Crazy at the bus stop.

I take the bus. It's generally how I get around. Now, downtown, there's a place where the buses all meet so the passengers can transfer between them. At this place, there are, naturally, some bus shelters where people can wait. It's pretty common to see things posted there. Ads for concerts or comedy shows, flyers for parties at clubs, ads for various things people are selling, all that sort of general stuff. The stuff you'll generally see posted on telephone poles and the like.

Now, a couple weeks ago, I found something... different. I found this.

That's certainly a... thing, there.


It's a two page rant about... something? I'm honestly not sure what the hell this guy is on about. He mentions the President a couple times. He makes a big deal about "OB in 08", saying "notice that?" which has two possible interpretations: 1) He thinks that initials work backwards and that the President's backwards initials resembling the year he was elected is important, or 2) Something about tampons that I can't quite suss out.

The whole thing is generally incoherent. It's been up there for at least two weeks, now. I haven't noticed anyone else even looking at it. Are we really so jaded that nobody even bothers to notice the insane screed taped above the bench at the bus stop?

So, about the guy who wrote this... thing. His name is John Wilkinson. I've heard of him before because he had, this past summer, taped bus schedules all over the bus shelters, along with little cards with his name, and something about a "Ralph Nader campaign" for mayor. I figured he was running for mayor and wanted the bus rider vote, because that's totally a voting block that exists. I just filed that in the back of my mind and went on with my life. Then, I find this crazy whatchamacallit. Inspired by the madness, I turned to Google. "Google," I said, "Who the fuck is this lunatic?" "Well, Rachel," Google said (In my mind, Google is a person and talks to me. Don't you judge me.), "Look at this page." It turns out that he's a local maniac who has had correspondence with these guys, and tends to stuff insane letters in his neighbors' mailboxes. Oh, and he has a Twitter account, full of incoherent, homophobic tweets.

So, yeah... Just some of the weirdass shit I keep finding in the world around me.