Mmmmm....Ribs at 8:22 PM

This past Saturday was the famed Ribfest here in Kokomo. There was food, games, displays of strength, and unintentional comedy. Of course, with ribs being the main attraction, they didn't have to tell me twice. Jessica and I went up and took Luke because there weren't any sitters available that we could find. That caused us to go early, but the bonus of going early was being able to see the Strongman Competition. If you've ever seen the "World's Strongest Man" competitions on ESPN, it was similar to this. If you haven't seen it, they were still similar, but you don't know what I'm talking about.

So basically these extremely large gentlemen do ridiculous things to show how strong they are. For example, they'll carry a 300-pound contraption made of barbell plates and a diamond-looking barbell for as far as they can. That was the first thing we saw. On TV, you'll see things like these guys pulling trucks with their teeth and bending a frying pan by looking at it. Anyway, they were setting up to drag a 360-pound tractor tire around when between events, for some reason they MC gave the mic to a preacher from some random congregation. I don't know whether he was trying to give his church a plug or whatever, but the guy rambled and I guess he preached for at least 15 minutes (we couldn't really hear what he was saying, but we got the gist). We would have left, but we kept thinking he couldn't possibly go on much longer, and after all these guys were going to be dragging tires around. Tires, people!

So finally he finished up, and the MC got back on the mic and said, with a straight face, "Let's hear it for the strongman Jesus Christ." This was one of the few times in my life I've done an actual double-take and thought, "Did I really just hear that?" So that was good for a laugh. Then we finally thought we were going to see some strength-showing feats, and they gave the guy the mic again. That was when we left to get some ribs.

What happens at the Ribfest is that a bunch of the restaurants in town set up booths downtown at the courthouse square, and they...well...sell ribs. It's a simple and wonderful idea. There's also live music later in the evening, but Luke decided he didn't want to stay very long, and he was pretty vocal about it. But there were some mighty tasty ribs.

I woke up this morning with a beast of a sore throat, so it looks like I'm getting a cold. I knew it was inevitable, since everyone I know has had one over the past couple of weeks. But I started cramming Vitamin C down my throat as soon as I woke up, so hopefully it won't last very long.

If you haven't seen it yet, "Eight Cents" is up and running. I should be posting my first review tonight if all goes well. It'll be the first disc of the new Foo Fighters CD. I've got a couple more reviews on tap for this week, so hopefully I'll be able to crank those out. Also, I'm planning on doing some site construction this week. The look has gotten pretty tired, wouldn't you say?

Song of the Day: "Who'll Stop the Rain?", by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Everybody likes some CCR, and to be honest, that was the first song that popped into my head.