Patriots. Pinheads. July has come, and it is now near gone. Despite our evolutionary advantage of thumbs, slipping from our grasp is arguably the most patriotic month of the year, and I made sure of it this year that did not go unnoticed.
I feel as though I lived the month of July as if I had just signed the Declaration of Independence. Of course, like any dapper and powerful gentleman of the 18th century, I wore a tuxedo. Upon signing the declaration I placed my manacle on my strong eye, and with a hand in my billfold I whisked into the mid-summer’s night air, with a deep breath and a feeling of renewed refreshment I tousled my cane counter-clockwise in the air not once, not twice, but thrice and escaped into a month of lawless abandon along the eastern shore filled with celebration and dance floor plank spanking, cocktails and ponytails amid a wonderful garden of spontaneous turbulence. With an army of gentleman and scholars flanking my sides, we would climb atop the tabletops of Dewey Beach, leading countless renditions of the Star Spangled Banner. As an ice breaker I would invite strangers in an announcement in the pledge of allegiance. In no different effort than any other American Patriot we would sport self adhesive facial hair on our faces, only to sweat them off in the heat of battle during a spin the bottle dance circle dance off. Hold your robot, I’m bringing the heat sausage. Offering a hand of dance to fair maidens and sirens ranging from ages of 4 to 84, not a foot was left still, auto-play pianos were tuned and Ray Charles was brought back to life, and Stevie Wonder could finally see what we have all been reveling in all these years. Luxury Resort pools were crashed, Yachts were boarded, shores were stormed, and we live to fight another day, another year, only in the hopes to raise the Flag of Freedom with an accompanying fist in the air, to sing about the home of the brave.








