Comments | spaceroo: "Now, think of the happiest things. It's the same as having wings."

spaceroo

"Now, think of the happiest things. It's the same as having wings."

Aug 02, 2009 17:54

We went to the Santa Clara County Fair today. We didn't know when we got up we were going to... we didn't even know there *was* a fair going on. The Fair has been a dying institution in Silicon Valley for as long as I've lived here, and I remember there being "recent" talk of selling the fairground to bloodsucking real-estate developers. Thus it ( Read more... )

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xolo August 3 2009, 04:57:03 UTC

The Michael Jackson ride is pretty sad, really. I was struck by all of the Michael Jackson collectables being hawked at the Ohio State Fair.

spaceroo August 3 2009, 15:04:33 UTC

I couldn't help but pick up a subtle "Bonnie and Clyde's Death Car" vibe from the ride. It's not that Michael died in hail of bullets while fleeing police in his lolli swing, but his Neverland amusement park was a major symptom of his self-destructive eccentricity... and thus arguably a small measure of his common sense and rationality was centrifuged out as he blissfully rode this thing alongside his underage guests.

"What time does Neverland close? When the Big Hand is On the Little Hand!" ;^b