Did you decide to forego the big fireworks display downtown this year? If you did, you didn’t miss much… according to this web only recap of every fireworks display ever by John Oliver and the Last Week Tonight gang, who took the week off. Presumably to watch fireworks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=//www.youtube.com/embed/6clJRsPyuhc

Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)