All this Buy Local hypocrisy has got me pissed. Ginny called and said that Paducah Power was being picketed by people with signs that said, "Buy Local Means Local!" I was like, get a picture.

I went to the trade show last Thursday, even though someone involved told me I shouldn't - because it really wouldn't be fair for me to pass out papers when everyone else had paid for a booth. I was like, okay, how much is a booth? Four hundred dollars. Okay, so we're only supporting small businesses who are practically millionaires!?! Man, considering I'm living on change, yeah, that's an impossible sum to me. But the way she said it was so bitchy I was like - See you there!

So I went to the Buy Local Trade Show, with red lipstick on, a stack of papers in my arm, and fresh from the bed of a convict. Yes, it was schmooze city, and fuck that can be hard to stomach. Everyone in their suits and women all dressed in black (me, too - except I had that leopard print top on under my sweater) - and yeah I did my share of schmoozing, too. I'm not completely innocent.

But when I was looking for a spot to eat my lunch and saw a table with two older guys drinking beer, I was like, "Dude, where'd you get the beer!?" Yep - free beer started at 4pm. I was like, "This shit just got a whole lot better." The guys said, "They have glasses for your beer over there." And I said, "I don't need no stinkin' glass." And they said, "Our kind of girl!"

We got a little buzz and started cuttin' up, they asked who I was there with and I told them about the paper, and we had a great time! That's why I love bartending, I love fucking around with dirty old men. The guys from Coke were really bad! lol But the guys at my table turned out to be two local business owners of pretty high stature, and are now fans of my paper. :) Only if they'll advertise...

But the biggest scandal I've heard (and granted, this is hearsay, I need more details before I go to print) so far about this Buy Local shit is Paducah Renissance Alliance, who is like the only group in town to get free grant money and in the near six figure range, is having their website done by a company in Carbondale. What. The. Fuck. And of course, they spent a fortune to do it, because they're stupid. Yeah, go Buy Local. There were companies in this town that would have underbid ANYONE to get the business, so don't tell me it's about cost. I understand sometimes you have to go to Walmart and not the corner store, because you're broke. I can't afford to always Buy Local (not that I'm buying anything - and corner stores don't take food stamps) - but I'm also not the one up there shaking my finger at the community about it.

The main purpose of this group is to promote tourism in downtown, and they really aren't doing shit. Kind of funny his name is Doolittle. It's people with practically nothing that are working together to make this town cooler, and we aren't getting shit for it. And yeah this is probably poking the hornets nest, and I'm pretty much guarenteeing that I sure as hell won't be getting any money now, but fuck it. I've made it this far on my cleavage, my hustling, and yes, my talent - that I'll be good. Uh, but if anyone knows of any rich old ladies that like smartass women and want to leave me something in their will, I'll take it. :)