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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.

Posted by Matt on 07/04/2007. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 79 comments

You can’t beat a TZ marathon.

Chestnuts roasted by Magic Toe @ 07/04/2007 3:32 PM

yes, Happy Wednesday indeed to my fellow canucks out there…

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!

Chestnuts roasted by ellaenchanted @ 07/04/2007 3:41 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Thomas @ 07/04/2007 3:46 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 07/04/2007 4:09 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 07/04/2007 4:16 PM

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….

Chestnuts roasted by Shuanfu @ 07/04/2007 4:32 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by jennyb7 @ 07/04/2007 4:44 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 07/04/2007 4:46 PM

It’s the King of the Hill marathon for me. Good times!

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 07/04/2007 4:48 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 07/04/2007 4:54 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Magic Toe @ 07/04/2007 4:54 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 07/04/2007 5:08 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 07/04/2007 5:08 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 07/04/2007 5:21 PM

Matt,

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

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 07/04/2007 5:26 PM

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).

Just got back from Transformers and it ROCKED!

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/04/2007 5:30 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 07/04/2007 5:31 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 07/04/2007 5:58 PM

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.”

Chestnuts roasted by Jeremy Whatsisface @ 07/04/2007 7:22 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 07/04/2007 7:40 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 07/04/2007 7:46 PM

marathon*

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 07/04/2007 7:46 PM

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?!

Chestnuts roasted by eliza @ 07/04/2007 8:04 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 07/04/2007 8:13 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by iAMYouo @ 07/04/2007 8:21 PM

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