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Fire is kinda weird, isn't it? I remember just staring at it as a kid, thinking, this shit is weird. & it was unsafe - it burned you! But it was everywhere! People would use it to light their cigarettes. We didn't have a gas stove but if you turned the elements on on the electric stove & just touched a piece of paper to one of them, wow! the paper would catch fire.
& yes, I too had a fling with fire when I was a kid. I would steal matches & take things to burn & hide behind the bushes of a nearby church & set them on fire. There was space between the bushes & the brick walls of the church. It was very private. I can't remember all I burned but I did ruin a couple of my Star Wars action figures. I never wanted the fire to get too big - I liked the feeling of control - so I never wanted to expand my actions to larger venues. Like most other things, I wasn't very good at pyromania. & it passed soon enough - though I never got caught, I thought my mother would be very mad at me if I was caught burning things near a church.
This happened sometime around my ninth, tenth, or eleventh year. It's a testimony to how often I was left alone - & what I might have been able to get up to if I'd had a more destructive imagination. As it stood, some flammable things went missing, along with a lighter & some matches, & no one knew I had done it. Not even my little brother, who was often hanging around in my childhood. Again, it never developed into an obsession & once I was satisfied I had reached the limits of what I could set on fire in my little world, I never spent much time burning things after that. I think I knew if I invited other people shit could get out of control!
This story of my dull childhood must suffice for today's post because I have no idea why I chose the theme "embers" for this week's show. I knew I'd be doing a show after a week of vacation & I knew I wouldn't have time for interviews, so maybe I thought I couldn't find "experts" to talk about embers. I couldn't say. What I could say is that I had a brief fling with a moderate pyromania at a young age & I must have felt some mild satisfaction as the fires burned down to their embers.
Hey! Self Help Radio has the theme "embers"! Tonight on KBOO! 90.7fm in town kboo dot fm everywhere! Be careful! It's still hot!
This happened sometime around my ninth, tenth, or eleventh year. It's a testimony to how often I was left alone - & what I might have been able to get up to if I'd had a more destructive imagination. As it stood, some flammable things went missing, along with a lighter & some matches, & no one knew I had done it. Not even my little brother, who was often hanging around in my childhood. Again, it never developed into an obsession & once I was satisfied I had reached the limits of what I could set on fire in my little world, I never spent much time burning things after that. I think I knew if I invited other people shit could get out of control!
This story of my dull childhood must suffice for today's post because I have no idea why I chose the theme "embers" for this week's show. I knew I'd be doing a show after a week of vacation & I knew I wouldn't have time for interviews, so maybe I thought I couldn't find "experts" to talk about embers. I couldn't say. What I could say is that I had a brief fling with a moderate pyromania at a young age & I must have felt some mild satisfaction as the fires burned down to their embers.
Hey! Self Help Radio has the theme "embers"! Tonight on KBOO! 90.7fm in town kboo dot fm everywhere! Be careful! It's still hot!
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