Headcase.com

rumblings from a mind gone sour

About the headcase

The headcase has been featured and published in multiple industries and across multiple mediums – print, radio, web and TV. This site will serve as a personal archive for experiences, writings and stories indeed, from a mind gone sour.

Here are some fun facts and notes from the nutjob himself:

- My father helped nurse King Fahd back to health after his stroke in 1995.

- I’ve been thrown out of three casinos in Vegas. One for grass, one for boozing, one for belligerence. I consider it my personal trifecta.

- I spent $10,000 in a nightclub in London. Dumb ass.

- My network of web sites and domain names get five times more traffic than the Mall of America.

- I’ve seen the midnight sun and the northern lights.

- I invented and patented a line of golf accessories in my early entrepreneurial days.

- I was once punched in the face while driving.

- At one point, I was $100,000 debt, my credit totally ruined and my brain out of ideas. I swallowed my pride and moved back home where I crawled my way out, paid back every dime and became financially independent before 35.

- I’ve travelled all over the globe, beginning when I was very young. I was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

- I am quite successful, from the comfort of my own home. I’m a one-man band like the guy with the cymbals and bass drum and guitar and harmonica and a hat for tips.

- Speaking of, I once saw a street musician in Rembrandt Square playing a stand up bass. He sounded good til you got close and realized he wasn’t singing anything. Just ‘za-ba-dabba-do-ba’ over and over.

- I made most of my money in college doing stand-up comedy. I was an MC and did shows around Madison and Milwaukee. When I wasn’t doing the comedy, I was getting loaded as the underage bartender they paid under the table.

- I saw a Christian Bale-sized bat while in Australia. I didn’t get a good look before it landed in a big palm tree so I took a rock and hit the tree, from a great distance, and it flew away. It was a huge beast, the throw was amazing: I was loaded.

- I retain information like an elephant. Once I hear or read it, I rarely lose it.

- I delivered sandwiches for a sub shop in Madison. My boss was nutty and moody so one day I followed him until he left and proceeded to locate a full two kilos of cocaine he had hidden in the shop. I put it back. He disappeared like three weeks later. Someone told me they saw him packing his car with cold cuts at like 3am.

- I love the Twins, the Vikings.

- I own a bunch of Mardu Gras souvenirs I don’t remember buying.

- One of my relatives made it to triple-A as a pitcher with the Yankees in the 50’s, no small feat. He was bound for the majors until he hit and killed a Marine in a exhibition game. He would never pitch again. My family is blessed with great arms.

- One of my ancestors, on my mother’s side, was the General who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Toledo in Spain. We have his sword.

- Payne Stewart jumped on me during a party at the PGA show in Orlando. It was a ‘hog-pile’, think he burst my spleen.

- I think the left and the right are both nuts but the far-right is the really dangerous one. Historically.

- Several vehicles in my vicinity have mysteriously gone on joyrides.

- I am against gay marriage. Not against the extension of rights due the married, just call it something else. “Marriage” is a religious institution – that is the main obstacle, so go around it.

- I once witnessed a public beheading while visiting my parents in Saudi Arabia.  It was more than awful, it was haunting.

- I’ll eat pretty much anything once. My worst is I once ate a chicken heart. It was rubbery so when I bit it, it was like I was performing mini-CPR and it ‘pumped’ or ’squirted’ in my mouth. So frickin’ gross.

- Think of myself as the originator of the terms ‘boned’, ‘wow’ and ‘chillaxing’. My newest is ’spulaxing’ which means to ‘relax’ but more than chill, you crash down for awhile.

- I’ve missed about a dozen flights in my lifetime by being late or otherwise: all  were for flights leaving Vegas.

- I speak two languages fluently, four overall.

- I used to get products into movies and TV shows. One of my first products, a glass cigar humidor, appears in the very first episode of Will & Grace. I put it there, told only that it was new show that had good buzz.

- I gave David Duchovny one of the humidors, full of cigars, and he asked me blankly, “Am I gonna lose my snowboarding medal if I accept this?”Lol! He’s a riot.

- Garth Brooks is the coolest celeb I ever met.

- I graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with essentially three majors: history, communications and English.

- I partied an awful lot in college. There was always a party, somebody always going out to celebrate something. “Hey bro, it’s Arbor Day!”

- A gypsy in Cordoba, Spain read my palm and told me I would be wealthy. She was right.

- I’ve broken all my fingers at some point. Two will always be broken.

- One my friends correctly refers to me as ‘controlled chaos.’

- I was once $100,000 deep in debt, my credit ruined, my brain out of ideas. But I crawled back, inch by inch and re-paid every penny and grew to be successful…somehow.

- My Ford Bronco slid and flipped about a dozen times off 94 near Baraboo, Wis. No clue how I survived, lost partial use of my left arm.

- I’ve had sex in five oceans. Watch that saltwater ladies’!

- Of all historical figures, two really did live up to their legends: Lincoln and Washington. And funny, we got them at the most crucial times.

- I went to a catholic school until 8th grade. Don’t believe anyone I ‘graduated’ with from that school ended up being ‘religious.’

- My family was probably the first Hispanic settlers in Minnesota. Not kidding.

- I wish I had a big-ass rock hand like Hellboy.

- Started writing screenplays when I was 12 and have penned at least a dozen in my time. Never produced or even submitted any of them.

- You can win once you accept failure as a necessary component to success. Learning from it is the key. Because ultimately it’s the risks you take that dictate the level of coin you make.

- My business formula is: intangibles + connectivity + speed = success

- I’ve been designing and developing web sites since 1996. My first site was one I built for my cigar brand.

- I was the designer behind a very exclusive line of Andy Warhol humidors adorned with his iconic Marilyn Monroe piece.

- Friendliest celeb I ever had the pleasure to meet was Hector Elizondo, it was like being around your dad.

- Most people who know me think I’m crazy, but not certifiable.

- I had a B grade point average at UWM although I never actually attended some classes and skipped most lectures. I would show up on test day. Worked ina  big-ass school like Madison. Good times, good times…

- BUT. A professor once called me to her office after the mid-term exam. I sat down and she explained how well I had done on the test. Problem was, I wasn’t in her class.

- My sister graduated from the same college and threw her party the night before I had to take a FINAL one on one with the professor in his office…because I missed the real final due to ‘illness.’ I ended up getting trashed and ‘partying’ all night with my sister’s roommate’s sister. I got to his office totally off kilter and had to leave every ten minutes to vomit in the can. But I passed!