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It needles into Nevada's Black Rock Desert, where cracked white alkali dirt stretches in every direction to meet low, barren mountains. I was pushing my car past 90 mph through the featureless landscape, but I felt like I was crawling. I'm off to my first Burning Man. The annual four-day festival is perhaps the most bizarre gathering of people in the world, as hippies, hicks, neopagans, technonomads, journalists, and assorted freaks come to play and wreak havoc. And they came to watch the Man burn.