#1Townie posted a link to Burning Man Festival and the funny thing is my hometown of Santa Fe NM is doing their annual event called Zozobra that is very similar; we burn a giant puppet too. I never realized these two events occured at a similar time during the year.
Zozobra: est 1924 (90 year anniversary)
Burning Man: est 1986
Zozobra: Burns Tonight (8/29)
Burning Man: Burns Tomorrow (8/30)
Zozobra:
Burning Man:
Link for Burning Man video: http://www.ustream.tv/burningman
Link for Zozobra video: http://burnzozobra.com/