Ohio state fair update

Every year, the Ohio state fair sculpts figures from locally made butter to promote the concept of rural living. This year, the theme includes two Ohio pro football players-Bengals Chinedum Ndukwe and Joe Thomas from the Browns-to fight the issue of childhood obesity. The goal is to engage children in more vigorous activities (like sports) and thus help alleviate weight problems.

Ummm, the sculptures are made from butter! What product is there that more exemplifies fatness than butter? Being called butterball is an insult, is it not? Why not just make them from Pop Tarts or mounds of surgery cereal? This is like BP making a water park called “Gulf Land” in which all of the slides operate in crude oil.

Hannah Lehmphul recently won the prestigious hunter hack event. For those of you who are not named Kennedy or attended an Ivy League school, hunter hack is a very old English riding tradition based upon handling a horse using English tack and mastering several different horse movements. At least that is what wikipedia said.

Here you see young Hannah upon her beloved steed as she continues on with the second element of the event, which is calling her BFF on the cell to gloat about how she just totally punked that girl from New Albany.

In an effort to appeal to more urban dwellers, the fair has tried this year to bring in entertainment which is more palatable to city living. This includes snake handlers, a high-dive show and poultry breeds that date back to the early 1800′s. What, no horse shoeing or cattle driving?

Singer Selena Gomez has had to cancel her performance scheduled for this Thursday due to a throat ailment. The concert has been rescheduled for next November at the fairgrounds. But by then, the butter will be melted, the snaked will have all been handled and the only chickens available be on sale at Kroger.