Idle thoughts

I love America and I love New Mexico and I love the New Mexico State Fair. Could there be anything more American than the fair with it’s crazy food, and horses barrel racing, and street entertainers, and bands, and high school students reciting their own poems, and FFA displays? And blue ribbons everywhere — pottery, Indian bead work, photographs, Lego projects, paintings, cookies, scrapbook pages, woodworking, quilts.

At the Fair a number of schools and school districts from around the state had displays of student art work. Some was what you’d expect and some was great. And I don’t know if there is some secret art colony in Clayton, New Mexico, or an art teacher of extraordinary talent, but WOW! can those kids do art in Clayton, population 2,132.

NewMexiKen took my car in for servicing early this morning. On the floor in the Lexus showroom were four cars, three of them black. Henry Ford would be so proud. (Ford once said, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” Black paint dried faster.)

“Today” was on the TV in the customer lounge at Lexus and I saw an interview with Jodie Foster, who has a new film. Watching Foster I decided John Hinckley Jr. wasn’t completely crazy.

The crowd of 41,000 for the New Mexico State vs. New Mexico football game last Saturday night doesn’t sound very impressive until you realize that was nearly as many people as live in Farmington, the sixth largest city in the whole state.

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  1. Yeah, Jodi Foster is a smart woman who is aging well.

    We have a fair here in San Diego that most people think is about music and rides and junk food. Way behind the scene, it’s all about flowers. SOME ANIMALS AND LOCAL ARTS/CRAFTS. Over 1.2 million people go, every year. It’s fun, and can be as wholesome or partying as you like.

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