Lamps are either born ugly or made ugly.  At least, those are the two categories in the Ugly Lamp Contest, sponsored by Lynn’s Paradise Cafe of Louisville, which takes place each year at the Kentucky State Fair.  This year’s ugly contest took place yesterday, and the Grand Champion Ribbon went to a lamp made of hideous men’s ties.  If we’re lucky, we’ll see the lamp on a table at Lynn’s, where many of the entries end up after the fair.  Read the story in the Louisville Courier-Journal.

See the Roadfood.com review of Lynn’s Paradise Cafe.