At the International G.I. Joe Convention, Grown Men Play With Little Dolls
Angela C. Bond
The Pitch |
September 8, 2009
The Pitch
Kansas City leaders may have shuttered the brothels and torn down the stockyards that once defined the town--and the mobsters may have blown themselves up in disco bombings back in the '70s--but there are still plenty of stories to tell...
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