Happy Birthday, America. We’re fans of your work — not the whole Vietnam War bit, Iran-Contra scandal, Pinochet thing or basically the whole Cheney Bush Years. All that stuff kind of sucked. Pretty hard, actually. But the good stuff — your Dodge Challenger SRT8s, Kate Upton showing us how to Cat Daddy in a bikini, the Falcon Black and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, all that stuff pretty much rules. We appreciate it. A lot. Which is why we’re going to be taking the next week-and-a-half very chill to ruminate upon your awesomeness. Ok, that’s not entirely true — yes we’ll ruminate upon your awesomeness and all, but the truth of the matter is Madman Senior is trekking all the way to the states from South America to visit the Madman, and we’re sort of having a family reunion in the east coast in a llama farm in Maine. True story. The point being we’re going to have different priorities for the next 10 days. Yes we’re still going to post, but since we’ll be stuck in a log cabin nestled in a tiny corner of the White Mountains, we’re not really going to concern ourselves with stuff like Jeremy Scott sneakers, the latest in French supercars or visvim gear. Instead, we plan on drinking copious red wine with the Mundt family, shooting shotguns at random artifacts and basically examining life in all its pristine angles. Come back every couple days, we’ll have some new stuff posted, but until July 16th we’ll be on a sort of psycho-spiritual sabbatical. I hope y’all understand and give us that leeway. And if you don’t, oh well it’s not like you pay us or anything. So thank you all for reading, and see you in the next week…