twistedwhispers

I don't think you guys know me well enough here on SG. Here's some more fun facts about yours truly...

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Spanish was my first language. Today I practice the language as often as I can but Im quite rusty. I understand it better than I speak it so I manage okay.

I have never experienced what its like to have a headache. My brothers tell me its due to never being married.

In my youth I was the victim of middle child syndrome. As a result I was often overlooked. When I was three my mother left me unattended in back seat of the family car next to a soiled diaper my infant brother created minutes earlier. Naturally I assumed it was chocolate! The rest isnt pretty so Ill leave that to your imagination Thank goodness I dont remember any of that. Love you Mom!

I attended Maxson Elementary School in El Monte, California, from kindergarten to grade five before my family and I moved away to a neighboring city. I regard that period of my life as the Wonder Years.

I met my oldest friend in the world Zeke at the age of four. Our families have been extended families to each other ever since.

With the exception of Boxing, to date, I simply cannot understand the allure of watching sports on television.

In college I was madly in love with Laura Holt. The character played by actress Stephanie Zimbalist on the television series Remington Steele. Today I own the entire five-season DVD collection.

I am secretly in love with actress Diane Lane. I stalk her by making a collection of all her films. A few more and shell be all MINE!!!

A man propositioned me for sex once. It happened a few years ago. Talk about a conversation I could have gone my entire life without having! Awkward!

I have all four fully-grown wisdom teeth. I plan to keep them for as long as I live.

I met Bob Hope once. He was all by himself as he stepped out of an elevator I happened to be waiting on and said Hello there to me. All I could say in return was Do you know who you are? He chuckled. He passed away about a year later.

Whitney Houston attacked me on the loading platform of the long since gone E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ride at Universal Studios, Hollywood.

My all time favorite band is the Canadian rock group Rush. In 2002 I attended one of their live performances on their Vapor Trails tour front row at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Shoreline, California. It was religious.

I owned a box turtle when I was ten years old. I named him Pepe and kept him penned up inside a chicken wire fence in my backyard. Within a few months of owning him he escaped. No one told me box turtles could burrow into the ground. His favorite meals consisted of live worms! The field he vanished into was filled with them. Go figure.

Red plums are my favorite fruit. When I lived in El Monte, my backyard came equipped with its own plum tree. Every summer my brothers and I climbed that tree like monkeys to get at the best plums we ever consumed. That plum tree continued to bear fruit til the day it was torn down about ten years ago by the then El Monte, houses owners. BAD OWNERS! I miss that tree.

I stood on the bow of a Maid of the Mist ferry boat at Niagara Falls four years ago to watch in awe as the thundering falls cascaded in a semicircle around the passenger filled boat. Yet another quasi-religious experience I highly recommended trying.

Three things I would very much like to do before I die include gazing up at the Northern Lights with my naked eyes, paying a visit to the Grand Canyon at least once and being bare naked with a girl who wont press charges! Two out of three isnt bad!

My very first drawing was of the DEVIL! More on that in my previous blog.

In the first few months of living in a new town my family and I attended a local church with the intention of performing the archaic catholic ritual known as a confession. Unfamiliar to this churches policies I was unaware of a stringently mandatory pre-flight prayer procedure demanded by the priests prior to the act of the spilling of ones guts. As a result I was berated and condemned by an ancient and angry robed man behind a curtain wall and was thrown out of the confessional booth on my ear. Embarrassment aside I was made to feel I was going straight to hell for not knowing some secret societal catholic handshake! My relationship with the Catholic Church was never the same after that. The good news is - I was never forced to step foot inside one of those confessional booths ever again.

I have a strange obsession for women in black boots. It all began innocently enough from watching episodes of the 1960s television series STAR TREK.

I know every line from the movies Strange Brew and Star Wars (A New Hope) You know the first one!

I have an innate magical ability to get along with just about anyone I meet. Angry priests aside!

Superman has a secret identity and I know it!

Im a comic book artist at heart.

I never leave home without my cell phone and exactly eight quarters in change. You never know when a quarter or two will come in handy.

More to follow...