Midget Wrestling/Peanut Butter and Jelly

For the most part I am glad to live and work in the Midwest, there is a feeling of security in these troubled times. No gated communities, the seasons change, people know you, and yet Peoria is big enough to have many things to do.

But having been to other cities, there is a huge hole that is begging to be filled. Even Des Moines, another Midwestern berg, is so much more artsy that here. It’s hard to describe and even harder to emulate, it’s a feeling of coolness, small shops filled with one of a kind items, and not everything chain store.

Today on the front page of the “Cue”, the local Journal Star newspapers Thursday arts section, an article about midget wrestling. Now don’t get me wrong, I think that it’s great that the little guy has the ambition to get out there and make a living anyway they can. But does it need to be on the front page of the Cue. Granted this is more of an entertainment section than a true art section, but even that speaks to the underlying problem here, that people in the city would find this entertaining.

Of course we can’t leave out the fact that in the Wednesday Food section the featured story was of the culinary delights of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I think next week they are running an exposé on Hot Pockets.