2004 PolyParadise Camper Bios
 

Scotto - Camp Daddy

  • 100111  - STR8 - Married (Kathe)
  • Playa Name: Scotto
  • Where do you call home? - Phoenix, AZ
  • Been to Burning Man before? When? Yes - '00, '01, '02, '03
  • Camped with PolyParadise Before?    Yes - '00, '01, '02, '03
  • Why Burning Man?  - BRC is the Ultimate Party, a place to be free and to express yourself in what ever manner you desire.  BM has transformed my life!
  • Volunteer on the Playa? - Station Pimp @ Greeter Station, LNT CZAR for SLV

Kathe - Kitchen Guru

  • 40 - Bi - Married (Scotto)
  • Playa Name: PolyGoddess
  • Where do you call home? - Phoenix, AZ
  • Been to Burning Man before? When? Yes - '00, '01, '02, '03'
  • Camped with PolyParadise Before?    Yes - '00, '01, '02, '03
  • Why Burning Man?  - BM is the real culture that I would prefer to live in!!  So, each year I need a boost from the festival to bring those feelings into life away from the playa.
  • Volunteer on the Playa? -2004 / Bus Depot Co-Manager, Center Camp Stage Manager, BRC Ranger coordinator (Echelon), Fire Watch for Conclave (Great Circle)
  • Art Projects? 2004 / Interactive Portrait Studio

Bill - Able Camper

  • 48 - Str8ish - Married (Denise)
  • Playa Name: Sure would be nice to have one
  • Where do you call Home? Home San Rafael, CA
  • Prior Burning Man: '02, '03
  • Camped with PolyParadise: '02, '03
  • Why Burning Man? It's the only place I know where I can feed so many opposite needs. My need for community and solitude. My need for quiet and outrageous noise. My need for desolation and magnificent structure. And my need to DANCE!!!
  • Volunteer on the Playa? This year will be at PlayInfo Camp Specialities.: I have muscles that work but labor ain't a specialty.
  • Poly Paradise Favorite Moments: Wandering back into camp very late and very unstable every night - and there is Steve working magic with water - and providing a steadying upright pillar so I didn't fall in.
  • Art Projects? Working on some things... sure hope they don't melt in the sun.

  • 2004 Profile Update 2004 will be my 3rd year at Burning Man and my 3rd year with PolyParadise.
    I'm a keep to myself kind of guy, but this year I will be bringing my best friend out to the playa to re-connect with his crazy creative side.   Who knows what that will result in.. One can only hope.

    If you want to know anything else about me.. see the inside of my brain at My Web Site
     Anything you could possibly want to know is there.. and plenty you don't.

         Big Mike - Guru and Nitwit

  • 44 - Str8ish - Married (TerriLynn, Theresa)
  • Playa Name: Big Mike
  • Where do you call Home? Santa Cruz, CA
  • Prior Burning Man: '03
  • Camped with PolyParadise: '03
  • Why Burning Man? I heard a calling. My inner child wants to come out to play, to be free. I'm a social anarchist, so I'll try to fit into the tight constraints of Black Rock City society.
  • Volunteer on the Playa? Music, power
  • Specialities: Partying, rolling, nuding
  • Art Projects? Music, black light show, morning wood.
        Ginger - Earth Goddess
  • 29 - Bi - Married
  • Playa Name: Ginger
  • Where do you call Home? Santa Cruz, CA
  • Prior Burning Man: '03
  • Camped with PolyParadise: '03
  • Why Burning Man?The desert is calling me to dance, dance, dance!
  • Specialties: Aromatherapy, cooking, herbs, optimism, naughty girl
  • Art Projects? Black light doodling & personal transformations

           DCLynn

  • 52 - Straight but open - Female - Single
  • Playa Name: DCLynn
  • Where do you call home? Formerly San Diego then Washington, DC, now Pacifica, CA (yay!)
  • Been to Burning Man before? When? Yes - '02, '03
  • Camped with PolyParadise before? '03
  • Why Burning Man? It attracts for several reasons: the encouragement to be and express my open and honest and loving self, the nudity (I'm a nudist), the fact that 30,000 can Leave No Trace, a chance to hang/relate/share with special sometimes like-minded people, the challenge to create something or at least steal someone else's great idea (i.e. cuddle pool), and yes the opportunity to feel jealous and insecure as I see my lover wander away wondering if he will ever return

        Costello

  • 29 - I like girls, but sometimes the right boy is ok. Mostly single. (depending on DCLynn's mood)
  • Name: Costello
  • Home: Foggy Pacifica
  • Been to Burning Man before? When? '02, '03
  • Camped with PolyParadise before? '03
  • Why Burning Man? Lots of people willing to play, cute girls running around scantily clad and neat things to climb on.

