Carnival!
I love carnivals. I love the sleazy half-drunk ex-cons operating questionably built rides, I love the rigged games with crappy prizes, the hot mini-donuts, the scuffed signage, the way people’s eyes shine with the reflection of neon, the loud rock music competing with old-timey organ pipes, and most of all I love the way carnivals appear out of nowhere and then disappear a few days later as if they were never there. When I saw that North Hollywood Park was putting up a carniv