Founder: 'It's all so corny, it's crossing the line into being totally cool'
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from:msnbc.comDenver's first county fair targets hipsters
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They finally Californicated Colorado. So sad.
the last hipster that passed thru backwoods arkansas...was slick willie...
It started back in the 90's. I wish they would all go back home.
Hockeyguy, I'd suggest you take your own advice about checking politics at the door. This article isn't remotely about politics, it's about a county fair. YOU are the one who dragged politics into it.
And naturally, your facts are dead wrong. Parts of Colorado certainly DO lean conservative, but "the rest of the state" outside of Denver? Hardly. Most of the Front Range, the whole of southcentral Colorado, and even vast swaths of mountain areas went Democratic in the 2008 election. Even El Paso County (Colorado Springs), which had been a Republican stronghold in 2004, shifted dramatically Democratic, although it still stayed Republican overall. And since 2004, Democrats have won the governorship, both Colorado senate seats, three Congressional House seats, and control of both chambers in the state legislature.
So while there are still plenty of conservative-minded folks in Colorado, particularly on the Eastern Plains and Western Slope, the notion that Denver's population is all that's carrying the Democrats in Colorado is fallacious.
You can see a pretty blue-and-red chart of how the individual counties in Colorado voted in 2008 here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colorado_Presidential_Election_Results_by_County,_2008.svg
Facts are funny things, aren't they?
I'm a little bit shocked that last one was allowed to fly and that PETA didn't close 'em down.
"newly hip knitting"
How mainstream.
Not sure it makes sense what they are doing there in Denver..but to be a freak be with freaks..so I guess thats their idea.
*Facepalm*
WAY COOL!!!!
And the American people speak and act.
and sing...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI0_w9aV8G0
Holy s%$!, Dana Cain??? haven't seen or heard from you since the glory days of the science fiction conventions! I hope you are doing well, from a former DASFA member from the 80's!!!!!!
And this is why I love living in Colorado - where else would you see something like this? For those saying this is California taking over Colorado - California would never do anything this cool. They'd try to have it completely urban, probably serve sushi and salad instead of fun carnival food.
This type of event is pretty common nationwide in places like Baltimore, Portland and other towns with high hipster quotients. I give them credit for the scale, though.
What's with all the negativity? If you don't like it, don't go. This looks like a lot of fun. Glad to live in Colorado - gotta check this out.
This is a hip fair-- and its clear from a lot of these posters that it's easy to see who's hip, and who isn't.
If you truly are hip, you'll recognize the quote-- and respond with another...
Wow... Several weeks later and no takers.
It's from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, folks. Sh*t, man-- Thompson ran for Sheriff in Aspen on the freak power ticket. Doesn't anyone remember anything?
A double-thumbed fist on a peyote button...
Thursday is a much better movie.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a book by Dr. Hunter Thompson. Yes, there's a movie, but the book is better.
sad, the disintegration of America...........no wonder the world hates us
Because of our fairs? is that REALLY what you think?
Californication not hardly. Just fun and how can you screw up a tradition that never was. Lighten up people if it makes some people and the city money I'm all for it. If you don't fit in then don't go I'm sure they won't miss you a bit. Unless someones knitting wet blankets.
PEACE!
it's not hip, it is the disintegration of America and the values we used to have. Disgusting.
Umm... why? What acts of immorality are being undertaken? Eating organic food that isn't laden in pesticides? Not tackling animals for sport? I think there are many more values reflected in this event than in a normal fair.
Alex ....the real disintegration is happening in DC as you read this story...that's where the really scary freaks are hiding out.
The Fair is my escape, as it should be for you, too.
Interesting Alex - seeing as the EXACT same things are shown at the Colorado State Fair, Kansas State Fair, Cheyenne Frontier Days, Nebraska State Fair, Iowa State Fair- need I go on?
