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Desert Bus 2026
We are Coming Swiftly in the Night! Watch!
October 31, 2023 at 07:18 PM PDT
Posted by Soraya

If there's one thing we've learned in all these years of driving a bus through the desert, it's that the night's darn well not gonna watch itself. Therefore, with the aid of a few arcane rituals*, we have summoned the observers, the witnesses, the not-so-innocent not-so-bystanders foretold in ancient legend. THE NIGHT WATCH COMETH.

*No animals and especially no Maples were harmed in the making of these rituals.

The Night Watch crew all screams, except for Jordan, who covers his ears and turns away.

Entertainers


They make you laugh, they make you cry with laughter, and they make your real life neighbors question why you keep laughing and crying from dinner to midnight. What are you getting up to over there? Is it even sanitary? And the answer, of course, is no.

Andrew Ferguson (he/they)
Graham Stark (he/him)
Jordan Hopkins (he/him)
Ian Horner (he/they)
Matt Wiggins (he/him)


Broadcast

Our Broadcast team employs high-tech equipment/software and a meticulously crafted stage set up to bring you crisp, hi-res, and tastefully directed views of Night Watch trying and failing to do somersaults for a $5 pledge. You're welcome.

Ben Ulmer (he/him)
Cory McElrea (he/him)

Site Volunteer and Stage Friend


If Night Watch were a swan floating serenely on the surface of a lake, then our stagefriend and site volunteers would be the two little feet paddling like mad to sustain the graceful illusion. It's not the feet's fault if the top side of the swan keeps honking and slapping its wings into stuff.

Alex Eastveld (he/him) - Site Volunteer
Max Loy (they/them) - Stage Friend

Shipping and Comms


Shipping and Comms perform the sacred alchemies that fuel our endless traversal of the desert. Shipping carefully retrieves the prizes from the nest of a watchful mother roc whom we bribe to guard them and enwraps those prizes in the teleportation runes that will see them safely to their new forever homes. Meanwhile, Comms takes the latest Desert Bus antics and distills them into liquid vials that, when activated with a special catalyst known as busposting, coalesce into social and blog posts in the ethereal "internet" realm.

Alexandra Eastveld (she/they) - Shipping & Prizes
Juliana Cooper (she/her) - Comms
Soraya Een Hajji (she/her) - Comms