Who is the most infamous person you've met?

[GReedDiamond]

96. I'll start with Dr. Timothy Leary...

...I did artwork for an underground comic book based on and endorsed by Leary - Timothy Leary Neuro Comics - Last Gasp, 1979.

The comic was instigated by George DiCaprio, who wrote the script for the book, based on Leary's writing.

So, infamous or not, I also know/worked with Leo's dad.

I also know, and have been weirdly associated with Aron Kay, the YIPPIE! Pieman. For example, I was his "official representative" at Jack Herer's memorial service.

(Search youtube: benedict arnold and the traitors death penalty for pot)

Plus, I knew Jack Herer - way before he died - when he was writing his famous "Emperor..." book, when he and me and we and McGee used to hang out with each other and others at my art studio in Pasadena CA, circa 1982-84.

In another area of "interest," right after the OJ Simpson "slow speed chase," I met Al Cowlings, at a garment manufacturing company I was freelancing for. That was creepy.

I have also met and conversed with El Duce of the Mentors - RIP - a fairly infamous early L.A. punk rock guy, often cited in "Curt Cobain was murdered by Courtney" conspiracy theories - when he used to hang out at the Cathay de Grande.

I also know the guy (I won't mention his name here) that ran the Los Angeles underground ("hippie&quot paper in the 60s, which ran Charles Manson's official statement after he and his cult gang were charged with the grisly Tate-La Bianca murders. The same statement from the paper was copied and used as the back cover art for Manson's "LIE" album, released by the Family and sold to raise money for The Manson Family defense fund.

I also knew a Psychic (aka charlatan) known as "Helias." One day in early 1978, he was called to consult Hustler Magazine publisher/pornographer/shit-stirrer Larry Flynt.

Helias told me he had to go to Georgia to "advise" Flynt, and he asked me if he could borrow my luggage for his flight.

This was one week before Flynt's assassination attempt, which left Flynt, well, all fucked up.

Helias returned from Georgia after (apparently, poorly) "psychically advising" Flynt, and I never got my luggage back.

Apparently, after that, Helias became a born-again, Psychic Debunker (aka charlatan), often appearing on the 700 Club.

I also knew, performed with, and own the former drums of the infamous drummer Dewey Martin of the Buffalo Springfield, RIP Dewey.

There are others...