(Repost because I've been getting a lot of blog views lately and this best sums me up)
A while ago someone asked me to do one of those surveys so they could learn more about me. I hate those things and refuse to do them. (i.e. too lazy)* The closest I got was doing one of those funny name games but it was a disaster because I have a funny last name already and a one letter middle name.
Kirk W Buckendorf
The last name is the German language's fault but the middle name is because of this guy:

He was my dads best friend from high school who passed away too early. I met Kirk's mother when I was a kid at one of my dads reunions and asked her what the W stood for. She said, "It was that bastard-son-of-a-bitch father of his. I changed it to just W after we divorced when Kirk was still a baby." Thats all she would say. So I guess my middle name stands for, "That bastard-son-of-a-bitch."
I'm not going to do one of those stupid surveys, instead I'm going to do this blog. Which is way more work than I want to do but if I'm hit by a car tomorrow how cool will be when this is left behind as my last act on earth.
Here I am as a baby.

They didn't pose me; I used to sit like that all the time anyway, because that's how I rolled.
Here's my mom and me. She was a hottie and I'm not ashamed nor do I feel wrong for pointing that out. Someone once said it was gross that I would say that about my mom.

Cindy Crawford's mole? Totally stolen from my mom.
Here's my dad and I playing with his slot cars.

He was wearing those cool black glasses before they were popular with the hipster-doufess/emo set. My dad could beat up any emo-kids dad.
I used to stick my tongue out like that when concentrating, but dad broke me of that. He would flick it with his finger and say, "put yer tongue in yer mouth." It was an effective technique. To this day I disdain people who stick their tongues out like that. My utter disgust of people chewing with their mouths open comes from him also. "Chew with yer mouth closed."
I was confused then, but now I know he was saying, "yer the one that I love and I dont want you looking like an idiot in public."
I think I was a pretty good-looking kid in the beginning.

But then something went terribly wrong.

Dont fuck with me, I had two, count them, TWO yellow stripes on my belt.
The only way to explain my life as a kid is that it was exactly like Napoleon Dynamite. In fact when my brother and I saw that movie we didn't have to say anything. We just looked at each other and knowingly nodded. They had stolen our childhood story and made it a movie.
Moon boots? Wore them, even in summer. Shiny glitter 70s print t-shirts? Check. Dragging a He-Man figure on a string on the pavement to see what would happen? Absolutely.
And then there was drawing. Luckily my grandma had an eye for artistic genius and saved some of these gems:

The K being backwards on my name? That was on purpose for artistic reasons. Dont believe me? Heres my signature today:

I was dreaming up new animal combinations before Napoleon ever came up with that wimpy liger.

Pssshhh, ligers bred for their magical powers. Everyone knows that is so fake. You dont get magical powers when crossbreeding animals. I mean a flying saber-toothed horse with ram horns is going to kick ass without any magical powers.
I dont have any of the drawings I did of any of the girls I had crushes on. I stupidly gave them to the girls thinking it would impress them and maybe get me laid. I didn't just shade the upper lip, I did chiaroscuro on the whole portrait. (Using fancy art terms didnt impress the chics either). In fact it wasn't until I stopped drawing girls that I started getting laid. So I've never drawn a portrait for a girl since. (Except in life drawing classes and I wasn't trying to get laid there, I was honing my skills.)
I didn't have a ginger afro like Napoleon, but my hair fashion sense was quite impressive nonetheless.

I drew a lot of cars too.

And here's me with my first car:

It was a 240Z with a small block Chevy crammed under the hood. My, "Japanese Corvette." I guess I may have started coming back around looks-wise.
At least I know how to get laid, now.
*I always see i.e. used but really wasnt sure what it was an abbreviation for. I knew what it meant because of context but I figured Id better look it up before using it. Now I know.
i.e.
abbr. Latin
id est (that is).