Monday, September 15, 2008

Life is certainly . . . well . . . messy.


Which is, of course, one of the many things that makes it interesting and, consequently, worth living.

Now, against the backdrop of that simple truth, picture about a million tomatoes thrown hither and yon by a bunch of crazy, screaming Spaniards on a hot day in August . . .

"La Tomatina" is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. On the 27th of August, tens of thousands of participants hurled more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes at each other. I'm not making this up. ABC and a bunch of other new agencies have reported on it (and Wikipedia discusses it at length), so it must be true.

You can find more pictures here.


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