I was just considering writing about him!
I'm also a Brit who used to live in Santa Cruz. Apparently his 'slow walking down the high street' act has been going on for some years, carefully straddling the line between performance art and crazy. He's only been wearing the Pink get up for about the last two years. He put it on for valentines day one year when he was feeling down and it cheered him up so much he's been wearing it ever since. Before that he used to wear bin liners. not normal bin liners but an immaculatly tailored suit, made from bin liners. He also claims to be an Ex-NASA electrical engineer and He once ran for president on the platform of opening up the moon for commercial exploitation.

Despite all of this I'm not sure if the guy is crazy or not. Admittedly the bar is rasiedcosiderably in this part of California( www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/10.26.05/weird-0543.html) but despite his eccentric get up he appears quite lucid and articulate when you talk to him.
(Mickeyburns, Mon 3 Nov 2008, 17:23, Reply)