Prince Mongo

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From the New Times comes this article about an interesting character:
The Alien Has Landed
It's Prince Mongo's planet. We only live on it.

The extraterrestrial sits on a couch in his bare feet, as always. He looks up at a blank artist's canvas hanging crookedly on the wall. Only it's not blank. There are vague grayish shapes and blotches in the white background.

"That picture is transforming right now," Prince Mongo proclaims. "It's the resurrection of the world. The Earth doesn't have much time left. We're on the second run right now. That painting is the tunnel to life."

When will it be finished?

"It won't end until the world ends. Then I will take the people I'm going to save back to Zambodia."

It may sound like the ravings of a demented street person babbling on the sidewalk, but Prince Mongo isn't homeless. He's sitting in his $2 million Fort Lauderdale home near Las Olas Boulevard. With a pool and an elevated wooden deck on the Intracoastal-connected canal in the backyard, it's a beauty of a place. And the home is apparently just a small part of his fortune. He also owns homes in Virginia Beach and Memphis, and he skis in Vail. "He's got more money than God," says his neighbor, Bill Concha.

But when Mongo sleeps, he does it on a little mat in the family room, like a poverty-stricken college student. He wears old T-shirts and shorts and, as mentioned, never, ever wears shoes (even when walking in the snow in Vail, he claims). "I don't need money," he says. "I live off the stars and the earth and the energy of the sun."

Prince Mongo isn't tall, maybe five-foot-seven, and he's got a pretty good-sized belly. He likes to eat. When I paid him a surprise visit last week, he offered me radishes, sushi, goat's milk, vegetable soup, and a ham sandwich. I told him I'd just had some eggs. "You ever have sardines and eggs?" he asked. "They're good."

The first thing I noticed was the change in his hair. When I'd first met Mongo the week before, his hair was grayish and seemed to have some kind of oil in it. Now it was pitch black, looking windblown and sticking straight up like something from a 1980s pop band. "It does funny things all the time," he said of his hair. "Some mornings, I'm blond. Some mornings, I'm a bush. And some mornings, it's black-black. There's great power in my hair; it helps protect me from demons trying to get near me."

Mongo looks to be in his 50s, but he says he's 333 years old. Three is his favorite number � it has some special significance in Zambodia, his original home nine light-years away.

"When I hit Earth, I fragmentized and went all over the world," he explains. "I then began assembling myself and still am."

His first identity on Earth was as a Blackfoot Indian chief in the Dakotas. Since then, he's had 33 wives, all of whom have died. "They can't last like I can," he explains.
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We aren't talking tin-foil hat time, this is tin-foil planet stuff. And people think I'm eccentric...

3 Comments

Intresting, do your feet ever get frost bitten? I've allways been intrested in such things, infact staying up late at nights watching tv marathons and what not, super neat, rock on

~ Jen

dear prince mongo,
if you ever read this which i doubt because of this sites terribly small size, i want you to know you made my life awsome, i can tell people of your story and then prove to them your real, thanks prince mongo, and good luck assembling yourself, dont work too hard on it though, later.
-Nick

Mongo if you read this I just wanted to thank you for making my time in memphis unforgettable!!! I was stationed at the naval air station during Marine Air Traffic Control School and fell in love with one of you bartenders at mongo's planet! Alyssa from CT. GREAT BLURRY Memories of Mongo's Planet! Quick question. I thought I remember it being called St. Mongo's Planet Circa 1994.
Take care!
Jim

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