Join the "Say NO to the burn" coalition! A growing group of people who are skipping the burn this year to put their focus on real life. Let's face it, It’s a shit economy; and you or at least half of your friends are unemployed. Chances are in the next 200 days your employer could cut back personnel or fold completely and you won't even see it coming. If you're like other burners as the burn approaches your focus on your real life suffers dramatically. Everyone can agree that the world is less stable than it used to be. Random unsuspected and unforeseen things keep happening; entire communities are empty, entire nationwide chains are closing, banks are failing. While you're making fancy new costumes and putting EL wire in your fur coat, the people you work with and for in the default world are keenly aware that things are circling the drain in some fundamental ways. They are redoubling their efforts at work to make sure they are not replaced. They are updating their resumes, adding new skills to their skillset, and putting aside emergency funds into their savings for when the shit hits the fan. Meanwhile you are distracted, thinking about an art car, art project or trading messages all day on Facebook about what fun things you're going to do at the burn. You are blissfully out of tune with the big SUCK sound that is happening all around you. You're going to the BURN!!!! Meanwhile your coworker is secretly dropping hints that your not putting as much work in to your boss. Or worse your boss is seeing a clear disparity between you and your coworkers. It's almost impossible to stop yourself. You are overly cheerful. Disconnected. Coasting. You're going to the BURN!!!! Bullshit you say! And maybe your right. Maybe you are one of those few people who has all their ducks in a row, works for a stable company and just got a kick ass performance review and has 5 grand in the bank. If so then don't worry! Your fine! Take a vacation! For the rest of you whose position is more tremulous. THIS could be that fork in the road in a series of unfortunate events where you choose... unwisely. This could be it, that one little swerve that changed everything for you for the next 10 years of your life!!!!!!!

So just say NO! Say NO to a month of distraction and expense and exhaustion. Say NO to blown tires, blown heater hoses, engine problems and AAA calls. Say NO to days at work experiencing culture shock and inability to focus. Say NO 1000's of gallons of fuel burned, ice melted and brain cells lost. Just say NO to the burn, it’s the counterintuitive, seemingly wise, more productive yet prosaically, fascinatingly normal thing to do.

Disclaimer: This was written for humorous purposes, and should not be taken seriously at all. Going to the burn is about throwing caution to the wind! Safety Third! Screw work! Burn the man! Sometimes it’s the right thing to do, and sometimes not. Only you can choose, not some asshole writing sermons on the internet.

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