Am I a bad person for running through a list of my friends and trying to remember who is into that?

I mean, probably not having you in particular cut their clothing off, but, yanno, the overall scene tone.

I don't think any of them are into Moose though. I suspect they're think that was weird.

"Throw back the little ones,
and pan-fry the big ones,
Use poise, tact, and reason,
and gently squeeze them."

Isn't Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick, specifically near Moncton (I went on school trips to their Game Farm a few times as a kid)?
http://www.magnetichill.com/

OK, I looked and there are others:
http://www.shopinoshawa.com/magnetichill.htm

Last year I heard they had deep-fried beer. And deep fried turkey legs that looked more like they came from ostriches.

(Sorry, keep getting distracted by the young woman on the right of the page in the Education Olympics ad...)

Moxie! Heck yeah! It just isn't the North Country without Moxie.

"I've had many lovers, my life has been loose,
But I've never had anything quite like a moose."

To the tune of "Betsy from Pike," IIRC.

If you weren't a thousand miles away, and me with a 2 month old, I'd come amuse myself at your moose festival. Sounds like a good time.

If you ever read any issues of Frontier Times, the magazine, that's where the name of the museum comes from -- same founder. My grandparents are in the museum, in a way: there's a directory of citizens of the area from the 80s, and they have an entry with a photo. I was too cheap to buy a directory last time I went, but I took photos of it for my memories.

OK, the moose stew is the main appeal: concerts and crafts I can find closer to home.

But if that area is anything like Petaluma, CA, perhaps readers should be advised that Cruising seems to require that drivers stop and engage in brief ritual conversation with just about everyone they know well (i.e., about half of the townsfolk) who are driving the opposite way. This can be a salutory exercise of the patience of other drivers when the Main Street has only one lane in each direction. (I must confess that this, the quintessential Bandstand in the park in front of the City Hall, and the bookstore that had a remarkable number of books in the same editions/bindings that I own, are about all I can remember about Petaluma, though I rather hope it hasn't changed much in the last fifty years.)

Have a fantastic time! May you spend very little of the day dealing with emergencies.

"World famous chocolate covered bacon." Mmmmmmmm.

By the way, the hospital is setting up a table where we're serving smoothies and taking blood pressures, 2:00-6:00 p.m. with our Director of Community Outreach, Mia West. It'll be in front of the funeral home, same place as the art show.

Jim, if you could promise me that the parish youth of St. Albert's in West Stewartstown make their contribution to the Festival Breakfast for the North American Martyrs via an annual competition to see who can come up with the best representation (2D or 3D, any artistic medium) of said North American martyrdoms, I would be so there.

how badly do I want to burn gas tomorrow?

A vendor at our local county fair was selling deep-fried "Oreo's" [sic] this year.

Alas, I missed the festivities on Saturday since I was doing ambulance runs non-stop from ten a.m. to ten p.m. (with a 4:30 a.m. coda). At least one nice young lady did indeed get her clothes cut off by me, and I stuck several needles in several arms. That's the sort of thing that happens when lots of tourists are in town. (Friday had only two runs, both heat-related.)

For Teresa (#35), do the praying hands in marzipan count?

Kathleen (Rudy's daughter) now runs Rudy's Cabins out on Clarksville Pond.

Kathleen has been active in the ambulance squad for years.

De rigeur tee shirt from Wall Drug: "Homeland security: fighting terrorism since 1492." The text surrounds a photo of Red Cloud and various other chiefs etc. sitting for a formal portrait with rifles. I did not wear it on the plane. KC airport is a masterpiece of getting people off airplanes and into surface transport quickly and with minimal pain, which is why they are strongly thinking about tearing it down. There's no place to soak travellers after they've gone through Security Theater.

The trick of the Girl-to-Gorilla show is explained briefly here, about 2/3ds down the page, a little after Geek and Giant Rat.

-Barbara