Damaged goods..

I just got through the final show of Damages last night.. I knew it would be about the end of June when I would see it and hoping it wouldn't be so hot that I would be running every fan to try to stay cool.. But here is the gist of how it all shook out.. Trust me the show had many meanings that were some very deep while if you watched it as just the show, and that is how I did watch it until the final season.. But the parallels were there..  Ellen and Patty seemed closer to sisters than partners in crime.. That crime being lawyers.. There were times when I felt like this was more of a episode of the Twilight Zone than the show it was.. And I am not a huge fan of seeing the final episodes of shows, Fringe being the exception, it ended almost exactly the way I thought it would except that the married lead characters remained that way.. What  I thought was they would end up meeting in the very first episode when the sprung Walter out of the mental hospital and there would be that moment in the show where there is a slight ... dip in the lighting or whatever it was that made that deja vu thing from watching it the first time make you think you had seen it before.. Making the show perpetual.. That's how I would have ended it.. Damages ended quite different than I thought it might.. The use of sepia video effect to show "this scene is important" but it was.. so different... Very worth the time and last nights two show binge watch to the final.. Other shows that ended well but over all disappointing, One Tree Hill.. How do you end a show like that??  More to the point, how do you continue a show like that.. It was a period piece on high school life.. I will start that show Friday Night Lights shortly to see what that is like.. There are other shows I have started to watch only to give up on.. The best shows are the ones that are simply one and done.. Documentary type, comedy specials.. movies... You know, the ones where the old attention span doesn't get over taxed..


Forth of July season.. Ah the old story I always go to.. But not this year.. There was another time.. And so here are some snipits from when I was growing up.. You ever notice how when you were growing up that there just never seemed like there was enough fireworks.. Like Christmas morning there were never enough gifts. and fireworks there was just never enough.. We used to get an allowance back in the day and we would always blow it of fireworks at this time of year.. I always liked the fireworks time of summer but it always seemed like it meant school was about to start back up.. That isn't true of course, it does however mark the midway point of summer, with the second half being the hotter part.. Why is that??  I always wondered why it was hotter from July to October than it was April through to July.. Shouldn't it balance out in some way??  Anyway one time.. Fireworks, or better than that firecrackers.. The very lifeblood of the season.. these were those little firecrackers or what they referred to as ladyfingers (where that term came from... I don't know) but thankfully they weren't the big guys.. These were little firecrackers, and as we were going down to pick some fireworks up for the nephew I was thinking of some of the really cool  stupid things we did.. I had a can of kickstart (mountain dew energy drink) and I was thinking we used to put a firecracker in a can and hold it.. That's right we would hold it ethin... while it exploded.. Back then we had tin cans that were more than toilet paper thin (single ply) yes they were thicker by quite a bit.. But it still hurt.. I can't imagine doing that now, the cans are single ply TP.. I can't imagine how much that would hurt.. Then there was using pop bottles with the same idea, light the firecracker and let it fall in and hold it.. "I've seen bottles break doing things like that.."  Sure, these firecrackers wouldn't hurt an ant.. Speaking of ants, they might not get killed but rearanging the hill a bit was fun.. Then there was wars.. We would use toys, light a firecracker and then roll it towards a "friend" and hope it blew up next to them, because if it didn't they would send it back to sender, or send it is someone else direction.. Ah the good old days..

Then there was this time me and a friend swindled a friend who was firecracker stupid.. And we had like four real packs of firecrackers and then had other packs made with cardboard.. .. Being that firecracker stupid cost him a dollar or two.. Which brings me to this.. I remember when firecrackers were fifteen cents.. A quarter bought you twice as many.. Punks cost half a penny, you had to buy two..  

Then there was the assorted package.. My dad bought the smallest for the longest time, then one year he surprised us by getting the next size up.. WOW THANKS DAD.. But it was never enough.. But we never got the big gargantuan box and it was just as well.. Now I can see where there just is never enough.. NEVER ENOUGH... We got a fifteen dollar set for the boo and he set them off as soon as we got home.. There really is nothing like seeing fireworks be set off at five in the evening.. He has that itch, as soon as he gets them he wants to shoot them off damn the torpedoes so what if the sun is still shining.. I told him, that is ok, it's dark somewhere in the world...


Badge Henry