Who is Chicken John?
Chicken John is a Showman living in San Francisco. A contributor and instigator with a long history of arranging serendipity to accommodate Chaos when it comes to destiny’s place for dinner. He is a documented confusionist. He is a qualified insultant. He is also, most notably, a mechanic. He owns a gigantic bus and a small dog. In his spare time he enjoys long walks off a short pier, underwater basket weaving and writing dumb bio’s about himself.
Chicken John Rinaldi is a self styled showman who is well known in the San Francisco Bay area, with a variety of careers to his credit. Chicken John has owned nightclubs, and performed with a number of punk rock bands through the years. His style is most often defined as eclectic, and his ironic sense of humor is considered one of his defining characteristics. Alternately praised as an artist and a con man, Chicken John announced his intention to declare himself as a candidate in the San Francisco Mayoral Race for 2007, against the popular incumbent, Gavin Newsom. Here is some background on Chicken John and his wildly varied career. Not a great deal of public information is available about John Rinaldi. Growing up as the son of Victor and Patricia Rinaldi, Chicken John has hinted from time to time that he was interested in an esoteric approach to life early on. His popular nickname, according to some sources, came about because young John refused to fight bullies in his neighborhood. L
