Hey there!  Sit down, have a drink.  We should get acquainted...

Me?  I'm JAMES GATES.  What's that?  Well, that's a tricky question...You might call me a Wichita...what?  Character?  Fixture?  Gargoyle?  I don't know for sure... I've lived in the Wichita area almost 79% of my life.  Most of the time I haunt Delano and the Old Town district like they were my own personal Whitechapel-you may only catch glimpses of me, floating in the background at a bar, a show or an art opening, but there are traces of me everywhere. (Wow, that didn't sound creepy at all, did it?) I've been around long enough to have met some people... And let's face it, I'm recognizable.  I'm six and a half feet tall, rail-thin with blond hair, goatee and yellow-tinted glasses-I look like the three-way love child of Andy Dick, Shaggy, and Lurch from The Addams Family.