I just finished the initial Flip Flop inventory. Our theme camp motto is “making life easier for everyone” and I think this list shows a LOT of lives made a little easier! Here’s what we gave away:

I finalized the financials for Spoon Commune for To The Moon 2024. I took in $175.00 in dues. I spent $2689.12 on theme camp materials. Some of that is recurring, like the golf cart rental, some of it is on assets like the playatech furniture. Camp members can see the breakdown on the Spoonsheet. Here are some different ways to look at the categories: Recurring: $1512.72Asset purchase: $1176.40 Flip Flop Forgot Shop shelves & inventory: $639.75Charcoolerie food & ice: $460.00Living Room seating, lighting, shade: $785.70 Other people also spent small amounts on decor items, gear repair supplies, shop items, etc, and those amounts are not accounted for in my records.…

Video Chat 2/1/2024Present: Issa, Sara, Candice, Hairball, Joshua.Not present: Justin, kids Dylan and Quinn Camp name: Spoon Commune (taken from the “spoon theory” idea) Camp roles: Camp focus: Making life easier for people, including all burners through our public offerings, camp members through disability and neurodivergent awareness in how we organize ourselves, and unhoused neighbors in Knoxville/Atlanta by helping burners help us collect useful stuff to distribute Placement: Our placement request will be that we are central to the “main area” and close to the effigy field. We acknowledge that this can be undesirable for people with sensory concerns. This choice is to prioritize people with mobility concerns, allowing them…

Hey it’s a theme camp! What’s a theme camp? Here’s one explanation from the regional burn Transformus. If you asked me “What do you LOVE?” I might think of my children and honeybees and medium rare ribeyes and my truck and myself, but TOP of the list would be the WORDS themselves. I love words – written and spoken and sung and whispered in the night – but especially the written ones. Brabble & Grubble is my theme camp for LoveBurn 2023 for writers, poets, and other lovers of the spoken and written word. We love a good debate, a moving poem, a provacative quote, a subversive zine, and the…