But What Does One Wear To A Horse Euthanization?
This weekend was The Kentucky Derby, an event held each year by Access Hollywood under the dark, hollow gaze of Billy Bush to commemorate the fateful meeting of star-crossed lovers Anna Nicole Smith and Larry Birkhead. Every spring, dozens of America's dimmest tabloid fixtures, lowest common denominator reality show stars, Hugh Hefner, and anyone else thrilled to be invited to a real red carpet event (in Louisville), put on their loudest floral prints, and their most cartoonish approximations of "southern dandy" suits, and congregate to celebrate clinging to the lowest rung on the ladder of celebrity.
But even though in recent years the event has morphed into a D-list parade to rival the Daytime Emmy awards, apparently the Kentucky Derby is also a 200-year-old horse race, with all the jockeys, and bridles, and horses that are publicly put down post-race that that entails. (Who knew?) Which begs the question: what does one wear to a horrible, tragic horse euthanization? And who attends such things? Let's have a look: