*singing quietly* We're all living in Amerika, Amerika, ist Wunderbar... oh, sorry. That building seems rather Teutonic to me.

And I thought honey was bee vomit.

Anyway, if I were Ms. Parker, I'd say:

"What fresh hell is this?"

Then she'd go find the nearest Biergarten, er, beer garden to forget the question was even asked.

Those apples do look good, but they'd be better on a stick, with caramel and nuts on top, and a vat of chocolate sauce just for dippin'.

I wanna know what your Buzz.mn Porch looks like, btw.

Can't wait for the next one. Keep up the good work.

The classic response is "You can lead a horticulture, but you cannot make her think."

That's it. I wonder if it's an apocryphal attribution - but it doesn't matter, I suppose. It's a great line. If she'd dropped that megaton line on the Algonquin Table spontaneously, I imagine there would have been stunned, reverent silence. Then everyone would have bought her a drink.

And she would have drunk them all, alas.

Sentry: you'll be pleased to learn that the Horticulture building contains its own Beer Stube. It's one of the few old Fair Buildings that still has its built-in beer room.

Porch photos should be coming tomorrow, or Monday. And thanks for watching!

omg you're like a young version of Garrison Keillor, cool! You should do your own Urban Home Companion show.

Ok, time to brag. Centre County PA has the only tenting fair that I know of, rows and rows of tents, decorated and passed down from generation to generation and overflowing into RVs. The main street is partially occupied by the county Democratic and Republican Parties, separated only by the local paper's stand and in great competition. Always a crowd passing by and stopping to talk to candidates, even Arlen Specter sometimes. A great way to reach rural folks and a great pot luck dinner to boot.

Poor Dorothy Parker. "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses". She would have a better chance today. Also famous for her numerous suicide attempts, and for tying bright ribbons around her wrist scars.

It always makes me nostalgic to see footage of the Swiss Sky Ride in these Fair videos. We hadn't had one here in Texas since it crashed in 1979. (There was still one at Astroworld in Houston after that, but after I moved to Dallas for college, I didn't spend too much time in Houston anymore. And now Astroworld's gone too.)

But in researching a link for the 1979 accident, I stumbled upon some good news; The Sky Ride is returning to the Fair next month. (We couldn't possibly have ours quite so early down here; people would pass out from all the heat.)

Ummm NO!

Garrison Keillor is incredibly talented. But he is also an angry bigot who hates the very people he mocks on his little taxpayer subsidized radio show.

Garrison Keillor wrote a Christian bashing column for the Star-Tribune to publish on Easter Sunday. Would Lileks do that?

She really was a truly interesting woman. One of my favorite lines from her was something to the effect of, "I had a hangover that could be put under glass."
(For observation, I gather.) I didn't know that about the bright ribbons, though.

I had the same reaction - I'm assuming (and hoping) that comment was ironic.
In the meantime, the answer is:

Lileks != (garrison keillor)

Lileks > ((garrison keillor) * 100)

As for GK - as someone said - he is the first person to succeed in making a Minnesota accent sound both unctuous and smug.

I concur with the above commenters. As I noted in another thread today, I think a more accurate comparison would be Lileks = Dave Barry--with a nostalgia twist, fewer booger jokes and (hopefully) fewer hurricanes in the area. ;-)

God’s acre was her garden-spot, she said;
She sat there often, of the Summer days,
Little and slim and sweet, among the dead,
Her hair a fable in the leveled rays.

She turned the fading wreath, the rusted cross,
And knelt to coax about the wiry stem.
I see her gentle fingers on the moss
Now it is anguish to remember them.

And once I saw her weeping, when she rose
And walked a way and turned to look around-
The quick and envious tears of one that knows
She shall not lie in consecrated ground.

-Dorothy Parker

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't lead an animal husbandry.

paris hilton represents the new HORTI CULTURE!

A young woman held a door open for Ms. Parker, saying, Age before Beauty.

Not missing a step, Dorothy replied,
Pearls before Swine.

What do silicon based life forms worry about? The downward spiral of horticulture.

I had a college professor who insisted that teaching at Notre Dame was casting artifical pearls before genuine swine.

... it was Claire Booth Luce with whom Dottie had that exchange. The same Claire Booth Luce of whom Mrs. Parker, when informed that Mrs. Luce was uniformly kind to her inferiors, asked, "And where does she find them?"