Following up on this earlier BoingBoing post, reader nym writes:
I’ve always been a fan of fire, the mistress of the night. She dances in a way that captures my eyes, and tugs at my soul. In my young years, I was delighted to read the childhood stories entitled “Diary of a Pyro” by John DuBois. I read it, and loved it, but when something blew up something in my face from careless meddling, I pulled back at my experimentation, and just admired the work of others.
Aside from a few fireworks, I haven’t really spent time learning pyro since that day.
When Xeni blogged ‘So you want to be a Pyro‘, I was all over it. A chance to actually learn safely the ropes with the people who know it the best. I couldn’t go to the local seminar in LA, but knew it was going to be worth the five hours of driving to and back from San Diego.
Link to entire blog entry. Thanks, nym!