There are still people shooting off fireworks in the hills and hollers, and while I was ok with Rosie randomly barking at explosions last night, it’s no longer the fucking 4th and now all I am thinking about is hoping some of these people are featured in the next Darwin Awards.
I mean, fer fucks sake it is now the 6th of July. Even D-Day at Normandy only took a half a day. The Jack Daniels has to fucking wear off at some point.
MikeBoyScout
Snowden is going to enjoy plantains & mojitos
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/06/us-usa-security-venezuela-idUSBRE96500420130706
MikeJ
The million and a half dollars damage illegal fireworks did to a marina here was bad, but not as bad as what was averted.
No word as to what his pans were, but I’m guessing there was going to be some liberty tree watering.
Redshirt
Celebrate your nation’s independence while blowing up a small piece of it. Also, fly that Rebel Flag! FREEDUMB!
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
After having a look at NCAA football from EA this year, I think I may have just gotten sucked back in for the first time since the PS2 days. They finally fixed the option game. That old roster editing/slider tweaking compulsion is returning, God help me. Where’s my Phil Steele mag?
mdblanche
Just leave the fireworks to the professionals and you (probably) won’t get injured.
Narcissus
So basically you hate our freedoms
Yatsuno
@MikeJ: Suddenly scooting out of town seems like a prescient idea.
@Redshirt:
In West Virginny? That a joke son?
wasabi gasp
La Femme – Le Blues De Françoise
Tehanu
It’s 11:15 PDT here Friday night and they’re still shooting off fireworks outside. We live in a largely Hispanic neighborhood and we never have to go out and pay to see a fireworks show on the 4th any more, because the giant rockets they shoot up out of their back yards are as big and impressive as anything at Disneyland, and it goes on a lot longer. I grew up in a relentlessly middle-class white, indeed WASP neighborhood and it was utterly boring and safe, so to tell the truth, I like this better — though I’d hate to be working at an E.R. this week.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Ken Jennings:
Heh heh.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
@Yatsuno: It might be a joke to somebody that looked at books and stuff.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
@Tehanu: My Korean neighbors went nuts on the 4th every year. We all had WAY too much fun with gunpowder growing up, until everything but sparklers got banned.
Ruckus
I live in a big city(LA) and there are fireworks going off as I type this. They have been for the last 2 to 3 weeks. And as Tehanu said big ones. Had competing firings on the cul-de-sac that I live on.
The Other Chuck
Downtown San Francisco here … heard about three bangs on the fourth (not counting the official fireworks). Zero on the fifth (which it still is here). Civilization has its benefits.
TheMightyTrowel
Going to an expats July 4 pay even though it’s 6 July here. We’ve all been asked to bring something representing our region. I’m making Apple butter crumble bars. My Canadian colleague has made maple bacon muffins. Yum.
mtmofo
Dude, it’s the Friday night of a 4 day holiday weekend.
Lighten up, Francis.
The prophet Nostradumbass
I heard a shitload of fireworks about 2 hours ago, but then, I can sometimes hear the actual music at Shoreline Amphitheater.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
@TheMightyTrowel: Maple bacon muffins? Interesting. Least it’s not “Kraft dinner.”
nastybrutishntall
I made a late-night playlist on soundcloud, if anybody needs some net-perusal soundtracking.
https://soundcloud.com/cop-feel/sets/summer-so-far-mix
Debbie(aussie)
Mighty trowel, have you done any work with Time team in England. Aware you are travelling I am reals interested I. Your Aussie dig. Hope all is going well
Debs
Alison
@The Other Chuck: Heh, I lived in downtown SF not long ago and yeah…the 4th was actually a quieter night than most others!
What part of downtown are you in? I.e. nearest intersection…
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I made it to Xi’an. LAX sucks. Let’s put it this way: the domestic terminal in Beijing was more customer friendly. (The international terminal was great.) And I have no idea why Yutsano warned me about domestic air travel in China. Not only did the Beijing to Xi’an leg of my trip go off without a hitch, I had more leg room than I can remember ever having on a U.S. domestic flight. It was almost comfortable.
And cyclobenzaprine is wonderful stuff. I not only got about seven hours of sleep on the LA-Beijing flight I didn’t even ache from sitting in that seat the whole time.
wasabi gasp
Jacco Gardner – Summer’s Game
2liberal
LINK
fireworks fail youtube
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): LAX is terrible. I have to go through that airport almost every time I fly back to the States, and between the layout (and the inevitable walk from one end of that damned horseshoe to the other with my bags in tow) and that pervasive locker room stench, it’s my least favorite airport in the world.
Bob h
Not to mention that good fireworks are expensive, and most of these municipalities are cash-strapped.
Emma
My neighborhood is fireworks crazy; any excuse, however flimsy, and out they come. Fortunately, the past two nights we’ve had sudden torrential rains start at around eleven. Blissful.
RoonieRoo
We live in an HOA neighborhood and our HOA rules say that fireworks aren’t allowed. So we had several neighbors shooting off fireworks and now they are all having a slap fight on Facebook about it. The maturity is awesome to behold.
khead
“We aren’t going to set the fireworks off here, we were just gathering and looking for somewhere to set them off.”
– said the guy with 20 people following him as he plopped two boxes of fireworks in front of our house Thursday night……. and AFTER he had set one off right behind our car as a test.
Maude
@khead:
Stand Your Ground. Makes you wanna do that doesn’t it?
gogol's wife
@Redshirt:
I’m with you. Now it’s like every weekend all summer is the Fourth of July. I am so sick of it. Although I must say my immediate neighborhood has been pretty quiet this year.
Jay in Oregon
@2liberal:
I was surprised at the number of people who had fireworks positioned near genitals and in orifices(!) in that video.
We truly are a stupid nation at times.
NickT
@Jay in Oregon:
If you want militant stupidity, there’s always Adam Kokesh:
http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/blog-archives/2013/07/the-most-psychotic-video-youll-watch-all-day.html
What a pathetic little pop-eyed dweeb he is.
StringOnAStick
Colorado Springs, which just went through the most destructive wild fire in state history, had over 110 calls to police about illegal fireworks on the 4th. Fireworks have been banned all over the state thanks the fire danger (it is dry, dry, dry here), and yet the Teahaddis in the Springs ain’t gonna let no authoritah tell them what to do with their explosives/fire starters!