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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Note to self: Don't have sons.
Oops.
Seriously, every ex-boy I know has at least one story involving explosives or pyrotechnics. They are the sort of stories that could cause parental heart failure. For the first time, dressing your boy as a girl (and no, I don't, unless you count Hogwarts robes) makes a certain amount of sense.
Thankfully all my childhood pyrotechnics stories revolve around my best friend, the firebug. And I knew enough to stand at a safe distance any time I saw him with a match or lighter.
Don't have sons.
Now you tell me.
Just so you're forewarned, they don't give frequent flyer miles in the ER, and you only get the giant teddy bear when you go for your first series of head x-rays.
I played with exploives and pyroshit. Time honored family tradition.... I was more about the burn than the bang, though. But I was suitably impressed by my brother's experiments in blowing up gijoe little people. When the rubber bands connecting their limbs went, they went flying!
Um. Hi.
Yeah. Lighting things on fire, blowing things up, breaking things in general, sword-fighting with sticks and other unsafe sword-like objects, throwing potentially lethal objects at each other, climbing trees, running around in the woods, jumping off of high objects and creating make-shift ramps for bikes, etc, etc. It's a miracle I survived.
Stupidest thing I ever did was dropping a cinder block on a bullet when I was 10 or so. I thought it would just make a loud bang (and wow was it loud). I didn't realize it would actually go anywhere without being in a gun. Thankfully it wasn't pointed at myself or anyone else.
I think because of the way I grew up, firing a gun indoors, any kind of gun, was completely verboten.
Mine too. You'd get the "Gun Safety Lecture."
Speaking of firing guns indoors -- I'm currently reading a book about Lincoln's assassination, and it got me to thinking... actors have never liked Republicans.
Even when they are Republicans?
Well, sure. It's not that my family is anti-gun (HA! All of them, except for me are NRA members and there's a reloader and several bags of shot in the basement for my mom's hobby). It's just that you have to be really fucking stupid to play with guns indoors.
And, from the kid perspective, it's too easy to get caught. BBs in bad places.