David T. Warren was a founding member of the Suicide Club, and the Cacophony Society. He was active in preserving Ocean Beach in San Francisco, and a collector of all things related to Playland at the Sea. He restored and operated the Giant Camera at the Cliff House. He ignited the Man at burning man by spitting fire in 1989 and 1990. David died in 2009.
Read MoreThe Missing Clown by Steve Mobia. Steve talks about the Suicide Club and “My Dinner with Gary”, featuring the mock burial of participants.
Read MoreComet Magazine article on John Law: http://cometmagazine.org/cometsite4/cometsite3/comet2/jlaw.html
Read MoreThe announcement of the end of the San Francisco Suicide Club, May 10, 1982
Read MoreA guide of how to do events, from the San Francisco Suicide Club, circa 1977
Read MoreThe Suicide Club - Notes by Gary Warne. February 1977
Read MoreSF Suicide Club - Suggestions Based Upon Experiential Data….or…………..Blowing it (From the Golden Hind, Sewers & Kennedy Hotel Events) by Gary Warne, John Law, Adrienne Burk, David Warren (1978)
Read MoreThe San Francisco suicide club, 1977 initiation rituals.
Read MoreA chronology of the SF Suicide Club as of 1982
Read MoreA description of the SF Suicide Club from 1977
Read MoreSuicide Club First Initiation by John Law (Feb 2, 1977). Reflection on initiation to the Suicide Club.
Read MoreCARNIVAL COSMOLOGY – Gary Warne
The world is a midway; cities are its sideshows. The only difference between children and adults is that there is no one to take care of us. When we left home it meant we were lost on the midway and, unlike God, the carny boss will only let us ride as long as we pay.
Read MoreThe Suicide Club was a secret society in San Francisco. The club was founded by Gary Warne and three friends: Adrienne Burk, David Warren, and Nancy Prussia. The Suicide Club inspired the Cacophony Society, which in turn strongly influenced the early Burning Man gatherings.
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