To be accurate, this person is not a panhandler, he is a street performer. Go check him out most evenings along 4th Ave!

Name: Richard

Age: 29

Hobbies: Music and Cooking. "Soon I'll be in an apartment and I want to go to SPSCC to study music first, then cooking. I already have 6 months of community college from Seattle, so I have a head start."

Favorite Books: The Bible, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit, Grimms Fairy Tales and poetry by William Blake and Jim Morrison

Favorite Movies: Apocalypse Now, Young Guns, Maverick, Last of the Mohicans, Legend, The Princess Bride

Richard on the difference between street performing and panhandling: "The difference is street performers actually do something, offering some skills, to not necessarily make money, but to get money. I've never asked for money while I was sitting on the street. I've been given some money for doing it, but I make a point to not sit and ask for money.

The only thing I can think of that I would panhandle for is a shower. I don't think I would ask for much else. I live at Camp Quixote, so I pretty mush can get everything else. I do what I do for fun. The store owner, some of them actually like it. They say sometimes I can come play by their store anytime. It's more of a hobby an trying to make money. Lately, over by the Camp, I go play by an empty building so one one will be disturbed.

As soon as I get back into school and get an apartment I'll stop because I'll be able to practice inside."