Joaquin Venegas

Joaquin Venegas' storied career began cruelly in the winter of 1942, in a small logging village in south eastern Russia. His father was a local drunk and his mother, a humble plane mechanic. He started acting in home stage productions of Shakespeare's Hamlet with his friends at the local pond, directed by Igor, a brickmason who'd lost both his arms in the war. He found an artistic voice in these harsh beginnings, traveling the globe to distant and exotic lands such as Stalingrad and Moscow to hone his craft. He trimmed his fledgling peach fuzz with rusted hair clippers (the big kind) and showered in the melting snows beneath the eves of the barn next door. Befriending a Donkey named Donavon, he set out to Hollywood, eventually working with his childhood heroes: Betty Boop and A Man Named Lucy. He died shortly after from a progressive, degenerative, oblique, synonyms. He is survived by 7 daughters, a hamster (2002-2003), 3 half eaten lasagnas, a broken television, and a disgruntled ex wife, Britney, whom has awayed with his meager earnings to marry a Bolivian man named Esteban.