Today is America's birthday. I'm gonna use that fact as an excuse to post the most goddamn patriotic pictures I can find.
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| HELL YEAH. FUCK SLAVERY. (via reddit.com) |
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| ONE BICEP FOR EVERY WORLD WAR THAT WE'VE WON. (via imgur.com) |
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| It's... it's beautiful. (via reddit.com) |
Following the traditional customs of my great, great country, I decided to leave the house today and watch my local parade.
...Except I only caught the end of it because it took me 45 minutes to walk there alone since the rest of my family wasn't patriotic enough to drive down there and watch it.
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| They probably wanted to attend this parade instead. (via baltimoresun.com) |
Met up with Angela and Nick afterwards though. We hung out at the park around the rec, where they had a bunch of food/snack stands, some game booths, and even a few rides (although most of the rides were for smaller kids). We watched a few breakdancers that were performing underneath a gazebo and at some point, a guy in a red shirt walked up and started doing moves that kinda looked awkward. Don't get me wrong, he has waaaay more guts than me for performing in public, but compared to the other guys (and especially Ricky, who showed up later and just WRECKED everyone when he danced), his moves were... strange.
He kinda reminded me of an Asian version of Ian.
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| Actually, I think this was one of the guy's moves... (via Ian's Facebook) |
The 85 degree heat eventually got to me, so I ended up buying some Kona Ice, which is basically shaved ice except it's called "Kona Ice." Technically, they were just selling flavorless ice since the truck that they used had the flavored syrup dispensers on the outside of the truck, free for anyone to use. Clever, I'll give them that, but it sets itself up for some abuse. For instance, someone could just bring their own shaved ice and mooch off their free syrup dispensers.
Or someone could just drink a cupful of syrup without buying any ice. Kinda like what Nick did.
Okay, I"m exaggerating, he didn't drink an entire cupful of blue raspberry flavored snowcone syrup. He drank a quarter of a cup. A quarter of a cup of concentrated, blue raspberry flavored snowcone syrup.
Same day, 10:39 PM PDT
Went outside to go watch the fireworks. Photodump incoming.
Here was the first picture I took. I zoomed in waaaaaaay too close, but I think I got a pretty amazing shot out of it, so I'd say that was a great accident.
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| Pretty pretty. |
Zoomed out a bit and got a ton more shots. Check it out.
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| I especially like this one. |
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| This one was one of those fireworks that changed color from red to white. I got it mid-transition. |
Got a picture of the grand finale too.
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| Yeah, it's pretty... |
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| ...until the rest of it goes off in one horrifyingly overexposed explosion. |
And I'll also throw in this shot I got of the small crowd of people that happened to watch the fireworks in the same place that I did.
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| Happy Fourth of July. |
RFotD: The city of Suwa, Nagano in Japan hosts an annual fireworks display, usually happening around August and September. Part of this fireworks display involves a contest where manufacturers compete to see who can come up with the coolest new fireworks.
SGAT: Finished a summer blog post BEFORE 2 AM!
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