Murica Day 2023

My birthday is August 5 and I've always hated it for that reason. It was depressing to be eating your birthday cake every year as a flurry of Back to School Sale commercials aired on the TV in the next room, knowing you were back in that shit in three weeks.

 

Like a fucking cheese cracker.

 

I’d replace Music Man with Independence Day, but I like it.

 

That office supply TV ad singing “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” is pretty funny though. Parents dancing down the shopping aisles ready to put those little fuckers back into the hands of the teachers.

 

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Made it through the whole four-day weekend without hearing The 4th of July Shoes this year.

 

I was telling my wife yesterday how for the first 50 yrs of my life I really liked 4th of July and how we appeared to celebrate unity as a country. Then somehow its become celebrating "Merica" but only for the whites who hate (1) gays; (2) immigrants and (3) minorities. Only MAGA/MAWA people were wearing red/white/blue, the universal colors of the traitors on Jan. 6. So yeah, yesterday was quite different.

 

F*ck Lee Greenwood and those other pretend "Great Americans", one person I really despise is Ted Nugent who's supposedly a "great" American. Well I recall very vividly reading an article in Creem/High Times(?) about how he dodged the Vietnam draft by not bathing and sh*tting himself for over two weeks then showing up at the enlistment office. IIRC he got out. So someone explain how he and fatf*ck are great Americans again? On the other hand, we just laid to rest my first cousin who didn't get out and who was in one of the worst firefights of Vietnam with the Americal Division. So screw these pretenders.

 

Living in the northeast, I've grown to detest July 4th simply because it's halftime for summer. You have a few more weeks of good weather, swimming pools, maybe a trip to the beach until the nights start getting a little shorter and then it's Labor Day. The older I get, the shorter the summer seems to get.

 

Try hearing the "last minute shopping" ads ahead of your birthday around Christmas.

 

Ha, out here the old saying was summer didn't really start until the 4th of July because June could be so iffy. Seemed that was through the 1980s and 1990s, we'd get as many cloudy days and rainy days in June as sunny ones. That pattern has changed in the last 20 year, it was 115 or something in June here several years ago. Sometimes it feels like September is the new August.