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Transcribed from http://skylighter.com/skylighter_info_pages/article.asp?Item=146#firefly Bill Kimbrough developed the recipe for this star a few years ago. I first saw it at Western Winterblast as a heading in one of Doc Barr’s black powder rockets. It was and is spectacular. The effect is sort of like a rich silver twinkling kinda like a firefly, but surrounded by really red glowing embers. Not charcoal orange, but more red than that. The silver and red together are incredible. This is truly a noble star. You learn to make this one, and the girls will throw rocks at all the other boys. If all goes well, and everything burns up where it’s sposed to, it is “Fireflies on Cocaine,” Otherwise the star is accurately called “Flaming Shit Falls on You.” A couple of notes. All parts below are parts by weight; it doesn’t matter what they add up to. The pine charcoal is critical. Without it, you ain’t got the true Flaming Shit star. “I like to take the [yellow] pine charcoal as it comes out of the yard grinder, and put it in the ball mill for 10 minutes. Sift out (remove) what doesn’t fall through a window screen, and just use the mixed granulation of the charcoal–Better charcoal effect. I mostly roll mine with starpol as a binder, but I have made the formula into comets, stars, and even tried it in lance. Pump, cut or roll, works good for me, but never use starpol as the binder if it is to be the outside of a color change star, as it will surely cause a driven in (moisture) problem.” –Bill Kimbrough
