I. Gonzalez, Jr., dubbed "Prego" by his friends, was born and raised in Buffalo, New York by Venezuelan parents.

He was highly politicized as a child, often going out trick-or-treating as a leftist guerilla or as Bozo the Clown.

When he wasn't scribbling hammers and sickles on his desk at school, he was on the kitchen table drawing soup cans while his mother made arepas.

Eventually, "Prego" grew up and amounted to nothing.

Well, he does own a pencil.

He currently lives behind the dumpster on Grant and Ferry Streets with his toothless wife and three nogoodnik sons.

He loves oxygen and extolls the virtues of the guy who invented the sandwich.