July 4

Today at the grocery store I heard a man say that his mother had spent more than $1000 on fireworks for tonight, and I think she wasn't alone.

I'm surrounded by a neighborhood full of brain-dead (and doubtless deaf) jerks who have been blowing up their mostly illegal fireworks for literally hours and hours and hours.

The outdoor cats are hiding under the house, terrified, and I will spend all night worring that my home here in drought-world will catch fire.

‘It sounds like a war zone.’ Sacramento tries to prevent the explosion of illegal fireworks