User:Treyzpop

Darrell Otteson, born October 28th 1957, was born in East Los Angeles. Father was White from Salt Lake City, Utah and Mom was black from Pineville, Louisiana. Darrell is the oldest of 4 boys. Later moving to South Los Angeles where he attended 54th Street Elementary, Orville Wright Jr. High and enrolled at Crenshaw High School, later transfering to Westchester High School.

After graduating high school, his father forced him to either attend college or enroll into barber college. at the age of 18, he recieved his Barber License and began a long 30 year career as a barber, first working in a shop in Culver City, across the street from MGM Studios where he would bump into the likes of Gary Coleman, Mr. T and many other celebrities, later becoming their personal barbers. In 1986, he along with his Dad and brother Darin, bought a barber shop in Torrance, Ca. With the help of family, they became a major influence within the South Bay community, becoming the personal barbers of Professional Baseball Player Jason_Kendall and the Kendall family, Greg_Townsend of the Oakland Raiders, Denny_Hockingof the Minnesota Twins, and many others.

After retiring from Barbering in 2006, Darrell found his next true passion in writing. Starting with short storied, both fiction and non-fiction, he has published a blog http://deezdialog.blogspot.com/for over a year now and has a vast following.