Enough with the Hon

I didn't know about the great Bal'mer tradition of calling everyone "Hon" until AJ and Ursula's wedding and the groom's dinner at Cafe Hon. There is even a festival, Honfest, to celebrate beehive hairdos, cat glasses, and all things hon-like. But, John Waters of Hairspray fame and a traditional Baltimore booster, has had enough.

"To me, it's used up," Waters said of Hon style. "It's condescending now. The people that celebrate it are not from it. I feel that in some weird way they're looking slightly down on it. I only celebrate something I can look up to."

The filmmaker known for raunchy odes to his hometown says he won't use the word or the image in any of his scripts, and he doesn't think the city should promote it, either.

For me Waters is wacky enough that I bet nobody is too torn up about his epiphany. Maybe he can turn his energies toward the banana slug festival.