Over Memorial Day Weekend, my mother came to town to visit us in Knoxville, Tennessee. Lynn and I considered various activities designed to entertain her during her stay. It was Poison Pie, however, who suggested we contemplate bears. "Contemplate bears?" The idea was foreign to me. "The Notorious G would want to contemplate bears." I asked Poison Pie, "Who, pray heaven, is the Notorious G?" "The Notorious G," he explained, "is your mother's alternate gangsta persona." "Ah, I see." This was the first I had heard of it.