\t\t\t\tIn a quiet July 4th bar. I do not hate fireworks (I do not hate anything) but I do not care for the spectacle of sitting out there waiting for them to erupt, to bloom, to catastrophize. I also have no love of hot dogs and swill beer.<\/p>\n
In Tampa during the 1970s we would see Fourth of July fireworks after Tampa Bay Rowdies games. The fireworks displays were put on by the Grucci brothers. I had the impression that the Grucci brothers did their show only in Tampa, and only at Tampa Stadium in an exclusive arrangement with the Tampa Bay Rowdies.<\/p>\n
Alas, the Grucci brothers do their thing anywhere and everywhere. When I saw fireworks at a rodeo in South Dakota I heard the Grucci name in the air, though I do not think they perpetrated the Ft. Pierre fireworks on July 4, 2002.<\/p>\n
I did not stay to see those fireworks at the Ft. Pierre fairgrounds. I saw them from my hotel room window. They were tiny. Little spasmas of joy, distant poofs of applause.<\/p>\n
Spasma is a word I came up with while testing this new Treo posting software. Spasma is a mix of miasma and spasm, a spasm of miasma, a sudden reactive blast of metaphysical matter from a left or right nostril, or even a center nostril.<\/p>\n
Spiasma might better fill the word, though Spasma maintains the urgency of the spasm with postlude echoes of the miasmatic portion of the word.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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