What a ride

Captain Outrageous -- artist, bon vivant, raconteur, political candidate -- had a stroke Friday night, and a heart attack on the way to the hospital. They airlifted him to Miami -- his first trip out of the Keys in 15 years, but his brain was dead by the time he got to the mainland. He was 66.

I didn't take pictures of the impromptu memorial at the gate of his house on Caroline, draped with beads and decked with flowers. Instead I repeat the picture of his car I posted in November, even more to the point now than then: