The Fourteen Secrets For Becoming Comfortably Numb

…with apologies to Pink Floyd

Watched Feasting On Asphalt: The River Run last night. As expected, it was good and seeing Alton and his crew chowing down across Louisianna only reinforced my desire to some day visit that state for a few days of culinary excess.

As some of you may or may not know, I change my bio here on LJ every few months. Well, I’ve done it yet again and, for your viewing pleasure, I’ve put both the previous bio (which, I believe was my 6th bio) and the new one

First, the old bio…

Choose one:

Doc Cross is a simple country lad who lives a quiet life as a farmer and part time crimefighter.

Doc Cross is a rogue android from the future who has come to our time to change history by eating exactly the right carne asada taco at exactly the right moment.

Doc Cross is retired from his career as a porn star and now lives a quiet suburban life with his 4 wives and 15 children.

Doc Cross is the secret ruler of our planet. Now that you know this, he will be forced to have your memories erased.

Doc Cross is an international spy for the cheese industry.

Doc Cross is a man of action who, when night falls, dons a costume and goes out to fight crime on the mean streets of The Big City.

Doc Cross is the only person who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men and women. For $5.00, he’ll tell you.

Now, the new bio…

Doc Cross loves…

his wife, Grace, who is a Sweet Angel and the Beauty to his Beast

his basset hounds, Daisy & Winker, who love him back

his family, who might best be described as “interesting” and “outspoken”

his friends, most of whome are as “interesting” as his family

the great state of California, of which he is a proud native

the great state of Hawaii, which he has visited many times

the great state of New Mexico, because it’s all about chiles

chocolate, especially bittersweet

sex of the hetero variety

gardening, which he does with willfull disregard to conventional wisdom

tea, without which, he would become very bad tempered and possibly dangerous

breaking the rules, of which he has a very long history

hot weather, because he grew up in it

rock & roll (Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, ELO, The Beatles, The Ramones, etc)

reggae (Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, etc)

old school country & western music (Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Hank Williams, etc)

swing & jazz (Benny Goodman, Louis Prima, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, etc)

fully animated cartoons (classic Disney, Warner Bros., Fleischer Bros., MGM)

beers, ales & stouts in general and Guinness Stout in particular

animals, especially dogs and parrots

spicy and/or hot foods, especially those coming from Asia or Latin America

ice cream, especially peach, banana, chocolate and cherry

redheads, among whose number he and his siblings are counted

children, of which he has none of his own, so far as he knows

Doc Cross hates…

politics, which he considers vile and unclean and an impediment to human evolution

organized religion, which he holds in even lower regard than he does politics

the vast majority of the human race, of whome there are several billion too many

snails in his garden, especially in early spring

child and animal abusers, whom he would send to a screaming demise

broccoli, a vegetable that even the Chinese and Mexicans cannot make taste good

cauliflower (see broccoli)

rap music, which might be poetry, but ain’t music

cold weather, because, well, it’s fuckin’ cold

And now, it’s gardening time. More bloggage later.