{"id":5588,"date":"2015-10-07T00:08:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=5588"},"modified":"2015-11-07T08:59:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T13:59:33","slug":"the-great-wizard-of-oakdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=5588","title":{"rendered":"The Great Wizard of Oakdale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(part of a series of events that happened on my birthday- October 4, 1974. \u00a0Just a cool example of what happens when you open yourself up to things…)<\/em><\/h6>\n

As we drove out from Yosemite to San Franscisco, we passed a man on a bike wearing a tie dye shirt and a wizard hat – carrying a dog in Oakdale. \u00a0As I motioned to Pete, he knew immediately that we would be turning around to try to make a shot .<\/p>\n

As we pull the U-turn, we see that the wizard has disappeared. \u00a0We pull into a parking lot for a trailer park, and Pete goes in to find out if the was there.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, he lived in the trailer park across the street.<\/p>\n

The Great Wizard was nice, gave us audience, and allowed us to make a picture of him. A proud cancer survivor at 77, he pointed to his urine bag attached to his hip as a badge of honor.<\/p>\n

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He was a great<\/em> chat – but it gave me that little nervous tickle in the hockles that he had this ever so\u00a0slight\u00a0resemblance to Charles Manson without his glasses on.<\/p>\n

It didn’t help that he was trying to find his way out to the Haight.<\/p>\n

…or\u00a0\u00a0that when I told him that it was my birthday in 1974 – he would say “Oh, i think i was getting out of another prison in 74. \u00a0Hey.. want to see the bracelet i got from a killer in San Quentin?”<\/p>\n

We paid The Great Wizard for our time with him, he showed us a couple of his spells and salutes, shared with us a walking cane he made in prison, and we were on our merry way blessed to be under his magical\u00a0protection.<\/p>\n

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