[MeechMunchie]

I don't particularly like the fact that while Americans use all their fireworks to celebrate freedom from a government they had no representation in, we use ours to celebrate that a dead tyrant wasn't dead for a while. We ought to ditch the Denomination Wars and turn it back into a Pagan/Celtic solstice festival.

America, if you don't have a national holiday dedicated to standing in the cold and staring at a big pile of fire, you should.

Not that any can match this springtime ceremony that takes place a mere six miles from my home.

As comedian Ed Byrne put it: "You get yourself a very, very steep hill; you get yourself a hunk of cheese. You roll the cheese down the hill. You all chase after it, you all fall over, and you break your spine in the name of cheese."



Truly a magnificent event.