we have a better handle on how many people will be gracing our modest Village. But there are a few folks that have been extended invitations by our fellow Barbiebarians. Allow me to introduce to you Winebuff, who was supposed to join us in 2011 and her friend Trena . Coming in from Belgium and a recent acquaintance of Jonathan and Kevin please welcome Hille . Felony has invited Karen and Jimmy . Frank has invited his son Isaac to join us . Kara has extended an Eden-like invitation to Robin . With Dye With Dignity please welcome Emma . Yaqui, who has been missed for several years, has invited Jessica , Melissa , Angie , Luis , Carisa , Mike and Cheri

The Man burns in 211 days. )’(

Respectfully submitted,

Doc Pyro and Felony Arson

Note: I am getting the site caught up with back newsletters. Any personal information such as street addresses, phone numbers, or email addresses have been deleted for safety.

The page for ordering your BDC tees and hats has been updated for 2013. Aside from being awesome shirts, the funds raised go to a worthy cause – supplying wine to Black Rock City. So be sure to dig deep and get a few, such as one for each family member and your dog. (Just a word of caution here – I can tell you from experience that they do not make a good 26th wedding anniversary gift).

Equally important are donations for camp infrastructure. If your finances permit, please consider making a Paypal donation for important camp needs such as mutant vehicles, box truck, trailer, repairs, purchases, gas, propane, etc…

The link is BDC Gear And Donations There is also a permanent link in the top nav bar of any page here for your convenience.

Bobbin