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.

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.

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.

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.

There were people debating whether or not San Diego is part of California.

What would it be a part of, then? Mexico? France?

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.

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."

I love web footed friends!

I'm very glad, years ago, I spent the 4th on the Mall. I ran into friends from college down in NC and helped complete strangers carry their exhausted kids to the Metro in an hours long shuffle. I've done the inner harbor and been trapped in a parking garage, using a sheet I have in my car give privacy to an embarrassed 11 year old who REALLY HAD TO PEE (in a cup.) But I'm happy to be gone nowhere tonight.

I've neve seen the fireworks make pictures, but I have been fascinated by it every since Uncle somebody in Eight Cousins had the fireworks make 8 thistles and a Rose for Rose and her cousins.

The fireworks are going through their finale right now, I think, and Amarna's just chilling in the dining room. She was jolting more yesterday when some of my neighbors were setting off loud 'works and 'crackers.