Have all the legends already been made?
4 min readAug 14, 2021
On an old episode of MSNBC’s “Lockup,” there’s a prisoner at San Quentin the staff call “the bird man.” That’s what the bird man, named Mike Miller, says they call him, anyway. Ever since he arrived at San Quentin, he says in the episode, he’s been a bird magnet. They perch on his shoulders, sit in his hands, and stand nearby when he’s out in the yard. And not just pigeons, either, but all kinds of birds — finches, red…