Bob Bern and John Kennedy's Friendship

Bern fascinated john kennedy tool and according to many colleagues at sli he was the inspiration for the character of ignacious j riley in the novel can would write. He had an aversion to driving a car and considered himself a devoted slob wearing baggy clothes in an unruly mix of odd colors then there was the hat just like ignacious bern had a deer stalker hat but in red not green  bern kept the ear flaps up and used the headwear as rain gear and kenn gave him the bad time about it. The back garden of bern's house although a fantasy landscape of stone lanterns and garden statuary was neat and well tended