JESCOFEST 2006

So in my last post, I mentioned how cool it would be if an online dating service for admirers of dancing outlaw Jesco White existed. Well, clicking around the web and checking out Jesco info, I came across Jescofest 2006, a music and arts festival in southern West Virginia to benefit "Jesco White, the Boone County Dancing Outlaw." This event sounds like a very good cause and a very good time. Jescofest will be held August 26 and 27.

Who's Jesco? He's the star of one of my all-time favorite films, The Dancing Outlaw, a documentary short produced for West Virginia Public Television's Different Drummer series about the life of "a hard-living, tap-dancing Boone County resident whose repeated run-ins with the law have interfered with his dream of becoming as renowned a 'mountain dancer' as his late father, D. Ray White." Brilliant stuff.

Yeah, but does s/he read Ayn Rand?

I was just perusing the latest posts on the cookie wonton blog, when I came across this post about the Atlasphere, an online dating service for Ayn Rand admirers. Hey, why not?


According to the Atlasphere's "About the Atlasphere" webpage, the service was created to fill "the need for a place where admirers of Ayn Rand's novels from around the world can meet easily and affordably — 365 days a year — to network, find shared interests, and perhaps, through our online dating service, even fall in love.

I think this sort of niche dating is a great idea and only wish that, back in my bachelor days, there had been a Jesco-sphere online dating service for admirers of dancing outlaw Jesco White.