2008jan06. Went to the traditional Xmas tree burn this year on Ocean Beach. Pouring, sleeting rain. People had to scramble down a three or four foot mini-cliff of wet sand to get to the staging area. There was only about 20 feet of beach to work with, the water was totally aggro and foamy. The trees were lit. The crowds moved in. The rain shifted into fifth gear. At some point, the soaking rain, the ocean bearing down to the left, a huge fire in front of me, a sandy cliff to the right, and the crowd with a drum point
drum point a drum circle consisting of one drummer.
to the rear caused something in me went “ding!” and I got the hell out of there. Getting back up the sand cliff in the rain was an audacious exercise requiring reserves of manly man-strength and I’m sure everyone else was unable to do so and the tide carried them out to sea, the end.
