A lot of folks who live on either coast think that entertainment and the civilization to appreciate it only exists on either coast. Of course they live on either coast and tend to forget or not even realize that there is an entire country between those two coasts. A big country filled with people who occupy that entire space here in the middle of America and are just as sophisticated and worldly as any stuck-up but arrogant, think they’re cooler than us, coastie.

Take TV for instance. Sure most of the shows we see here in the hinterland are produced on one coast or another but did you ever stop to think where the ideas for those shows come from. Like “Dancing With The Stars” for example, that’s the show where famous couples perform various dances in front of America ,whether either of them knows how to dance or not, and are judged by a panel of people who decide just how good or bad those dancers are because we’re not smart enough to figure it out for ourselves, and we’re supposed to like it. They wear fancy clothes you’d  never go to Wal-Mart in, and prance around doing dances we never even heard of. If you danced like that down at Tony’s Ball room and Beer Bonanza you’d get asked to leave pretty damn quick.

Now smart as those tv show producers want us to think they are we have it on good authority that they don’t think up those shows their ownselves. Nope they get ideas from us out here in the flyover zone and want us to believe it is original thought on their part.

What you see in the photo above is a prime example of what we mean. It’s a show put on by us locals here in the western part of the US and it features a talented bunch of individuals that really know how to dance. The show is called “Dancing With The Bulls” and has been in production for a long time, way before TV was even invented in fact. We’re the real deal here, no kidding around. This dancing couple was just introduced during the show’s performance. Never having met before this show, they didn’t have weeks of rehearsals and practice. They simply walked out on the dance floor and got it on, so to speak. All of the choreography and costuming is done by the contestants themselves and their routines include a lot of free form interpretation of the music. The more spirited the performance the higher the marks.

The bull, named “GonnaKillYa” out of Hereford Texas, wearing a fashionable number 8 hand-twisted hemp belly rope, and the Rodeo Clown who wants to remain anonymous as he has some outstanding warrants, so we’ll just call him “Hey! Look Out!” are performing a never before seen performance to “Can’t Get No” by the Stones. The bull is pulling down some high numbers with his ability to twist and turn and shake it up baby with all 2000 lbs. of his tightly packed unground round in motion, and his ability to put his cloven hoof down exactly where he wants it usually pretty close to the Rodeo Clown’s head. The Rodeo Clown is no slouch either throwing in his version of The Twist made popular by Chubby Checker and The Fat Boys. This couple shows promise and is in the running to win this weeks contest so they can appear again next week and win big prizes. Buckles for the cowboy, new feed bag for the bull, a lifetime supply of frybread. We’re talking big money here.

But the important thing here is the fact that its us out here in middle America, the real folks that make up the bulk of our great country, we are the ones who are the creative bunch, who have the ideas and skill to bring entertainment to everyone. We’re the ones out here Dancing With The Bulls. The ones getting our ideas ripped off. And don’t even get me started on how they robbed us of our epic saga of older women in nursing homes called Game of Crones….