Category: Joshua P. Hooker

Joshua P. Hooker is an artist and quite a poet.  Hooker is one of the three authors of Bob Barker and Me: Life in Cell Block 7.

He was a Tattooist at 208 Tattoo and was formerly a Lifty at Brundage Mountain Resort.  He is now a Mechatronics Engineer at Mark Joseph Design.

In 2020, he began Studies of Advanced Mechatronics Engineering Technology at College of Western Idaho.

He is from Cedaredge, Colorado, and he now lives in Boise, Idaho.

Hooker’s hobbies allegedly include West African Dancing, Learning Croation, Cha-cha-cha, Yodeling, Dog Agility Competitions, Pilates, Wheelchair Fencing, and Sled Dog Racing.

Hooker is highly cool.  Heavily tatted, I learned he was a Tattoo Artist.  Hooker admitted to me that he has a drinking problem.

He was apparently so drunk one night that he hit two pedestrians with a car and didn’t know it.

I discovered that Hooker was quite a poet, and that was what led to Hooker, Gibson, and me writing this book.

I tried repeatedly to get Hooker to write his own bio, but he can be hard to catch.  LMFAO.  As this goes to press, we spoke for the first time in 8 years.  I love Hooker!

Bob Barker & Me: Life in Cell Block 7 is a new non-fiction book written by three unlikely cellmates in Cell Block 7 in the Ada County Idaho Jail. William M. Windsor, Joshua P. Hooker, and Alex T. Gibson had never met, came from totally different walks of life and generations, but they became fast friends and wrote as they spent 35 days together in a 240-square-foot cell in what amounted to maximum security in jail in Boise Idaho!

Bob Barker & Me – Life in Cell Block 7 is now available on Amazon.com.