Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about my present.
Man, presently, I’m feeling very strange. You see, it’s super hot here, and when it’s hot it produces a low pressure system. Now, a low pressure system really affects me. So even though I’m in A/C, the heat really gets to me. Oh well. Peaks and valleys - right? Let’s pray for a high pressure system soon.
Hey! It’s gonna be 4th of July pretty soon. I’m gonna kind of break the rule and not talk about the present anymore, but talk about the past. You see, the 4th of July brings on the memory of fireworks, and I have a few good stories about fireworks. Remember, I’ve always been a young man at heart, and young men do foolish things like blow s….t up.
I’m pretty sure I told you this before, but I always had parties in my apartment, rather townhouse, in college. My neighbor hated me. He used to always call the police on me. At one party, my friend Wayne got really pissed off that my neighbor called the police. He went to the closet, pulled out a part of the vacuum cleaner (a tube) and luckily I happened to have a large rocket for the 4th of July. Well, we put the rocket into the vacuum cleaner tube and fired it at my neighbor. The guy screamed, jumped into some bushes and the rocket went into the guy’s house. All we saw was the windows light up: red, blue, white, yellow. We’re lucky we didn’t set the house on fire or kill the guy. Or both.
Another time was amazing. We were on the ferry boat in Sydney. We left the port and just went under the Sydney harbor bridge. Now it was Australia Day and Japan had given Australia the present of some amazing fireworks. The captain of the boat came over the speaker and said, “We’ll never see anything like this again.” He stopped the boat and we watched the most amazing fireworks come off the Sydney Harbor Bridge and the Opera House. We were right there. It was amazing. I’ll never see anything like that again. That’s for sure.
I’ve had lots of firework stories but one, (sorry Brad, if you’re reading this), one story has to do with myself and my young cousin, who used to follow me everywhere. Now, me and my other cousins were on a farm blowing s—t up. We were using M-80’s, which are basically a quarter of stick of dynamite. Well, we decided to put an M-80 in a fresh pile of cow s—t. We told our little cousin to watch and make sure it didn’t go out. We then ran behind a tree. We heard him saying, “It’s still going…It’s still going…It’s still going…” And then BANG. There was silence and then a big cry. The poor kid was covered in smoking cow s—t. Kids are so charming, right?
Actually I’ll tell one more. It was pretty cool. I left New York on an evening flight on the 4th of July. I was heading toward L.A. I had a window seat. It was awesome. I saw fireworks from New York all the way to L.A. You know, because of the time delay. It was cool.
Now the fireworks I see are awesome because, remember, I see double in one eye and one tilted at 45 degrees. Both eyes move erratically, up and down and side to side. It makes fireworks look pretty amazing. Some people pay good money to see things this way. I’m gonna include a few pictures of how I see now.
Love and miss you guys. Love, B. Nice
P.S. I went with my sister and a group of my friends to my Dad’s show in New York. Craig Star Gallery, 5 East 73rd. You should go check it out. I’ll include some photos in the next blog. My sister did a great job.
