Freedom is My Muse 2: Electric Boogaloo

It is darn near impossible for me not to say Electric Boogaloo after putting the numeral 2 at the end of a title. If I don't type it or say it, I am thinking it. Those amazing marketers behind the Breakin' franchise...we hardly knew ye.

Things have been very busy. I have been working hard at trying to finish the Culture Club cartoon in almost all of my spare time. June is generally a very busy month. Lots of birthdays and holidays falling one weekend after another, but I have done my best to keep at it and get something done.

I pretty much had the cartoon complete on July 3rd and Stephen Parker and his girlfriend Carey came down from Los Angeles. Stephen and I went to graduate school together at the Vizlab, and he works on fancy films out in Hollywood; but as a veteran and true patriot, he knows it would be down right communist to celebrate the birth of America in California. So he came to Texas, where we are so patriotic that we threaten to secede, and we tried to best last years' "Most American July 4th Celebration."

Most of the following photos were taken by Brandon Bollom, another member of the "4th gang".

First thing, we woke up and got Dunkin Donuts with stars and stripes sprinkles on the way to the shooting range.

After celebrating our 2nd amendment rights, we headed to Austin Books where I picked up a US agent statue to participate in capitalism. Post-comics we had some barbecue. With our bellies full of brisket and sausage, we headed to the lake.

Mandy and I recently "inherited" a boat. The first weekend we had said boat, it sank a little, (what a strange phrase). This was the second weekend we had the boat. We made it about 15 feet into the busy lake, and the boat died. We narrowly got it back to the dock going about 1 mph. Later we found out they did not drain the gas tank after the sinking, and that the gas had water in it.

In the true American spirit, we made lemonade out of lemons and swam at the boat dock.

Afterwards we headed up to see the fireworks show downtown. Now, despite the Ruskie "1812 Overture" introducing the show, it was a fairly nice exhibition. We sat next to a group of people who were sure that the fireworks were getting "too close" and that they were going to hit the planes flying far above.
I hope everyonce else had a good 4th. We will try again next year.