Our fellow alt-weekly Washington City Paper just put up an online Q&A with Baltimore's own John Waters to coincide with his (now sold out) Dec. 17 spoken-word performance at the Birchmere in suburban Virgina. Questioner Mike Riggs leads with the question du jour and asks Waters about freshly convicted Mayor Sheila Dixon. He answers, in part:
Riggs then asks Waters what he'd get Dixon for Christmas. Waters eventually settles on the following:
He goes on to discuss good gift-giving and bad gift-giving (hint: gift cards), the horror of red-carpet dates, the "neuter" version of
A Dirty Shame
, and plenty more. It's worth a read.