So, July 4th, 2005 then

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Today was certainly a nice spirit raiser of a news day for the weekend, eh?

Happy 229th, U.S. Happy 138th, Canada.

For China!

http://www.sixthseal.com/images/cny04/chinese_firecrackers.jpg

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 1 July 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm just gonna shoot off some bottle rockets while drunk. fuck symbolism anymore.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

my mum's birthday :(

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, mark.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

:-[

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

no no, that's ok, you guys have to celebrate obv - even if fuck the symbolism! - but yeah: she wd have been 70

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry for spoilin yr thread donut

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

well, aside from seeing a nice fireworks display, this will probably be the least "rah, u.s.a." 4th Of July sentiments I've ever remembered having... which was my point.

so, yeah, i don't think I really want to "celebrate", mark, much less "have" to, but mutual hugs nonetheless.

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

and you didn't spoil the thread at all. in fact, you helped paint a similar shade of grey i intended. :/

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

is that china thing a cake or fireworks, or what?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

it depends on how much you like (or don't) the birthday boy.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahah...

it's a cake of fireworks, basically.

The irony of using chinese traditions, especially given the global political climate today, to celebrate american freedom is pretty damn dense.

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

these firework-cake guys know which way the wind is blowing!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Burn baby burn, turn baby turn.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked the cover of the new yorker this week.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

pic?

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

this is the weekend of DEEP IMPACT!
http://www.flandrau.org/news.php?id=111

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 1 July 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The young'un turns 17 on the 4th. Tuesday we're off to Sewanee for a campus visit.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 2 July 2005 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not on the site donut! :( it's of uncle sam sitting at his birthday party with his birthday cake and all the other seats (which have little flags in front of the place settings) are empty and he looks so sad.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 2 July 2005 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Mofos in suburbia be shootin off fireworks already.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Saturday, 2 July 2005 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

About 15 years ago, an acquaintance of mine in Carmel, CA talked me into receiving shipment of about $1200 in mail-order fireworks, repackaging them in plain boxes and reshipping them to him for a 4th celebration on the beach. I think about that every summer and laugh and/or feel queasy. DHS would have my ass for breakfast and sell my family to scientific research if I tried that in this day and age.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 2 July 2005 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i wrote a poem on a dog biscuit...

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

For the first time in my life this morning, I actually felt sentimental about fireworks. Probably because I was riding a horribly crowded bus to go to work, when really I wanted to be sitting on the big, almost deserted alfalfa field above my parents' house, watching the almost perfect view of the fireworks exploding over the Empire State Plaza across the Hudson Valley.

Sigh...

Instead, I'm going to get my anger managed.

― MIS Information (kate), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i ate some blueberries

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It's MU mum's birthday as well, and I havne't even got her a card or ANYTHING.

I am so rubbish. I'll give her a bell tonight.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i kind of forgot about it. someone at work was like 'surely you can meet up with other americans to celibrate?!' and i was like 'why?'

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 4 July 2005 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

this was also my dad's birthday. he would have been 74 today :-(

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

wow i didn't know that marcello:

happy birthday MY MUM!! :(

and plus marcello's dad :(

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 4 July 2005 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a way messy period in april, which begins with the anniversary of dad's death, and my nan's birthday (she is still very much with us, but her son passed on her birthday, and she was on holiday at the time, and she just goes to pieces, which is to be expected), which is nicely followed by my dad's birthday two weeks later, which was also the day he was buried. and i split up with pam this april, so spring 2005 was pretty rotten. my heart goes to marcello and mark today.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

many thanks for that stevie.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i came all the way back from the lake of fire to celebrate today!!

― bad folks (ken c), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the american company we work with had paid for an ice cream van to come along to work and gave everyone free ice creams.

I thought it was just a regular ice cream van and went there about to purchase a couple of 99s, and then i was like really confused when the guy was like "you work here? take your money back!" and then an american colleague at work was like "happy 4th of july, ken!!" and i was like "hahahaha i see am i entitled to this??" and almost did a fake american accent but thought better of it.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's my cat's birthday today, he is 13.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The irony of using chinese traditions, especially given the global political climate today, to celebrate american freedom is pretty damn dense.

