The first year that my husband, Douglas Wolk, and I attended Burning Man, we devised as our project the Love Registry - a sort of lo-fi cross between "Love Connection" and Concentration. I took Polaroids of participants while Douglas asked for their favorite adjectives. We wrote the adjective on the photo, gave it a number, and pinned it on a bulletin board. For example:


Any Love Registrant could then tell us the numbers of other folks she or he wanted to meet. If two people chose each other, we'd sprinkle them with glitter, tell each where the other was camping, and send them on their merry way. Out of more than two hundred participants, we got around a dozen matches.

We also left with a stack of entertaining Polaroids. Start here, or pick any adjective to see the corresponding Love Registrant.

aquamarine
balanced
bastard
blathering
chipper
cooling
cool ranch wavo
cuddly
danger-girlish
de-groovy
delightful
devious
dew-eyed
dirty
diversified
eccentric
elfin
extreme
fabulous
fantastic
feline
fractured
fraught-with-peril
french roast
friendly
frisky
fulfilling
horny
horny-demoned
hot-spiced
illuminated
inconstant
in-motion
inquisitive
inscrutable
juicy
long-stroke
lovely
lush
magical
magnificent
meowing
mercurial
mice-baby
milk-chocolatey
moist
nice
orgasmic
passionate
peaceful
peachy
perpetual
perplexing
plush
quick
quixotic
rad
rampant
rhythmical
running-with-the-devil
salacious
sassy
scummy
serendipitous
serene
shagadelic
shiny
simply beautiful
slinky
slippery
smooth
snuggly
squishy
sublime
super-joyful
tangy
trampy
uninhibited
vibrant
woolen
x-static
xy
yummy