Carnival

Summer is the season of celebration in the suburbs. We have festivals, fairs, feasts, and carnivals. Why so many different names? What constitutes a feast vs. a carnival? There is a hierarchy to these things. The Feast is at the top. and it's usually connected to a nationality. The Italian Feast, The Greek Feast, The Polish Fair (huh?). Of course, being a feast, the emphasis is on food. Although I rarely see authentic food at these so-called feasts. It's usually the typical trailers selling Cotton Candy,  Zeppoles and mountains of sausage and peppers (burp). The Festival could also be food related. The Strawberry Festival is quite a big one, The Apple Festival. Or it's seasonal like The Fall Festival, Spring Festival. When they use the month they tend to shorten it to "Fest" like Oktoberfest. In Riverhead, the Polish Oktoberfest takes place in August (huh?). Very often, fairs are named for the towns. The Islip Street Fair, the Sayville summer fair, The Riverhead street fair. If it's not a town, it's the ever popular, yet completely useless Craft Fair. Then there is the lowly carnivals. You will find those cropping up everywhere. Parking lots of the local flea markets and malls. These consist of broken rides and broken people. They overcharge for rigged carnival games. I never play those games. Something about a guy with three teeth telling me to "try my luck" bothers me.

Daily Theme Song:
The Band - Life is A Carnival : http://youtu.be/Io9tYdvrFgk