Daniell Thornton 1996 alumnus passing through campus

"Fetish" gives his dreadlocks some air, explains his beef with beef, and pays tribute to the Bible

Wildcat: My name's Nathan and you're On the Spot. The yellow net on your head? What's that for?

Thornton: This is like a babushka. It's just to contain my dreadlocks and keep them tight.

Wildcat: That's cool. I thought about growing dreadlocks but like, I don't think it would look good on me, and I think I'm going bald. Like on the top right here, like a nest.

Thornton: One thing you got to do is not wear any kind of hats. Something like this, where your head can breathe. And you've got to clean up your diet. You can't have anything that is overly saturated. Like fish is good for you. Any other kind of meat or anything that has blood to it you shouldn't mess around with. 'Cause all the toxins that are in that animal are getting passed off to you.

Wildcat: Are you a vegetarian?

Thornton: I'm supposed to be a vegetarian.

Wildcat: You're supposed to be? What does that mean? You eat at McDonald's every once in a while?

Thornton: Every once in a while I do, but I don't want to. I don't like McDonald's, you know. Every once in a while ...

Wildcat: Hey man, sometimes you got to bust a Big Mac. Part of life, you're cravin' it. Do you know who Percy Shelley is? He was an English poet and he was a vegetarian ... but he drowned.

Thornton: It says in the Bible you should not eat anything with a cloven hoof, and so anything that has hoof ...

Wildcat: Yeah, but didn't it also say later on that, "Don't call defiled what I have made clean," ... or something like that?

Thornton: Some people say that, but that's the New Testament. And the New Testament isn't the same as the Old Testament ...

Wildcat: Do you have a mystic name?

Thornton: Other than "Fetish," no.

Wildcat: "Fetish?"

Thornton: Mmm-hmm. One of my middle names is Eshu, which is a god's name in Ethiopian texts.