Almost wore my Superman T-Shirt today

[subplotkudzu]

Because nothing says United States of America like an extraterrestrial created (in part) by a Canadian. 

In other 4th of July news, I think the general ignorance of flag display that I see around me is as good an example as any as to why Americans would suck at ritual magic. In general we want the effect (and any intellectual, moral or patriotic seniority that we can claim from it) with none of those hassles about doing anything properly or obeying traditions. So all you would be patriots with the tattered remnants of a flag on your car antenna that date back to September of '01: CUT IT OUT!

Fortunately our flag is all-weather, since the rain started while we were out, and it's well lit. But it's near sundown and time to take in the colors. 

Hope all my fellow citizens of the United States had a nice 4th of July.

Comments

[adoxograph.livejournal.com]

Why is it that men learn flag rules and women don't? Is it a boy scout thing? Every single piece of flag display regulation I know came to me from a man, up to and including the phone number you can call to the white house to find out if a flag is officially declared to be flown at half mast.... we had to call and check before we could fix our flag at the planetarium after the shuttle went down.

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

Rachel learned hers from Girl Scouts, so I don't think it's a gender thing as much as a scouting thing. I got chewed out by the Janitor in grade school once for not knowing how to fold a flag properly - my family never flew one and I am far from scouting material - which pissed me off then and still does now. It's the sort of thing they should cover in civics classes.

Anyway, when we actually got a flag as a housewarming gift I went out of my way to learn the rules. So I learned from a computer - other than the bits I got from an Encyclopedia Brown mystery.

[adoxograph.livejournal.com]

Woot Encyclopedia Brown!

See, I was a scout for a gazillion years and it was never covered, but then again we never had a "civics" class. Of course, that could have been one of the things I missed with all the moving, like frog dissection.