UPDATE (May 21):  Waters is planning a book based on his hitchhiking “adventures,” he told a married couple from Illinois who gave him a ride from Kansas to Colorado Monday, according to reports from radio station WJBD (wjbdradio.com) and the Baltimore Sun. Waters told the couple he is headed to California.  (A person who was asked to take a photograph of them standing with Waters questioned why the couple wanted a picture with “a homeless man they picked up on the highway.”)

According to The Sun, based on information obtained from the website DCist.com, “Waters could have been starring in a John Waters movie today when he was picked up hitchhiking in Ohio by members of an indie rock band.”

The band Here We Go Magic was in a van passing through Eastern Ohio not far from the Pennsylvania border, DCist.com and The Sun reported, when they passed “a dude on the side of the road holding up a sign” that read, “To the end of Rte. 70.”

Waters previously made news with a sign when he put a campaign poster promoting City State’s Attorney Gregg Bernstein’s candidacy on his front lawn in Tuscany-Canterbury during the campaign of 2010 in which Bernstein defeated then-incumbent chief prosecutor Patricia Jessamy.

As one of the band members immediately tweeted — of course they tweeted! what else? — “Just picked up John Waters hitchhiking in the middle of Ohio.. No joke. Waters in the van….

“It is absolutely 100% pinky sworn true. He even carries a mixtape to listen to!”

Who knows what the enigmatic director was up to? although band member Jen Turner later posted on her Twitter feed: “He just wanted an adventure. Imagine!”

Turner additionally described Waters as “the real deal,” calling him “a true artist.”

It was unclear which if any of Waters’ many films she or her Here We Go Magic cohorts may have seen, leaving the question unanswered, Would she have used the same description had any of them seen Divine’s outrageous epicurean antics as immortalized by Waters?

Most notably outraged was Del. Emmett C. Burns Jr., a Baptist minister who represents the state’s 10th District in the House of Delegates, who accused the President of saying to his black constituency: “I am going against your beliefs and your thoughts.”

Burns is pastor of the Rising Sun First Baptist Church in Baltimore County, on St. Luke’s Lane in the Gwynn Oak area of Woodlawn. His legislative district, which he has represented since 1995, is home to one of the highest percentages of African-American residents in the state.

In fact, Burns told his church members Sunday, he is so heavily opposed to same-sex marriage he will no longer support the President for reelection and predicted that Obama will lose in November because of his position.

A little over a year ago, a Baltimore County Council member from the same area told Voice of Baltimore on WCBM-Talkradio-680-AM that blacks in his district were adamantly opposed to the legalization of gay unions altogether.

On the former Sunday night election-cycle call-in show, “All Politics Is Local,” hosted by Attorney Jay L. Liner, a former counsel in the administration of ex-Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith Jr., Councilman Kenneth N. Oliver (D-4th) declared:

“African-Americans believe in Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”