My dear friend Melissa sent along a link to this article:

Coney Island ‘geek’ aspires to be ‘freak lawyer’
‘It was just time to go,’ tattoo-covered performer says of his sideshow days

which is a short AP article about another friend, Eak the Geek (aka Eduardo Arrocha) who until recently was a performer at Coney Island’s Sideshows by the Seashore and is now studying to be a lawyer at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, MI, after graduating last year from Marymount College in Manhattan with a degree in political science.

Eak is an exceptionally warm and friendly man, and undoubtedly the most unusual individual in his class. At age 45, he’s an imposing 6 foot tall man with dark tattoos of planets, stars and the like entirely covering his face (he tattooed his face with space!). He also stands as testament to the fact that one can achieve anything that they set their mind too, regardless of circumstance. He’ll have hard work ahead of him in breaking down social constructs and stereotypes, but he’s off to a hell of a start and, given his success so far, should have no trouble in the future.

Kudos go to him for drumming up such great press with his AM New York interview and the AP article that came from it. A quick search on Google for “sideshow freak wants to be a lawyer” turns up a list of no less than five solid pages of headlines from papers across the country, all featuring him prominently.

Interested in keeping up with his activities? He maintains a MySpace presence and is quite active with it, often sending out bulletins chronically his life, both mundane and extraordinary.

Thanks for the link, Melissa!

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