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Promise Keepers It Wasn't: ManFest 2005

Over 5000 Descend on Madera Fair Grounds
 for Day of Debauchery & Decadence

Photos & Text by Jack W Porter


Madera - With no other Madera reporters on scene, Saturday I saw it as my responsibility and duty to report on the debauchery and decadence that took place at the Madera Fair Grounds.

For the last few years the folks from Clear Channel Radio's KRZR have brought their brand of entertainment to the Madera Fair Grounds. It started with the Great Chili Cook-Off and escalated to free for all of sex, rock & roll and of course Budweiser beer.

Promise Keepers it wasn't. In fact ManFest might be called the antithesis of a Promise Keepers event. The beer was flowing and the music blasting from the speakers was not Steve Curtis Chapman, but bands like Powerman 5000, Crazy Anglos and Smile Empty Soul.

Bridget the Midget, a three foot tall porn star from Los Angles even took to the stage with her metal band Bridget & Blakkout.

Some one with a very sick mind came up with a use for Jell-O pudding that I'm pretty sure Bill Cosby never thought of. Six bikini clad ladies wrestled until the crowd picked a winner. The winner then wrestled a 425 plus pound bearded brut in his underwear.

I guess they needed another competitive sport for the festivities since arm wrestling was off the schedule. For the last two years an arm wrestling participant was carried away in an ambulance following the snapping of their fore-arm bone.

If girls wrestling in pudding was to dirty for your taste, the Perfect Angels put on shows through out the day with a more traditional stripper/cheerleader edge.

Other events to take place at Manfest 2005 this year were Lucky the Chugging Boar contest, Paintball Karaoke, and professional wrestling.

While other newspapers chose to cover the Easter egg hunts around Madera, I am proud that we sought out the exclusive story and brought you the really important story on Saturday in Madera.

Manfest was sponsored by McDonalds, the folks that bring you the Happy Meal..





Pedro's Pizza

505 Robertson Blvd
665-2473

Madera
Sprint Store

2344 West Cleveland
Madera, CA 93637
(559) 661-7774

Strawberry Alarm Clock
111 East Yosemite
662-1099







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Lee's Pest Control

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674-3056

1930 Howard Road
674-4112

Madera Valley Inn
317 North G Street
664-0100

Skateboards

1709 Howard Rd.

664-8997




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