Evidently, Melvin Durbuloid WAS a true character around Boise a number of years ago, as my brother Erik pointed out in this post, Speaking of Squatters… I haven’t actually heard from Melvin himself but I did hear from a few of his friends who live in Seattle now and were wondering who Erik was (not sure if Erik responded to them). Now I’ve heard from somebody else who says Melvin was a character around San Francisco as well. Mike writes: “I worked as a Custodian at San Francisco International Airport in the early 1980’s and someone used to write ‘Melvin Durbuloid was here’ all over the restrooms or else “Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Durbuloid’.” His comment is also posted at the above-named post.
Interesting. So, where are you Melvin Durbuloid and do we want to know who you are?
Oops! Send me the info again, I’ll try to respond to them.
I resent you his email address to your hotmail account.
I AM the real Melvin Durbuloid. I don’t remember the San Francisco airport incident listed above, however, I’ve lived in both SF Bay Area and Boise. I was fixated on the official, scientific names of the races, all ending in “Oid”, so that explains that. “Melvin Durbuloid” was a name I cooked up, probably symbolic of how alien I felt, which is why I didn’t classify myself among the three main, human racial groups.
The name was a combination of the work “Mergatroyd” (probably a MAD Magazine thing), and “Dipplible Nergleoig”.. a nonsense word I made up.
By the way, I don’t do graffiti anymore. I don’t do a lot of things I did back then anymore. At the time, it seemed a clever experiment… can I start a trend in the use of the word Melvin Durbuloid, simply by writing it on bathroom walls? Nowadays, my adult self would have kicked my younger selves ass for doing that!
And no, contrary to the other post, I wasn’t a squatter. Parents actually paid for my stay at Chaffee. However, I was a comedian, and -well.. let’s just say those were my “Jim Ignatowski” days. I was so fixated on being a non-conformist at a time of REaganomics and conformity.. but.. well, maybe carried it a little to far. So, sorry about tacking the Chicken Embryo to the bulletin board.
Ah, to be young again!
PS.. you wanna see what I’m into now? Go to wallys.com, my website. I’m a voice actor and artist, among other things.
And I guess you have stood up! I will go to your website and check it out….:-)
My favorite Melvin Durbuloid experience was in the Men’s washroom at Boise State university’s Student Union Building. Washing my hand, I looked in the mirror and saw someone had written “Melvin Durbuloid” on the wall.
But wait! In order for me to be reading it -in the mirror-, it had to be written in reverse on the wall! Very clever!