Thursday, April 23, 2015

My Brothers

I have one older brother and three younger ones.  For some reason we always called the younger ones the little boys, maybe because they were close together, maybe because they got in trouble together a lot, maybe because sometimes there were four of them.  I had a foster brother around their age for a while too.  He is Gummy's oldest son and Muscle Whip's half brother, Slim.  He lived with us when he was four to about six and again as a teenager.  The little boy's favorite activity that I remember is dumping over the fish tanks.  Requiring my mother to have to rescue about thirty little fweebs before they suffocated and to steam clean the fish water out of our carpet.  They did this multiple times.  When Slim lived with us, two of my brothers slept in closets.  One was a big playroom closet off the family room, lined with shelves.  It had enough room for a mattress on the floor and a turtle cage.  The other was a little cubby under the stairs.  I'm pretty sure that's where J.K. Rowling got the idea for Harry's living quarters at the Dursley's.  The other three shared the blue room.  It might entertain you to know that while this was the boys' living arrangement, Beadle and I shared the brown room and Nana had her own.  Seems fair.  But they didn't complain.  One of my brothers once got up in the middle of the night and sleep peed into the closet under the stairs.  Much to the chagrin of it's resident.
Ok. 
I have a brother with quite possibly the largest nose I have ever seen.

I have a brother who has no sense of sarcasm (a grievous fault in our family)
I have a brother who likes puns.  (He thinks they're punny, he would say)
I have a brother who is dyslexic.  This is where numbers and letters appear reversed to you.   Imagine learning to read that way.
I have two ginger brothers.
I have a brother who makes candles. 
I have a brother who can only be contacted through his girlfriend.
I have a brother who is a starving artist.  Really, he will make you a cheesecake for $. 
I have a brother who is in the Navy. 
I have a brother who is very easily embarrassed.  He turns as red as his hair.
I have a brother who frequents the gym.
I have a brother who is extremely shy.  Weirdly enough this is not the one who is easily embarrassed. 
I have a brother who goes skiing.
I have a brother who likes kim chee.
I have a brother who role plays more than he lives in real life.
I have a brother who likes medieval things. 
I have a brotha from anotha motha.
I have a brother who has watched every episode of Star Trek. 
I have a brother who is into Anime.
I have a brother who sleeps in a coffin-sized cubby that was just vacated by another dude 10 minutes before.  Yes, he's one of the ones who used to sleep in a closet.
I have a brother who can't name a single professional basketball player.
I have a brother who still reads Archie comics.
I have a brother who was called a lot of racial slurs in middle school.  Usually the wrong ones. 
I have a brother who is a Marine. 
I have a brother with ADD.
I have brother who could possibly bench press my car.
I have a brother who had to wear head gear.
I have a brother who got sent home from school for wearing a wizard cloak with a hood.
I have a brother who went bald at 22.  Instead of shaving it clean he carefully cultivates his remaining fringe to a voluminous halo.  As if extra volume here makes up for the complete lack of it anywhere else. 
Sorry, anonymous brother.  Don't murder me.
I have a brother who has never watched football.
I have a brother who will drop whatever he's doing to help out a little old lady (my grandma).
I have a brother who speaks Japanese, fluently.  Not the one who likes Anime.
I have a brother who can't tell you who Tom Brady, Derek Jeter, Peyton Manning, David Beckham, Serena Williams, or LeBron James are.
But he can tell you who Samwise Gamgee, Ron Weasley, Padme Amidala, Geordi LaForge, Lee Adama, and Col. Samantha Carter are.
I have a brother who when he sees you says "Greetings" instead of "Hello".
I have a brony.
My brothers are some of the most selfless, kindest guys I know.  They would bend over backwards to help me out even after I've made fun of them so terribly.







Only picture with all the "little boys" and the older one too.












2 comments:

  1. To sum up, your brothers are nerds. Which explains why I like them so much. Why would anyone want to know about a bunch of random athletes when they could know about characters from LOTR, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Star Gate?

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  2. Well done. I had help naming all those people. My sister. So nerdy.

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