Another of our far-flung Standard Bearers, Marissa comes from Idaho.

For some reaason, journalists covering Burning Man this year kept repeating nonsense about how it was all dot com people from Silicon Valley. Opera participants come from Vancouver, Utah, Oregon, New York, Georgia, Holland, Germany, Denmark...

In their other lives they are accountants, exotic dancers, rock and roll band members, retailers, therapists, circus performers, Marine officers, sex toy designers, prison officials, construction contractors, filmmakers, nurses...and a few dot.comers, yes, but hardly a majority.