![]() ![]() Against my own advice, I enjoy an RC Cola and a MoonPie before fire-eating, but, if you’re unaccustomed to dead dinosaur burps, have whole milk with your marshmallow chocolate-coated cookie goodness. When you’re done you’re going to belch petroleum for a while, so avoid carbonated beverages. Eating fire on an empty stomach can give you a weird chemical headache. Use thread and make sure the cotton won’t fall off. Don’t tie the cotton with metal wire that’ll get hot, or with nylon mono- filament that will get molten. You build a torch by tying cotton onto a straightened coat hanger. and we were 19.ĭon’t learn fire-eating from a magazine, but here’s how it works. My girlfriend arrived home and screamed in horror (19-year-old men often make 19-year-old women do that). I thought I had to ignore the pain and I did. There were so many blisters I couldn’t press my lips together. My mouth looked like wall-to-wall herpes sores, with cartoonish, giant teeth glued to my lips. I practiced all afternoon and burned the snot out of my mouth and lips. ![]() I was 19 years old, and like many men that age, I felt invincible. I read Step Right Up! by Dan Mannix-the 1950 memoir of a real-life carny-and I wanted to be “with it.” Dan didn’t explain how to eat fire, but I felt I could read between the lines and figure it out. You don’t want to learn fire-eating from a book, but that’s how I started. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business. I didn’t learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. ![]()
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