Not to be outdone, the City of Madison is also flaunting its idiotic nature by holding the annual 4th-of-July fireworks a week before the 4th of July—on June 27. My housemates and I didn't even know about the fireworks until we heard them start at 10PM on Saturday night! Did everyone in city government just have a chemical lobotomy..?
Independence Day, as it's called, is a national holiday that occurs every year on July 4. Not July 3, not July 5, and definitely not in June. If the city can't afford a calendar, there are free ones online for shit's sake. Holding the fireworks a week early not only suggests the kind of inbred stupidity usually restricted to Appalachia but also offends one of the great American holiday traditions. This year they were called Shake the Lake due to an apparent lack of interest in funding "Rhythm and Booms" anymore. What?
Our bet is that the same people who organized R&B, er, S&L, are also active in lakefront planning. Perhaps the fireworks were held a week early so people can go see some real ones in Milwaukee next weekend. Yeah. We are so outta here.
Wow, how asinine can this blog get? Those fuel lockers are designed to protect their contents from ignition sources. Those yellow cans are for diesel fuel. You could drop your lit cigarette into one and it would just go out. There's no issue in the photo, except maybe Hoofers running a junkyard on the lakefront. Meanwhile, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize the club at the moment.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous, please schedule your demonstration of dropping a lit cigarette into an almost-empty can of diesel fuel. Also please hold your demo far away, e.g. the end of a pier. We will watch from shore, if you don't mind.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtube.com/watch?v=3LeRSPuA5Z4
ReplyDeleteI don't smoke cigarettes... those things are dangerous.