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07/04/2007: Summer Megaparty: Happy 4th!

I’m recovering from an all-night pre-4th bender, so this will be brief. Happy 4th of JOO-LIE! (And to those of you in other nations, happy Wednesday!) We don’t have anything planned for the rest of the day, and I’m just now realizing that I completely forget to pick up gigantic steaks yesterday, leaving me with nothing to grill but a couple of bell peppers and a red onion. So, no barbecue…no fireworks…I’m the worst American ever.

On the other hand, traditions come in all shapes and sizes. What’s that I’m seeing on my television set at this very moment? A motherfuckin’ Twilight Zone marathon. Yes! And God is on my side today, because I caught it just at the start at one of my very favorite episodes, “Eye of the Beholder.” You know the one. Bandaged freak girl stuck in a hospital having multiple reconstructive surgeries to look normal…but when the bandages come off, it’s a SWERVE!

…because in this world, being beautiful means looking like a cross between a pig and “Influence” from Dick Tracy. There’s a lot of great episodes left in the marathon, which runs until 5 AM on the Sci-Fi Network. Check it out if all Independence Day means to you is a license to do nothing.

Also, today’s a good day for a look back at the “Cherry Cracker” Kool-Aid review — one of the world’s only Independence Day-themed beverages.

i think that’s the first time i’ve used that word…and to the rest of u Happy red white and blue themed everything day!

Wow. I almost never post this high up on the thread. We are just about ready to eat, having cooked up our meat and hot dogs this morning. It’s 91 degrees here in the San Fernando Valley; it’s actually about twelve degrees cooler than had been forecast. No big fireworks planned, they’re illegal here in California, but a few in our neighborhood do fire them off. It’s not a very good idea though, as we live right under the north takeoff/landing path for the Van Nuys airport, which is two blocks sdouth of our house.

I wish I’d been on an all night bender :D. I just stayed up late watching Children of Men with some friends (awesome movie, btw). I still slept in like I’d been drinking all night though.
I love how they dub adult voices over kids on this show (Twilight Zone). Now I think I’ll go pick up some big chunks of meat to throw on the grill. Might have to switch over to the King of the Hill marathon for that, seeing as it is a propane grill after all.
Happy 4th everybody!

Happy Wednesday is right lol. To all of us that are happy/pissed about the day off (my best friend just started a new job and he has today off, nice to see him, bad we don’t get a day’s pay to spend the end of next week)

I live in eastern oregon, it’s 103 today. Cook an egg on the sidewalk we can. Can’t afford fireworks. Will watch the local ones on tv, almost a tradition of mine.

And actually Denmark celebrates the 4th of July. Same reason, except kinda partying for someone else’s party without the person there, kinda deal. I think it’s because there are a lot of tourists that visit during the summer. I went when I was 8 years old for a 6 week vacation of europe and visited my distant relatives (my great grandparents came over from Denmark) and so we went and celebrated the 4th I remember it was a grassy field and people spoke on a podium about what it meant and then afterwards at night there was fireworks.

Lots of memories from that trip, Europe is beautiful I reccemend everyone saving up enough money to go once at least in your lifetime. I can’t wait to afford it so my best friend and I can go and do our own thing. But we went when I was a kid I didn’t appreciate it then as much of course but now I do. We got a chunk of the berlin wall people! I got to see the little mermaid statue and swam in the mediterranean sea. Fuckin’ A.

Very low key day planned as well: watch tennis, then a ride dow nthe rode to my cousins house -less than a mile- eat until I’m fat(ter), then watch the fireworks display that is provided by all the legal fireworks in my lovely home state :P. I recall it gets very smokey here on the 4th….

I just discovered this game MOTAS online. It’s one of these locked room/puzzle type games. Good thing is you can get help from chat. Bad thing the mods seem to throw you off for anything…even just using too many caps! (they actually tell you the percentage amount of caps you’ve used!) A gray day for the fourth here in NY. Even a bit chilly. A good day to stay home and be pissed that I have work tomorrow!

Low Key 4th for me as well marinating some dead cow and watching the Twilight Zone. Good Times

Get off from work, eat, eat some more, watch some boom-booms, set off some boom-booms, sleep.
Wake up, go to work.

It seems to be the theme of the day - the low key celebration. Since I did my grilling last night I’ll probably only be consuming leftovers throughout the day. No fireworks for me either.

