I'd seen Sometimes Jones throughout my life. But once, when I was a young, hungry actor living in my VW bus for almost a year on the streets of North Beach in San Francisco, I really got to know him. He's also world famous: in 1980 one of his film shorts, "Solly's Diner", got an Academy Award Nomination, even.

Sometimes Jones is a tall, thin, long-haired, storybook, cartoon, live-action, film, digital-video, scam-artist, thief/pickpocket/survivor trapped in a neighborhood & world full of people & karma that he's almost got completely figured out. Almost. But just not quite.

His age varies anywhere from 15 to 35. Sometimes he's smart, sometimes he's clueless, sometimes he's a thief, sometimes he's a hero. But, no matter who, what, where, or when: he's always tenacious, extremely serious and, just like the alley cat, he'll survive long after the search party has given up and the search planes have headed for home.

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