Amos? What are you going on about? Are you okay or off your meds again? Are you getting enough sleep or must Mom hold you in her arms and rock you, all the while crooning "The Ballad of One-Ball Reilly" as she has in the past?

The person who asked me to ask Chongo is named Antonio G. (I'm not authorized to give you his last name) and he lives in Malibu. I posted it as he sent it to me, signature and all.

Amos, yours is not the only name that begins with the letter "A". Even my middle name begins with that letter. My brother's first name does. My late Aunt Annie's first name did. So did Adam's name. The names of Abraham Lincoln, Asa Mercer, Al Capp, Alphonse Capone, Annie Oakley, Albert of Sax-Coberg-Gotha, Alexander the Great. The letter "A" has a pedigree nearly as vast as the letter "M" -- but it can mean more than "Amos."