From: operador@ltid.inpe.br

I am brazilian and have 24 years. My english is very shit! I go Show of Bad Religion in November of 1996, Sao Paulo, Brazil! The best show! Very good!

Thanks for page! Congratulations!

Fernando Pereira Fernandes Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil 31/01/97

Comments: The internet is TRULY cool when someone from Brazil can write me in the USA :-)

From: Pete Finestone (former Bad Religion drummer)

very cool b.r. page. quite impressive. I drummed for b.r. for ten years up until generator. I thought other fans might be interested in my new bands release on my label The band's name is fifi and the disc is out on low blow - triple x. the material is slightly hardcore with decent melody and aggro. old school indeed. my e-mail is LBlow66@aol.com. if anyone is interested in the disc they can contact me here or purchase a disc at their local outlets. thanks for your time.

Comments: Even cooler when a member of a band you like writes you!

On my writing of my background and childhood

From: rwemmer@isoa.net (Ray Wemmer)

John, You captured the spirit of what it is to be a teenager in middle America, My life, though 10 years longer, is almost a carbon copy of yours. I want to congradulate you on your courage, wit and stamina. All these traits were reflected in your writings. I also am a Dubuquer. However, I left for a life of travel and adventure and joined the Marine Corps (now 18 tears later). I have sometimes thought about returning to the Dubuque area, but when I get that itch, I visit my relatives there, I think about my ex-wife (still there), and the gloom that seems to hang over the town and I say, "No way in hell!" I'm sure your view is much brighter and for that I say, keep writing and expanding your page.

Ray

Comments: Hee Hee, 'No Way In Hell' is right!

From: gsteve@pacbell.net (Stephen A. Gigliotti)

John you write beautifuly - Please finish your life story - you have something to say, and you do it with a flurish. Lighten up on the old man though - You little brats don't come with directions and your dad just didn't know how to say, "I love you". I have a son-in-law who is narcissistic, so I looked this word up on the WEB and came up with your pages. Loved it.

Comments: My old background was written many moons ago when my father and I had problems, we get along well now!

From: SpcVdr@aol.com

hey, your home page is wierd and you, I am convinced, fall directly into the wired/strange categorie as well!!! I was born in Dubuque and am plagued with this as well although I do not have an official homepage yet.

Later Youse, Space

Comments: Right on, weird and strange is what I strive for!

From: SpcVdr@aol.com

Drinking and Sex, that was really the jist if it, although I did fall in love with the Mississippi river. The last time I "left" Dubuque was in the summer of 1992. I joined the Marine Corps and went to Boot camp in SanDiego and ended up stationed in the Mojave Desert in California for 3 years. Unfortunately the drinking and carousing habits I learned growing up in Ole Dbq did not keep me afloat else where. After just a few short years away from the homestead, I was sent to Naval Alcohol Rehab and decided that perhaps I had a growing problem sipping those same cold beers that we used to drink while fishing, crusing, boating, watersking, or what ever. I ended up giving it up and Joining AA. Very shortly thereafter I got orders to Virginia. Once in Virginia, I continued to not drink and I got married and I learned to deal with life on the terms of the world instead of the terms of a boy a long ways from Iowa. I wouldn't trade my background for anything, though. Kind of makes me wonder what ever happened to some of my friends that grew up on the same stuff that I did??? You sound like you got out of it alive, with room to spare.

Talk to you later, Space

Comments: Yup Dubuque breeds alcoholism (BOO) and promescuity (YEA!)

From: a_carmona@wesley.it.emerson.edu

Hey!

How's everything on your side of the net? I am a freshman at Emerson College in Boston... I am an Acting for film major but I have a double major in Advertising. I come from Georgia... The reason I got to your web page is that I have a paper on underage drinking due tomorrow... (ugh... yes... I'm also a procrastinator) I did find your section on high school very useful. I've never taken more than a glass of alcohol in my life. I think it's something to be proud of.. but everyone says I'm missing out. I just tell them that I'll do it when it's good and legal. I was wondering if you'd mind being quoted in my paper. It would be submitted to my teacher in my writing class and then to a small literary magazine as part of our final project of the semester. (I will probably be refused publication.) I just found what you had to say very interesting... ok... please respond soon.

Best regards, Andrea Carmona

Comments: My exploits quoted in a college paper... Woo Hoo! And yes, underage drinking should be legalized!