froboy

Froboy currently makes his home in central Virginia, with wife AussieGirl and children Eleni Theone, Leonidas Alexandros (Leo), and Sofia Julietta.

Why did I name this blog and choose my web alias to be “fro-boy”? Well, it goes a little somethin’ like this…

When I was a kid going to grade school in St. Louis’ Stix school (in the, gulp, ‘city’ school district), I was one of the few white boys there and…you know how it is…you wanna be cool and look like all the other kids. Plus, maybe with a tough looking fro, school bully Lamont wouldn’t have kept stealing my lunch money and Mrs. Tooley, my english teacher, would have maybe looked at me differently (I had a serious crush).

I even loved and went to see every Sidney Poitier/Bill Cosby buddy flick as soon as it came out. Favorite TV shows: ‘Good Times’ and ‘The Jeffersons’.

So, I’ve always wanted a fro.

At one point, in junior high, I even had my mom take me for a permanent, but I ended up looking more like Skreech than Isaac Hayes. Anyway, now with the magic of Photoshop and the web, I can sort of live out my life-long fantasy. Still not the same as feeling the wind in my hair while driving a GTO, and featuring a groovy pick, but ya gotta take what ya can.