I think the political climates of both China and the U.S. are starting to look a lot more alike, actually.

Today, the wife, the great dane, and I are going to go up to the lake. I'm going to teach the dog how to swim, and then we're going to watch my half-brother blow shit up.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

the air show has been going on three times a day (sometimes four) ten blocks away from me.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 4 July 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I am working at a history museum, so I was around for a parade, a reading of the declaration of independence, and a demonstration of how a whaleboat is used (sans whale, of course, but there were harpoons!). It was fun.

The holiday is still fun for me because I think there is more to the US than its current administration & Congress. There's plenty in the news and in history that's fucked up, but I think the country as a whole is not all bad, and too good to give up on.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 4 July 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I took this standing on my parents' front steps.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/jeannefury/8fireworks7205.jpg

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Monday, 4 July 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes.

― Ms. Ginny Stroud (miloaukerman), Monday, 4 July 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I went shopping and bought one of those little short sleeved t-shirt/vest things that ties in the front. I'm all for the revival of the empire waist, but I held off getting one because, well, they're really way too trendy. But I caved today.

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 4 July 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

pics from saturday night:

http://starstarstar.net/fireworks.jpg http://starstarstar.net/fireworks2.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 4 July 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh- nice!

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

-- Ms. Ginny Stroud (wooderso...) (webmail), July 4th, 2005 4:28 PM. (miloaukerman) (later)

f'n A! kaboom!

― sunny successor (when the lunch bell rings why dont you eat me) (katharine), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ps i think america is pretty

― sunny successor (when the lunch bell rings why dont you eat me) (katharine), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't do anything particularly special for the 4th of July save for warming up my favorite frozen pre-made dinner and baking up a couple of pre-cut, pre-made cookies to go along with it. That was the extent of my 4th of July celebrating. I'm sure my mom had a much less festive celebration, though, so I ain't complainin'. I do kinda wish some local TV channel had broadcast the official city fireworks display, though. That would have been cool.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Lake Union fireworks put me in a great mood for the night.. as usual. So so glad to have them around and nearby. :)

― donut e- (donut), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Taken from the Seattle Times... not a great fireworks shot as much as seeing the total chaos on water where all the folks with sailboats and yachts took them out into the lake to be underneath all the smoke and shrapnel...

http://www.mackron.com/random/lakeunion070405.jpg

― donut e- (donut), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Mofos in suburbia be shootin off fireworks already.
-- Je4nne ƒur¥ (boomboomboo...), July 2nd, 2005 9:55 PM. (Je4nne Fury)

Yeah, this was me.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I shot some skyflower fireworks off last night that were super ginormous, my asshole neighbor came out and kept saying things like "a little early for the 4th, aren't ye?" and "that's not what that tennis court was made for!" and "you know those kinda fireworks is illegal here" and we just kept ignoring him. It was great. BA BOOM.

-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), July 3rd, 2005 1:44 PM. (nickalicious)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

UNTIL SOMEONE LOST AN EYE.

(did someone lose an eye Nick?)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

From my deck I could see one fireworks display to the south (sort of saw the high ones over south West Seattle) which started kind of early, 2 across the far side of Puget Sound (Bainbridge? not sure about the other one), one across and towards the north of the Sound, the Elliott Bay ones, and the Lake Union ones reflected in the windows of a building. Fireworks eveywhere!! If only we had a Hatch Shell out here for the Symphony to play in, which is the awesome part of being in Boston for the 4th.

I put puppy in the bathroom in his crate with the fan on & he was happy to go to sleep in there, which is a big improvement over him whimpering under the table last year. I think that's a nice comment on how loud my bathroom fan is, that it could drown out fireworks a few blocks away....

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Me + wife were both hot with some uneasiness at the end of the fireworks (esp. the big mortar blasts) last night when we thought about how they represented bombs. I was thinking that maybe we should make it a tradition to not have fireworks displays when the country is at war.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I celebrated by watching "Helter Skelter" and "The Day After" on TV Land.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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