BBQ, Blues, and People Making Poor Fashion Decisions

Last Saturday, I went to the 5th Annual Barbeque and Blues Festival sponsored by Famous Dave's on Peavey Plaza right here in downtown Minneapolis. The event was free, the food was reasonably priced, and I freaking love barbeque, so I figured this was exactly the kind of event I should look into. It was pretty ok.....it was a nice day and I'd been needing to get out and see the light of day anyway, so post Twins/Cubs game I headed down. The festival itself was alright. It was pretty crowded, but we managed to snag some chairs (after snagging some BBQ Pork Sandwiches and some Sam Adams Summer Ale of course), and we settled in for background jazz, talking to each other, and watching all the people that you inevitably see at such events. Which brings us to......some photos.....

(To quote a friend of mine...."no one wears all yellow in style." This woman was stylishly dressed in skinny yellow jeans and MATCHING yellow canvas tennis shoes. I don't know where one finds EITHER of those things, but I've certainly never thought of putting them together.)

(This stylish woman appeared to be wearing something akin to a full-body stocking. Trust me, the picture doesn't do it justice.....)

(This gentleman in the hat was totally getting his groove on. I wish I had a video.....it was pretty much awesome.)

And.....there you have it. Whenever you get enough people in one place, some of them are bound to look ridiculous.

The 1980's Called, They Want Their Shoes Back

So, I was walking from the train to my office when this rather stylishly dressed and high-maintenance looking woman comes walking out of the pole dancing school's doorway and proceeds to cross (in the middle of the street) to the (s)wanky hotel across the street. I think very little of it, until I see her shoes. Which..........almost matched her skirt. Her skirt was pink. Not a soft pink, but not like neon either. Her shoes, on the other hand, were. Neon I mean.

Now, I really really really wanted to take a picture of this, but my phone camera, being installed on the world's smallest handheld communication device, has a hard time taking photos of anything more than 3 feet away from it, so I figured it would have a hard time capturing the detail of someone's shoes from across the street. Plus, I've still never bothered to figure out how to use the bluetooth feature thingy to upload photos off my phone anyway. Because really......I stick to the principle that a phone is a phone and a camera is a camera. Though I'm starting to see the merits of covert cell phone photography. I mean, I had my camera, but it would have been a lot more conspicuous if I'd just whipped out a camera and took a picture of a random lady on the other side of the street.

That said, I did google up a picture of the closest approximation of these shoes that I can find. And really.......NONE of the colors these shoes come in is acceptable as footwear now that it's no longer 1985.

I bring you...........................