EL:
Actually I got my first kid hula-hoop about 5 years ago. I have absolutely no idea why. In fact I really have no idea why I do anything. Like one day I painted my Hyundai hot pink. I have no idea what even began the chain of events that ended up with me driving away from Earl Scheib with a hot pink hatchback. I cant even blame this on drugs anymore!

I loved hula hooping so much, but had no idea that anyone else in the world was doing it until my boss at the web design company got me an adult sized one off the Internet (hoopgirl.com that slut) for my birthday. I was fucking amazed at its massiveness. But the designs were gay. And actually almost everything about the whole hooping scene was froo froo and well totally gay.  Not like yummy lezzie sex gay or legal marriage rights gay, but just you know - gay. So I made myself a cool one. But I have NO IDEA how I started selling them online.

GD:
What do you know about the history of hula hooping? How have you affected hula history?

EL:
People have been reinventing the hula-hoop for 3000 years. And I am pretty sure each incarnation went along the same lines. One person uses something that is laying around for a new purpose and it’s hysterical so everyone else wants to do it too.

I just want to make hoops that will look as sexy hanging on your wall as they do spinning around you. I think I have pushed the limits with design materials and I think this will open the door for other hoop makers to push it a little too. And I want to open up the hoop idea to people who are clumsy, chubby, terrible dancers and social deviants with missing teeth. I want everyone to want to hoop and maybe even learn a trick or two to impress the ladies.

GD:
What is it about hula hooping that you like so much? Is it the way it feels? Is it the reaction you see on other's faces as your spinning that baby around your waist?

EL:
You can’t do it and be mad at the same time. It’s like a circle of lithium. You can work it hard like exercise and you can work it soft and sexy and just get your body moving. I love watching people hula hoop whether they are smooth, sexy and graceful or fast, flailing and about to knock something over. The bigger the hoop and the better the design, the more in awe I am at watching. I think I see in most people’s eyes the same reaction to it that I have.