Geez...the impending Holidays are one of the reasons that I am seriously jonesing for the Hunting Stewart USAK that I ordered: I figure that the colors will be very - how you say - holiday appropriate. Looking forward to finding many excuses to kilt out at upcoming holiday events...have the annual kids' Santa's Workshop coming up Saturday next and my buddy Bill and I will be doing the "your photo with the Jolly Old Elf" concession...it'd be a gas to be the kilted photographer for that one.

Going the the mall kilted? Do they figure that you're one of Santa's Helpers? A film extra? ("Look, dear, a man in a kilt...he must be someone important.") I would hope that we'd be a good example to our fellow guys and that going kilted into the frosty blasts of winter would make them think, "Hey, this guy has got a great idea...I, too, wish to show that I laugh in the face of Old Man Winter! I shall prove to the world that I am a hearty type and get myself a kilt to wear through this festive and frigid season!" (I only hope that they don't start looking for the Kilt Store at the mall...)

I love hearing about the encounters that Xmarkser's have wherein some guy says that he thinks that the kilt wearer has "the balls" to wear it or that he (the unkilted) wishes that he had "the balls" to wear a kilt. Tell these guys that they already have the balls to wear a kilt...jeez, I don't think that it's that much different than wearing shorts (a damn site more comfortable and better looking, though)...so what's the big deal?

Peace on Earth, good kilts to men!

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