Tonight, hands down, was the coolest fireworks display I've ever seen.
We sat on the cold grass in Dolores Park and watched as people just brought out their own roman candles, cherry bombs, insane multi-color exploding bottle rockets, and sparklers, and just let them loose all around us.
In the distance the city sponsored fireworks displays were going off, but having regular people running the show was much more fun. You never knew if a bottle rocket was going to be a massive explosion or a small pop, or when someone was going to drop a cherry bomb in a trash can.
We then walked over to Linda St. and watched this guy set off some fireworks stacked on some step ladders.
The grand finale ended up being FOUR of these things going off at once, and two cops showing up to break up the fun. But since the fireworks were already started they had to wait until it was over before telling us to take our beer inside.
Great night. San Francisco is pretty cool.
fuck yeah; this is a great summation of why i love this city. i mean, you'll never know the names of 99% of the people you spent the night with, but people are fun and reasonable enough to create instant communities like this. experiences like yours give me more hope in the viability of mankind than almost anything else, and you don't get them everywhere.
Posted by: highatus | 07/04/2006 at 11:59 PM
great hippie thread, Andre!
Posted by: King of VOX | 07/05/2006 at 12:31 AM
Well it wasn't exactly Burning Man.
Posted by: Andre Torrez | 07/05/2006 at 12:00 PM
I am so excited you are coming with us this year. Do you wanna work on costumes tonight?
Posted by: King of VOX | 07/05/2006 at 02:52 PM
i saw a cube design for the first time.
Posted by: flaunted | 07/05/2006 at 09:24 PM