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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.

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Discussion Thread: 79 comments

You can’t beat a TZ marathon.

Ghosted by Magic Toe @ 07/04/2007 3:32 PM EDT

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!

Ghosted by ellaenchanted @ 07/04/2007 3:41 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Thomas @ 07/04/2007 3:46 PM EDT

I wish I’d been on an all night bender . 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!

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 07/04/2007 4:09 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Goob @ 07/04/2007 4:16 PM EDT

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 . I recall it gets very smokey here on the 4th….

Ghosted by Shuanfu @ 07/04/2007 4:32 PM EDT

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!

Ghosted by jennyb7 @ 07/04/2007 4:44 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by Jeff @ 07/04/2007 4:46 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 07/04/2007 4:48 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by kingklash @ 07/04/2007 4:54 PM EDT

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!

Ghosted by Magic Toe @ 07/04/2007 4:54 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Mystie @ 07/04/2007 5:08 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by Review the World @ 07/04/2007 5:08 PM EDT

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!

Ghosted by kb @ 07/04/2007 5:21 PM EDT

Matt,

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

Ghosted by Cotter @ 07/04/2007 5:26 PM EDT

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!

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 07/04/2007 5:30 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by Knegative @ 07/04/2007 5:31 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 07/04/2007 5:58 PM EDT

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.”

Ghosted by Jeremy Whatsisface @ 07/04/2007 7:22 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Jason @ 07/04/2007 7:40 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by dohopoki @ 07/04/2007 7:46 PM EDT

marathon*

Ghosted by dohopoki @ 07/04/2007 7:46 PM EDT

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?!

Ghosted by eliza @ 07/04/2007 8:04 PM EDT

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

Ghosted by Andrew @ 07/04/2007 8:13 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by iAMYouo @ 07/04/2007 8:21 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by LemurCat @ 07/04/2007 8:37 PM EDT

There’s a Sopranos marathon on A&E, too. I love marathons.

Ghosted by Matt @ 07/04/2007 8:41 PM EDT

By the way, Matt, New Order is great!

Ghosted by Cotter @ 07/04/2007 8:51 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Katherine @ 07/04/2007 9:19 PM EDT

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)

Ghosted by Ben @ 07/04/2007 9:28 PM EDT

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.

Hope everyone else is having a better day than me.

Ghosted by Ryane @ 07/04/2007 9:32 PM EDT

(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.

Ghosted by The Manimal @ 07/04/2007 9:40 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 07/04/2007 9:46 PM EDT

…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.

Ghosted by kb @ 07/04/2007 9:52 PM EDT

Oh, and spelling is stupid.

Ghosted by kb @ 07/04/2007 9:53 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 07/04/2007 9:59 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Matt @ 07/04/2007 10:00 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Rainbowfeet @ 07/04/2007 10:13 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 07/04/2007 10:18 PM EDT

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.

Ghosted by The Manimal @ 07/04/2007 10:21 PM EDT

“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.

Ghosted by FyarlGirl @ 07/04/2007 10:52 PM EDT

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)

Ghosted by the politically correct concerned citizen Josh Ednoff @ 07/04/2007 11:26 PM EDT

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.

It would be cool if a girl redid it. But the Ataris are far from pointless

Ghosted by Knegative @ 07/04/2007 11:59 PM EDT

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….

Ghosted by Shuanfu @ 07/05/2007 12:16 AM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Matt(#2?) @ 07/05/2007 12:17 AM EDT

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.

Ghosted by shortcake 79 @ 07/05/2007 12:20 AM EDT

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

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 07/05/2007 12:40 AM EDT

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

Ghosted by phill @ 07/05/2007 12:43 AM EDT

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.

Now, who’s foolish?

Ghosted by Knegative @ 07/05/2007 1:13 AM EDT

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.

Ghosted by Anonymous @ 07/05/2007 1:26 AM EDT

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