Insert Gyorgy Ligeti here

Look, I don’t really want to keep shitting on the Great American State Fail and everything associated with the 25o birthday of the US, but that’s a bit of a lie and I’m quite happy to continue with it. This was another amazing shot I saw of the 4th of July celebrations—again, the sky seems unimpressed—and OP’s characterisation of the illumination of the Washington Monument as “incredible, unsettling and symbolic” strikes me as correct. I couldn’t find any other way to sum up my own feelings about it…

…so fortunately someone else did, and the words “fucken Stanley Kubrick apes around the freedom obelisk ass” just nailed it even more exactly. Precisely the caption this image needed. Except that I don’t think this “monolith” will advance the evolution of these apes…

Author: James R.

The idiot who owns and runs this site. He does not actually look like Jon Pertwee.