America is:

(Be careful his bow tie is really a camera!)

America is beer on a hot summer day

America is: yellow beer + blue water = green beer.

(Very America, but for a different holiday…)

America is: face stuffing

The hot dog eating winner (Gus) took the crown by consuming 8 foot long hot dogs with a minimum of “excessive bun debris.”

America is: people who put their hands in the air to catch any free thing flung at them

Even when it’s a T-shirt with a picture of this guy…

American is: free “airbrush tattoos” composed of glue and glittter

America is: singularly compelling signs

I believe this deep fried twinkie (definitely a “thing”) is part of a long running quest that began in Scotland over a decade ago.

What’s more America than deep frying a twinkie and topping it with whipped cream AND powdered sugar?? Nothing. That’s what.

Anticipation in lawn chairs. Very America.

And the moon rose over an open field…

All this America? I’ll take it. Any day.

Happy 4th, ya’ll!