Thursday, April 21, 2005
White Trash Over Louisville!
You have no idea how glad I am to be getting out of town this weekend. Saturday is Thunder Over Louisville, the opening day celebration for the Kentucky Derby Festival. For those of you not in the know, Thunder Over Louisville is a day long event down at the award winning Riverfront Park. It bascially begins with a military air show and ends with what is touted each year as the "World's Largest Fireworks Show!" Yee haw!
I've always believed that there's nothing better to get the white trash out of their trailers than blowing the shit out of things. They congregate on the grassy knoll and eat deep fried goodness and turkey legs that are larger than your arm and drink beer. Lots of Beer. So much beer that it's no wonder the lines to the famous "Thunder Pots" are so exceptionally long. They end the night Oooing and Ahhing over fireworks set to broadway musicals or patriotic songs and then flood the streets on what will most certainly be an hours long trek home.
I know I'm a stick in the mud, but I hate all that crap. I don't like crowds, especially drunk crowds. Also, Fireworks don't thrill me like they did when I was a kid.
I guess growing up a stones throw from Churchill Downs has made me jaded with the whole Derby season. There was always too much traffic, too many drunks passed out in the bushes, and way too many Jesus freaks waving their Bibles at the gambling sinners for my liking.
Now I know what a boon Derby is to the city and I'm not saying that I would do away with it. I'm just saying I enjoy it more when I'm not there.
I've always believed that there's nothing better to get the white trash out of their trailers than blowing the shit out of things. They congregate on the grassy knoll and eat deep fried goodness and turkey legs that are larger than your arm and drink beer. Lots of Beer. So much beer that it's no wonder the lines to the famous "Thunder Pots" are so exceptionally long. They end the night Oooing and Ahhing over fireworks set to broadway musicals or patriotic songs and then flood the streets on what will most certainly be an hours long trek home.
I know I'm a stick in the mud, but I hate all that crap. I don't like crowds, especially drunk crowds. Also, Fireworks don't thrill me like they did when I was a kid.
I guess growing up a stones throw from Churchill Downs has made me jaded with the whole Derby season. There was always too much traffic, too many drunks passed out in the bushes, and way too many Jesus freaks waving their Bibles at the gambling sinners for my liking.
Now I know what a boon Derby is to the city and I'm not saying that I would do away with it. I'm just saying I enjoy it more when I'm not there.