           Tom Kingsley Brown – 'Czar de Garbage'

  • 39.5—Bi—LTR/married (Julie/Gaia)
  • Playa Name: Kingsley (previously  “Hummingbird.”  Considering “Mr. T” or “Mystical” or “Misty Cal”)
  • Where do you call home?– Sandy Eggo, CA
  • Been to Burning Man before? When? Yes – ‘01, ‘02, '03
  • Camped with PolyParadise Before? Yes - ‘01, ‘02, '03
  • Why Burning Man? – Within hours of arriving in ’01 I knew this was the best party the earthlings had ever thrown.  It is the most creative social environment I’ve experienced.  People express themselves and the community generates reality from the fabric of dream consciousness. Every sunrise is a new Beginning of Time linked to all other Beginnings, a new opportunity to create the world.  This gathering generates magic.
  • Volunteer on the Playa? – Co- Trash Czar (with Cecile) last year, if that counts, and roving MOOP collector at the end of b-man 2001 (though this is within the call of ‘ordinary’ duty of BRC citizens, I am proud of it).
  • Camp Specialities – Cooking in a major dust storm (along with Julie and Cecile).  Possibly the fastest 40-yard sprinter of the group. 
  • Poly Paradise Favorite Moments – Having dinner in Polywomb during that dust storm, whoever was there simply staying for dinner with us.  Standing and watching Human Carcass Wash with Steve and being filled with wonder and love just seeing people being themselves.  Washing a man’s feet and realizing its biblical significance.  Washing a woman’s hair while she breastfed her infant. 
  • Art Projects? – FreeJammin.  Also, currently collecting narratives (please SUBMIT!) of mystical and paranormal experiences which I plan to narrate over music and to broadcast in some way (radio free burning man?).  To submit: see message I posted to this list recently.

Phil Morgan-Ellis

  • 53 - Bi - Married
  • Playa Name: Dunna know.  In boot they called me "Beethoven"
  • Where do you call Home? Port Angeles, Wash
  • Been to Burning Man before? '03
  • Camped with PolyParadise Before? No, was with Emo Men last year
  • Why Burning Man? Gotta get the fuck outa Babylon.
  • Volunteer on the Playa? Hope to be a ranger this year
  • Camp Specialties: I'm a great fixer upper. In the world I play viola, teach, do SCUBA.
Harry
  • Details - past counting, married but spouse won't go camping so single on playa
  • From - Utah
  • Attended BM many times, can't remember which was the first one.
  • Poly? - No, but have taken in pleasures of carcass wash - was neighbor at Temple of Ishtar couple years ago.
  • Why? It allows inner selves of various descriptions to emerge. They need occasional airing. But difficult to get them all back inside after BM is finished.
Greg - Carcass Washer
  • 110000, bi, poly, married (Sher Luv)
  • Playa Name: Stroke Greg
  • Where do you call Home? San Diego, CA
  • Prior Burning Man: 1999 - 2003
  • Camped with PolyParadise: Always
  • Why Burning Man? I can be my full SELF!
  • Volunteer on the Playa? Help with the Carcass Wash, without overdoing it (thanks Steve!).
  • Poly Paradise Favorite Moments: Ask me when you've got lots of time!
Trouble
  • 30 Mostly str8, mildly Bi. married to de Brat. I'll convince her to come to BRC someday.. Y'all will love her ;)
  • Playa Name: Trouble (I'm sometimes called Holo)
  • Where do you call home? – Erie, Colorado.
  • Been to Burning Man before? When? Yes – ‘01, ‘02, '03
  • Camped with PolyParadise Before? No, but I've played with y'all.
  • Why Burning Man? – Because I love it.
  • Volunteer on the Playa? – I like to help people set up their camps, I like to mist people who look hot, and give water to the thirsty.
  • Poly Paradise Favorite Moments – Human Carcass Wash is always a good time.
REV. Nadine Elisha Wells - aka xxybadgirl
  • Home Phoenix or wherever
  • What sex am I? I give my body to the highest bidder, man woman ,faggot, lesbian, switchhitter or what have you! I commute from Sodom to Gomorrah. The sadists, the masochists, the voyeur's, the fetishists ,the multi-perverts, I know them all and they know me. I have given my body so may times It doesn't belong to me any more. They all own a piece of me. What sex am I you name it I've been it. I'm bored so I'm going to burning man. Traveling with faithful companion Baddogie She speaks for herself!!!!
Heatseeker
  • 49 - straight (but ya never know) - single
  • Playa Name: nothing official (since I'm a virgin) but will answer to heatseeker
  • Where do you call home? - Phoenix, AZ
  • Been to Burning Man before? When? No
  • Camped with PolyParadise Before? No
  • Why Burning Man?- Community. And because unlike most any other trip you can take, you're headed home in both directions
  • Volunteer on the Playa? - too soon to say
  • Art projects: butt tin gifts (pre-butted or can be customized with a Polaroid of the butt of your choice)
  • Specialties: cook, mobile bartender