4th day

Yesterday we celebrated Canadia Day (which is completely different from Canada day) with some delicious homemade poutine and donair. Today we're celebrating USA day by going to see the Master Pancake guys send up holiday alien invasions. I am also watching an all day marathon of Cops and reading.

Each time I think about writing something about Independence Day and America and the Census and race and nationality, I get tangled up and ultimately feel like I'm not sure what the hell I'm saying. There are wonderful and terrible things in the United States, in what we are and what we do. Nothing so enormous could be anything but complicated and contradictory.

We're celebrating by paying some neighborhood kids to mow our lawn and take care of the fallen down tree/bush. It's a couple kids, and their dads help them transport their equipment around. I like that - they even have business cards.

welcome to earf!

The edits the Master Pancake team made to Independence Day tonight made it a much more awesome movie. Though I think it needed even more Danger Zone.

Master Pancake Theater trumps Rifftrax, and MST3K in my mind. I think the live aspect, with the improv and skits and totally ridiculous edits they make are what pushes those guys to the top. Also, I secretly love John Erler and wish I could be just like him. Tonight I even got to chat with him briefly and tried to sell him on crazy surrealist Czech film. Yay!

My neighbors are setting off tons of fireworks. I like fireworks okay, but I have to admit loud noises freak me out. Especially when it starts to sound like gunfire or exploding houses. At least it has been so wet this year that I don't worry as much that we will all catch on fire. But it is really loud, so I am hiding in the house.

A giant ant fell in my shirt. I don't know why. Ugh. Tomorrow I am putting down poison everywhere in the yard. Poison poison poison. My vindictiveness can be traced back to the three (3!!) bites on my left pinkie knuckle, forming a creepy, itchy triangle.