Posted at 1:13 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 19, 2000
News of the weird
By CHUCK SHEPHERD
Universal Press Syndicate

Homelessness with flair

"I may be homeless," said former nurse Chester Goode, "but I'm the most stylish homeless person you'll ever meet." Goode, 46, was interviewed by a clearly impressed Miami Herald reporter in April, amidst the framed impressionist paintings, potted palms, fluted vases, decorative baskets, crystal decanter and a faux-antique phone (unconnected) in his classy, black-fabric-walled, tarpaulin-roofed space in the woods off 18th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. Goode says he is driven by the need for quiet: "Boom boxes, teen-age children, I just can't handle them."