I did do one “4th of July celebration”-type thing. I made homemade sno-cones!

That’s my favorite part about lesser holidays — the Twilight Zone marathons. I went out to get fireworks despite all the tornado warnings, but I met Uncle Sam so it was way worth it.

I just got back from a picnic and Cherry Cracker Kool-Aid sounds so damn refreshing right now…

I’m in the middle of an eleven days working in a row. I think I am too tired to go out and I am also one of the freaks who hates driving on nights where the drunks may be driving. So, I’m off to see if there’s any Target’s or CVS’ open and I’m gonna stock up on cheezy magazines and chill all night. To me, that sounds fabulous.
Hope you all have a safe and fun holiday!

That episode JUST ended here. Good stuff. Summer jukebox suggestion: theme from National Lampoon’s Vacation?

That’s my favorite TZ episode also. The remake of that episode that the UPN version of the TZ did a few years ago sucked (although some of them weren’t half bad either).

In the immortal words of Meatwad, “We grilling tonight!” Otherwise I’ve just been playing Tiger Woods and watching Tommy Boy.

I’m posting on X-E’s blog and eating hamburger helper…I have to work tomorrow so no partying…

Twilight Zone marathons…that’s how I usually spend the remainder of my 4th of July and Labor Day every year after I get home from the big get-together. I hope to see my other favorites, “I Sing the Body Electric” and “To Serve Man.”

No “Twilight Zone” marathon here. In 1995 or 1996, I purchased “The Twilight Zone Companion” by Marc Scott Zicree. It’s a really cool, very comprehensive episode guide and in-depth analysis of the series, with recollections and commentary by some of the people involved with the series and also with media critics and the like.

Anyway, I read, re-read, and then re-re-re-read it, so now I can’t ever watch that show again, as as soon as I know the plot for an episode, I know what’s going to happen in detail.

I’ll be eating a salad and a cheeseburger, watching a local fireworks display on TV thanks to our NBC affiliate, and then I’ll probably watch a couple of movies on DVD. I wish all X-E-ers a happy and safe 4th of July.

I’ve got a Flintstones lasting until late saturday, every episode, on Boomerang.

Happy 4th! I just finished my second all-American brewsky and my second hot dog, and am now off to the local clusterf*ck to watch some fireworks while trying to get some 15+ year old sparklers to light. All this and it’s a paid holiday from work - what more can you ask for?!

i’ve been watching the twilight zone marathon since yesterday… wahoo!!!!! HAPPY 4TH EVERYONE!!!!

Twilight Zone scared the bejesus out of me when I was little. Now if Sci-Fi had been playing an X-Files marathon I would have been all over it.

This has been a pretty boring 4th, evident in the fact that I’m watching a biography on Randy Travis.

I effin’ hate it when the 4th falls in the middle of the week like this. Another holiday … another blow-out fight between my brother and my folks … yea holiday! Oh well, such is life in the Lemur clan.

I’ve been watching the Project Runway marathon all day, and I’m kinda pissed that TNT or TBS didn’t show Gettysburg the way they used to. Nothing like 4 hour long Civil War movie to blow through a day of leisure. Enjoy the rest of the day, folks.

Yes! Marathons are awesome. Good or bad, they pull you in. I watched a marathon of “Beauty and the Geek” once and I still don’t know why.

That’s one of the few Twilight Zone episodes I’ve actually seen, and definitely one of the best.

Apparently I gave this message way after today’s post, so I’ll simply rewrite it here:

Knegative, Shuanfu, and I think Me, thanks for your help! I did watch the MatrixPrime reviews for both and decided to get Ironhide. So as soon as the nearest Target, Wal-Mart, Toys’R'Us or whatever store has these is open tomorrow, I’ll go pick him up. Also, I want to apologize for my earlier transgression against the Autobots by considering Starscream. (even if he is a fighter jet, which is what got me to love him as a kid from just seeing the toys)

Don’t get me wrong, I like Twilight Zone and all, but damnit, I was all set to watch a brand new Ghost Hunters.

Rescue Me not being on was the first dagger, now this. Grr. (I preferred the Mythbusters marathon, over TZ, though.)

Plus, I have a lingering headache (not from drinking) and my wacko neighbors are setting off fireworks that just sound like rumbling earthquakes and shotguns. It’s pretty annoying for someone who doesn’t like loud abrupt noises.

