Dr. Carl’s Through the Ages – Dr. Carl's Collection of Departments

1998-2004 The Lost/Suburban Years (more on that soon)

2005 The Psyche

Dr. Carl’s House of Head Shrinkin’

4:30 & Fetish

Noobs: Meghan, Jeff, Wade

“Do you know where Contact Camp is?”
The first year of the dome. Our camp looks like a place.
Chris sleeps in the van
We make the Camera Tree

Notable Neighbors

White Dragon Noodle Bar
GODBOX! (GODBOX!)
And Then There’s Only Love

Regrettable Neighbors

The Golden Cafe ahhhhahhahhhaaahhhhahahhah

2006 Hope and Fear: The Future

Dr. Carl’s Department of Collections

9:00 & Anxious

Noobs: Josh, Chelsea, SBS, Angel

Holy shit we can see the Man from our camp!
The first year of the board! Only 1 board, we flipped the tiles to reveal…
…a glorious mosaic crafted of liquid nails and broken plates! It was glorious!
Whiskey-a-no-go
DJ Moop is born
Carl meets Bethany
Camera Tree becomes wind sail. Retired.
Stilt walker tile vanishes
Camo Netting becomes first attempt at shade structure
Adrian of Piss Clear deems us “cool”

Notable Neighbors

Trashistan!
Gypsy something something
The taxi cab people
Damn Geishas!
3am-7:30am PSYTRANCE! en-stt en-stt en-stt

Regrettable Neighbors

Endless PETA films

2007 The Green Man

Dr. Carl’s Department of Collections

4:30 & Arctic

Noobs: Heather, Brigid, Caleb, Sunny, Whitney

The board reproduces via budding forming 2 boards!
The Man burns early
A rainbow! Nobody wakes Di up to see it.
Caleb almost cuts his hand off
Josh removes the rain fly from his tent just before it rains
Whitney brings the dust storms, mooches off camp, and complains about “work”
Tiled Tarps become 2nd attempt at shade structure
Dr. Carl’s Whaaaaambulance takes a giant shit in the deep playa…We vow never to talk about it again…Til now.
Meghan goes to Center Camp. Disturbed by the “scene” she relentlessly reprimands BRC through the megaphone. The Universe responds, Meghan’s bike gets stolen…she then continues berating the occupants of BRC…. And almost gets in a fight with a Kiwi wearing jeans and loafers….and then loses her voice for the rest of the trip. Meghan 0, Universe 2.
Dr. Carl’s makes it into the LA WEEKLY.

Notable Neighbors

Trashistan!
Gypsy something something
The taxi cab people
Damn Geishas!
3am-7:30am PSYTRANCE! en-stt en-stt en-stt

Regrettable Neighbors

Endless PETA films

2008 American Dream

Dr. Carl’s Department of Collections

Esplanade & 6:30

Noobs: Lyle, Derek, Shannon, Juliette

The city expands making bike travel really necessary
The playa makes bike travel impossible
A stabbing at Arachnid
Lyle invents the lever
We all decide not to camp on Esplanade again
Multi-leveled wooden structure of death becomes 3rd attempt at Shade structure
Neighbors set up a Quonset Hut with a crew of teen girls stupid fast
Meghan’s bike gets jacked a second year.. she realizes the universe hates her. Universe – 3, Meghan – 0.
Dr. Carl’s appears on Current.com
Alleged first sighting of Cougar Bait

Notable Neighbors

Improv Camp, or whatever the hell their name was
Spring Break art

Regrettable Neighbors

All the random dudes on our porch

2009 Evolution

Dr. Carl’s Department of Collections

Chaos & 4:30

Noobs: Alex, Sara, Julie, Dante, Os

Jeff & Meghan engaged at trash fence
Katie wins Burning Man
Random and awesome D sighting!
Self-fellatio tile “win”
Quonset Hut becomes 4th Shade Structure
Caleb breaks the Art Cart on the first time out
Poo Haikus
Charlie Brown group of ten night
ROCKET LAUNCH Friday night!
Dante embraced the future.
Do you guys know where Poly Paradise is?
Bang ya later.
Ghost writers submit pilot episode for “Yeti and the Bear” and receive mixed reviews.
Profitable trade routes are established.
Dr. Carl’s gets a write up in the Reno Gazette

Notable Neighbors

Darwin Lounge
White Dragon Noodle Bar
Trashistan
Porta potties
Sucky Fucky

Regrettable Neighbors

Roor
Those French kids in the RV drinking warm Schlitz
Porta potties

2010 Metropolis

Dr. Carl’s Department of Collections

4:30 & Baghdad

Noobs: Chris P, Roy, Jen, Nick, Knicki

2am(ish)…Sunny, Hen, Misfits and Suckaye Fuckaye hold megaphone conference on the four street corners
Morning Train
Sunday evening, Di is nearly killed when the RV pumping truck drives thru camp and over the corner of her tent. Driver is unapologetic.
Double-fucking rainbow, ya’all

Notable Neighbors

Trashistan
Mystikal Misfits
Suckaye Fuckaye
White Dragon Noodle Bar
Animal Control
Black Rock Diner
Ironicorn (of doom and black lung)

Regrettable Neighbors

None?

2011 Rite of Passage

Dr. Carl’s Department of Collections

4:30 & Divorce

Noobs: Lucy, Giulia, Baxter

Trashistan is placed inexcusably far away
Alaskans
Bass bike makes its first trip to the playa
Storage Unit acquired
Brigid vs. Early Times. Early Times wins. Brigid has breakdown.
Footpussy

Notable Neighbors

Spank the Monkey
Porta potties
Darwin Fish Tank

Regrettable Neighbors

None? Again?

2012 Fertility 2.0

Dr. Carl’s Department of Collections

4:30 & Begonia

Noobs: Matt P

Wind nearly defeats the quonset hut setup
Caleb and Sara surprise Thursday arrival, the population of pregnant ladies in our camp increases by 100%
Caleb makes use of the sundries bin
Cougar Bait destroys the ramp of death
Blow job couple
Kids that won’t leave

2013 Cargo Cult

Dr. Carl’s Department of Collections

5:00 & Biggie Size

Cougar Bait marked his parking spot well before our arrival. Dick.
Wind nearly defeats porch setup
Fewer people…faster setup. WTF!?
Mystery bag of pot
Mystery bag of shrooms
Ree secretly sets up our shower. That was embarrassing.
Fargo Chris is run over by darkwads. Elbow broken.
Ree sets up neighbors “border” PVC into art piece. Neighbor gives us the stink eye.