Fair is Fair

Went to the Sonoma County Fair on the 7th. That was a good time. Every kind of food that can possibly be put on a stick is at the fair and on a stick.

I went for the chocolate covered frozen bananna on a stick rolled in chopped peanuts.

Normally, I eat only food on a stick at the fair, but I made an exception and got myself a Willy Bird turkey steak sandwich. It was good. I probably would have been better dipped in corn meal, deep fried and on a stick, but maybe next year. I should maybe send a letter to their product development department.

It was Elvis Day at the fair, which is always a good time. A variety of full-sized latter day Elvi performed on the stage over by the race track, and the crowd really got into it.

One performer in a black sequined jump suit did a version of "Promised Land" that got the folks up and grooving so fast, most people didn't even have time to put down their corn dogs.

On another stage, we saw Valentine's Performing Pigs, which was a lot of fun, but, if I owned a troupe of trained pigs, I don't think I'd want them sharing the same fairgrounds with a large contingent of hungry, overmedicated Elvi.

And after all that walking and toe tapping, I took a break on one of the many coin operated foot massagers scattered at convenient intervals throughout the fairgrounds. 25 cents and you feel like you have the feet of a twenty-year-old.

If you invented one of those for your butt, I bet you could make a fortune at film festivals.

Kurt "big daddy" True
16 august 2004