Kansas (the band, not the state) is opening for Styx as the first Friday night concert at the Kansas State Fair, and I'm actually tempted.

Other than the "someone always dies on K-96 on Friday night" thing (the fairgrounds are in Hutch, an hour or so out of Wichita, and traffic is both brutal and drunk), and the fact that some of the Names are not in the respective lineups anymore.

(Blues Brothers movies aside, playing the KSF is not quite as "all-time career low" as it sounds, though they do generally go for the nostalgia with the rock acts and get more current country acts. It's one of the bigger fairs, and the grandstand lineup is one of the key draws.)

Not sure if I'm going to enter a critter this year, though. It's likely to be a rabbit, and rabbits are not nearly as much fun as pigs... far too plausible in the suburbs. But a "teddy Brahman bull" just doesn't seem right. Especially if it was, um, clearly a bull. Or even clearly a steer. Teddy bears, even otherwise-realistic non-bear ones, should not be anatomically correct if they're wanting to win ribbons. Still, "I have a prize-winning bull" has definite fun double-take potential...