California State Fair 2006

Went to the State Fair Friday night with some of the DMTC folks. The place was reassuringly familiar - the same arteriosclerotic disasters on the fair food menu; the same pop star posters on the midway as last year (I thought about throwing a ball to knock milk bottles over, in order to get a Jessica Simpson poster, but decided against it), and the same merchants at work.

This year's emblematic moment was watching a little kid try repeatedly, and failing, to clamber atop a golden metallic statue of the California Bear. It might have been the same kid who tried the same thing last year, and failed then too.