LEONARD BLATT:  

Once upon a time ... If you don't remember me, I had red hair and freckles and drove to school in a white '66 Charger. I was the class clown. In Washington elementary school, my father owned the Muntz car stereo store around the corner. When I was 10 years old, the principle wrapped duct tape around my fingers because I flipped people off. John Page hit me up for my 35 cents lunch money. I refused to hand it over; I ran from him. I ran down a long hall, the end of which the doors were locked. I was trapped. In a last act of defiance, I threw my math book at him and rolled up in the fetal position, ready to get my ass kicked. ...Instead, I heard this weeping. Apparently, my book hit John right in the face. In Buena High, after the art teacher had me suspended for painting erotica, i returned and threw 12 eggs at him as he was teaching class. To my surprise, the students were not in favor of this. They were in hot pursuit, but I got away while the teacher was left with egg on his face. I was suspended again for ripping up a swastika arm band that a classmate showed me in science class. (I'm a Jew, and I thought he was trying to offend me; I didn't know it was a war souvenir) I moved to Santa Barbara and they tried to give me a high school diploma, but I threw it in the trash. A Marine recruiter called me ...Expand for more