The annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (prior posts here) is currently celebrating its 75th anniversary at Reliant Park, and the Houston Press’ Richard Connelly does a great job of capturing the special subculture that defines rodeo time in Houston. I mean, where else can you eat a meal of sausage and fried oreos while viewing some of the most amazing animal specimens in the world, and then catch the rodeo and a quality musical act all in one day and location? Connelly’s article also passes along the now legendary story about the 1974 Sonny and Cher rodeo performance that took place just a couple of weeks after the then husband and wife team separated in preparation of their eventual divorce. The abbreviated show ended up generating the highest number of refund demands in the history of the rodeo. As Connelly notes, who would have ever guessed that such a debacle would hatch a political career?