typical bbq at kenny's

This is a typical BBQ at kenny's place:
people show up around 6:30pm or so. some people are late but not the ones who want the choice beer. kenny flew in a couple of cases of good belgian beer (like Chimay Blue for example) and so i was there at 6:29pm. By the time people are showing up, there is already a fire going in his little fire pit and the BBQ is all warmed up. As people show up they bring their burnables to the rear of the house where there is a sizeable pile of "things-to-be-burned."
There is a huge spread of eatables that go along very well with the drinkables... my favorite was the chicken and peppercini bites wrapped in bacon when they were fresh off the BBQ and it burned your tounge so you had to kick back a healthy swig of some choice belgian drinkable.
At some point in time there is a major push to the pile of burnables. It starts simply as an idea, but then the momentum builds and people are pulled into the gravity of the event and they are unable to escape. The grand pile is lovingly prepared with flammable liquids and a fuse of sorts is set. When it comes time for the ignition, usually some young fearless pre-teen is nominated for the job while all older and wiser typpes back off to a safe distance.
The fires are never short of spectacular. NASA mistakes them for solar flares and they sometimes knock geosynchronous satellites out of orbit.
Once the fire begins to die back below 15 feet or so, the explodables come out to play.
Highly illegal in most developed countries, they appear from nowhere in every conceivable size, shape, and purpose. They are stuck in the ground, tossed in the fire, lit with sparklers, and deposited into containers... like pumpkins.
The larger explosions look something like this...



and there is much rejoicing.