Local paper does a story on contempo kilts -- interviewed me!

**ScottyT** · 10th February 09, 08:17 AM

Salt Lake Tribune -- Real Men Wear Kilts

They interviewed me for 20 minutes and all I got was a couple lines in the story. I used to be a reporter and I know I gave him a lot more great stuff! Oh well...

I also think it is a little lame that he used 5 pictures of himself, I sent him some great ones!

I also which he would have done a paragraph on all the kilted-at-work stuff I gave him.

**runewolf** · 10th February 09, 08:38 AM

Scotty, could be worse... Atleast you are not complaining about being misquoted. Fairly good article!

**McMurdo** · 10th February 09, 08:40 AM

Not a bad wee article, I've read worse.

**1MUNK3** · 10th February 09, 08:41 AM

Ditto ! It's spreading the word. Kilts !

**pipesndrumsnun** · 10th February 09, 08:42 AM

It does seem a bit odd that the reporter would focus on himself in the words and in the pics, but your quote was great! Can I have your autograph?

**bricekolob** · 10th February 09, 08:45 AM

Great Article! However, leave it to the Tribune to mess up and not include you more. Makes me want to buy a utilikilt.

**The Barry** · 10th February 09, 09:10 AM

Kilt news is good news!

**McFarkus** · 10th February 09, 09:19 AM

I think it's cool that the reporter actually wore a kilt himself. The reason he focused as much on his own experience as he did, I suspect, was the kind of reactions he got when wearing it, plus the novelty (for him) of being out of pants.

**Tim Little** · 10th February 09, 09:31 AM

Nice article.

Matthew D. LaPlante is national security reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune.

Things are slow enough on his usual beat that this guy's doing a feature on kilts? Not going to complain.... (And it might have something to do with the general state of the newspaper industry, I guess.)

That said, someone (Kerr?) should really send him one of those nifty "Department of Highland Security" t shirts:

**Larry124** · 10th February 09, 07:14 PM

Good for you!

Last august I was interviewed by a reporter (And a bonnie young lassie reporter at that!) with video camera crew by PBS (USA Public Broadcasting System) at the Philadelphia Folk Festival because I was wearing a kilt. It was most likely the TV Station WHYY out of Wilmington Delaware and Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

With my customary “Third Day at the Party in the Campgrounds” inattention to detail I neglected to get information on the purpose of the taping and interview.

So out there somewhere in the video ether, or on the editing room floor, is my somewhat (as I recall) wild-eyed admonition: “Everyone should wear kilts!”