My ears!
3Aug2006 Filed under: JournalishStupid Blue Angels. There’s nothing like having a nice relaxing day at home … with the sound of war planes rattling the walls. Awful. AWFUL!
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Sara
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Argh, Seafair.
I love that you called them “war planes” though.
ellen
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:39 pm
The summer my son was 2 years old we lived in the Seward Park neighborhood. I would shake my fist at the sky and wonder if any of those pilots had children and didn’t they know this was NAP TIME?
dr. dave
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:41 pm
gosh, ariel… why do you hate america so much?
Playapixie
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:25 pm
They were screaming overhead while I was getting a massage earlier (how un-relaxing), and while I was getting lucky even earlier (how un-sexy.) My dog hides in the basement when they’re flying. They cost millions of dollars a year, all to promote the war machine, flag-waving, and military recruitment. Gag. I must admit, though, that when I was a kid, I wanted to be a Blue Angels pilot (don’t tell anyone.)
I think it’s funny that “Dr. Dave” infers that you must hate America because you don’t like the Blue Angels. How simple-minded.
Ariel
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Dawn, I think dr. dave forgot his “;)” at the end of his post.
Playapixie
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Ah. I wondered if you knew him and he was kidding. But I wrote a post about the Blue Angels a couple years ago, and got all kinds of “you must hate America” emails & comments about it (of course, it was much closer to 9/11 at the time…)
nani
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:09 pm
we kept hearing and seeing them all day, too, from late morning to afternoon! henry stayed outside to try and take pictures at pike market, while i begged off and went to sur la table.
dr. dave
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:19 pm
yeah… i thought my Colbert reference stood on it’s own without the winkie.
daria
August 4th, 2006 at 9:02 am
You get to have fun in the Bay Area and then come home and take a nice relaxing day off from work? Nice.
SJ
August 4th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Oh, thank you. I’m so glad I’m not the only one. Who hates America. Hee!
Alison
August 4th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
Hahaha…I wrote about the Angels when they were here in NYC this past Memorial Day. I actually went to the show because a friend was photographing them for a job (I SWEAR, I wouldn’t have gone otherwise), but they decided to fly over my apartment, REALLY REALLY LOW a couple of days before (I live less than a mile from Manhattan, and they were on their way back to the airport to land.) Sory for the self-linking goodness, but the entry is here. My reaction to them (because I was inside and couldn’t see them) still makes me giggle.
As annoying and loud and pro-war as they are, I must say…they are pretty amazing to watch.
Pattie
August 4th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
You just reminded me what it was like to work in Virginia Beach. No cell phone calls outdoors, morning productivity disrupted by low-flying F-18s. I hated those “I heart jet noise” bumper stickers. You have my sympathy.
hubs
August 7th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
I love it when jets fly overhead and low. especially war planes because they’re so fast. i love the rumble through my chest and reverberation in my ears. but i’m glad i don’t have to listen to it all day long. or in a desert.