The Big 2-4-7

Happy 247th birthday to the United States of America. And I thought I was old.

May your fireworks burn brighter and longer than ever today, gheorghies. Just don't lose any digits today -- I mean like JPP, not Phil or Rikki. 

Spend time today in free revelry, and enjoy the excitement only a free man can feel, as Red once said.

Maybe think about what and why we celebrate.

And maybe just drink some beer and listen to some good old America music. Not American music, per se, since these guys went to high school and subsequently got their start in London (though 2/3 were indeed American), but America music. America. The band.

Especially a song about the open highway and driving around in the sunshine in a car that Z would love and Dave would hate. A song that coined the term Purple Rain. 

What the hell, let's take that Purple Rain thing a little further and offer up the Purple One himself... singing "America." It could only get more American if this live clip had been recorded on July... or been in the US. Oh well.

Happy Birthday, America. 

(The country.)

COMIN' IN HOT THIS 4TH

Folks, we need some fourth filler, so patriotic pandemic teej is gonna do what he does best: write very little words and dump pictures or videos in a post. Alas:

   

   

I welcome all additions to this post.

American Life

Good morning, America, how are you?

I am an American aquarium drinker. A demolition style hell American freak, yeah. In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream.

There was a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America. Said he couldn't go on the American way. In Europe and America, there's a growing feeling of hysteria.

Well, she was an American girl. American woman. Knockin' me out with those American thighs.

Bye, bye, Miss American Pie. She need to get a piece of the American pie and take her bite out. All night, she wants a young American.

For the boy we have American life. American boys hate to lose. Don't wanna be an American idiot.

We're the kids in America. Two American kids growin' up in the heartland.

White America, I could be one of your kids. Take a jumbo across the water, like to see America. They're coming to America.

Oh, but ain't that America for you and me. America the beautiful.

Do you like American music? We like all kinds of music, but I like American music best.

July Fourth Fillerpalooza Open Thread

Maybe one of you jackalopes has a post coming down the pike, but I saw nothing in drafts, and felt you have been subjected long enough to pics of my Posehn-esque mug long enough, so pull up a stool and down a few cold ones - It's Filler Time.

For the hell of it, I googled "most patriotic thing ever" - a few of my favorite images are posted below. So think of this as a hybrid "ghoogles"/filler post (hashtag postcount, amirite).

See you all in the comments, where I expect to be regaled with fun fourth adventures and hijinks.

Loadin' up the family truckster for some holiday weekend fun.

Please stop doing this to dogs

C'mon, it's Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick 'em up, we zip right out again. 

And of course no patriotic post would be complete without these two very important music videos:





And finally, in lieu of spending time with a real NBA celebrity this weekend, one who draws fans two decades after his heyday...

...we were around one who was sitting all by his lonesome on a bar patio in front of a crowded bar on a holiday happy hour afternoon.  There is only one Gheorghe Muresan, people.