Raving For The Rich: Burning Man Can be Done in Relative Comfort if You're Elon Musk

By Dennis Romero Fri., Sep. 2 2011 at 4:56 PM

avramc

You can almost smell this photo.

We've never been tempted to feel the burn, frankly, because Burning Man is such a hippy affair, what with the pungent, sobriety challenged people and unpaved conditions. Not our idea of fun.

However, it turns out that the annual Black Rock psychedelic shindig, happening this week, can be done in a civilized way if you have the means. And we do mean means.

If you're Elon Musk, honcho at electric car company Tesla Motors and founder of El Segundo rocketship-maker SpaceX, you can rave in relative comfort:

The Wall Street Journal reports that Mr. Musk won't be smelling too many musky hippies during his stay in the Nevada desert. Because he has ...

... an elaborate compound consisting of eight recreational vehicles and trailers stocked with food, linens, groceries and other essentials for himself and his friends and family ...

Turns out Musk might not be the only one not-so-roughing-it.

Money quote from the WSJ:

Burning Man is like any other community, with "a lower class, a middle class, an upper class," says Dane Johnson, a Classic manager, standing outside the Musk compound. "We cater to the upper. People with money do not wish to stay in a tent."

Hey, Stinky Lovejones, pass Elon some Gray Poupon while your out in the sand barefooting to DJ Trancealot.

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Black Rock, Burning Man, desert, Elon Musk, festivals, hippies, Nevada, raving, rich people, SpaceX, Tesla

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Oranges

Does anyone else feel like they're in 3rd grade again reading the statements of this article?

Really Dennis, this is a pathetic excuse for written media and a waste of server space and bandwidth.

Apples

Great image caption, Dennis.

anonymous

The perverts ruin it for for everyone else---as usual.

James Arnold

Only way I would go to Burning Man. Otherwise getting excessive doses of alkali dust in your lungs

Kitty

Actually, the correct pronunciation and spelling would be: "...Grey Poupon whilst you're out in the sand..."

And, whilst we're on the subject, here is no sand. It's playa. It's radical self-expression out there, so express yerself by all means (necessary) but at least do it properly.

Philistines.

burningburningman

You betcha-- while the undercover ATF, DEA, local PD, and all the other PO's they have enlisted from three or four surrounding states shoot video,take photos, run plates, and basically wait for that radical self-expression to give them an excuse to exercise their right to oppressive self-expression. Meow!

craig hill

I believe the parasites sucking the bone marrow out of the rest of us in this police state are patrolling Burning Man looking fro, what, Mexicans? May they all be ID'd, rounded up and torched in the wicker man.