It's immoral to bake a pie and enter it into comp etition at the fair? It's disintegrating America to handmake something and show it off at the fair? Dear god, then our grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents were also the cause of the disintgration of America and its values by going to the county fairs.
Take a better look - it's a RETURN to the lifestyle you and yours left behind for the throw away life and economy we have now. Yeah, such a great state of being we're in now.
I'm highly amused that you think owning of livestock, knitting a scarf and baking a pie are bad things. Your ancestors are ashamed of you for crapping on the whole of their lives, for saying how they lived was not of value.
Pitiful.
I'm betting that what Alex is REALLY objecting to is the drag queens.
If you don't want to see something, then don't go, period. I think it's very cool. It brings back some of the old time fair with an updated and hip atmosphere.
People just need to quit being so judgmental!!
The circus freakshow is in D.C.
said good gawd gerty...what a gash...
this is the same old fair, nothing new really, just in the old days what was obscure and odd was actually an attraction, all they are saying here is that the people going are looking at each other and people watching makes it weird. Thats what happens when there is no boundary between wrong and right, the circus is in town always, and everyday is Halloween, used to have distinction some things but they all came from just looking around. creativity is over rated , all we do is take a few more minutes or hours to analyze things deeper instead of rushing through life without looking. Does life imitate art or art imitate life? the pendulum swings often, but history surely repeats itself, just see a lot of people searching not realizing the true God Lord alive with us is much more ordinary not a stage show or gathering to worship every little idol or decorated man made artifacts, it is simply just to love others not worship dead things.
haha - "creativity is overrated"? Wow. When you understand that you are God and God is all life, and you can look into the eyes of any other life form and see the spark of God, then you will understand that God is creativity and that you have far more to learn than you yet realize to truly embody the Christ.I will pray for you. God bless.
Oh please. When I was a kid, there were sideshows and freaks and all that - this is just a return of it. Lots of those so called Halloween every day folks are MORE moral and MORE Christian than their pearl clutching, religion mouthing counterparts.
It's a fair - get over it. It's going to look really similar to the Iowa State Fair (yes, I have been) and I don't see you badmouthing that.
It's wonderful you can attempt to sound all intellectual without saying anything at all... just like hipsters are accused of. Oh, the irony.
Religious people sure suck all the fun out of life. So glad to see religion's influence waning in this country, year by year. Barabas, wow... you might need medication. Your whole post is nothing but a stream-of-consciousness, run-on sentence-filled mess of barely coherent babbling.
Californiacation not hardly. Just people having fun. Its hard to screw up a tradition that never was. Way to go miss Cain think outside the box thats whats sets us apart. To the naysayers if its not your thing don't go. I am sure they won't miss you! Unless they have a wet blanket knitting booth because then I am sure you will be truly missed.
PEACE!
What a FANTASTIC idea!!!!
Barabas go start a God Fair I'm sure you will have great fun there with all your christian soldiers doing all the same stuff.
The circus is in D.C. and they call themselves Tea Baggers
Who calls themselves, "Tea Baggers"? Just curious. Please enlighten.
www.teabagcongress.com and they complain we use the name they gave themselves?
Think you got that wrong.......Weiner Baggers
Sounds like a fun fair. I'm not quite sure why it's a hipster thing... that seems a bit of a stretch. Sounds more like there's something for everyone there. I'm definitely not hipster, but I'd enjoy going to a fair that's part retro sideshow, part 4H Club, part craft fair, part hollistic/psychic babbledygook, and whatever else that would keep it from being just another dull country fair. The sideshow part would be a kick.
Best word of the day.
If they make money,it's all good.
I would go just to see the tattooed bearded lady and the three headed ape man at the the Freak Show.
Hipsters kill everything. it'll last two to five years, and then they'll have moved on, claiming it to be "so yesterday".
That's what a lot of people in Denver said about the People's Fair - and it just celebrated its 40th anniversary.
Finally? It happened in the late 80s, early 90s when all those people from California came here.