Woot!
Right??
I can't tell if people in my neighborhood are setting off fireworks, or if I'm hearing the big ones. I'm also hearing kids yelling, so I'm guessing it's the former, since there is no way you could see anything from here...
So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.
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Jesse - Jul 04, 2009 4:38:51 pm PDT #27357 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jessica - Jul 04, 2009 4:56:10 pm PDT #27358 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Unless I'm mistaken, the fireworks in my neighborhood are being set off in a vacant lot right next to a gas station, which strikes me as being not a terribly good idea.
tommyrot - Jul 04, 2009 4:58:44 pm PDT #27359 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm not sure where they're being set off in my neighborhood. The alley? Rooftops?
Barb - Jul 04, 2009 5:03:21 pm PDT #27360 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Boston Pops Fourth has Craig Ferguson hosting and Neil Diamond.
Sounds like it's already several steps above the Capital Fourth.
"We're goin' t'celebrate by makin' lots of noise and blowin' stuff up."
heh.
sarameg - Jul 04, 2009 5:09:09 pm PDT #27361 of 30000
Was noisy here for a bit. I bet if I got on my top roof, I'd see the downtown fireworks, given the number of folks with rooftop decks I saw out.
Loki lept up to knead the down throw MK was sleeping on. Didn't even bug MK. MK is now washing him within an inch of his life and the kitten is complacent, if not catatonic, with very clean ears.
Devi's hiding. She hates the 4th.
Calli - Jul 04, 2009 5:22:47 pm PDT #27362 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I can hear the fireworks from my apartment, but I can't see them. When they started Leifur got a bit of a "whatthehell" look on his face. But I petted him for a bit and now the fireworks are just another noise for him. I'm glad he's a pretty chill cat.
Hil R. - Jul 04, 2009 5:24:12 pm PDT #27363 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I went to watch them from the roof for a little while, but got too annoyed at the annoying people up there. There were people debating whether or not San Diego is part of California.
tommyrot - Jul 04, 2009 5:26:34 pm PDT #27364 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There were people debating whether or not San Diego is part of California.
What would it be a part of, then? Mexico? France?
Hil R. - Jul 04, 2009 5:31:55 pm PDT #27365 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I have no idea. These same people, a few minutes earlier, were complaining that everyone thinks they're depressed because they cry every day, but they're not depressed, really! And the brother of one of them was announcing, after each firework, a technical-sounding and obviously made-up name for what kind of firework it was.
Ginger - Jul 04, 2009 5:45:31 pm PDT #27366 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The Capitol Fourth is always on the D-list side. You'd think they could do better.
Mr Peabody does not like the fireworks. His response is to cling to me like a 23-pound limpet. He also had a bath and I washed all his stuff in the fight against the fleas, so his world has been all askew today.
Does anyone else remember when fireworks made pictures? Does anyone do that anymore? The fireworks at Oshkosh when I was a kid always ended with a flag.
The problem with all the marches played on the Fourth is that I end up earwormed with "Be kind to your web-footed friends/For a duck could be somebody's mother" and "The monkey wrapped his tail around the flagpole."