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Posted by Rob Sherwood   •   Sunday, 2007-June-17 • 06:00
Yesterday we went to the Land Of The Loon Festival in Virginia. (Named because all the girls are virginians) This is becomeing a tradition. We went last year. It was good to get out of Duluth because it is Grandma's Marathon week-end and about 60,000 people show up and crowd the place. You can't get a seat at the House Of Pancakes or Denny's for any amount of money. (Actually, there isn't either a IHOP or Denny's in Duluth but I used them as a universal reference because you might not recognize the humour (spelled that way because I WAS in England last month) if I had written Perkins or OCB)

If you have a desparate need for a "Welcome to our Home" sign, or a candle holder made out of barbwire, or a plaque that says, "Sit Down and Fart A While"...then, the Loon Festival is for you! It isn't that I didn't spend any money...I spent a bundle. Five dollars for Cheese cruds...oops...typo....supposed to be Cheese curds, but now that I think of the effect on my arteries, cheese cruds is appropriate. Had some onion rings...started to hear a sound like a rubber-band stretching coming from inside my chest...and a bit later a festival made nachos grande. Ignoring the shooting pain in my left arm I managed to find room for a home-made ice-cream-dipped-in-chocolate-the-size-of-a-dinner-plate and a couple of diet Cokes and half a baby aspirin.

My cardio-vascular surgeon and God willing, I plan on being at the Loon Festival next year too and I WILL find the Italian Sausage with peppers, onions, and mozarella booth. My brother has agreed to carry the paddles for the heart resuscitation machine. Hope your summer is as fun as mine is and let me know if there are other good festivals in my future. My goal is to eat Minnesota State Fair food for every meal.

btw-I liked the Soprano ending.

Rob
  1. blsetter wrote on 2007-June-24 00:16:56:
    The Soprano ending really felt like some sort of cruel joke. I haven't even watched the show since season 4 but I just had to see how they ended it. With about five minutes left in the show I began to get exceited because I just knew something big was about to happen. Then..........nothing? I thought something was wrong with my DVR. Who Wrote that episode? Who directed that ending?....Andy Kaulfman? What a mean joke. They should hav at least had Tony choke on an onion ring, and have a hit man walk through the door ready to shoot him....and just when he raises the gun the EMT announces that he's dead, the hit man then shrugs his shoulders puts away his gun and walks out the door.....seriously that's a better ending. -B-S-
  2. Rob Sherwood wrote on 2007-June-24 17:18:50:
    you join the many in my family who are B.S. Don't you remember Tony said: 1. you never hear the bullet that kills you 2. when you get whacked it just goes black Thats exactly what happened in the last Sopranos so there is no doubt in my mind that Tony got whacked. Now who did it? The black guys? The guy at the bar who went to the bathroom? The weirdo in the booth? Richard Jewell? Carmella? But, what a way to go..suddenly, with an onion ring in your mouth. (even tho they looked like mrs. pauls) Or how about this: Tony is eating an onion ring. He says, "Where's the fucking ketchup?" Carmella takes the Lord's name in vain and adds, "...watch your mouth!" Tony takes a fork and stabs her in the eye. AJ taking advantage of a distracted Tony, uses his straw to penetrate Tony's brain via his ear. (He learned to do this in CIA training that we didn't know about..he did it part-time while working at the pizza shop). AJ, still upset over breaking up with his Puerto Rican girlfriend, smothers himself by sticking an onion ring in each nostril and clamping his lips tightly shut. He dies an agonizingly slow death whereupon, Meadow comes into the restaurant..sees everyone dead and realizes she parallel parked for nothing.

    Nows THAT's a good ending.

    Lovingly...B.S.
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