(THIS IS A CHEESY POST AND I DON’T CARE)
I am not a real big patriot (I think) but today…I don’t know what it is but I am really feeling this 4th of July. Plus, I don’t have the “I only have one day off” blues like many of you.
I know it’s late now but get out there (or whatever) and celebrate our independence. Think aobut Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin, George Washington, John Jay, Mercy Otis Warren, Molly Pitcher, and all the rest of the macs and mac-ettes who fought in the Revolution.
Click my name and read the Declaration already.

Nothing beats a three day weekend, but a day off is a day off, even in the middle of the week. I could’ve been at work all afternoon instead of eating watermelon, flipping between marathons, watching Empire Strikes Back and refreshing the blog, so I’m happy.

…to add to Manimal’s cheesiness.
I have to say I am sure I have never read, let alone thought about the DOI in the fourth. School’s not in session, so it never really happened. But those are pretty powerful words, and it is amazing how far our nation has come as to include (nearly) all people into the “all men are created equal” part since it was written.
I’d like to imagine the writiers of this were sitting around drinking pints and high-fiving while writing it. But that’s just me.

I got work tomorrow too (day shift unfortunately), but I’m partying anyway! I’m at my frat bro’s house…where I am every wednesday.

Watching awesome fireworks from the very room I’m typing in right now! Happy 4th everyone!

And jukebox suggestions…go back to the blog where everyone listed their suggestions. A lot of them got missed.

Definitely going to add more from the suggestions — probably straying away from too much of the current stuff, though. Juke will probably be twice as long when all is said and done.

Low-key 4th here, too. Tiny BBQ, Monk marathon (Mom’s choice, finally), it’s all good. Have a great rest of the day everybody.

I ended up working, but I worked early, only until 1PM. By the time I got home, almost everyone else I knew was out at some party or the other, so I went to my older friend Erica’s house and watched old movies (the Hepburn-Tracy comedy “Woman Of The Year”), then went out to dinner, came home briefly to drop off the leftovers and went to see the fireworks.

The fireworks were gorgeous, and I even got lucky - as I was leaving, a second fireworks program began at the next town over…which was quite visible from my spot on the CVS on the edge of Oaklyn/Collingswood across from Cooper River Park. I watched part of the second program, then bought a copy of Rolling Stone (this month’s issue celebrates the Summer of Love - I’m a classic rock fan), and got soaked when I hit a downpour while walking home. I’m still drying out as I type this.

kb I got that beat. I just watched all of the fireworks whatnot in NY and D.C. and I envisioned the Founders looking on a la the Jedi spirits. (That may be the dorkest sentence ever typed in human history).

P.S. I re-read my earlier post and I think that comment about not having to work tomorrow came across as rubbing it in; That was not my intent

. I also misspelled ‘about’.

Now, go celebrate your independence of your country by blowing up a small part of it.

“Boys of Summer” has always been one of my favorite songs, even though it’s about autumn. Plus, I always thought it would be cool if a girl remade it, instead of that kinda pointless version from a couple of years ago.

Anyone who has a pulse knows that the greatest “only flavor that matters….PERIOD” of Kool-Aid is Surfin’ Berry Punch. The commercial was great and the song was timeless.
A wave of wiiiild berries,
You’re gonna dig it a bunch (cool!),
a hot new flavor from KOOL-AID,
new Surfin Berry Punch (Kool-Aid man riding a wave on a surfboard)

Plus, I always thought it would be cool if a girl remade it, instead of that kinda pointless version from a couple of years ago.

Discovered a cool new trick today: due to lack of a grill, I was stuck as to how to cook steaks that were brought to my house. After some interweb searching, I read up on the simple technique of cooking them in the oven. And I have to say: it was the best steak I’ve had in a looong time. No nice and juicy!

I think I’m getting my usual holiday-type case of the ‘blahs’. There’s something about days where everyone seems to be doing something more important/relevant than you are that makes me kinda down….

Zone marathon? I’m down. Add me to the list of low-keyers. Went to a bbq, that’s about it. However, I am celebrating by eating corndogs and watching this Twilight Zone marathon. It doesn’t get more American than that. Oh, and alcohol, too.

