Not surprisingly, when it was my turn to parent, I was hell bent on being hands-on.
For example, I was hell bent on seeing So Solid Crew show up at the Lovebox festival last summer and breeze back through 21 Seconds while I bogled my way into the July sun.
When I had my son last year, I was hell bent and determined that I would breastfeed him, that I would become a warrior for nursing whenever and wherever I pleased.
When I met Credico I just had gotten out of prison and I was hell bent on going on a rescue mission to save others I had left behind.
I remember when I came out of the closet, I was hell bent on convincing my parents to jump over to my side of the fence and accept me as gay on my terms.
The "best Congress money can buy", as Mark Twain once called it, is hell bent on doing the bidding of its paymasters, stripping industry regulations by using the excuse that they are killing jobs.
I meanwhile, born on the outside of it all, was hell bent on breaking in.
It looked for every minute as if the team in red was hell bent on overturning the odds that last season gave Manchester's blue side, City, the Premiership title by the most slender margin in English history.
It was the late-90s, and Mayor Giuliani's "quality of life" campaign was hell bent on shutting down the clubs (and anywhere else you could dance, have sex, or enjoy yourself).
He was hell bent on a name change that unfortunately upset a lot of people.
The three oldest got pregnant before graduating from high school and dropped out, and the fourth was hell bent on getting her college education.
