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He is also the official [[clown]] of the [[Grateful Dead]]<ref>[http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/explore/ady.cfm?day=18&month=3&year=2006 This Week in the Arts, March 12-18, "March 15, 1936-Clown-Activist Wavy Gravy Born"</ref>, and has two radio shows on Sirius Satellite Radio's ''[[Jam On]]'' station.<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.sirius.com/jamon SIRIUS Satellite Radio]</ref>
== Biography==
Romney was
===Name change===
At the [[Texas International Pop Festival]] Romney was lying onstage, exhausted after spending hours trying to get festivalgoers to put their clothes back on,<ref name="Dallasnews"/> when it was announced that B.B. King was going to play. Romney began to get up; a hand appeared on his shoulder. It was B.B. King, who asked, "Are you Wavy Gravy?" to which Romney replied "Yes." "It's OK; I can work around you," said B.B. King, and he proceeded to play. Romney said he considered this a mystical event, and assumed Wavy Gravy as his legal name.<ref name=bio>[http://www.wavygravy.net/bio/biography.html Wavy's Biography<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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With hundreds of men being detained (women were held separately) in the “Hotel Diablo” – actually the old gymnasium at [[Cuesta College]] in [[San Luis Obispo]], CA – after arrests during the September 1981 [[Abalone Alliance]] organized, anti-nuclear protest, trespass/occupation and [[civil disobedience]] action at [[Diablo Canyon Power Plant]], Wavy organized and acted as MC for an amusing variety show that he called the “Tornado of Talent” which featured, among other performers – after the guards had allowed an acoustic guitar to be brought into the “jail” – [[Jackson Browne]].
=== Nobody's Business ===
Wavy Gravy established the store "Nobody's Business" across the road from the Hog Farm,<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/still-hippy-after-all-these-years-395296.html Brown, Jonathan "Still hippy after all these years" ''Independent'' UK, October 25, 2007] </ref> reminiscent of his "Nobody for President" campaign — as in: "Who's in Washington right now working to make the world a safer place? Nobody!"; "Nobody's Perfect"; "Nobody Keeps All Promises"; "Nobody Should Have That Much Power"; etc. (His late pet pig was also named Nobody.)
The "Nobody for President" campaign held a rally across from the White House on November 4, 1980 that included [[Yippies]] and a few [[anarchist]]s to promote the option of "none of the above" choice on the ballot. After criticizing [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[John Anderson]], the committee offered the "perfect" candidate: Nobody. "Nobody makes apple pie better than Mom. And Nobody will love you when you're down and out." Wavy Gravy told a crowd of 50 onlookers at the rally.<ref>''The New York Times'' "Anarchists Push Cause of 'None of the above'" November 5, 1980</ref>
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*[http://www.campwinnarainbow.org/scholarships/scholarships.html Camp Winnarainbow Scholarship Fund]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L55m4kjfRro Wavy Gravy video from Seventh Hour Blues]
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*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5052096054843836584&q=goldpants%2Bproductions Wavy Gravy's 70th Birthday Bash] - video shot and edited by Wavy's son, documenting Wavy's 70th birthday party in Berkeley.
*[http://www.rippleeffectfilms.com/ Saint Misbehavin'] - a film (about Wavy) in progress by
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