We have a character here in Tulsa who was an earlier version of Frank Chu (featured in your “tomany” link). His name is Gene Burns, aka Accountability Burns, aka Einstein 5. Instead of protesting, he’s a perennial candidate, using idiosyncratic spelling to complete candidate questionnaires. His platform usually involves Mars, and often mentions his wife, who, he says, is being held for an “imposibul ransum” in the “trigabux” range. Then there was the guy I saw at a table on a plaza at the Stanford campus about 10 years ago, typing away on a manual typewriter, with a stack of old newspapers beside him. Photocopies of his writings were taped to walls here and there. Every city has one, I suppose.