It all started on April 22, 1969, a day that will be remembered for centuries by manufacturers of purple Guatemalan pants. Brian is still waiting for a response from "The Electric Company" -- the TV show to which he wrote fan mail twenty-seven years ago. Although his teen years were primarily happy ones, they were marked by a tragic muscle pull while breakdancing in the early 80's. Since that time, while waiting for an appropriate neighbor to marry, Brian busied himself with tea-bag art and some light reading about splenic pathophysiology.