Naked in Public: The Genius of Doug Fergus

From the band's website:

"Heartwarming and fun-filled; poignant and profound all at the same time, NIP delivers irresistible - gems, ditties, and jingles disguised as alternative pop/rock."

Be sure to check out our other favorite song from No Filter, "Does She Have a Sister".

"Would you like to meet her?/TOO BAD, she's MINE./Does she have a sister?/

NO! YOU LOSE! Don't cry."

Are you sick of the Fair yet? We're not.

It's been two weeks since we applied that fairy glitter to our eyelids and spent the day burning Chako tan lines into our feet and worshipping Mother Earth at the Oregon Country Fair.  We'd say it's about time for that highlight video.  Come along with us and relive the glory of Friday the 13th of July, 2012 in Veneta, Oregon.

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Medford Mugshot of the Week

Something bad happened to Bobby Joe Anderson when he spent the night in county.  

It may or may not have involved Danny Elfman music and magic dust sprinkles. 

Turns out there's precedent for this kind of thing, though.

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SILVER OR GOLF?

Two sides of the same billboard outside St. Peter's Lutheran church on E. Main in Medford:

There are several possibilities that might explain the message above (e.g. loss of 'D', attempt at cleverness), but...

...here we're totally stumped.  You never see your airbag because you're never in a wreck?  

Or you're in a wreck so bad that you're killed instantly and never have a chance to see the airbag?

The Jackson County Fair

At the Jackson County Fair, the real entertainment is not the middle-aged rockers belting out Led Zeppelin on the PremierWest Bank Dinner Stage.  It's not a walk through the 4-H barn where prize-winning steers fight over hay bags.  It's not the mediocre rides, the philly cheese steak or counting the teeth of carnies on one hand.  If you want to have a good time at the JCF, you keep your eyes peeled for two things and two things only.  The first is children being tortured, which manifests in three specific ways:

The second thing to watch out for is boob tattoos.  We didn't realize this, but apparently Central Point, OR is the original home of the tit tat.

"I wanna be just like 

Mommy when I grow up."

Okay, we don't want to be ungenerous.  There were a couple of other cool things at the fair:

But as the day drew to a close, we couldn't help but wish we had spent it in: