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2006 Siren Music Festival.

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On Saturday I went to the Siren Music Festival to watch Tapes ‘n Tapes and to eat a couple Hot Dogs. Getting to the Hot Dogs was much easier than seeing Tapes n’ Tapes. It rained during their set which meant a lot of umbrellas in the crowd. The rain made it hard to move through the crowd and ever harder to see from where we were. We did get to hear the set and afterwards the rain stopped so we moved up close enough to get a view of the stage for the next band, The Stills. They sounded ok, I don’t know if I would download their album but they did seem to have a Teddy Roosevelt in his Rough Rider outfit as a stage prop. You can see this in some of the photographs below. Anytime TR makes an appearance on stage it’s worth the price of admission.

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Side Note: This is actually my 300th posting…

Horse Cops Defend Baseball.

Horse Cops

You might recall my disdain for Horse Cops… well it still grows. Last night we checked out the Mets – Pirates game and on our way into the stadium I saw my mortal enemy: 2 Horse Cops. Thankfully these horse cops weren’t chasing people; as is their habit. There also was no tear gas used on the public which is the Horse Cops weapon of choice.

Onto the game. Which the Mets won 7-5. My favorite player Billy Wagner had a successful outing, Jose Reyes had a stolen base, which I’m told he’s pretty good at. On top of all this we got to see a mullet sitting a couple rows in front of us.

As they say… it was a fun time had by all.

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American Day 2006.

NYC Fireworks July 4

As American as it could get we hung out most of the day and watched some American things on Television. What you ask? Well to start we watched the Great American Hope (Joey Chestnut) try to Torpedo Japan’s Kobayashi in Nathan’s Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest. Chestnut put up a hell of a fight but hit the wall with about 7 minutes to go and was passed by Kobayashi. Kobayashi went on to set a new world record by eating 53.75 hot dogs. After this setback of being American we proceeded to grill some hot dogs of our own. Needless to say I won eating contest but I came rather shy of the world record. To make it even more American we managed to roast a couple marshmallows.

2006 July 4th

Next up for our American viewing enjoyment was the Shuttle Launch. The tv coverage was horrible but can there really be anything more American than shooting 7 people into space on the back of a rocket?

To finish off our Television Independence celebration we passed on watching the World Cup (because that would be very un-American, and Un-American Nik Bronder is not) and instead caught the second have of the Mets victory over the Pirates. As we all know the only thing more American than watching Baseball on tv with a beer is watching Football. Considering it’s early July Baseball will have to do.

2006 July 4th

We ended the night by watching the New York City Fireworks on top of Alicia’s roof. Beers were drank, (which needed to be open with the help of the wall seen behind me) chips were eaten, and a good ol’ fasion American time was had by all.

2006 July 4th