We're launching these awesome new Derby-themed prints designed by Rachael Sinclair at 10 a.m. Friday, May 5!

 
The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent And Depraved was originally published in Scanlan's Monthly, vol. 1, no. 4, June 1970.
I got off the plane around midnight and no one spoke as I crossed the dark runway to the terminal. The air was thick and hot, like wandering into a steam bath. Inside, people …