I saw Omer and stopped and listened for a bit at 22nd and Valencia today. We’ve posted about him a couple times now, but no one ever seems to respond, so we thought we’d look for a better picture. Here it is, courtesy of Flickr user balmes. Recognize him yet? Scary as he can be at times, we have all his records and believe him to be a real-deal musical talent. Any stories?
Previously on Mission Mission:
Ah yes, he is part of my neighborhood hobo group (along with Bartlett parking guy and hunched-back lady). As far as I know he goes by Bum Jovi and occasional plays random songs.
I’ve always known him to be rude to women, so I tend to avoid him. But I also know he likes extra dressing on his salads (which he also like to have a lot of veggies in them).
that’s all I got.
one of my favorite troubadours in front of on my my favorite storefronts. nice, MM!
now, i heard he was also a part of Hoawrd Stern’s “whack pack” back during his NYC days. but i can’t find anything that says so. anyone else hear this?
anyway, he’s a delightful (and sometimes not so much) cad.
Oh, and there’s more over at Yelp:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/omer-travers-san-francisco
…if it’s of any help.
He’s an ass and I wish he’d go back to the Haight.
Quite the character. He once followed me and my fella for 5 minutes while we walked down Valencia trying to convince me my fiance looked like Pavarotti. He’s sweet and entertaining at times, irritating at others, just like everyone else in the world.
The other day he stopped me to do his “Governator” impression. It was bad, but I told him it was not bad.
Omer is quite hit or miss, but is one of the better Valencia St personalities. Much better than that wacked out acid chick or the old guy with a beard that asks you for a quarter everytime.
i like his version of blue suede shoes better than anyone else’s in the world
He’s clearly insane, but he’s a jerk.
Once I was wearing a pink shirt and he decided I was a German homosexual, both of these things pissed him off. He followed me for a while shouting nasty, mainly about how America wasn’t for queers or foreigners.
not really my fave crazed homeless guy.
I was grabbing dinner at Valencia Pizza and Pasta Saturday night before movie in the park, when Omer ran full tilt down the street, did a skid stop at the restaurant door, and barked out “This is a WARNING! There are leprachans out there!” Then he ran away.
Oh yeah this jerk. EVERYTIME I walk by he starts about the gays and how I’m a dyke. The day the gay marriage ruling came down he stops singing and yells out at me ‘ you gays are taking away the will of the people!’. I hate him almost as much as the jerk in the straw hat who tries to paw all the women on Valencia.
Live and let live man!
I’ve seen him in my ‘hood since I moved here 12 years ago. I’ve never had any direct encounter with him, but he’s walked into stores where I’ve been an annoyed clerks and other customers. For some reason the first shout out from him I ever hear in 1996 still sticks with me: “This is a kick ya while you’re down kinda town.”
Used to have a daughter who would hang around sometimes and he used to not be so crazy. This was mid 90s. Haven’t seen the kid since the old Club (time for good coffee and coffee drinks!) dude went insane in his own custody situation sometime circa ’98. Now he just yealls at me about how I am a fag whenever he sees me.
he called me an asshole, but then saw that i was a girl and sort of went, “…uhhh…”
So i thought he was pretty considerate. considering.
just now i saw omer perform the spider-man theme song, and it was good
I call him Little David Johansen. Look closely, he is a smaller version of the already small… a crazier version of the already crazy David Johansen. A funnier version of the already funny Buster Poindexter.
He’s a pig who yells out racist, sexist and anti-gay remarks. There’s nothing endearing about him at all.
dude is mentally ill.
now why would you want to mess with Omer y’all. cmon you fuks
he spit at a friend of mine screaming and acting irrational;he runs up the styreet spitting on taqueria windows..piece of garbage…piece of feces..thats all. totally unintelligible.needs a couple teeth kicked out of his head