So, if you haven’t read my post about being an A. Hull, read that first.  Warning: This post is incredibly immature, juvenile, and offensive to boring old prudes.  My brother Bryant is obviously a B. Hull.  Bryant shared this humorous (juvenile) video with me… It turns out Hardees restaurant was testing to see if people liked A or B.  And B won!

Well, people always like Bryant, so I think that is fair… then again I am extremely hygienic, so if we were baked goods I would likely taste better…

To truly appreciate this post you may want to read this out loud… and try not to laugh or I’ll cry.

I have never understood why so often, people are ashamed to reveal their middle name… I just don’t get it… After-all it is a part of who they are…

Me (Son of an A. Hull), Grandpa (made my Dad an A. Hull), My Dad (an A. Hull and A. Mann Hull) holding Hudson (Not an A. Hull)

Actually that is not true… So I rarely reveal my middle name, or use my middle initial… Why?  Because then I become Jason A. Hull.

You can imagine how much I love when my credit cards come in the mail and say Jason A. Hull instead of Jason Hull, or people read things out loud with that name on it.  My coolness levels skyrocket!

Luckily no one knew this in high school or my name would have been unofficially changed to A. Hull, against my will, and everyone would have told me that I was an A. Hull daily.  Anyhow, I have grown up a bit and am way more mature now (possibly untrue), so I actually sometimes use it to inject humor into meeting people and helping them remember my name.

Now some people may think I actually fit the name A. Hull and deserve to be called an A. Hull, to which my mature response is that it takes one to know one, and if you aren’t an A. Hull then you obviously do not know me well enough to be qualified to speak on the matter.  So there.

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My wife Ashley as Jennifer Rumson and myself as the Mexican Julio in "Paint Your Wagon"

I posted several times on Facebook  “Jason is pretending to be a Mexican named Julio Federico Juan Valenzuelo Valveras.”  Most people just thought I was just being goofy, but I actually have been pretending to be a Mexican named Julio Federico Valenzuelo Valveras in a local production of “Paint Your Wagon,” a musical that is set during the gold rush.  I thought I would share with you the challenge of a pasty white-boy in becoming Mexican.

Practically a Latino

Luckily I am highly qualified to play this part thanks to the two years of Spanish class I took in high school in which learned near fluency (ie. I know enough to get laughed at by a Spanish speaker and that is all).  This has allowed me to fake a Mexican Accent so well that a fellow cast member, and mother of real children, told me I sound just like Handy Manny, whom we can all assume is performed by a truly amazing, high quality native of Mexico.  I would say I sound a bit more like Antonio Banderas, but I failed to find anyone that would back me up on that statement.   Anyhow they picked me rather than a real Latino, which says a lot (unless you find out that no real Mexicans tried out for the role).

Familiar with Mexico’s Customs

Another qualification is that I have have helped several local Mexicans ship FedEx packages to Mexico.  Alright, so that one is a little weak you might be saying, well I bet I am more familiar with Mexico’s customs than you.  Not cultural customs, but the equally important imort and export customs.  For instance, did you know Mexico will not allow anything shipped that was made in China!  I’ll bet you didn’t… not even the Mexicans I serve know that. (more…)

The great author of this blog with died black hair and cool goatie (see my next blog entry).

I am great! Okay, I admit, it may or may not be true… and I agree that I may not be at the caliber of Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha, etc.  Sure they were obviously great.  I also know you will use your power of judgment to decide, regardless of what I suggest, and that you likely assume most people are not great and doubt that this blog is great, but let me present an extremely persuasive argument.

So what could I write to convince you that 1) I am an amazing person, that 2) you really want to be friends with me, and that 3) you want to read every blog entry I write, subscribe to my blog, and invite me to do cool stuff with you?  Here goes… (more…)