21.7.05

fête de les Français

last weekend S---- and i were driving past oak park and i remembered that the french festival was happening there. we decided to stop by, check out the scene pretty quickly with the easy excuse of getting crepes for dinner. While we waited in line, a over-excited drunk woman started talking to us about almost everything. towards the end she flippantly mentioned that some drag queen show was going to close the festival. i didn't really believe her; i mean, she was really drunk, not making much sense, and we were still in santa barbara, where i don't think they grant admission to transvestites (other than the prostitutes on haley st.)
fortunately for us, she was right. we heard some really bad girl-band songs (sheryl crow to name one) playing over some loud speakers and eventually found the stage with 4 guys dressed as ladies strutting around. i can only bestow the name of "queen" to one performer, the others just looked like normal guys who lost a bet.
after the show we wandered past some sartre, rousseau, and voltaire books, some posters of orangina advertisements, and multi-colored berets. in the middle of this shopping plaza was a guillotine. ummm, what the hell? don't they see how tasteless that is? i'm all for honesty, but come on, it's a french festival, it has nothing to do with what it truly french. it's just an excuse for rich people to hang out in a park, drink perrier, eat nutella, and buy their kids berets. i can't help but wonder if they had some actors do execution reenactments earlier in the day, sort of like the civil war reenactments that are so popular in the south.

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