[The Flayed One]

#1 What do you do for a living?

I'm a plant manager for a contract packaging/returned goods processing plant. Basically, we bag bolts for companies that stock construction crews' toolboxes & sort out defective/overstocked/outdated autoparts from companies all over North America. Some of the bigger named companies we get returns from are Autozone, Advance Auto & Ozark/O'Reilly

#2 What's the most amazing/disgusting/life changing thing you've ever seen?

When I was 19, a police chase after a bank robbery ended right in front of the movie theater I was working at. I was working box office, and I was surrounded by nothing but glass doors and windows. The police were pulling people from their cars and using them as road blocks. The robbers got out of the car with guns blazing, and the police fired a hail of bullets into them. I was so scared I almost had a panic attack. It was like being in the middle of an 80's action movie.

#3 What is your most prized possession and why?

My dad has a kind of strange hobby; he digs for historical bottles. He has all kinds of cool shit, like name brand cure-alls from the old west medicine shows. One time, he found an evil looking little stone jester. It looks like it once had some kind of arms and legs, but they've most likely long biodegraded. So I just have this creepy little stone jester torso with a twisted face. He's my good luck charm.

#4 Who is your idol?

Probably my great-grandfather. He fought in WWII & Korea. He was at D-Day. He has two purple hearts. He's also a wonderful, thoughtful man who was always very active. He was constantly tooling away in his woodshop making tables or whatever for anyone who wanted. When my great grandmother had her second stroke, she pretty much turned into a vegetable. He refused to let her go to a home. He hired a nurse to come to them and did whatever he could to pay for the bills. He also carried her around the house, changed her and bathed her for over 8 years as he crept into his 70's. Now he has a pacemaker, and he's still going. If I could be half the man that he's been in his life, I could die happy.

#5 What is your biggest regret in life?

I had a traveling Shakespeare company interested in having me join right after High School. Instead, I decided I couldn't stand to be away from my wonderful *retch* high school sweetheart.

#6 Who's your favourite villain, and why?

I like Long John Silver. He was more of a flawed, greedy man than a real villain. I like that fact. I also like the fact that even though he failed, he still got to disappear into infamy.

#7 If you could have 1 special ability/superpower what would it be?

Why, to be able to turn water into funk, of course!