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                 The Inadvertent Michael Jackson Impersonation
                                        
Our neighbor tends to go all out on the Fourth of July, so there's no real
need to go anywhere for a fireworks show. So when he and his friends started
firing off their works, Bunny and I went outside to enjoy the show.

[He's got both kinds of fireworks! Vertical AND horizontal!] [1]
 [Talk about your bright ideas] [2]
 [Ba-boom!] [3]
 

Then this one is lit off:

[Compared to the prior one, that isn't a firework] [4]
 

My reaction was pretty much: Hmm … wow that's loud, and large, and low, and
**oh XXXX XXXX that's going to XXXXXXX land on me get it off get it off get
it off.** “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Wow.

I've been in an explosion [5].

Now my hair caught on fire [6].

Okay, okay, technically it wasn't on fire, but it was singed, and man, singed
hair smells horrible.

Blech.

[It actually felt like plastic—very weird] [7]
 [8] 

Fortunately, I suffered no burns, but I was lucky. It could have much much
worse, which is a nice time for this little PSA (Public Service Annoucement):

[Amateurs: There's a reason professionals exist.] [9] 

I think next year, I'll watch the fireworks on TV (Television) from the
comfort of an underground bunker [10].

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2011/07/04/t-p7040007.jpg
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2011/07/04/t-p7040016.jpg
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2011/07/04/t-p7040022.jpg
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2011/07/04/t-p7040017.jpg
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/07/04.2
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson#Pepsi.2C_.22We_Are_the_World.22_and_business_career_.281984.E2.80.9385.29
[7] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2011/07/04/t-p7040020.jpg
[8] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2011/07/04/p7040020.jpg
[9] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2010/07/04/amateurs.jpg
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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