What better way to put the devastation of Irene behind us than a trip to The Great Allentown Fair? We can forget those hours hunkered down without electricity watching our milk go sour and mold grow in our basements. We can rest our aching muscles after cleaning up storm debris. We can finally watch television programming that does not involve some clown in a windbreaker buffeted by wind and rain warning us of the same thing that we can see by looking out our window.
In an unintentionally comic moment, a Channel 69 reporter standing knee-deep on a flooded Allentown street stated, "Don't go outside and walk around flooded streets. As a trained journalist familiar with this area, I can do this." I was unaware that Journalism 101 gave you X-ray vision to detect storm drains and open manholes beneath rushing water. "We started the semester with 30 Journalism majors, but we lost five of them to drowning during Storm Coverage Lab last week."
This year's Fair has a typical all-star entertainment line-up. Middle-aged rock fans will enjoy Journey. Polka fans get Jimmy Sturr. Veggie Tale fans and aficionados of odd names get "Lucas Lasagna performing the best of Sinatra on Sept 4" according to the Fair's press release
Lucas Lasagna? Perhaps I've been over-exposed to "Veggie Tales", but I can't shake the mental image of an anthropomorphic tray of pasta, cheese, and tomato sauce singing "My Way". "Lucas Lasagna's performance last night was bubbly and perhaps a bit overdone, but when he emerged from that 350 degree oven after 45 minutes, the crowd was hungry for more!"
In fact, Veggie Tales writers could probably use Lucas Lasagna in an upcoming episode. Bob the Tomato disappears without warning. Larry the Cucumber and Jimmy and Jerry Gourd search fruitlessly (or vegetable-lessly) for their pal. They wander into the Allentown Fairgrounds drawn by muted screams of pain to discover Bob trapped under layers of pasta and cheese while Lucas croons "I've Got You Under My Skin".
"Twilight" meets "Veggie Tales". "Cowboys & Aliens" worked. Why not this?
No comments:
Post a Comment