Last year I was in the Los Feliz area, stuck in traffic, and I locked eyes with a homeless man wandering down the sidewalk. He stepped off the curb and tapped on my window. I tried to get a good look at him while I searched for loose change piled in my cup holders. He was fairly short, bearded, and was carrying stack of papers in his hands. Made me curious; I rolled down my window. The man walked a little closer, smiled at me, and held up a sign I hadn’t noticed before. It said: “$1 Stories.”
The story I bought, Transylvania Time: Count Dracula Sucks Through Time, was written and illustrated by a man named Ronald Raydon. It’s amazing. If you look closely at the front page you’ll notice that Ronald “copyrighted” the story himself, so I did some research to make sure it’s technically legal for me to post it on my blog. And, well, I’m pretty sure it is, but check below for information on how to throw Ronald some bread.
The only information Ronald provides his readers is this address: 601 South San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, California 90014 . I did a quick Google search and realized it’s the address of The Midnight Mission. If you read and enjoyed this story it’d be really amazing if you donated $1 in support of a great cause and original talent: https://www.applyweb.com/public/contribute?tmmcont
Read about more Ronald Raydon sightings:
http://boingboing.net/2009/07/24/ronald-raydon-storie.html
http://everydayfrustone.tumblr.com/post/1131101382/ronald-raydon-story-a-crime-in-time-excerpt
http://eriksreport.blogspot.com/2010/01/displaced-storyteller.html
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January 23, 2012
I’m going to go looking for homeless people in Los Feliz now. Awesome!