You are the people for whom I wrote "Fire Safety for Jugglers & Spinners." Not that you need or want it, or that Tribe itself even existed when I started, but the attitude here toward experimentation and danger prompted me to try to separate the myth from the facts about diddling with fire.
I'm reasonably happy with the 4th edition (the early editions were only partially successful) and its now on my web site as a pdf file for downloading, gratis.
www.foreworks.com
It doesn't do what www.nafaa.org does, and it doesn't do it very well.
I'm reasonably happy with the 4th edition (the early editions were only partially successful) and its now on my web site as a pdf file for downloading, gratis.
www.foreworks.com
It doesn't do what www.nafaa.org does, and it doesn't do it very well.
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Re: Antithetical to Safety 3rd
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 12:53 PMhate fire and spite!
the one legged ex-firemen and fingerless ex-magician comments are lame. Some of your fuel stuff mis-uses chemical names (naptha is a chemical, not a blend, white gas has 70-90% naptha, and 10%ish benzene, not the other way around). I'm not as drunk as I wish i was, nor is this entertaining.
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Re: Antithetical to Safety 3rd
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 1:50 PM<I'm not as drunk as I wish i was, nor is this entertaining. >
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it is okay to try to be antithetical to !!!SAFETY THIRD!!! but know you are opening yourself up to ridicule. extra ridicule for taking yourself too seriously. but you do end up putting yourself in a decidedly unsafe position by trying to 'educate' us idiots.
1. place ones self in a public fora for ridicule by trying to preach safety to a bunch of people who are in a fora to exchange humorous stories about doing stupid things for the entertainment of the members of this tribe.
2. making an attempt to separate "myth from fact" to a group of people who are charged to do their very best to integrate "myth" and "fact"
3. safety. there is a place for safety here, it is just not first or second. it is not that it isn't taken into account, it is just not exactly on the top of the priority list, nor as interesting to some people as others, hence the large membership in this particular tribe, and an even larger embrace of the idea in the world at large (see: the darwin awards, your local construction site, or government for a couple of examples). -
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Re: Antithetical to Safety 3rd
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 2:39 PMI so thnk safety is a priority....Just not first on my list.:) I am sure i will add it in there...I had it here somewhere, really I did....*Lights matches next to the fireworks wagon.*
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Re: Antithetical to Safety 3rd
Today, 6:24 PMSafety's not my personal 1st or 2nd concern either. I do care about risk management, as in:
This is the risk --You decide.
Keep in mind that the posts in Safety 3rd are only funny and fun to read BECAUSE the reader understands the risk or has done something similar and survived it. If the descriptions and pictures here seem perfectly reasonable, you're not. So I'm not preaching or trying to protect you or anyone else from harm. I'm simply hoping to refine your appreciation of the absurd.
Myth? Fact? This. . . this group blog called Tribe, is performance space. It's a serious work of fiction, just like Burning Man, or my life, or yours. It's a fact that everything in it is a myth. As S.M. Stirling kinda said, "There's a technical, literary term for anyone who assumes an author's opinions and views are the same as those of a character in his book [or tribe post]. The term is 'idiot'."
(Actually, that last is not fair. True, but not fair.)
To my drunken reader, sorry I'm lame, really. But it's too late to fix me. Don't like it: don't read my stuff. However I'm seriously pissed that my comments on naphtha are not clear to you, no matter what state you're in. That was the fucking point. Maybe I should try rewriting it when /I'm/ drunk.
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