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

[ScottyT]

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]

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

[McMurdo]

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

[1MUNK3]

Ditto ! It's spreading the word. Kilts !

[pipesndrumsnun]

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?

[bricelythgoe]

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]

Kilt news is good news!

[McFarkus]

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]

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]

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!”