Celebrity Sighting Today!

[maggie~hamilton]

No, not Britney or Nicole or Wilford Brimley...

It was the ARCHBISHOP DON MAGIC JUAN!

I saw this guy pumping gas in L.A. today. He was wearing one of his full-on "pimp daddy" getups -- at two in the afternoon. I had to bite my tongue to keep from asking him, "Aren't you a little early for trick-or-treat?"

He was driving a lime-green and white Rolls Royce with gold trim and a white and lime-green leather interior. Yeah! Righton-righton baaaaaybeee!!

I did not know who he was - assumed he was just another "Colorful Hollywood Nut." Figured if he was anyone really famous, he'd have his People on hand to pump his gas for him. But no, no peeps. Just him getting down with his own bad self, all by himself.

But I was wrong about him not being famous - I saw his a website address on a sticker on the back of his car (yes, a bumper sticker on the goldplated bumper of a Rolls-Royce), so I checked it out when I got home. See link.

However, it looked like the "Archbishop" may have fallen on hard times - his Fine Looking Threads were pretty thread-bare and greasy-looking, and his Rolls was dingy looking with quite a few dings and dangs in it and the fine paint job was peeling off around the corners and edges. When he took off with a roar, there was a huge belch of oily black smoke from the rattling tailpipe.

There was a dark and unsettling 'aura' around him.

Has a real nice website, though.

http://www.thebishop.us/default.html

 

[whirlcool]

Somehow, I don't think there is any way in hell that you could be politically correct when discussing this guy's uh...er... "culture". I just don't see how anything positive could come out of it.

 

[brettsomers]

There was a dark and unsettling 'aura' around him.

aura? dont be silly, Maggie. that was just the cloud of smoke coming out of the exhaust.

 

[rickr]

My boyfriends real dad was a pimp like this dude, and has been locked up since 1980. Back in the day, I remember him rolling through the hood in his pimped out Caddys with the fur interior, always dressed to the nine.Everybody knew of him around here. Big floppy hats, the bling, the flashy coloured suits, and the girls of course. His street name was "Flash" and the name fit perfectly. His lic. plates were Flash one and Flash two on his Caddys. I remember Flash from the 1970's. I never knew what happened to him, as he was never around anymore after the 1970's. He was always into something,and if he said he was going to kill someone, he really did it. But the law could never seem to get any charges to stick. Flash was so slippery, plus he knew the right people on both sides of the law.

My boyfriend didn't tell me who his real dad was until we had known each other for awhile, and so I did finally find out what happened to Flash. One of his girls ripped him off, and he jumped on her for it. She was pissed and went to the cops. She claimed rape, but Flash didn't touch her like that. At any rate, the law finally had something to get him on, so they threw the book at him. He was sentenced on 10/12/1982, and will be released on 6/10/2018.

 

[sudsmaster]

36 years is a long long time...

But if he really did murder people I suppose it's a light punishment.

I remember when I attended Cal Berkeley in the 70's, that it seemed pimps were all over the place, esp Telegraph Avenue, which was on my walking route home. I mean, these were flashy 70's pimps, with the pants suits, ornate polyester shirts, platform shoes, big floppy hats, fur trim, the works. I was a bit mystified, since just one article of clothing they wore probably cost more than my year's clothing budget. It seemed like such a waste. Then the city cleaned up the many "massage parlors" and the pimp activity seemed to die down quite a bit.

 

[maggie~hamilton]

There was a dark and unsettling 'aura' around him.

I was serious! He just oozed an ugly, smarmy, funky sort of evil.

 

[rickr]

It will be 38 years total for "Flash" as he was in jail for 2 years prior to his sentencing to prison in 1982.
If he threatened to kill someone, and they still did not do what he wanted or betrayed him, he would kill them. I know that as fact.

This "Bishop" dude looks stuck in the early 1970's. I don't ever see anybody dressed like that in the hood these days, and have not for decades. They would be laughed right outa here. "The Bishop" looks like he's ready for Tricks or Treat!! lol!