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Firecracker Alley 2009

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:54:14 -0700

If you google "firecraker alley," my blog post from last year is the second result! Like last year, after I got done loading shells for the Henderson Bay show, I popped over to Firecracker Alley, the collection of stands on the Puyallup Reserva...

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Henderson Bay July 3rd, 2009

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:45:56 -0700

Like last year, I'm helping Wolverine with the Hendeson Bay show. Sandboxes and tubes were set up yesterday, today I was there to help drop and wire shells. We had the same barge as last year in the same location, so nothing too exciting happened...

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My city fireworks on the Colbert Report

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:45:52 -0700

Some douchebag in Seattle is try to sue the city to stop the 4th of July fireworks until the do an environmental review. I'm not going to bother explaining why this is stupid... The story made Fark the other day, and now it was on a funny bit in...

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Little shopping trip to Winchester Fireworks

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:50:53 -0700

At about 11:30pm Monday night I get a text message from my uncle asking if I have any fireworks. I tell him I don't have any that aren't already reserved for Renn Fayre 2010, but suggest a quick shopping trip to to PyroU member Chris/suess' stand...

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Lamest. Fireworks. Injury. EVAR.

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:50:19 -0700

Epic fail from some stupid local news people... They managed to hurt themselves with a smoke bomb shaped like a rocket... At first I thought it was a real rocket and would explode on the ground given how hard she stuck it in the ground, but it ...

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Ephrata 100th Anniversary 6-19-09

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:37:40 -0700

On Friday I helped Wolverine on a small show in Ephrata, WA, a town I've never been to before out in the middle of the state. I only took one real picture, so here it is... Left to right we have Phil, Rod and Dan setting things up. The show was...

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Quality fearmongering, plus stupid criminals

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:43:15 -0700

Half a ton of illegal fireworks seized from Boyle Heights home Members of the San Gabriel Valley Arson Explosives Task Force have seized more than half a ton of illegal fireworks from a residential neighborhood in Boyle Heights, averting a potent...

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Victory Muckleshoot Demo 6-13-09

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:45:41 -0700

Victory Fireworks is one of the wholesale vendors at Muckleshoot this year (same place the Northwest Pyro demo was at) and shot a small demo on Saturday that I was able to attend. The demo was fairly small (32 items on the shoot list) and there...

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Lazy and late write-up of the May 29-30 WA group shoot

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:19:31 -0700

Ok, I've been meaning to post about the WA spring group shoot for a while and haven't done it. At this point it is pretty late and I'm feeling lazy, so this will be a short one. I have a Dixie Cup for your tears... This year was different from ...

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A good way to kill 5 seconds

nobody@vox.com(Amn't) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:24:41 -0700

After busting my ass getting all the videos uploaded to the PyroU gallery, I'm a bit behind in getting my own post up on the WA spring group shoot. So hopefully those will get up soon (after they've lost all relevance and people have moved on to p...

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