Fringe Florida: Travels Among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, And Other Lovers Of Unconventional Lifestyles - Plot & Excerpts
The 72 two schools have in essence battled for the national championship. I 1 can take comfort in Alabama’s whipping Florida in the last match-up to the point of making their quarterback Tim Tebow cry. But when I see Tony and Lacee dripping in Gator garb, and they see our Bama flash, it’s a little like the Hatfields finding themselves sharing a cab with the McCoys. We’re all too polite to talk smack about one another’s team. James and I climb up the pull-down ladder and settle into the cushiony cap- tain’s chairs along the rail. Tony mounts a large Florida Gator flag to the buggy’s roof. I tuck a beer into my Roll Tide cuzie. Clay, another rider, hooks his iPod up to the buggy’s stereo system. Clay is a Florida cracker whose family has been in state for five gen- erations farming large swathes of land near Lake Okeechobee. He’s a chemical salesman for a Florida phosphate giant. Given his dress—a casual designer shirt and shorts, silver ghetto chain, and flimsy Gator- emblem flip-flops (yes, another Florida fan)—he hasn’t spent much time in mud.
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