Aaron Hale used to call me a lot of things. In our ten-year friendship, the most memorable is “Dead-Eye Dick” while we were dove hunting in West Texas. I wasn’t the best shot. I may have missed every bird that day. Dead-Eye Dick was Aaron’s way of saying “you are not a good shot.” My hunting experiences are sponsored by PETA.
Aaron sent over a few questions at my request with the title: questions for PeeWee Dubendorff – another weird nickname. I never knew/cared what it meant but it always made me laugh.
Aaron’s writing (good) songs (http://www.myspace.com/aaronhale) and living Kansas City with his very cool wife Heather. Here it goes:
1. What did you dream about last night?
Nothing. But the last dream I can remember took place in New York City where I’ve never been before. I was walking the streets with my wife after dinner one evening. She informed that she would run home, so I took a cab which I only know how to do from the movies. Hours later, still no wife. So I went off looking for her around town, yelling her name. Finally I get over to Tobin and Julie’s house where Becky is hanging out. I was pissed. Still am.
2. Who is your favorite superhero, and why?
A kid on my brother’s soccer team made up a comic book character named ‘fat man’. Period.
3. If you could go to Disneyland with any person (dead or alive) who would you go with, and why?
Ronald McDonald. I used to dream that he and Pluto would fight over being my best friend. After they’d fight, I would throw change at the loser, usually Pluto, and say – “Call a cab. We’re through.”
4. What was your first job?
Chick-Fil-A. It was also my second job. The first time I was fired. My coworkers convinced me that if I got fired, they would too. So I did. They didn’t. I walked out all alone. Four months later I convinced them to rehire me. But my high school band, Crash Test Pete, presented a scheduling conflict. So my bass player, Zak White (twitter.com/cadillaczak) drove through the drive-thru with me, ordered a water and aggressively pulled up to the window. They handed him the water and he shouted “Josh Rosenthal quits”, threw my work clothes through the window and sped away without paying for the water. I didn’t go back for a third try.
5. In the song Yankee Doodle, is he calling the horse or the feather “macaroni”?
That’s obvious.
