HOT SPRINGS—I parked on the street nearest the backstretch of Oaklawn Park about an hour and a half before the first race on Saturday, then walked all over the fucking place for 1:04:13 to cover a little over four miles. Then I lost $102.80, putting my season-ending deficit at $170.10. Darn. But there were precedents set today; the Miss Wherever Pageant was founded twenty-five years ago this spring at Mr. Burger in Fayetteville, and the current Miss Arkansas Derby became the first redhead ever to win any of them. She also was the only woman any of the judges (Basil Julian and and I) have seen who managed to look perfectly casual and comfortable wearing an ankle-length dress.
OVERHEARD
"We got this e-mail from Jeff O'Neil in Batavia: 'Would you please ask my wife to quit walking in front of the television.' "
—announcer from the Chicago Cubs game in Colorado on Saturday night
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