part I: tomatina!

happy post-thanksgiving, reeds! it's friday (woo!), november 24th, and welcome to a craaaaazzy installment of tiny damaged notions!

what makes it so craaaaazzy? it's wiki-licious friday!

but i don't have much time. so, i'll try my best to conjoin minimalism and funny

today's topic comes from brittany-reed:

If you don't have any other topics lined up, you should write about "La Tomatina," the large annual tomato fight in Spain - because I'm obsessed with it. And, it has a wikipedia page, I've already checked.

well, thanks for doing half the work for me!
(all information below: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Tomatina")

the glorious and all-knowing wikipedia tells us "La Tomatina is a festival held on a Wednesday towards the end of August in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region in Spain."

buñol, eh? here's what wikipedia had to say about that place:
wow. how exciting.

so, basically an assload (tens of thousands) of participants come from all over the world to battle in the streets with more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes.

check it out:
you think that's dirty? well, at around 11am the first event of tomatina begins, where "A ham is placed upon a cockaigne pole."

a cockaigne pole? what's that, wikipedia?

a large, greased pole

oh.

::snicker, snicker::

ok, ok. back to the point. i don't have much time.

ummm, so while this giant tomato battle has been a strong tradition since 1944 or 1945, no one's really that sure how it got started. here's some possibilities:

include a local food fight among friends, a juvenile class war, a volley of tomatoes from bystanders at a carnival parade, a practical joke on a bad musician, the anarchic aftermath of an accidental lorry spillage

oh no, not LORRY SPILLAGE!!!

ack, i gotta go! you reeds have a great friday. sorry this post is lame. it'll spill over, and i'll finish tomorrow. get ready for part II!