Mr Parkour?

Who is Peter Parkour? He’s a legend in his own mind. A man-child who refuses to grow up, but unlike Michael Jackson, Peter Parkour digs the ladies, not the kids.

Music: Just about anything from John Denver to Too Short, country to classic rock, show tunes to classical, Christian to death metal. Whatever sounds good to me. I like a little bit of everything and a whole lot of nothing. Most of the time I bounce between rap and old country.

Movies: I’m a sucker for a superhero movie, but I can watch and enjoy just about any kind of movie, even chick-flicks. Transformers, The Matrix (first one only), Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Lilo and Stitch, Spider-Man (duh!), Shaolin Soccer (you gotta see it), the first three StarWars movies (4,5,&6), Hulk (mostly just the Hulk scenes), The Rocketeer, The Iron Monkey (the original version, not the Quentin Tarantino re-release), The Wizard of Oz, Groundhog Day, Matilda, and the list goes on.

Television: Heroes on NBC is the only TV show I go out of my way to watch, and I usually catch it on the net. I’ll watch America’s Funniest Home Videos every chance I get (Tom Bergeron is my favorite host). When flipping through the channels I usually stop on the Home and Garden channel, Spike when there’s a UFC fight/show on, shows on wildlife, history, science, the Simpsons, and documentaries.

Books: “Way Of The Peaceful Warrior” by Dan Millman, “The Girl With the Silver Eyes” (read back in Jr. High and again as an adult I read it to my wife, I just always liked it), “Frankenstein”, “The Celestine Prophecy”, “The Hobbit”, and some of Anne Rice’s books. I’m not a big book reader. Most of my reading is done on-line now days.

Heroes: Spider-Man!!! and my sweet, loving angel of a wife. “I come in second to Spider-man?” she asks. Well yeah, duh. My mom and dad too, can’t forget them.

Age: I was born in 1971, do the math.

Gender: Male

Status: Happily married since 1996.

Orientation: Straight (hyper-sexual porn fiend).

Body type: 6′-3″ big ole boy.

Occupation: Over the road truck driver, as apposed to a local truck driver. I drive the 48 states.

Religion: Atheist. With so many choices out there, and all of them claiming to be right, I’m inclined to think it’s more likely they are all wrong. On the off chance I’m wrong I like to think God gave me the ability to doubt, and therefore should be understanding of my not believing in him. I’m very respectful of other’s beliefs. You don’t try to make me believe in God, I won’t try to make you not believe. Deal?

Ethnicity: White, not Caucasian, not European-American, not Aryan, just a typical white boy. The hate and anger is my own. I’m not prejudice, I hate everybody equally. I’m not racist, I love everybody equally.

Smoke: Never have, never will.

Drink: Occasionally, but I tend to make up for lost time on those occasions. If you’re not going to get drunk then why the fuck are you drinking? Are they out of Kool-Aid and soda? I hate that “I drink it for the taste” shit. Alcohol tastes like shit! I drink to get drunk, period.

Drugs: None! Never have, never will. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone’s doing it, and not everyone’s tried it.

Children: Proud parent, but not a very good dad. He’s (my son) from my first girlfriend. She’s married now, and my son calls “him” Dad. I mostly keep my distance, but I’m there if he needs me.

Education: Graduated from a public high school. Some college, very little.

Hobbies: Looking at free porn on the net, people watching (the only real reality show), drawing (mostly with MS Paint now days), playing with Lego building blocks, hiking (rarely), bicycling (rarer), swimming (rarest), and looking at free porn on the net (oh come on! It’s free), and most recently tinkering with my blog.

Clothes: I like to keep it simple. Pants: blue Dickie’s work pants, jeans, or sweats. Shirt: the layered look, one long-sleeved, one short-sleeved shirt, no logos. Shoes: sneakers, all white or as close to all white as I can find. That’s the usual for me. Simplicity at it’s finest. The look does vary, but not much.

Food: Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Burger King, Long John Silver’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Italian food, and I’m always on the look out for a really good pizza. I’m one of the pickiest eaters in the world and a junk food junkie. Pizza is my favorite food.

Motto: Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow? I live by this motto more often than I like to admit.

Where did the name Peter Parkour come from? Well if you are a Spider-Man fan on any level you may have noticed the similarity between Peter Parkour and Peter Parker, Spider-Man’s secret identity. No coincidence, Spider-Man is my hero. I changed the last name Parker to Parkour because I’m also a big fan of Parkour.

According to Wikipedia, parkour “is an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body” with David Belle of France being the founder of the sport. Some of the feats performed in parkour are very Spider-Man like, so the name Peter Parkour just seemed so right. When you’re done here head over to youtube.com and do a search for parkour.

Due to popular demand, here is a pic of yours truly, Peter Parkour. Probably not what you were hoping for, but I hope you like it none the less. This pic was recently taken in a canyon somewhere in the middle of Wyoming.

I just got this to finally upload just now (02/29/08 @ 3:29pm, Happy Leap Year).