Chicken Fried Piglet

What's better than a fistful of skillet fried bacon? I have the answer for you friends--bacon that is skillet fried, rolled in seasoned flour, fried again and then served up in a red and white checkered paper bowl at the Texas State Fair! Just ask my gal-pal Kate and I. We're so excited about it that we're blurry. Bacon, bacon, bacon!

Despite this artery clogging, heart stopping, once-in-a-lifetime fair food experience the real highlight at the Texas State Fair this year was by far the petting zoo (that, and the taco stand guy who hit on Kate, and the gang police out in unprecedented numbers due to it being High School Day). Those little baby critters with their outside the fryer, inedible charm, stole the show. I took enough photos of the exotic animal display to stamp the seal on my out-of-state status, but only one of them turned out. Go figure.

No, just kidding, a couple others did too. There was a girafe, several zebras, various bovine creatures of indo-african origins, four horned sheep of the Acopolypse, and my personal favorites, a mama piggy, PC term for Sow, and her little suckling piglets. 

Which reminds me of a joke I once made up at the age of 5 (I have witnesses). Why did the pig light a match? No, no, he didn't have gastrointestinal issues....I was FIVE. Answer: Because he wanted to be a pig-lit. Pig-lit, piglet, get it? Did I mention I was five? Ah, genius is never recognized it its own time.

Dallas PD Ridin' Nerdy

The Dallas/Fort Worth area  is the forth largest metropolitan region in the nation. As such, it's no stranger to crime and general malicious mischief. The answer--Segways. 

DISCLAIMER: If you're over the age

 of 40 or, for personal reasons, choose not to be a fan of Weird Al Yankovich (seriously though, what is wrong with you?) I'm not sure you'll follow the remainder of this blog.   

During my visits to El Centro Community College in downtown Dallas, just a block from where JFK was shot from the sixth floor textbook depository, I often encounter police offers on Segways. As you see above, these officers take their personal walking device patroling seriously.  I'm not joking, they will roll you down.

But, oh, hahaha, I can barely contain myself as I share this with you---how many of you are familiar with Weird Al's spin off of the song "Ridin' Dirty", known as "White n' Nerdy?"

There is a lyric in Yankovich's version that goes something like, "they see my roll on my Segway, I know in my heart they think I'm White and nerdy."

So, you can imagine how often I find myself chuckling, audibly, and then spending the remainder of my day singing "White n' Nerdy" and thinking of those adorable, helmet clad, badge baring officers, with their holstered weapons and latent community authority, rendered completely useless by how ridiculously silly they look! 

If this image and my confession have motivated you to watch the Weird Al video again, or for the first time, you can find it on www.youtube.com.  The way I see it, if I'm going to slip further into comedic  anarchy, I might as well take one or two of you with me...