Borrowing a page from the annual Burning Man Festival held in Nevada around every Labor Day, YouTube and its parent company Google, Inc., are sponsoring a one-time only “TubeMan” festival, to be held Memorial Day weekend on a desert plateau near St. George, Utah. The three-day festival will center around the construction of a massive pyramid stacked with old analog television sets, recently made obsolete by the switch to digital broadcasting in the U.S. At the end of the three day event, Google promoters plan to detonate the pile of TVs with large charge of high explosives while intoxicated festival-goers safely watch from behind barriers. After the demolition, bulldozers will scoop up the debris and load it onto awaiting rail cars to be shipped to a recycling center in India.

Google is asking consumers throughout the U.S. to drop off their unwanted CRT televisions and computer monitors at designated recycling centers set up in the empty parking lots of shuttered Circuit City stores. Former Circuit City employees have volunteered to help load the sets onto semi trucks for transport to the TubeMan site.

It’s going to be a blast.

“Thousands of tons of fragile cathode ray tubes being detonated with a truckload of high explosives…how cool is that?”, exclaimed Google co-founder Sergey Brin, his eyes ablaze with excitement. “We’ve created a dedicated, real-time video feed, called Google Blast - in beta of course. Those who can’t make it to Utah can follow the construction and demolition live on their PCs or mobile devices. You can even set up a Google Alert to notify you when we’re about to set something off.”

Google execs are quick to assuage any safety fears associated with the demolition event.

“What could possibly go wrong?,” assured Warren Chang, Director of Field Promotions and Entertainment for Google. “We have a small army of Stanford physics grads working on this project. We’ve got it under control.”