Fair Season

You'll be excited to hear that it's Fair Time again! What can I say that I haven't said already (like here, here, here, here, here and here, for example)? Pretty much nothing, that's what.

Like every year, the parade was on Thursday night. Unlike every year, I took a grand total of one parade photo. Here it is:

Technically speaking, this isn't even a parade photo. It was taken before the parade even started. This is a photo of one of the pre-parade vendors who spent their time walking back and forth along the route, selling high quality merchandise - while I spent my time trying to ignore them (with limited success). Look at the crap this guy's selling. Really? We're now selling political flags at the Fair Parade? God help us all. Is there no escape???

As for the parade itself, this year the parade continued it's pattern of seemingly thinning-down compared to the already thinned-down parade from the previous year. For example, this year there were only a couple of oil delivery trucks in the lineup instead of the usual twenty or so. C'mon! We must be burning more oil than that!

And not that I missed having them (at all), but I don't think there was a single Coca Cola truck in the parade! Where were all the Coke trucks? Usually, you can count on a half dozen of these trucks to bring the parade to it's agonizingly slow finale. This year? None!

What's happening to America???