I watched fireworks from the parking lot of Tanagi's Sushi in Pismo. The glaring McDonald's sign in the direct path of the display made me feel like a true American. I had three ratings for the works this year: "son-of-a-bitch," "ooo pretty" and "geez." There were some of those tiger's manes types I like, could have had a few more blue ones. Missed Brooke and Cocaine Katie, weird without them. All in all a pretty nice show.

*Emmy Nominations, things they got right:
=Julia Louis-Dreyfus
=Office noms
=Peter Krause
=Frances Conroy
=Will Arnett

Who Emmy Overlooked, Inexplicably:
=Lauren Graham!!! (very uncool)
=John Krasinski (Wait, what?)
=Jenna Fischer
=Hugh Laurie
=Jason Bateman
=Jason Lee

Song of the day:
"All Hands on the Bad One" - Sleater-Kinney