Happy Rodeo!
How best to end the short week of the Fiesta de los Vaqueros? Nothing better, I think, than a quick nod to our favorite cowmonkey (rather than cowboy), Whiplash.
You may be surprised at the cross-cultural appeal of the rodeo as an institution. It certainly isn’t contained to one stereotype of participant or spectator as evidenced by the variety of rodeo networks and organizations. Apart from rodeo’s obvious appeal to simians beacuse of their primate hero, there are the professional associations such as the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, the Cowboy’s Professional Rodeo Association, the Working Ranch Cowboys Association, and the International Professional Rodeo Association, but the rodeo isn’t limited by sex (Women’s Professional Rodeo Association), age (American Junior Rodeo Association, National High School Rodeo Association, National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association, and National Senior Pro Rodeo Association), orientation (International Gay Rodeo Association), race (All Indian Rodeo Cowboys Association and Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo), or nation or continent(Canadian Professional Rodeo Association, Australian Professional Rodeo Association, New Zealand Rodeo Cowboys Association, and European Rodeo Cowboy Association). (Thanks Wikipedia for much of this list.)
Find out more about cowboys and their history at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Enjoy the rodeo and support the Pride of CDO as they march in Thursday’s parade.
And one more time:
Go Whiplash, go!
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