This post is goignt omake me come out like a crotchety old man, but what the hell.
Why is it that people feel the need to begin demolishing parts of this country DAYS before it is legally sanctioned? I understand that there is a deep appeal to blowing things up, and that every year in this country we celebrate the defeat of the British and the subsequent subjugation of North Americas indigenous peoples by detonating an ungodly amount of low-order explosives and getting in drunk-driving accidents, but why start early? Despite the obvious illegality of exploding things when you aren’t supposed to, it is highly annoying to those of us who actually enjoy sleeping without the sounds of a low-intensity urban gunbattle wafting in through the window.
Seriously. It sounds like Beirut circa 1985 outside my window right now and the sun isn’t even down.
I bet birds hate this time of the year, a time when they live in fear that at any point a flaming sphere of doom will come rocketing up from a group of wasted teenagers and explode, settign them aflame and sending them to the ground faster than a DC-10. It’s like a little birdy Hanoi.
Anyway, I find it interesting that we have a government sanctioned time when we are allowd to explode things and burn things and get wasted and do stupid things – often involving fire or cars…or both – and that this is not enough for people; they need mroe time to do thses things, presumably to increase the odds that they will be arrested. This is especially true when nearly half of North America is on fire (or so CNN would have you believe) to the point that the sky here in Vantucky is stained haze-gray due to smoke from burning trees over 500 miles away. So when I say that it is odd that we are not only allowed, but encouraged to play with fire on friday, I am not kidding; I know how the mainstreame public of this town acts and do not envy the firefighters and policemen of the area for the next week.
I will wait until friday to get drunk and do stupid things, thanks.
