Friday, July 04, 2003
(10:46 AM) | Anonymous:
All About MikeI'm the third member of this fun-loving collective. My apologies for taking so long to get involved. First, a short introduction. I was born on November 14, 1978 on the small Carribbean island of Martinique to a German father and a West Indian mother. Though my parents were loving, thoughtful, and kind, they were also crazy, my father having lost much of his sizable family fortune attempting to bring onion cultivation to the Carribbean, while my mother never fully recovered from the September 1979 cancellation of the hit tv series "All in the Family". Such titanic disappointments took quite a toll; father began drinking heavily, while my mother threw all of her meager energies into writing incoherent letters to U.S. network executives. At the center of all this silliness was me, a delicate, thoughtful child with a love of Moliere and the Dutch game shows we could receive from the nearby island of St. Maarten. Wonderful though they were, however, neither Moliere's biting wit nor ancient reruns of "Marius de Vries' Uur van Frivoliteit" could provide sufficient diversion from the lunacy that reigned in our household. Soon enough I was drawn to what would become my greatest love, taekwondo, an energetic Korean martial art that provided a much-needed outlet for my emotions, as well as a means of fending off the large flightless birds that plagued what was left of our onion fields. In time I became quite skilled, though my schoolwork suffered, and my father took to calling me the pejorative nickname, Koreanischenmartialkunstenangebrachtefreudegesicht, an epithet that still burns to this day. By the end of high school conditions had grown intolerable, and i made my way to the United States, where I continued my training, also managing to become a fairly competent cook along the way. I currently make my home in Boston, Massachusetts, supported by the sizable inheritance I received following the death of my childless uncle Rudiger. While I sincerely hope to make a useful contribution to this blog, I make no promises, and must apologize in advance for what will surely be frequent meditations on Dutch pop culture.
