6.22.2006

Who Hasn’t Been Looking for that Small Town Fair w/ a Sci-Fi Flair???

Summer is the season of uninterrupted festivals. Art fairs, food fests, state fairs, farmers markets, and town carnivals are pretty much ubiquitous across this nation, yes?

Sweet Jesus, I love ‘em all. This is probably due to the fact that these festivals have my most favorite thing in the world, a plethora outdoor food stands where you can get all the greasy eats under the sun.

mmmm…Giant Turkey Legs…

The fact that the US has pitifully few open-air food stands that function on a year round basis is one of my number one motivations for emmigration... but probably an issue for another post entirely.

Moving on, all regions have their own smaller, more obscure, sometimes down right loony summer festivals, but I’m pretty sure my home state has birthed the most ridiculous = fanfuckingtabulous fest of all time….

Pack your bags and head down to the 22nd Annual Trek Fest in Riverside, Iowa this weekend! For all of you culturally dense people out there, James T. Kirk, captain of the starship Enterprise, will be born in Riverside on March 22, 2233. Seriously, it’s totally official.

"The festival tries to balance a small town fair that James T. Kirk may experience with a Science Fiction theme. When you visit you will see small town staples like a demolition derby, truck and tractor pull, rides, live music, as well as a sci-fi vendor area, costume contest, and Star Trek themed events."

These events include, but are not limited too:

Spockapalooza featuring the band Super Size Seven (mostly a cover band playing the rockin’ tunes of various artists from Blondie to Hoobastank)

Two different installments of Cow Chip Bingo! (Cow chips are poo)

A parade














A greased pig contest

A Trekkie costume contest

















Have you ever seen any one in TNG wearing glasses?! Lightweights…









And viewings of Star Trek as well as past Trek Fest footage in a place simply titled “Red Barn




Looks like Kirk stumbled into a wormhole, and breaching the space-time continuum, has been able to attend the festival taking place centuries before his birth.






This festival, already attracting people “from as far away as Finland” will certainly only blow-up more after this new Star Trek: The Early Years movie comes out staring Hotty McTotty Matt Damon as Kirk.

F-ing brilliant people.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

mom is giving you a volcan wave from deep space nine right about now!

Anonymous said...

Margaret Anne! v-U-lcan. She's giving you the finger. hehe

Anonymous said...

Sorry, I must disagree. Mom wouldn't be giving me the full force right now. I bet she didn't know how to spell VULCAN and in fact, she is probably feeling guilty about passing down her awful spelling genes right now! Balls.

Anonymous said...

questions remain unanswered! where was jean luc born? and why arent we planning a trip there this summer?
my heart warms with this post and i sincerely hope you will pull through with a weekly scifi post

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