John Wesley Jermyn

John Wesley Jermyn, also known as "The Crazy Robertson" or "The Robertson Dancer", is a homeless street performer in Los Angeles.

Jermyn grew up in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. A star athlete in high school, he was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 1969. He attended Pepperdine University and played a year for a minor-league team. In the late 1970s he began to suffer from schizophrenia, for which he refuses to take medication. In the 1980s he began his current practice of skating about and dancing to music dressed in spandex on the streets of West Los Angeles, where he is a well-known fixture. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119498984049791758.html?mod=Letters In West L.A., A Homeless Man Inspires New Brand] , Jon Weinbach, "Wall Street Journal", November 14, 2007. Accessed on line December 1, 2007.]

In October 2007, a group of entrepreneurs marketed a clothing label with stylized images of Jermyn. The label was developed with the cooperation of Jermyn, who receives royalties from its sales. [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2891001.ece It's Crazy, down-and-out is new king of fashion] ,Tony Allen-Mills, "The Sunday Times", November 18, 2007. Accessed on line December 1, 2007.]

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* [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119498984049791758-email.html Wall Street Journal Profile]
*Youtube videos: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTS0OtuUyiY skating] , [http://youtube.com/watch?v=CTPeVn6uh_Y dancing]
* [http://www.myspace.com/thecrazyrobertson Myspace page]