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charloweenSummer officially starts in Brooklin when the carneys arrive.
They're here... the Fair is on as of 5pm tonight and it's time for kids to get drunk, start fights and get themselves killed.
Younger children may enjoy the "midway," farm nuts the "sheep shearing" and busybody nobodies gain fame and fortune ($5!) in the crafts competition. Luckiily I live close enough to the fairgrounds to hear and smell all that goes on at the Fairgrounds.
Small town life is special. I think this is the 93rd annual Brooklin Spring Fair. When we moved in it was the 80th annual... which means 13 years in the most diverse and open part of the province (we've got Italian, British *and* Scots families... who mostly aren't all cousins!) I'm looking forward to not being able to navigate the streets or enjoy a quiet night for the next 4 evenings. Yay tractor pull! Yay demolition derby! Too bad I work tonight because I miss the Brooklin Spring Fair Ambassador competition (formerly BSF Princess, but they allow boys to enter the agricultural beauty pagent)... *cries*.
More fun than that:
June 30-July 3 = 4 plays/musicals in 4 days. Cultural speedball. We've got Mel Brooks (The Producers), Shakespeare (Cymbeline), classics (The Count of Monte Cristo... with pirates?) and good ol' experimental theatre (The Triumph of Love, a theatre dell'arte re-do). Time will tell if it's more entertaining than riding the Zipper or watching local teens stagger around drunk. I'll let you know in July.
They're here... the Fair is on as of 5pm tonight and it's time for kids to get drunk, start fights and get themselves killed.
Younger children may enjoy the "midway," farm nuts the "sheep shearing" and busybody nobodies gain fame and fortune ($5!) in the crafts competition. Luckiily I live close enough to the fairgrounds to hear and smell all that goes on at the Fairgrounds.
Small town life is special. I think this is the 93rd annual Brooklin Spring Fair. When we moved in it was the 80th annual... which means 13 years in the most diverse and open part of the province (we've got Italian, British *and* Scots families... who mostly aren't all cousins!) I'm looking forward to not being able to navigate the streets or enjoy a quiet night for the next 4 evenings. Yay tractor pull! Yay demolition derby! Too bad I work tonight because I miss the Brooklin Spring Fair Ambassador competition (formerly BSF Princess, but they allow boys to enter the agricultural beauty pagent)... *cries*.
More fun than that:
June 30-July 3 = 4 plays/musicals in 4 days. Cultural speedball. We've got Mel Brooks (The Producers), Shakespeare (Cymbeline), classics (The Count of Monte Cristo... with pirates?) and good ol' experimental theatre (The Triumph of Love, a theatre dell'arte re-do). Time will tell if it's more entertaining than riding the Zipper or watching local teens stagger around drunk. I'll let you know in July.
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Date: 2004-06-03 10:00 am (UTC)i've never been to the brooklyn fair.
and i know all too well about the busybody folk "artists" who think they're the next da vinci because they can make flowerpots ugly.
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Date: 2004-06-03 10:14 am (UTC)If you want to pony up the $12 admission we can go Friday. :)
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Date: 2004-06-03 11:17 am (UTC)"... and time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode."
Date: 2004-06-03 11:21 am (UTC)Re: "... and time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode."
Date: 2004-06-03 07:42 pm (UTC)