today i went to the rodeo, not rodAYo
houston livestock show and rodeo
this is a convention about animals. besides eating them, it's about how many humiliating things we can do to animals to maintain the illusion that we are free of our computers and t.v.'s.
- the first thing you notice when you walk in is the strange combined smells of roasting meat and a faint odor of animal feces mixed with cedar. this did not deter my appetite to eat meat, and learn about the meat that we eat and enjoy.
- i saw lines of children waiting to pet a brown bunny the size of a well-fed house cat, which appeared to be bored. along this petting line, was also an apathetic guinea pig. they reminded me of reluctant celebrities at a book signing.
- small ponies chained to this spoke, so kids can ride around in a circular fashion, kinda like a living, deadly-slow, merry go round.
- a plastic, life-sized, beef carcass... where you can push these buttons and the parts will light up, i.e "this is the flank steak."
- pens of pigs with educational charts next to them extolling the many uses of their bodies... including living vats to grow insulin, i believe... wasn't too much into reading when you smell the faint smell of feces and cedar... you just want to move to the other side of the convention center.
- cow skulls with horns intact for sale at $59... long horns for sale, for up to $1k
- freeze-dried rattlesnakes for sale... golf balls that are covered in rattlesnake skin (there's photographs showing a person who was bit by a rattler... their skin gets swollen into big bags of black stuff... then lesions form, like the black plague...the price to pay for rattlesnake skin golfballs, i guess.)... i overhear the vendor saying "yeah, so we make a lil' incision in the belly and use a coat hanger to pull all the guts out..."
- of course, a petting zoo... the cute animals, after all, must be petted.
- antlers galore... made into chandeliers, lamps, lamp tables, coffee tables, hat racks, gun racks... who needs the discovery of plastics?
- fur fur and more fur.
- i think i saw real carved ivory being sold... even though most nations ban the sale of ivory, it's texas, so i guess they can get away with that.
- there was this torso of a bison that was stuffed and placed on the ground so that it was facing towards the sky... which is so useless.. try putting a cup of coffee on that.
- one vendor was selling ceramic busts of horses. hehehe.
- i had this steak on a stick... it was ok. i also had a sliced beef bbq sandwich that was pretty good.
- dippin' dots... i still haven't had any since it looks like crumbled styrofoam to me, but somehow i know this is tied to animal cruelty... like they enslave gibbons to roll the ice cream into tiny dots.
- i was the only asian over 10 yrs of age over there... WTF? somehow after the age of 10, asians become disenchanted with the whole cowboy mystique, killing indians, and riding bulls? what's going on?
- 2 black dudes in cowboy hats. the rest were employees.
- the more X's a cowbot hat is rated, the more beaver fur it contains (besides wool). i touched a 100X hat that was worth $600... momma mia, pricey beaver.
- one vendor was selling furniture made of what looked like to be just fallen timber and very large twigs. "natural" furniture OR "just too lazy to remove the bark and use proper wood" furniture? you decide.
- everyone was selling or wearing belt buckles nearly the size of WWF title belts. i bought a small, effeminate buckle with a piece of turquoise in it. i feel all "native" now.
http://www.chacodog.com/searchresult.aspx?manufacturer=151
the buckle is stamped "HB" on the back and the vendor explained it was from "harrison bitsue" a native american artist.
- cow, reptile, ostrich boots
- the coolest cowboy-ish hat was this $25 straw one that was made in china. i'm taking that to nyc. i pray no one will know the difference up there.
oh, and got this at the rodeo...
"gotta get... that... dirt off your shoulders."
this is a convention about animals. besides eating them, it's about how many humiliating things we can do to animals to maintain the illusion that we are free of our computers and t.v.'s.
- the first thing you notice when you walk in is the strange combined smells of roasting meat and a faint odor of animal feces mixed with cedar. this did not deter my appetite to eat meat, and learn about the meat that we eat and enjoy.
- i saw lines of children waiting to pet a brown bunny the size of a well-fed house cat, which appeared to be bored. along this petting line, was also an apathetic guinea pig. they reminded me of reluctant celebrities at a book signing.
- small ponies chained to this spoke, so kids can ride around in a circular fashion, kinda like a living, deadly-slow, merry go round.
- a plastic, life-sized, beef carcass... where you can push these buttons and the parts will light up, i.e "this is the flank steak."
- pens of pigs with educational charts next to them extolling the many uses of their bodies... including living vats to grow insulin, i believe... wasn't too much into reading when you smell the faint smell of feces and cedar... you just want to move to the other side of the convention center.
- cow skulls with horns intact for sale at $59... long horns for sale, for up to $1k
- freeze-dried rattlesnakes for sale... golf balls that are covered in rattlesnake skin (there's photographs showing a person who was bit by a rattler... their skin gets swollen into big bags of black stuff... then lesions form, like the black plague...the price to pay for rattlesnake skin golfballs, i guess.)... i overhear the vendor saying "yeah, so we make a lil' incision in the belly and use a coat hanger to pull all the guts out..."
- of course, a petting zoo... the cute animals, after all, must be petted.
- antlers galore... made into chandeliers, lamps, lamp tables, coffee tables, hat racks, gun racks... who needs the discovery of plastics?
- fur fur and more fur.
- i think i saw real carved ivory being sold... even though most nations ban the sale of ivory, it's texas, so i guess they can get away with that.
- there was this torso of a bison that was stuffed and placed on the ground so that it was facing towards the sky... which is so useless.. try putting a cup of coffee on that.
- one vendor was selling ceramic busts of horses. hehehe.
- i had this steak on a stick... it was ok. i also had a sliced beef bbq sandwich that was pretty good.
- dippin' dots... i still haven't had any since it looks like crumbled styrofoam to me, but somehow i know this is tied to animal cruelty... like they enslave gibbons to roll the ice cream into tiny dots.
- i was the only asian over 10 yrs of age over there... WTF? somehow after the age of 10, asians become disenchanted with the whole cowboy mystique, killing indians, and riding bulls? what's going on?
- 2 black dudes in cowboy hats. the rest were employees.
- the more X's a cowbot hat is rated, the more beaver fur it contains (besides wool). i touched a 100X hat that was worth $600... momma mia, pricey beaver.
- one vendor was selling furniture made of what looked like to be just fallen timber and very large twigs. "natural" furniture OR "just too lazy to remove the bark and use proper wood" furniture? you decide.
- everyone was selling or wearing belt buckles nearly the size of WWF title belts. i bought a small, effeminate buckle with a piece of turquoise in it. i feel all "native" now.
http://www.chacodog.com/searchresult.aspx?manufacturer=151
the buckle is stamped "HB" on the back and the vendor explained it was from "harrison bitsue" a native american artist.
- cow, reptile, ostrich boots
- the coolest cowboy-ish hat was this $25 straw one that was made in china. i'm taking that to nyc. i pray no one will know the difference up there.
oh, and got this at the rodeo...
"gotta get... that... dirt off your shoulders."