Around the seamy edge of Fringe Florida, expect author Lynn Waddell! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Int

Today's Guest: Lynn Waddell, author of Fringe Florida: Travels among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufoologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconventional Lifestyles
 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of Tampa elected officials who once thought they were smarter than a crafty purveyor of flesh named Joe Redner … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Fair warning: there is a lot of talk about butts in Lynn Waddell’s new book, Fringe Florida: Travels among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufoologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconventional Lifestyles.

That means a lot of exposed flesh around back: thongs, no-thongs, dancing cheeks, cigarette butts, Ghettobutt, Butt Naked Biker Bash, and even a guy named Butts—adult filmmaker Seymour Butts. Maybe you’ve seen his SRO classic, Tampa Tushy Fest Part 1?
LYNN WADDELL podcast excerpt: "My husband had reservations about being portrayed in the book. I had worked on the movie 'Showgirls'; as a journalist, you put yourself in a lot of different environments. But when it came time to go to Swingfest in Miami, my husband said, 'I'm not going to let you go there by yourself--you're going to be like meat among the lions.' I was really glad he was there when they told me there were only five single women there. They call them 'unicorns' because they're highly desirable."
You can LISTEN to this interview with journalist LYNN WADDELL, author of FRINGE FLORIDA, by clicking the audio player above!

In Fringe Florida, Waddell goes beyond the weird, bizarre daily headlines that mark life in Florida and finds a way to make people here seem even stranger—both in practice and by simple association. After all, if you accept your neighbor and revel your friends in stories of the stripper, furry, carnie, swinger, biker, etc., next door, you’re essentially an enabler, right?

Reading Waddell’s book – her first, incidentally, and hopefully not her last – o