However, there are some things that would be nice to have:
* Love Ho pendant for every volunteer
* "Love Ho Boothj" Sign
* Small Booth
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If you choose to donate, the recommended amount for Love Ho's is $15. The recommended amount for anyone else is ANYTHING... THANK YOU! Please pay via PayPal to [email protected] (but please don't use a credit card). Email me for info on donating via a check.
Cash: $110
Items: Fabric for Love Ho booth, El Wire Sign
Donors:
Blue
Rebecca
Pandora
Tool
Friendly Jen
Tulsa
Dorie
Jamie Love
Ben
Expenditures: Wood for Booth $13.64; Extra capacity for website for two months $9.90.
So how does this work? What are the logistics of this, and what are operational considerations of Loving �The Love Ho way� on the playa?
1) Location is announced.
a) Email before playa: There should be one or perhaps two locations each day where we can share our love. This email will contain the main places we will be meeting, but there is also the opportunity for addition of locations and also impromptu setting up of the booth, as long as the booth ends up where it needs to the next day.
b) Playa Bulletin Boards: Monday night or Tuesday morning posting on the board with LOVE HO logo and days/camp/location announced. That way when people forget everything else, at least they will have a place to go to find the info.
c) PlayaNet: The computerized system at Playa Info should be, if all goes as planned, updated upon arrival to show all known locations of The Love Ho booth.
d) Cards, posters, giveaways, word of mouth, etc.
2) Individual Love Ho�s announce intentions. Basically, what I am asking is for everyone to look at the schedule right now and let me know which ones scheduled love in�s you might attend, and percentage chance you�re gonna show for each. I know that we�re there�s a certain amount of playa flakeiness that everyone is entitled to have on this camping trip. But if no Ho�s show, then we know the Love Ho show is a no-go. Therefore, please give me your best guestimate on what events you can make.
3) Love Ho�s show up to proper location at announced time. This thing is only going for two hours, so you will get maximum loving by showing a bit early and getting in the mood by loving your other Love Ho�s.
4) Start Lovin�. This should be as authentic, low cheese-content LOVE. If you have to be cheesy, cause that�s your thing, make sure your cheesy loving is as authentic as you are. This is your art. Make it what you want. Also, please recruit unsuspecting participants and or spectators to be Love Ho�s. We can deputize them right on the spot � with your assurance that the individual in question can live up to the full responsibilities of being a Love Ho. Not everyone can do it. Some people get freaked out if people get too lovey-dovey (hugs, kisses, hearing those magic �I Love You� words) with them. These people will find it hard to be lovey-dovey with others, and therefore they would not be good Love Ho�s. And that�s ok. We do not want to make anyone uncomfortable. As the doctors say, �First, do no harm�. If the Love Ho booth gets little or no traffic, then we can do a number of things:
a) Wrangle in some people in need of Love. Use your creativity to make this happen.
b) Love each other. One reason we are doing this is because we LOVE it! If no one else comes, who cares! Just grab a fellow Love Ho and love on em.
c) Grab a host camp person and Love em.
d) Reposition The Love Ho booth for maximum exposure.
When a person approaches the Love Ho booth and asks �what it�s all about?� this is your time to give your schpiel. I have my schpiel worked out, but you can do or say whatever you like. I say something like, �A real prostitute gives sex, but no love. A Love Ho gives Love, but no sex.� And then I engage them in a conversation until the right time to put my loving hands upon them. Remember that YOU are empowered here. You can craft every loving experience as you want it to be � as long as you don�t make the other person uncomfortable.
5) Finish. Join the fun with our host camp for activities of fun and adventure � and love. Or leave. You da boss, Boss. Someone (need volunteers) needs to take charge of the booth and make sure it gets to where it needs to be next Love-in.
The Love Ho Booth is small. Real small. It might even be missed if there weren�t a buncha Love Ho�s hangin round. One person can carry the booth. And we don�t have a central location to store the booth, although since it�s teeny tiny, maybe Doodlebug would agree to let us store it with her at the BRC Post Office in center camp.
We have a symbiotic relationship with our host camps. We are their guests. And we should behave accordingly. They are welcoming us into their camp, and then we are welcoming others into our midst. We will find that some camps are more conducive to love operations than others. That�s ok. As Love Ho�s we have to be able to be flexible.