All Hail the Emperor of San Francisco
All Hail the Emperor of San Francisco: San Francisco is known for being accepting of nonconformists, but few people better exemplify the city’s love of eccentricity than Joshua Abraham Norton, the self-proclaimed “Emperor of these United States.”
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He also famously appeared in an issue of Sandman.
Maybe I should declare myself to be the Emperor of Indiana and Protector of Kentucky...dissolve the state legislatures and go from there...
My schoolmate Deb Fox's band recorded with this label, named in his memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton_Records
Well, he was a pretty down-market Emperor. Didn't leave any imperial loot for me to inherit 8-)
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