I live for the 4th of July Twilight Zone Marathon. Started for me last year,and still goes on today. Can’t wait to see what my DVR has in store for me since I had a blowout here today.
My fav TZ episode is “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”. Make perfect sense as how we live as humans. Ironic.

ALso the TZ marathon always begins the day before at 8am. Although I do hate Ghost Hunters wasn’t on.

Just got back from Transformers. Effects were AMAZING. My only complaint- the movie was just too darn long. The fight scenes could have been shorter. But, I liked it overall- lots of humor!

Jukebox ideas: ‘June afternoon’ by Roxette
‘Flowers in your Hair’- Scott MacKenzie?
‘Time of My Life’- Dirty Dancing

thanks for the tip on the twilight zone marathon matt. i’m enjoying my drunken stupor much more now!

I think I’m going again Friday morning. I forgot to mention that last night there was a guy with a Decepticon logo shirt who had written on his back, in masking tape, “Suck it Bay.” This guy was an idiot for two reasons. 1. He payed to see the movie anyway. 2. He was smiling as he left; he loved it.

Then there was 4 guys who dressed up in tin foil and cardboard boxes. They were greeted with applause and snapshots.

We read a Twilight Story in 8th Grade English in play format, about the space aliens invading. Basically all the aliens did was fuck with the electricity which initatied all the fear and turmoil in the town, resulting in a few deaths. After we read that one, my teacher told me about the pigs, stating that was her favorite episode.

Happy Independence Day, everyone! I’m posting from my DS again, since both computers in my house are being used right now. It’s nice that I can go online with this thing whenever i want, although it can’t play music or video. So i’ll have to wait until later to watch the AVGN. I love the jukebox and am looking forward to seeing what else Matt has in store for us. Have a safe and happy holiday! i’m watching Seinfeld.

Worked today, but Independence Day doesn’t really start until dark anyway (it’s all about blowing stuff up people).

And, as always I continued my annual tradition of seeking out the neighbors with the coolest fireworks and hanging out with them while they set them off.

I want to see Transformers again, but I’m going with someone to see SICKO Friay before it leaves are town -they move fast around here- and with Harry Potter next week, followed by so many other movies I want to see, it may have to wait…but I’m happy it had suc ha good opening weekend and that everyone seemed to enjoy it!

Independance day for me was back on Sunday, so today is mostly just sittign around the house, since it’s been raining all day.

I, too, had a fairly low-key Fourth. BBQ’d burgers with some friends and watched 1776 (a musical about the writing and signing of the Declaration of Independence–it’s totally as awesome as it sounds).

Tetsu, I guess we kinda do that, because we didn’t set off any fireworks of our own, but rather watched everything all the other people in the city set off.

Ah, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, one of my favorites as well. Not quite up there with Time Enough at Last, but pretty damn good.

I had to take a break from the TZ marathon a few hours ago. Well, that isn’t fair really. I never really partook in the marathon per se. I watched a few hand-picked episodes throughout the day. I did watch about four episodes of Law and Order however on TNT. One question, does TNT have an L n’ O marathon around once a week, or what?

Now I must sleep. Tomorrow I track down the elusive Kwik-E-Mart pink donut. It will be mine.

In deference to the bar bet I once lost to an Englishman: happy Ungratefulness Day, you uppity colonials.

I got to help shoot off the community fireworks show last night. It’s the best perk of being a volunteer firefighter. Well, that and getting to ride around on the front of the brush truck with a firehose chasing down grassfires. Hurrah getting to play with eight-inch shells! Boo running around in full bunker gear in July in New Mexico.

OHEMGEE…So I’m like fifteen posts behind and all, but I had to say…if you have not yet seen Transformers, drop what you are doing right now and GO. GO DAMMIT. You will not be disappointed. Seriously, it was so good. So so beyond good. It made me feel like a five-year-old kid. I’m going after work to buy more toys to add to my growing collection, who are all battling each other on my desk at work right now. Seriously, whatever you are doing right now is not nearly as important as going to see this movie. GO!

Quick, before I forget what I was going to say…! (1) 1776 is a GREAT flick. I use the phrase “I abstain…courteously” from time to time. (2) Transformers was frickin hilarious. Loved it from start to finish, and I was not that huge of a Transformers fan going in. (3) Dammit! There was a third point! Well, I’ll wonder back on in a few if I can remember it.

