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Crossbow was drawn by Jason, my first born son, when he was 12 years old. This is how it happened:

In 1994 when the Internet was first starting to explode with new development, I decided to create my own website in order to circumvent the record companies and bring my music directly to the people via cyberspace. First, I found a local Internet Service Provider and I was lucky enough to be able to work with Amy, a brilliant and cute young technical programmer. As part of my website creation process, I began playing around with my name. First I decided to call my recording band Crossfire. Next, I named my music production company Starcrost Productions and in one final burst of typically quirky humor, I named my music publishing company Hot Cross Buns. In November of 1995, this website went on the Internet at the URL, www.crossfire.net, where it remained until 1998.

I conceived of the concept for Crossbow when I was in the process of designing this website during 1995. I wanted to have something on my home page that would be different from the format everybody else uses for a site map. I wanted my site map to be like the trunk of a tree with 6 main branches that would link to second level web pages and sub-branches that would link to third level and fourth level pages. At that time, my sons Jason and Alex were playing with action characters like Spiderman, X-men and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Jason was showing some talent as an artist. I wanted to involve both of them in my new creative project and I had already involved Alex twice - when I recorded him on The Belchmeister and when I used his song title idea "Hangin' with Arnie". So I asked Jason to draw me an original action figure consisting of a man with outstretched arms, and instead of having hands I wanted crossbows shooting arrows out in different directions. I intended to connect the arrows with clickable options that would take website visitors to the various second level pages. Jason went into his bedroom and one hour later came out with exactly what you see here. I said, "Jason, that's it. Thank you so much, my son." I was just as impressed with his creation at that time as I am today because Jason drew the unique vision I had in my mind. Amy turned Jason's graphic into a gif file and she created the clickable options within the graphic. To this day I have never found any other website where a designer used something that was produced by their child to form a site navigation map. I am proud of what Jason created for me when he was 12 years old and in my not-so-humble opinion, my home page stands alone as a work of creative Internet art because of what Jason and Amy helped me create.

Jason and Alex are both super-intelligent and charismatic to the max. I've never encountered two brothers like these boys because when Alex was born and Jason was three years old, I immediately witnessed a brotherly love that was unlike anything I'd seen in other siblings in my entire life. Jason took Alex under his wing right from the very first day he was brought back from the hospital, and Alex worshiped his older brother. Here's one of my favorite photos of both of them when they were very young.   For reasons that should be obvious, they were my "all stars".

The following is a personal bio and stats that Jason wrote for me in 1996 when he was 13 years old. After I had written my Peter Cross Bio and Jason had read what I wrote, I asked him to write me something similar. This is exactly what Jason wrote in response to my request:

NAME:   Jason.

HEIGHT:   Does it really matter?

WEIGHT:   Under yet overweight.

INTERESTS:   Thinking of ways to kill teachers, writing, drawing, killing teachers, and, um, uh, nevermind. (heh heh) Long, romantic walks at night on the beach, candlelit dinners, and really long kisses.

FAVORITE QUOTES:   To infinity, and beyond! If the peg doesn't fit, use a bigger hammer. People will look up to you if you climb up on something high.

FAVORITE SAYINGS:   Yo f---nut! (with a New York City mafia type accent)   Buenos nachos, mi pico es muy grande.

DESCRIPTION:   On the quiet side. Somewhat peculiar. A good companion in a weird sort of way.

SPORTS:   Thumb war while eating approximately 8.3 pounds of chocolate.

FAVORITE BANDS:   Nirvana, Garbage, Bush, Bush Garbage, Nirvanabush (better known as Twat).

LAST REPORTED WORDS:   The glove doesn't fit! It was like that when I got here. I didn't do it! (Holding cheeks and wiggling them) I am not a crook. It wasn't me, it was the one-armed man!