John Paul Pirolli got the name "Buddah" in his college years. He was sitting on the floor and someone said "you look just like Buddah". It stuck.

In the late sixties, Buddah sold the Boston Avatar, Boston' first alternative paper . He sold it in Harvard Square when I was a student there. One day a cop told him it was illegal to sell papers without a license. Buddha went to the library and found out this was true but that it was legal to sell fish on the street. The next day the same cop found Buddha selling The Phoenix in The Square. "I thought I told you it was illegal to sell papers?" he said to Buddah. "I'm not selling papers" Buddha told him, holding up a tiny sardine and wrapping it in a copy of The Phoenix. "I'm selling fish, fifty cents each..."

Buddah is a Gnostic Bishop and the highest-ranking member of the Priory de Sion. See "I'm not Lyin', I'm Sion" at: http://www.dagobertsrevenge.com/index.html?news01

Buddah was one of Jan Kerouac's's closest friends in the last years of her life. Together they tacked posters of Jan in khakis all over New York City, a poster imitating the famous Levi's ad featuring Jack Kerouac in khakis with the slogal "Kerouac wears khakis". They were advertising Jan's appearance at the NYU Jack Kerouac conference, where Jan was thrown out by the University police at the behest of Allen Ginsberg. Gerry Nicosia was there at the time. Jan, Buddha and Gerry then staged a small demonstration outside the NYU building.

JACK KEROUAC'S LAST WORDS

The day I filmed him Budah wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the famous October 20th letter, Jack Kerouac's last written words on this earth.