William Cole tells his story:

"My name is William Cole and I am from Syracuse, NY. This past
weekend, a group of folks all participated in an event that I felt
obligated to inform you about. We call it 'Kill Da Wabbit'.

Quick summary: My friends, family, and I built a 35 foot tall wooden
rabbit structure in the back yard over the course of the past few
weekends. This past Saturday/Sunday (the 28th/29th), we torched it at
12:00 Midnight to the strains of Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries'. The
rabbit was lit via multiple flaming arrows. Fireworks of all types
were involved. It was inspirational. It was a relatively well-
documented event, with many pictures and videos taken by all sorts of
volunteering friends and family. The first video has been posted
online here: http://tinyurl.com/d5aq6p, and I will be spending time
this week to edit the piles of raw photo and video files I have
available.

I'd certainly see the value in you all sharing this video link with
the Burning Man community. Explanation: I was recently visiting San
Francisco to see some friends that now live in California, but have
their roots 'Out East' and we watched a DVD called 'Step Into Liquid'
all about surfers and surfing and the mentality of surfing in general.
One scene in particular that spoke to me was about a small but
dedicated group of people who surf on Lake Michigan. ?These guys
aren't in Santa Cruz, or even California, but they know they love to
surf, and they enjoy hanging out together doing what they love. Like
these Lake Michigan surfers, there are in fact people from Upstate New
York that enjoy a good burn-related celebration in the theme of
Burning Man, even if we don't (can't?) all make it out to Black Rock
City every year. We'd still like to be part of the Burning Man Family!