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…but the effect they just had on the squirrel outside my window—who responded to the sudden roar by freaking the fuck out in five directions at once—almost makes me love them for a split-second.
But then I feel sorry for the squirrel, and my Blue Angels hatred returns.
David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest... More by David Schmader
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I’ve been waiting for this post. Always one of the best comment sections of the year on Slog. Let the ranting begin!
Their flight path includes a jog following Madison (2 blocks away) over downtown (0 blocks away). I’m between buildings taller than 200′. The noise ricochets loudly.
I’m pretty sure I just got a sonic colonic.
why does everyone hate the blue angels? they fly upside down and stuff.
3: It’s the sonic ear-rape.
You sound so dull! Jet airplanes are an incredible feat of human invention. We should revel in the loudness like a rock opera of aeronautical engineering!
I think the Blue Angels is a pretty cool guy. eh flies around making lots of noise and doesn’t afraid of anything.
There’s an Air Force base outside of town here. We get this all the time. Grow the fuck up.
Hating the blue angels is like hating apple pie, it just ain’t right. So they are a little loud.
@4 There’s also the whole “flying death machines glorifying the military industrial complex” angle. People really lose their shit over that one.
Sonic colonic is the best thing I’ve said in a while. It goes great with a phrase like “noisy shit” and “butt trumpet”.
I hate the blue angels too. I’m trying to take a nap and whoosh whoosh. Annoying.
Anyone who says they hate the Blue Angels is cordially invited to come down to Ruby Chow Park in Georgetown, at the north end of Boeing Field, this Sunday afternoon to watch them take off. The park will be packed with folks waiting for the most exciting 20 seconds of the summer. I’ve done it three years in a row now, and I wouldn’t miss it!
That’s the sound of freedom?
I’ve lived in Seattle for most of my 50+ years, born and raised here. I’ve never heard of these “Blue Angels” you speak of. Angels? Are they really blue?
@13 freedom isn’t free
Something about war and violence and stuff and children RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!
@13: No, actually, the sound of freedom is a stealth bomber.
Hating the Blue Angels is as cliched as loving the Blue Angels. I find that a studied indifference to their noise and show is the best approach. Too sum it up: meh.
The sound of freedom is a child’s death-cry.
I am waiting for one to crash into an office tower. Now, that will be noisy!
We should install fireworks around the city for extra effect. Like, when they fly over at sub sonic speed *BOOM* YEAH!
/i like jets
@18, Loving the blue angels is cliche? I enjoy anything that makes me feel like i’m 6 years old again.
Did you see that?! He totally just spun and went upsidown and wuz all WOOOOOOOOOOOSH!
Just ignore them and they’ll go away.
Or fall on your children.
The only people who should have any legitimate complaint about the noise of the Blue Angels are refugees who have fled conflicts involving U.S. fighter jets. Everyone else, suck it up. It’s 4 days out of the entire year. Think about how all the bigots feel during Pride.
We should have a scaled down replica of Bagdad in a field with the jets flying over head bombing the fuck outta it!
Do this while making out with my girl and playin’ “Take My Breath Away”.
America! We’re #1!
The “sound of freedom” is what you hear just before the first 50 megaton detonation…
@7:
If I WANTED to live next door to an Air Force base, I’d move back to Cheyenne. But I don’t want to live next door to one, which is one reason I live here instead.
Don’t get me wrong, I love aerobatics, but I’d be just as happy seeing, say, the Breitling AeroSuperBatics Team, instead of these multi-million dollar, fuel-guzzling death machines.
Or conversely some balls-to-the-wall Boeing pilot barrel-rolling a 787…
How about we go to an air show and then hold a bunch of signs to make a picture of Peppy Hare and the words “DO A BARREL ROLL”?
YOU WILL FUCKING LOVE OUR MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, SEATTLE. LOOOOVEEEE ITTTTTT! SMOTHER YOURSELF IN ITS RIPE GAMEY BALLS! YESSSS.
I seem to be occupied with the rectal-genital region today. Sonic colonic? Butt trumpet? Ripe, gamey balls?
If you think I’m going to stop, taint happenin’.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to be a dick just now.
My favorite part is the glorious smoke trail of tax dollars blazing across the sky behind them; The thrill of finding tiny granulated bits of charred $100 bills floating gently to earth in their wake.
*rimshot*
On sale now!
@31: So, then, they ought to privatize the Blue Angels.
It’s the sound of freedom and it only happens once a year.
@12 Thanks for the tip. The louder the better. I love it.
If you’ve ever lived in an actual war zone (or failing that, NYC during and directly after the events of 9/11) you know that this shit will get your PTSD going like nothing else.
But I’m glad it makes people feel “patriotic.” I love America, but let’s not pretend this isn’t about might making right and ignoring the suffering of those with less privilege.
How about sky-writing? Or a huge one day free clinic showing our medical superiority? Free food for everyone demonstrating the strength of America’s farming? There are so many way to illustrate our virtues that don’t involve loud noises, re-invoking trauma, and machines that were primarily made to kill.
SeaFair: terrorizing house pets since 1950.
Ah yes, what every third-world villager lives in constant fear of: garishly painted jets performing aerobatic stunts in tight formation.
ya’ll are disapointing this year. where are all the haters? i always enjoy the @9 angle. but especially the “think of the poor pets” angle.
anyways, i’m excited they are here. its like an air show you don’t have to get stuck in traffic to get to.
First, I have a migraine and the Angels are making me cry.
Second, @Baconcat you are on a ROLL!
fuck bike lanes, we need permanent JET LANES. you bikers won’t blow through red lights if there’s a chance of SUPERSONIC JET now willya?? hey punk?
I used to attend a meeting regularly held in Seattle during SeaFair. Thankfully I wised up and stopped going. If I want an airshow-induced migraine, there are plenty to avail myself of here in the midwest.
So many whiners.
My cat and I do not enjoy them at all.
Go back to Russia you commie socialist!
I guess I just imagine I’m a refugee from another country – y’know, one of the ones we bomb mercilessly. I imagine hearing that sound and screaming bloody terror because it usually accompanies my loved ones getting killed.
Yeah, love that shit.
Anyway, here’s to ugly displays of patriotism in America’s least patriotic city!
I don’t believe in angels.
It’s the sonic ear-rape you hate? Not that they are constantly crashing, or the gratuitous fuel consumption, or the symbolism of the military-industrial complex? Of all the cliche reasons to hate them, yours has to be the most boring. Step it up Schmader!
Jesus, this thread is hilarious. Wasn’t SLOG just making fun of people in Maple Valley (?) complaining about 4th of July fireworks? Or maybe everyone is just being ironic and I’m not hip enough to get it.