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Ace Backwords is a former cartoonist, writer and semi-normal human being. He's been sleeping in the bushes in the Berkeley hills for the last ten years with his four feral cats, Moo Cat, Fatty, Mini Scaredy and Micro Scaredy. Future plans include growing old and dying. Preferably in that order.
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Acid Heroes 
did you ever have stalkers when you sold at the corner?
I didn’t get stalkers, per se. But I would periodically have problems with some people. As most of the Telegraph vendors sometimes did (more than a few of them kept a baseball bat stashed under their vending tables in case they had to deal with unruly customers). There was always a wild element underlying that corner of Telegraph and Haste (half a block from People’s Park and a magnet for the street scene). So it was inevitable that you’d occasionally have to deal with some volatile characters. And I dealt with them as best I could…. How are things with your vending table these days down the block?
Also, too, I used to stay out there sometimes until midnight. So things could get hopping. Especially on the weekends…. I miss it in a lot of ways. It was a lot of fun.
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