We went to see Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden, last week, on Good Friday, when we Catholics are supposed to be thinking sad and sombre thoughts.
Oh well.
I hate Madison Square Garden! It’s an ugly inefficient maze of a construction made all the more tragic because the old Pennsylvania Train Station was torn down to build it. I never saw it, but I’ve seen pictures and read descriptions of it being even more grand and beautiful than Grand Central Station.
Anyway, Zing Zang Zoom was better than we expected from the poster which said to me (as an experienced circus goer): “Yikes, we left Winter Quarters without a headline act.”
I had pithy thoughts of circuses and life–but they are gone, victims of the Easter/lice chaos.
I watched energetic young clown Joy Powers and missed my physical youth as I willingly paid way too much for cotton candy, a plush elephant named “Asia” and a plastic pony shaped beer stein filled with ice and sugar syrup for my own little force of nature.