Ha! I’m sitting at my folks home in Tampa, visiting and preparing for a friend’s wedding this weekend, and I stumble across a Gawker parody that mentions “Tampa strippers”.

Why is it that when someone needs to add a qualifier onto strippers it’s always “Tampa strippers”? Did I miss something growing up here? I mean, I’ve seen the strippers along Dale Mabry and they’re not the kind of thing you’d want to write fiction about.

And if it’s not strippers it’s goths. Anyone remeber SNL’s “Goth Talk”?

Will Tampa always be known only for it’s goths and strippers?