IT’S THE FOURTH OF JULY — ISN’T IT?
IT all started with lunch. One of my personal favorite lunch recipes is Japanese-Alaskan Potato Salad. Whoa, there! I can hear you saying, so here it is, basically: Yukon potatoes (boiled with skin on), cucumbers (very thinly sliced, the juice squeezed out), mayo (we use veggie mayo for a more adult taste), carrot (again, very thin sliced), white onion broccoli and/or celery (again very thinly sliced), a sprinkling of roasted sesame seeds. The object is to keep it simple. Yum. On the other had, despite being an obligate vegetarian as often as possible, I have one of those rare SNVUs (Sudden Non-Vegetarian Urges) especially when barbecue-salvered ribs are suddenly half-price. Call me irresponsible or just plain human. Anyway, BBQ and Japanese-Alaskan Potato Salad equal Fourth of July.
That all makes a certain, somewhat illogical but understandable sense. But what most people don’t know, is that I was born on the not-so-illustrious third of July, believing that Fourth of July parties, food and fireworks were all for me. Okay, this time call me Mr. Hubris, but I really believed it until my belief was shattered by a teacher who informed me otherwise at about 6 years of age. Oh, well, I “knew” what I believed wasn’t true at an earlier age, but desire back then always trumped truth. If you have trouble with that, think about whether Hogwart’s University is located in England or Scotland, and then tell me if you don’t understand. Ha!
So, today was a definite Fourth of July (FOJ) day, replete with FOJ food, merriment, memories and celebration of yet another of my 363 un-birthdays of 2022. BTW, later in life, I thought James Cagney’s famous FOJ dance in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFfb... –which was, for me part of Fred Astaire’s famous dance on the ceiling — https://youtu.be/b1AQjcmzvx8?t=51 — and Derek Hough’s incredible same — https://youtu.be/PizxUk3lG3c?t=28 — was a message to me that if I learned to dance I would become a great dancer and actor, too. I actually DID learn to dance, and more recently act (though I suspect I was always an actor). As for being great, I like my dancing, and it’s said that one’s worst critic is typically one’s self — https://janik.yolasite.com/dancer.php and https://janik.yolasite.com/actor.php. And I’m not a bad author, either — https://janik.yolasite.com/janik.php. Go figure.
That all makes a certain, somewhat illogical but understandable sense. But what most people don’t know, is that I was born on the not-so-illustrious third of July, believing that Fourth of July parties, food and fireworks were all for me. Okay, this time call me Mr. Hubris, but I really believed it until my belief was shattered by a teacher who informed me otherwise at about 6 years of age. Oh, well, I “knew” what I believed wasn’t true at an earlier age, but desire back then always trumped truth. If you have trouble with that, think about whether Hogwart’s University is located in England or Scotland, and then tell me if you don’t understand. Ha!
So, today was a definite Fourth of July (FOJ) day, replete with FOJ food, merriment, memories and celebration of yet another of my 363 un-birthdays of 2022. BTW, later in life, I thought James Cagney’s famous FOJ dance in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFfb... –which was, for me part of Fred Astaire’s famous dance on the ceiling — https://youtu.be/b1AQjcmzvx8?t=51 — and Derek Hough’s incredible same — https://youtu.be/PizxUk3lG3c?t=28 — was a message to me that if I learned to dance I would become a great dancer and actor, too. I actually DID learn to dance, and more recently act (though I suspect I was always an actor). As for being great, I like my dancing, and it’s said that one’s worst critic is typically one’s self — https://janik.yolasite.com/dancer.php and https://janik.yolasite.com/actor.php. And I’m not a bad author, either — https://janik.yolasite.com/janik.php. Go figure.
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