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Americans celebrate the Fourth of July by barbecuing animal flesh; America nonplussed.

 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
01:06 / 05.07.07
So...drunk yet? At a barbeque?

I'm here, slightly buzzed, and going for the non-beef/pork/lamb/veal option!
 
 
Boboss
01:08 / 05.07.07
Mmmm barbequed meat.
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
01:16 / 05.07.07
Hey, no one's saying it ain't delicious. I'm just saying TofuPups and Veggie Pogoes are equally yum.
 
 
A Haus of Minions
01:19 / 05.07.07
Bless.

A very lovely person from the Orange County asked if we were taking the fourth of July off. I had to explain that from our point of view it largely counted as a loss.
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
01:29 / 05.07.07
Haus, this comes straight from Warren Ellis' Brainmail, so believe me when I say I agree with him and also think of you fondly. Seriously.

It's Independence Day, yes, when we here in Great Britain celebrate our Great Project -- creating an entire country for comedy purposes in the guise of ceding America its independence. Thank you for giving us literally hundreds of years of laughter.

I'm sorry? You doubt me?

(here is a pic of Paris Hilton riding a small tractor of some sort that I couldn't transfer--Kali)


That's right, sit the fuck back down. Cheers.

Count yourself lucky your women are attractive to us.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
(prev. I'm The Goddamn Shonen Bat)
01:31 / 05.07.07
SHUT UP, WARREN ELLIS!
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
02:02 / 05.07.07
Well, in the Brainmail he does go on to mention that he does something of this sort every year and sits back and reads amusedly as the hate mail rolls in.

I like him, but I like him in that sort of "please don't try to sleep with me or any of my friends" sort of way.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
03:10 / 05.07.07
Ellis' diatribe would be more entertaining if he didn't use EVERY holiday celebrated in America as a chance to make fun of Americans.

Not that we shouldn't be made fun of, but it is getting a bit old and tired by now... Like the rest of his work.
 
 
netbanshee
03:42 / 05.07.07
Well... 2 people speak far well than I ever could about the matter of freedom, but it's very present, isn't it? Regardless of the current situation...

Thomas Jefferson

Frederick Douglas
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
04:25 / 05.07.07
And here I was being flippant...
 
 
Grandma loves children
(prev. Old dear. Gin. Problems)
09:24 / 05.07.07
Well, in the Brainmail he does go on to mention that he does something of this sort every year and sits back and reads amusedly as the hate mail rolls in.

This year's different though - I gather the Ellster, the Warrener has just published a novel.

"Well done Warren," some might say "You old devil - finally, you can leave the comics ghetto behind!'

And advance word on the web is good; It seems that his literary debut (working title, last I heard,

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Anyone' - it's a real page-turner, apparently) makes 'Good Omens' look like 'Madame Bovary'!

(The latter, of course, being the work of a Frenchman. Who, when he wasn't riding around on a bicycle, eating snails, selling garlic, and generally rehearsing the surrender the grandchildren he'd never have would ultimately make to Hitler's Germany, probably liked to dress up in women's clothing.)
 
 
Quantum
11:46 / 05.07.07
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...

Ah, if only.
 
 
jamesPD
12:14 / 05.07.07
Personally I gave up reading Warren Ellis' blog. Every 4th July/Thanks Giving/St. Patrick's day he posts some angry rant about the event and the people that celebrate it. I guess he was trying to show us what a angry, edgy, dangerous writer he is, but he constantly comes across as a small child throwing a strop in a supermarket aisle IMO.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
17:52 / 05.07.07
Ah, the heady days of the supermarket aisle...

We were on the beach last night having a picnic when some random people came up to us and wished us a Happy Canada Day. Then walked off. Apparently they missed all the revelry on Sunday, actual Canada Day, with all its carousing and knife fights. Maybe they thought we did that every Sunday...

The last time that July Fourth fell on a Sunday it coincided with Victoria's Pride Parade, which confused American tourists no end. "Is this...is this for us?" "No, it's just a parade. We have a parade like every weekend. For queer people. This is Canada, see? You seem distressed, can we get you some pot?"
 
 
Boboss
18:29 / 05.07.07
"Is this...is this for us?"

Lolfunny
 
 
*
02:51 / 06.07.07
Fled into the mountains.

The Barbecue followed.

We slew and et it, then came back.
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
03:51 / 06.07.07
The word Barbelith has really ruined the word Barbeque for me.
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
04:35 / 06.07.07
Until we have a Barbelith Barbeque. Then all will be well.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
05:37 / 06.07.07
yesterday i got high. then I got drunk. then I got high some more, while I was watching a James Bond film. Also, I wore my "outed socialist" shirt.

It seemed proper, somehow.
 
  
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