Circuses and Supermodels
My move to Blogger has already paid off: Rhinodog, Bad Z, and Skye Xyan (pronounced "Ryan") have all left comments. I sincerely appreciate it.I went to the circus yesterday. It was good fun, but I was concerned about how concerned I was going to be about the animals. As it turns out, there were only dogs and horses. I was less concerned about the dogs, because they seemed to be tended to by a family, and I could imagine dogs liking that sort of thing. The horses looked sad, though; when they danced, they didn't mean it. I was rather concerned about where the horses were when they weren't performing - there aren't many pastures in Boston proper.
All in all, the animals didn't concern me nearly as much as I thought they would. Mostly, I was concerned about the kids. They were really young, and it seems like their bodies were being abused by the tricks.
I wasn't so concerned, however, that I didn't enjoy the show. I mostly did. Some of the acts were spectacular, and some of the acts were boring. The boring acts mostly involved clowns, although I am guessing that those acts were not designed with people like me in mind.
I was out on Saturday (with Skye Xyan, as well as my new friends Laurence and Glenn), and mentioned that Kate Moss's boyfriend injected her with heroin while she was passed out. It turns out that I was incorrect: Kate Moss's ex-boyfriend had a needle in some other passed out girl's arm. We sincerely apologize to Ms. Moss for any inconvenience that our previous report may have caused.
Back to ex-boyfriend and passed-out girl: both say that he was simply withdrawing blood from her so that he could paint with it; I think that we all have done that to passed-out girls at some point, so I am not going to judge here.
Finally, I wish a happy birthday to Angie (yesterday) and Jean (today).
I will leave you with Stephen Colbert's speech from the White House Press Corp Dinner (via westwash.org).Circ
"That's 'cause you looked it up in a book."
posted by Dirk Awesome @ 9:19 PM
2 Comments:
The horses did dance sadly and I believe it's one "n" in Glen.
Massachusetts Senate Bill 2457 would stop the use of large animals in circuses. Sponsored by Republican (!) Robert Hedlund. If anyone reading this lives in Massachusetts, you might want to consider speaking up in support of this bill.
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