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Friday, Aug. 02, 2002 - 4:25 p.m. Today is the first day of our yearly �Celebration� here in Mohall. It�s a good chance to eat more than you should, pay too much for liquid refreshments, and watch several musical acts from the past. Hey, this is Mohall, o.k.? Very few big-name musical acts make it to our neck of the woods. So when this event rolls around each summer, people here have one of the few blowout parties of the year. What kinds of bands have played here in the past 16 years (the length of this event)? Kansas. Eddie Money. E.L.O. 10,000 Maniacs. Rick Springfield. Spyro Gyra. Taylor Dayne. Blese�d Union of Souls. Hey, and it�s free! So stop snickering about the bands I listed. This year? Loverboy. Oh Boy! We�ll watch them anyway. If they have gotten fat and lazy, we will just move along to another stage. There are something like 7 of them, with three having acts you have heard of, and the rest with various local groups. Sometimes these are the best, anyway. We also have the Brothers Johnson (kids-ask your parents), Jerry Reed (but no Burt Reynolds), the Nelsons (yikes! I left one of their concerts after two songs back when they were big in the early 90�s. Too many little girls screaming in our ears. We went to see the opening act Enuf Z�Nuff anyway, so it didn�t bother us to leave early) and Dave Mason (don�t care for him, so will skip his show unless Lease wants to watch). The food is always a blast. This year there are 67 different vendors. No Taste of Chicago, I�ll grant you, but still plenty of variety. I usually go for the alligator on a stick, and then whatever else sounds tasty. Oh yeah, and there is booze, too. At $3 a pop, I tend to drink conservatively. Don�t get me wrong: I look forward to this event as much as anyone. I always bump into people that I haven�t seen in ages. Some of them since the last celebration, some for many more years. Hey, when you live in a bumpkin paradise like Mohall, you look forward to anything entertaining. And this weekend will be entertaining� So, with the big event of the year starting today, what happened in town that made the national A.P. news wire? �Anti-tax Vandals Damage Fountain�. Great. Just what we need: another thing to make our city look like a bunch of back-woods yahoos to the rest of the country. The fountain in question was just completed on Monday. Thursday morning was to be the grand unveiling ceremony. The night before, some complete piece of human waste climbed into the construction area, dumped 100 tea bags (oh, how original!) into the water. They left a sign that read �"Taxation by incompetent representation" over the post that contained the �No skateboarding� sign. They also smeared pink skateboard wax all over the rim of the fountain. Let me put my two-cents in on this act of vandalism: It has nothing to do with taxes. It�s all about skateboarding, and the efforts the local newspaper editor put into getting this thing built. The taxpayers didn�t pay much of the cost of this beautiful new attraction in our central park (the center of this weekends celebration, btw). The editor of the paper has been raising money for this fountain for the last 10 years. Almost all of the money came from PRIVATE DONORS! The editor has also railed against skateboarders damaging public property. For that, he has became their public enemy #1. But he has also pushed for a public skateboarding park to be built (this would be WITH taxpayers dollars), so they �boarders have a place to ride rails and jump cubs without destroying public property. For his effort, he has his long-time- coming dream damaged one day before it was to be unveiled. Yeah, that�s a good way to get people on your side of an issue, isn�t it. Vandalize something that benefits most everyone in the community. The city spent all day yesterday cleaning up the damage, but the tea had already stained the inside of the water basins. Maybe in a few years the stain will go away. Gee, I hope the person(s) who did this are happy. They sure did a brave thing, didn�t they? This is running long, so I will leave you with an explanation for the �Penguin� line in the title. Today I was making a list of new bands and cds to look out for, and one of the bands is know by the name of �Psoma� I picked up a copy of their new cd recently, and like it a lot (check it out,Faith). The title of the album? For some reason, one of my country-music loving coworkers found the title hilarious. He kept coming up to Bubba and me and telling us things like �Remember! Fear the penguin!� Oh well. Whatever make you smile�����..
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