Can we just skip the 4th of July this year?

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I have had enough of American flags, the hive mind, traffic jams, & explosions in the sky. Plus it’s hot outside & the mosquitoes are way too ravenous this summer.

― kephm, Thursday, 3 July 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The only good thing about it is that I will finally have a chance to sleep in.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 3 July 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I love living in the suburbs during this time-span. It's like this insane theatre of the absurd; all these people drunk off their ass by noon stumbling around modern-firepits grilling meaty meaty meat and grunting at sporting events viewed via TV screens and blowing up a variety of artifacts whose sole purpose in being created was to be exploded on this day in celebration in a land of almost-entirely uniform housing where every square owner-occupied land-chunk has a little tiny Old Glory flowing valiantly in the wind on pround display for all to see. *wipes tear from eye*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 July 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

sleep will be good.
meaty meaty meat!

― kephm, Thursday, 3 July 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Explosions in the sky!

― dave q, Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

FUCK NO THIS IS THE FIRST REAL DAY OFF I'VE HAD SINCE CHRISTMAS.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, its not the day off i am sick of. what the hell kind of work do you do?

― kephm, Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Evil, soul-sucking work (ie software development). Ask me about the two month period where I averaged 75 hrs/week.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not too excited about the 4th this year... but it'll be good to see my out-of-town friends.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not excited about it at all.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It'd be funner if we had some REAL explosions in the sky and not just the same pansy-ass "fireworks" we get every year.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 July 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I want the JBR NYC food tour!

― kephm, Thursday, 3 July 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i live in canda and i'm sick of that flag of yours.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 3 July 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

you Canadians are always sick of our flag, though!

― Neudonym, Thursday, 3 July 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

goddamn frostbacks!

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 3 July 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I will blowing shit up this year oh yes

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 3 July 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, I feel your pain. It may pay well, and be interesting, but sometimes software dev is satan's own job.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 3 July 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Stay in bed and listen to Galaxie 500's '4th of July'

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 3 July 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm excited because the after-fireworks drinks I'm having at my new place will be very very fun, I'm anticipating

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 3 July 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

*waves flag*

*sings the Star-Spangled Banner as loud as possible*

*runs over to the local Army post and salutes everyone there*

*runs over to the local Air Force bases and salutes everyone there*

*puts together a red, white, & blue outfit*

*puts on a sash that reads "Miss Patriotism"*

*gets hungry*

*eats barbecued chicken and homemade potato salad*

*drinks iced tea*

*sleeps for a million years*

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 3 July 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 July 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

On Canada Day here in Montreal (July 1st for those who don't know), it's the time you move apartments. St. Jean is where the party's at.

― cybele (cybele), Friday, 4 July 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

no-one turned up to my bed-in!!! oh that's right, i forgot to invite anybody

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 4 July 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried to get work on the Fourth so that I could have an excuse to miss all of the idiocy (plus, I'd be getting time and a half), but my recruiter decided to "do me a favor" and give me a 3-11 shift in the worst nursing home in the area on the third instead.
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― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 4 July 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

considering the fires that have been raging near my town for a couple of weeks and the fact that it hasn't rained here in months and it's freaking HOT as always, I'm not really looking forward to tomorrow. some idiot always sets off fireworks in my neighborhood, and the dangers are pretty obvious.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 4 July 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Justyn's reasons for not looking forward to the Fourth of July are fully justified. I too hate idiots who decide to pop fireworks illegally or illogically. I was seriously tempted to anonymously phone in certain members of my family to the police one holiday (I think it was New Year's Eve) for popping fireworks, but decided the police might possibly think I was party to the illegal festivities and thus did not phone. If I'd left earlier and knew they were still popping fireworks when I got home, however, I would've definitely called in the cops.

Hey, everyone in the city knows about the laws banning fireworks explosions within city limits. Only a little tiny child wouldn't be aware of that. My law-breaking relatives were no small children, though.

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 4 July 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually want to celebrate it somewhat right now. Or at least just do something. I wonder if I can persuade the HSA family to do something tonight, even if it just means dumping some tea in the Kennet Canal.

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

dumping some tea in the Kennet Canal.

??????

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I have persuaded the English that this is how Americans celebrate the 4th Of July. That they take some tea down to the nearest body of water and dump it in while shouting about how horrible the King is. This gets them into the spirit!

Just sssssshhhhhh!!! about the fireworks, they don't need to know about that.

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

And bitching about high taxes. Tea and taxes, my English friends get into this.

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

++Stay in bed and listen to Galaxie 500's '4th of July'

haha* i just woke up and had that cd in the player. (one of my favorite local bands)

― kephm, Friday, 4 July 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I just woke up about 15 minutes ago! Any day where I get to sleep in that long cannot be entirely bad.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I have two dogs - one a nice little black lab mixed with chow and lord knows what else. He's sweet and goofy and happy. And then there is the other - a female yellow lab who is beautiful and neurotic. And I do mean neurotic.

Anyway, the neuotic one hates loud noises. She goes into her kennel and huddles and shakes - breaks my heart. So, of course, we live in rural Florida, where every god-damn idiotic in-bred redneck decided to start celebrating the Fourth about two weeks ago (er, fireworks are legal here year round). So my dog has now lost about nine pounds in two weeks because she's frightened to come out of her kennel.

Then, last night, about three AM, she kept stratching at my bedroom door, from where she was on the porch - I went to see what the problem was - she wanted to go out the doggie-door into the yard, but was shaking something horrible. I finally got her into the yard through the person-door, and then had to wait for her to finish her weeing so she could come back in.

This morning I went out and looked in the yard and saw that some god-damn idiotic, inbred, moron was setting off bottle rockets, and two of them landed wedged in the doggie-door. I am so pissed! And now my dog still won't go out the door, even though I've removed the offenders. GRRR.

Oh, and the black dog? (Who is named, believe it or not, "Black Dog".) He's happy - he was chewing on some unexploded ordnance that ended-up in the backyard. *shudder*

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Fireworks aren't pretty.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The fireworks show I saw last for-EVER. I lost interest halfway through. but OMG the grand finale was fucking insane--sensory overload...magnesium brightness accompanied by every color possible, 20 explosions per second. You could feel the shockwaves hitting you--I think if it lasted a few seconds longer my brain would've exploded too.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

and the rest of the day was pleasant as well. I met the new kitten my friend's sister got--it is SO ugly, which makes it even cuter. She purposely picked the freakiest looking one they had. It's so gaunt that I was afraid to pet it.
She plays guitar and sings, so I got to jam along with her on the drums. I usually play by myself, or overdub onto stuff my friend's recorded so it was pretty fun...it was tough trying to make my style work with the poppy stuff she was playing since I never play straight-forward on the beat.
Capped it off with a midnight BBQ and getting my ass kicked in pool. (GODDAMN IT WAS HOT)

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 5 July 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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