I hope you all had a safe and relaxing 4th of July weekend. And when I say safe and relaxing, I obviously mean that I hope you blew up as much crap as possible using dangerous illegal fireworks. Because that's what it's all about, really. Buying a whole bunch of explosives that are made in China and given aggressively patriotic names like BOSTON TEA PARTY and VETERANS SALUTE. Even better are the fireworks given military names. Honestly, what goes through the minds of the Chinese factory workers as they afix the labels to SPECIAL FORCES ASSAULT and WAR BIRDS?
"These powerful names truly represent the awesome power of the American military complex, so we had better stay away from Taiwan or risk the sight of a U.S. Navy battlegroup once more patrolling our coast!"Yeah, that's probably how it goes. U-S-A! U-S-A!
But really, I had very nice 4th. I went up to my cabin where there was a big family gathering, including one of my mom's distant cousins who flew in with her family all the way from Norway. And yes, we blew stuff up.
On an unrelated topic, I went to see The Heavy play at the Fine Line Cafe last night and it was awesome. They played two full sets, basically their entire first album and a ton of songs from the new one coming out in October. Great value for an $8 ticket.
But as fantastic as the show was (it was great), the most fun part might have been talking to the band about videogames and soccer on the patio between sets. According to the bass player, Pro Evolution Soccer games are much better than FIFA games. I disagree, mostly just because I like having authentic player names, but he's certainly entitled to his opinion. They invited my friends and I to have a drink with them after the show, but then afterwards it turned out they were more interested in having a drink with a bunch of very attractive ladies. Fair enough, Heavy.
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