1. Name/Initials: Vincent/VJV
2. Where do you live: Vancouver
3. How many other places have you lived: none
4. How many other places in the world have you visited: Montreal, down the west coast as far as Tijuana, and “up” as far as Prince George.
5. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? Europe, Bali, Egypt
6. Name something you like physically about yourself: I’m slim and fit
7. Name something non-physical you like about yourself: I’m a creative genius.
8. How many kilts do you have: 9
9. How many kilts are you planning to acquire on the next year: 2 or 3. OK maybe 4.
10. What got you started in this in the first place: Those darn Utilikiltarians.
11. Where was the last time/place you wore your kilt? Right here and now. And then there was just a minute ago in the same old place.
12. Favorite time to wear a kilt: since July 31/05 when I strapped on my first kilt, its been full time except for work.
13. Last person who gave your favorable feedback about your kilt wearing: Odette-she’s the only person MORE fashionable than myself that I know.
14. Last person who gave your UNfavorable feedback about your kilt wearing: Some idiot at the local bar who spotted me coming out of the washroom. He stopped dead in his tracks and asked if this was the ladies room. I should have told him if he wanted the ladies room he’d best try the other side of the bar. But then I might have gotten beaten up. He was big. And drunk.
15. What’s in YOUR sporran? Wallet, change purse, keys, sometimes “medicinal herb,” and/or opera glasses.
16. What do you like to do OTHER THAN wear/talk about/obsess over kilts: read, listen to jazz, blues, worldbeat, middle eastern, rebetiko, and fado music and opera, create costumes.
17. Name one thing you have done that others might think a bit insane (like bungee jumping etc): I used to be a very good marathon cyclist (a randonneur). Once, I dropped acid at the midway point of a 300km ride. You know, just to keep it interesting. (Yep, I really was THAT crazy.)
18. Say something totally random about yourself: I used to moonlight as a “psychic entertainer” (fortune teller). I don’t own a TV or a car. (The first would be a great waste of my time and the other a great waste of my money.)
19. What question would you like to answer that hasn’t been included in the list: Why is my username NancyMan? ‘Cause in the eyes of the ignorant, unwashed and uninitiated, wearing “skirts” is just nancy. And even among kilt wearers, I’m sly enough to get away with wearing ladies kilt skirts. And because, as a man who is perfectly secure in my straight sexual identity, I can’t help tweaking the noses of those who, out of insecurity, need to project hypermasculinity. And ultimately, I guess that at a psychospiritual level, I’m a trickster. And NancyMan is my name for that aspect of myself.
20. Do you think X Marks the spot is the best kilt discussion group in the world? Not only the best in this world, but in ALL the nine worlds! (But that’s Norse mythology fer ya.)