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So I have had a few people ask me about the “V” hand sign I use in all of my pictures. It’s kind of a long and weird story but, if you want to know than I will be happy to oblige.

My good friend Vincent Paletia McGowerdge, is dreamer …of sorts. The brain in his head can imagine all kinds of ideas for weird inventions and weird sightings. He says they are from different worlds seen on his “adventures through the Æther”. There is however, one thing I must explain. Vincent is the type of person who enjoys (engorges) on food to enhance mental stimulation. This night he eat an entire sack of these magical mushrooms. Of course he passed out only to wake up three nights later, still on my floor, in the same clothes, with small round circles slightly burned in his vest from the hot tea pot I had been setting on him. All to claim he was chronologically displaced. I could only sarcastically reply, “yes love, of course you are… of course.” His only arguments being: he was still in his same clothes whilst I was in my sleeping gown and the burns must have come from the strong light existing only in the Æther. Had he not been so serious I would have unleashed the little school girl inside me and rolled laughing on the floor (where he still resided).

The story he spoke of, that night, was of his “adventure” in a new world. Here was the ending of a world at war against a tiny little country. This country headed by a single man out to become a universal ruler. I could only hope to be so lucky. This one man had united the world against him. Yet, a few mistakes cost him his dictatorship. I could only laugh at the prospect that one man could dominate so much. The people who lived on that world would use the “V” symbol as support for victory in the war. So as kind of a joke and to pretend that I believed him, I use it for my victory goals.