I'm in interesting company

[mbarrick]

I've been asked to do an interview on Vancouver's "Goth culture" by someone who as part of the same series has interviewed Mark Emery, leader of the Marijuana Party, on "Pot culture"; Susan Davis, chair of Prostitution Alternatives Counselling and Education (PACE), on the sex trade; and Diane Tobin, president of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), on Vancouver drug issues. How I ended up being mentioned in the same breath as these political activists for the sake of a particular musical preference and taste for vintage and downright antiquated clothes, I'm not sure. How does running a website off my desk ultimately based around my liking to wear cravat and a top hat to go dancing to Collide and Peter Murphy compare to getting hauled off by the DEA in a bit of extrajurisdictional imperialism or running the only safe injection site in North America? It's oddly flattering and flat-out odd.