Celebrating America VI

"You don't like me," she said.

"I hardly know you."

"Don't worry, you never will."

"There goes another bubble, iridescent but ephemeral."

- The Doomsters, Ross Macdonald


“You again?”

“That’s right.”

“Don’t you have to charge me or release me?”

“Not for another sixty-eight hours.”

“Aren’t you violating my constitutional rights?”

“Constitutional rights have been waived for this one.”

- L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy

Celebrating America V

Stevie Wonder, singing live on Sesame Street? Does it get any better than that?

By the way - an amazing, astonishing performance.

Celebrating America IV

A letter, written July 3, 1776, from John Adams to Abigail Adams.

(Courtesy of intense, anxious, hopeful Sheila O'Malley).

Celebrating America III

Public Enemy, "Fight the Power"



Elvis Presley, "One Night With You"

Celebrating America II

Celebrating America

...Chuck Berry, Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman, John Travolta...

Personally, I can't think of any better way to celebrate this crazy, contradictory country of ours.