Mr Citron & Mr Sissel (with Douche Bag Stranger between)
Allow me to introduce to you all the Cassady to my Kerouac, the McInerney to my Ellis, the Oscar to my Thompson - co-conspirator, friend, and fellow writer – Harrison Lane Sissel. We were introduced about a year ago by mutual-friends who knew us separately as writers thinking we’d get along. We did.
Apart from our shared knack for writing, both Harrison and myself found we shared much in common shortly after meeting. For starters we’re both adopted (furthermore into Jewish families), like myself, Harrison spent most of his teen-years in one rehab or another with his late-teens/early-twenties spent bouncing from one end of the Country to the other, eventually landing in Los Angeles. Our tastes almost identical. And if we didn’t look so different from one another, we’d swear we’re biological siblings.
Hell, we were even given the same picture book to read as children when our respected Mom’s and Dad’s first broke the so you’re adopted news. I think the third or fourth night Harrison and I hung-out writing and bullshitting and whatnot we were both talking about being adopted and I brought up the books cover – remembering for some reason a cover with with a kid on a trike – to which Harrison lit up, ran into his bedroom, and later produced the very book…
The Book
This coinsidence at the time blew our minds, but looking back, I’m thinking probably the above book was the adopted-kids’ equivelent to Everybody Poops. Anyway, in short time we found a lot in common in one another and thus a friendship was born. And with all we have in common, there are polar-opposites where we’re concerned that in a way make us a complete package – covering all the angles (if you will)…
We’ve been nick-named The Twins, Hall and Oates, and our favorite, the adopted jew crew… and those who are in our current life would be surprised to find us without the other…
The way I figure, why should the internet be any different?
With a little help, Harrison’s beginning to put some of his fictions and facts on the web and I’m sure once the ball gets rolling, we’ll work on a few collaberations as well.
Far too lazy and tired to write more of This Brat Pack 2.0, I’ll hold off more info for later. For now, give his blog a looking at by CLICKING HERE.
And ready yourself to see more of the man in the future…
