fireworks: you either like 'em or you don't

Cons:

• excessively expensive
• pollution causing
• somewhat cheesy and overly dramatized
• most often poorly orchestrated with the music
• often perceived as a big, "so what, it's all the same anyway"

Pros:

Watching fireworks makes me feel like a kid all over again. I don't know why I'm drawn to the cheesiness of it all, but as I stand and anticipate each burst of light, I'm on my toes, almost holding my breath not knowing if the next one will boom like thunder or shower like rain, explode in squirrelly q's or box squares, be multi-color or monochromatic and dazzle like sparklers. I feel almost silly putting this out there, but seriously I continue to be in awe. The sheer BOOM! that rocks you with each thunderous explosion (you know, da kine you feel in your chest),...
...the flickering of trailing lights, and razzle-dazzle of each new blow fascinate me every time. I feel like I can almost imagine what the sound of deafening guns exploding beside and in front of you might be like or how loud it might be if you were standing aboard a pirate ship being attacked by the cannon of a ship beside you. Much of my personal over-dramatization of a little fireworks show into my full blown imagination is inspired by the Opening Night SF Giant's baseball game Fireworks show done over McCovey Cove this evening. My daydreams of guns and cannons over water were inspired by such visuals lol.

So obviously, I'm in the "like 'em" camp.