a run for the roses.

"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up." ~Hunter S. Thompson

Secretariat was the greatest racing horse that ever lived and may hold that title for the rest of time. He set records at both the Derby and the Belmont Stakes and while he was busy setting records left and right, he managed to win the coveted triple crown of horse racing. The "triple crown" in horse racing begins with the greatest of all horse races: the Kentucky Derby, held on the first Saturday of May at legendary Churchill Downs just outside of Louisville, Kentucky. From there the ponies get a breather for two weeks before heading to the Pimlico track in Baltimore for the Preakness Stakes! The last leg of the arduous journey for these mules is three weeks later way up in Elmont, New York at Belmont Park for the Belmont Stakes. Handily, Secretariat ran through those fool other horses finishing the Derby in less than 2 minutes, averaged out to almost 35 miles per hour and he was still speeding up in the last quarter mile stretch. The Preakness is slightly longer than the Derby and the Belmont is the longest track of the three.

in mad mexico the sunshine fools you.

"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale." ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

France invaded Mexico a long time ago. Mexico kicked them out. At some point in that complicated historical drama, the fifth of May became significant. From what I've been able to gather, it's not so much a Mexican national holiday as it is a drinking celebration in the United States because the Californian Mexicans in the 1860s swelled with pride when they learned the Mexican army held off the French advance at the battle of Puebla. That's fine by most folks, I'd imagine, libertados estados unidos. It gives the average family a reason to go Mexico it up for dinner. Soccer moms can get wasted off margaritas and for one day tequila isn't just something to drink when you're depressed. Well, I guess not everyone drinks tequila when they're sad, but I sure do.