About Me
***Disclaimer: Due to the believability of this story and many of my friends taking this story as fact (or just confusing the hell out of them) I must note that this is not true. It is as simple as I was bored one day at work and wrote this story. It is for entertainment purposes only. My life isn't that exciting and I enjoy my privacy and only my close friends need to know the real me.***
I have a very deep and disturbed past and a true understanding of me can only be
obtained by learning of my past and my father. I was
adopted and grew up with only a dad in a single parent family, as an only child.
My dad, Donald Cousineau, started his career in the late 70's as a Lawyer
with the ACLU and specialized in fighting for men's rights during the women's
movement. My dad's biggest case was how men are discriminated against as parents
either during the adoption process or during custody cases after divorces.
He began the process of trying to adopt a child, me, to prove his point,
but the adoption actually went through so he didn't really have much of a case.
He eventually lost interest as a lawyer and focused on his true passion, music.
Sadly he wasn't a very good musician. Basically his music skills were limited to an electronic Casio keyboard. Although he was able to make a deal with a new up and coming video game manufacturer, Nintendo, and developed many of the classic theme songs for the NES including Super Mario Bros, Kung Fu, Punch Out, and Tetris, just to name a few. Nintendo, shortly after contracting him to develop the theme songs, weren't happy with having an American develop them and attempted to steal the songs and write them off as their own. But since Don was a lawyer and knew all about copyright issues, he was well covered in this area and Nintendo had no choice. They ended up making a deal to continue to pay royalties for the music but not list Donald Cousineau in the video game credits, which Don didn't care about anyway, and would instead insert a made up Japanese name as the theme composer to cover their shame. This has been a well guarded secret by Nintendo and they will deny any accusations if questioned.
Even though Don was never able to be successful as a musician after
this, he was able to live fairly well as a middle income father off of the
royalties. In his spare time he would continuously watch TV and he even became part of
the Neilson Family project in the late 80's. Being a non-conformist hippy, he
purposely watched shows that a middle age man would never watch like Pokemon,
The View, Oprah, The Price is Right and Wheel of Fortune just to throw off the
Neilson ratings. This in turn would only make him more angry with women to an
almost unhealthy level.
With this background, it's not to say he was not a good father. Not having to
work all day meant he could spend each and every minute needed with his one and
only son Bryan (me). We would spend time playing hockey (the name Cousineau is
Canadian), enjoying the outdoors and of course watching hours upon hours of
television and playing video games. My father and I grew to have a great
love for each other and I respected him very much and because of
this I became very much like my father.
It wasn't until I left for college that my dad told
me that, not only was I adopted, but adopted by accident
out of spite for a court trial. I, being a confused 18 year old, rebelled
against my dad for the first time and didn't speak to him for years while
away at college. I changed my plans of becoming a lawyer and then one day
becoming president of Nintendo USA to instead become an Engineer, something
lawyers HATE because there is no way to "bend the truth" with science. It
wasn't until I was nearly finished with my Bachelor of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering that I had come to grips with my adoption past and
reconnected with my father.
Today I work as an Electrical Engineer for Nintendo USA, love hockey and
the outdoors especially bicycling and backpacking, love classic rock,
especially Led Zeppelin, play guitar and trombone, I have an incredible knowledge
of pop culture TV trivial, an unusual love of cereal, a slight prejudice against
women and occasionally rally for men's rights.