Much like the event itself, the blogosphere's reaction to Burning Man can hardly be described, quantified, or adequately explained. We refrain from judging Burning Man itself, but that doesn't mean we don't get to comment on blogs about Burning Man. Henceforth, let it be know across all the land that:

• Any blog wherein the author refers to playa as their favorite cereal topping is banned. Yes, it's dusty. It's the desert. Either bust out the thesaurus or find something else to write about. (May we suggest everyone's second favorite topic at Burning Man, flame art?)
  
• Any blogger that exclaims that it's "too hard" to describe Burning Man gets five minutes in the penalty box. It's tough love, but your writing will thank us later.
  
• Lastly, any blog that actually was updated from the playa, deduct 30 points. Aren't you there to escape quotidian reality?
  

We admit that it might just be a tad easy to fall into Burning Man snark, especially when we missed the event this year, and we further admit that carrying around a spark of ritualistic, creative mojo all year 'round is a good thing. Our inner Romantic loves it. So before you take the snark too seriously, go read what other people are saying about the Burn, and get a little reflected heat.

In other blog-o-news, Josh Wolf is free. Civic Center has a complete run-down of Josh's press conference, including a rant on annoying MUNI passenger number 135694! Seriously, has anyone attempted to classify the different types of MUNI riders, like folktale scholars index stories? It might be helpful. Jamison is also trying to be helpful when he tries to come up with more official state things. And MzMeg over at Baseball and Brioche didn't do the Burn, but she did spend the weekend thinking about the little things. And Joann, our favorite cabbie, finds some pleasure in the unexpected things.

Pic is from, where else, Civic Center, to remind us that even during Burning Man, there's still art in SF.