Comments on: Fireworks, a Moving Van and Metro-Survivalists

By: Alison Rose

Alison Rose — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:41:00 +0000

Happy sailing, David! Though I never actually met you, I miss you! I hope you’ll keep an eye on your former countrymen and women, wish us luck, and perhaps see enough of a change in the next few election cycles to consider a return.

Keep writing and let us know how it’s going!

By: sunbird

sunbird — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:36:00 +0000

I’m not as glib as either papijoe or you David but I’m a flaming liberal myself and wish I were able to move to Canada or at least to a blue state. I’m an old friend of your cousin in Ho Ho Kus, NJ who now lives in the backward state of Texas. She turned me on to your blog. I envy you. Would leave this God forsaken place except for children, grandchildren, and great-grand children. More later.

By: David

David — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:37:00 +0000

LOL!
It would be silly (and certainly no fun) for me counter with what I’d really like to see at the July 4th Pops Fireworks. Instead, I’ll just say what Carol Kane (as Allison Portchnik, the very ethnic looking girl he was first meeting backstage before his standup routine who would become his first wife in the movie) said to Woody Allen in one of her big scenes in ‘Annie Hall’:

Woody (Alvie Singer): “So you grew with the Socialist Summer camps and the Ben Shawn Prints and everything socially relevant…Shall I go on making a complete fool of myself?”

Carol (Allison Portchnick): “No, go ahead. I love being turned into a cultural stereotype”.

By: papijoe

papijoe — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:17:00 +0000

David I’m trying to envision a Fourth of July celebration that would meet your approval:
“Hi for those just joining us, this is Ward Churchill, and I’m broadcasting with Randi Rhodes. Coverage of this year’s Boston Pops Fourth of July celebration is brought to you by George Soros, Michael Moore and Tereza Heinz who have bought up the airtime on all networks to bring this year’s event to you.

Earlier we had the Non-traditional Fourth of July parade, the highlights of which were the Protest Drum and More Drum Corps, the Embryonic Stem Cell float with cherubs representing donor fetuses along with quadrapelegics who were denied a cure by Shrub waving to the crowd and the ever popular Death to the US and Israel float, all of which culminated in a fly-over by the Navy’s Blue Angels which was synchronized with the release of 10000 “peace doves”…”

“Yeah Ward, it was inspiring to see 3 of the four freedom-figher-killing war machines go down in flames as the pigeons were sucked into the jet intakes…”

“Hopefully we’ll get all 4 of them next year Randi…now the sun has set and the Pops are finishing up a musical program that included “Gimn Sovetskogo Soyuza”, “Internationale”, and a phat medley of “Rage Against the Machine” tunes. And now for the finale, since fireworks were originally stolen from their country by capitalist running dogs, we’ve invited the Chinese Red Army not only to provide security for the event in cooperation with the Hell’s Angels, but they have also agree to have their 8th People’s Pyrotechnic Battalion provide the fireworks.”

“Ward not only are bright bursts of color filling the night sky, but those loud concussions you hear are airburst of shrapnel which are raining down on the crowd as we speak.”

“Bwa-ha-ha-ha! Take that you little Eichmans!”

“This is Randi Rhodes and Ward Churchill televising the revolution live from the Hatch Shell broadcast bunker…”