Remember in high school, how your best friend had the coolest sister?  You know, the one who loaned you her smokes and bought you beer with her fake ID and laughed at dirty jokes?
She’s still cool as hell, and now she’s a Dame â€" a Dockyard Derby Dame.

And Saturday night, she was wrapped in a toga and wresting in Jell-O at the South Sound Garage in downtown Tacoma.

She showed up with some of her whip-smart wicked-cool friends, along with their boyfriends.  One, he would be Mr Tickles (Derby medic, to you), bared his chest hair win earth-toned batik along with his lovely wife Tess (Tickles â€" say it fast) while another impressed me mightily with nails-as-facial-piercings.

Yeah, nails.

Remember, in high school, how your other friend had the coolest brother?

Hang out with Dockyard Derby types, and you will.  Their next bout is Saturday, May 5, at the Tacoma Soccer Center.  Ticket information is here. â€" Jessica Corey-Butler