"Timothy Dundon, a rhyming whiz known widely by his alter ego "Zeke the Sheik," whose legendary, mountainous compost pile delighted some and troubled others—and who famously defended himself in court in rhyme—died Monday, August 5, 2019, in West Hills, said his friend Ilham Akraa. He was 77.

The self-proclaimed "Guru of Doo Doo" peacefully tended to his 40-foot-high and nearly 200-foot-wide compost heap for 35 years. His concoction of animal poop, household garbage, and mulch from a neighboring cemetery nourished his lush one-acre jungle and fertilized many of San Gabriel Valley's organic gardens. He also provided the compost free to the Altadena Community Garden for more than 15 years.

"The pile is my baby," Dundon told the Pasadena-Star News in 2005. "This is the tower of power that makes people behind Katie Couric and Matt Lauer quiver and cower 'cause it generates the power that makes a flower."

It was a memorial to the message he hoped to spread: that waste could be converted into something that regenerates, not devastates, life on Earth."

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