Aha, remembered! Cops were ticketing people over the holiday for pulling over on the side of the highway to watch fireworks. That’s sort of crappy, since technically they were out of the way, but still a safety issue, I guess.

But…! They also pulled people over for slowing down to watch the fireworks. Some of these morons were going *15 mph* on I-4 (our major highway where most people go 70 mph at least). MORONS!

Speaking of Independence Day themed drinks, anyone been to Wal-Mart lately to see/grab up the $th of July decked out Hawaiin Punch? The Ruby Red and Lemonade flavors have the punch dude all lookin like a cracked out Uncle Sam. I don’t think anything has been done with the drink itself, but who doesn’t wanna buy juice with frieworks all over it?

For my 4th, my best friend and I bought and ate the “KFC Summerfeast” which is $25 dollars worth of KFC which includes: 12 pieces of chicken, 6 biscuits, 3 extra large sides, 2 big ass tubs of gravy, and 1/2 gallon of Lemonade. Oh hell yeah. Now I feel like hell sitting in an airport waiting to leave for 3 months of tour.

“See Ratatouille instead of Transformers, or greedy Disney execs will decide John Lasseter doesn’t deserve to be in charge and replace him with another bean-counter and the video sequels will start all over again!”

Hey, I want to see Ratatouille AND Transformers, and I can, unfortunately, only pick one.

My 4th was lame. I did nothing most of the day, then my dumb-ass stepbrother brought over a bootleg of Live Free or Die Hard, which I thought was pretty damn boring for a Die Hard movie. I’d like to give it another shot on the big screen, since I think bootlegs are crap like shit.

Does anybody know where to find infomercials online? I have been looking for the Ultimate Chopper infomercial forever and can’t seem to find it. I want it for no other purpose than it’s my favorite infomercial. I don’t own an Ultimate Chopper and never plan on it, I just miss watching the infomercial.

If anybody can help me out, I’d be in your debt. I have an infomercial addiction and I need my fix.

I forgot to mention, it’s the infomercial with Chef Tony and his fat, sausage fingers, and the host, Jenny-Lee, that ugly blonde lady with the huge mouth that pisses me off just looking at her.

Picked up Buzz Cola yesterday. Matt’s exactly right…it tasted just as you would imagine a can of Buzz Cola to taste like.

And earlier todai I saw on a crawl on CNN that Transformers beat out “Pirates 2″ for best 1 Day Opening on tuesday alone with $27.4 million or something (not counting the preview shows on monday)

…And since I have nothing else to do…do a search on YouTube for Chef Tony. You can find your damn chopper infomercial. Too bad it’s in German (or something).

The 4th is done and gone and I am back at work forced to actually work because I haven’t a new post yet to sink my high heels into! Matt…pretty please!??!

I love the Magic Bullet infomercial and its gang of interesting characters…everytime i come across it i can’t help but watch it and laugh!

Does anybody know where I can get some ASTRO POPS or anything like them. I know they are discontinued, but I want! I want!

My Fav Twilight zone is “For whome the bell tolls,” which is about a retiring English teacher. Probably obscure.

Ellen Degeneres last year I believe did a show on infomercials, going in and out of break she showed clips of really old infomericals. Man Ronco in the 70’s and 80’s made some really shitty shit lol like an electric plastic pottery wheel. She had one there and turned on and that engine was noisy, it was 15.00 bucks. I used to watch those things all the time I was fasinated with them when I was a kid. I pretended that I didn’t know anything except what they told me and let them try to convince me to buy that product. There are some people that buy those sauna belts and such and I can’t believe it. there is informericalscams.com that tells you about products and how they suck. Another site is a message board I don’t remember what it’s called so google it.

My fav informerical as a kid was a product called the pump and seal it looked like a glamorous bike pump, it was a blueish purple and you sealed food and other things with it. There was these labels you were supposed to put over the hole I don’t know what they were called but my cousin (the one that just had a b-day) and I called them bandaids because they looked exactly like bandaids. My Grandma after 10 minutes or so of an infomerical she would tell me to change the station there was so much she could take. I have always wondered if i could work on a shopping channel and how do you get that job? I think I could do it. Especially the ‘useful household solutions’ segments.

There was a Godzilla 90s Movie Marathon on Encore action. To bad I only caught some of it.

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