This Weekend: Brevity is the Soul of Wit

After yesterday’s treatise on the Perry County Fair, I’m going to keep this short. The fair actually continues through Saturday night, so if you’d like to go and check it out yourself, go for it.

Friday night, the Senator’s open their next-to-last home series of the season. That is absolutely unbelievable to me. Where has this summer gone? Before you know it we’ll all be turning in our red and black ball caps for oversize chocolate and white jerseys. Absolutely amazing. From a musical standpoint, Gullifty’s will be hosting August Assault Vol. 2, which should be an, er, raucous affair. Also, Farewell Flight, a local band that appears to be going places, is throwing an album release party at Champion Ship in support of their full-length debut “Sound. Color. Motion.” I’ll try to review it sometime soon.

Icelandic band Parachutes will be at der Maennerchor Friday night, as well. They sound a lot like Sigur Rós. I guess that’s a good thing (if you say you don’t like Sigur Rós, a group of mopey, sweater wearing enforcers from the department of indie music comes to your door and revokes your license to carry poorly concealed smugness), but I’m getting a bit worn down by this movement toward tonal, ethereal music. It’s about run its course.

Saturday, the Yorkfest Arts Festival opens in downtown York. It is York County’s biggest outdoor art festival, and it runs through Sunday. If your zip code is between 17000-17999 (that would presumably be most of you) you can also get a nice discount on Renaissance Faire tickets all weekend. With the discount, adult tickets are only $19.95. Plus it’s Pirates weekend! If you’re looking to stay closer to Harrisburg, it’s Dog Days (the furry things, not hot days in August) at Ashcombe nursery, there is a Madden ’09 tournament at The Coliseum and the Central Penn Piranha have a home game.

Sunday, there’s more Yorkfest, more Renaissance Faire and more baseball. Ski Roundtop is also holding an open house for its ropes course, and you can use selected high elements, the climbing walls and the zip line for one low price. Sunday night, Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift will invade Giant Center. I don’t get Rascal Flatts, but whatever. Frankly, I still have no idea what I’ll be up to this weekend, but I hope you all find something to keep you entertained. Have fun kids.