Califa/Texas:Zoyd/Roky

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Ted Samsel wrote:

> > 
> > Ted says:  "Califa might "fund" loons but that would never happen in 
> > Texas."  If he's referring to the monthly mental disability check, the 
> > same apples in Texas--Roky gets his every month--some say for $200.00, 
> > and others say $300.00.
> 
> Bonnie,
>   I was referring to the "staged" aspect wherein Zoyd needs to "perform"
> in public to prove his state-o'-mind.
>   Roky was in Rusk State Hospital, the place where Texas puts its
> *criminally insane*, for several years in the '70s. Austin may be
> loose but it ain't Santa Cruz..... This was before his federal rap.
> 
> (Going into the faux logger's bar with the *ladies chain saw* in drag
> is a hoot, no?) Anyway, a logger's bar would be up the coast near
> Ukiah, CA. I can't see Roky in a pulpwooder's bar in E. Texas...
> 
> 
Roky was arrested in 1968 for possession of ONE joint.  for this, he 
plead insanity.  The line is that this gesture was inspired by his trust 
that this would keep him from doing time in a "regular" prison facility.  
He came out, it seems, worse off for this decision.  Nonetheless, Roky's 
insanity was most likely "staged."