Happy Independence Day!

 

 

--mmy

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[Ross]

The day when we celebrate our liberation from the aliens by means of Jeff Goldblum's macbook and Randy Quaid dying for our sins. In the name of the Paxton, and of the Quaid, and of the Holy Will Smith.

[Mmy]

@Ross :)

I went to the White House official website to check how they "officially" referred to today. I always assumed they would call it "Happy Fourth of July" but apparently not.

[victoria]

another perspective making the rounds in my social network feeds:

How To Celebrate the Fourth of July: Read Frederick Douglass

[Froborr]

Welp, I'm going to be paying tomorrow for staying up so late tonight, and I set my dieting back at least a week, and I just spent our entire entertainment budget and a third of our food budget for the month on fireworks.... and it was *completely* worth it for finally getting to put on a fireworks show with my fiancee present.

[Leum]

Using this as an excuse to post my favorite patriotic song: Phil Ochs' Power and Glory

[storiteller]

My favorite patriotic song is This Land is Your Land, especially when it includes all of the original lyrics. Hearing Pete Seeger sing it while I was waiting for the inauguration for President Obama to start (it was on video from the day before) was one of the most patriotic moments of my life, possibly only after the inauguration itself.

[cjmr, on her son's netbook]

Hope everyone had a Happy Fourth! We just beat last night's midwest storm to Mansfield and got to watch their fireworks competing with nature's version.

We were supposed to drive further today, but my dad has no power (which means no water) and already 6 people there, so we will delay a bit and NOT double the number of children who are sitting around grumpily in a dark, hot, house with no AC or internet access or flushable facilities. At least we stopped somewhere WITH internet...

[lonespark]

Wow, Leum, thanks for that. Somehow I never really knew much of Phil Ochs before.

[lonespark]

We made a family pilgrimage to the fireworks in Boston. We survived a cloudburst, although some of us were pitifully damp. (Ain't nothing more pitiful than a soaking wet 3-yo. But she did like the fireworks, and the subway ride.)

[Ross]

@lonespark: I've noticed several times in my life that even a lot of people who are hardcore music nerds have this weird Phil Ochs gap in their music knowledge.

There was a documentary about him released last year, which I got my dad for his birthday. Me, I like to think of I Ain't Marching Anymore as a patriotic song.

Though Love Me I'm a Liberal is more fun.

[sarah]

I have a lot of love for "This Land is Your Land."

Despite my misgivings about the amount of nationalism that comes with the Fourth, I loved yesterday's barbeque (though we were indoors for most of it because of the heat), complete with watching neighborhood (illegal) fireworks and then getting stuck on the highway because of the fireworks on the Ben Franklin Parkway. Ah, a Philadelphia 4th of July.

[Raj]

British icon meets American icon. Enjoy! *salutes*

[lonespark]

I am not in any way a hardcore music nerd. Pretty much the logical opposite of that. But with the amount hippie commie folk songs sung to me in the cradle, it does seem like an unfortunate ommission.