Contains:
The post office octopus --
The Vancouver Chapter of the Howard G. Scharff Memorial Society --
Gabon --
Syzygy --
The secret --
The siver porcupine --
Books by the pound --
The East End Umbrella Company Endowment for the Arts --
A page from the marriage manual for Songhees brides --
How I missed the million dollar round table --
The job --
The redemption center --
Marco in paradise --
Voyeur --
King of the street --
The resurrection of trout fishing in America shorty --
The letter writer --
Preserving fireweed for the White Pass and Yukon Railroad --
Strawberry stew --
Electrico utensilio --
The book buyers --
Doves and proverbs --
I am airport --
The gerbil that ate Los Angeles --
The history of peanut butter --
The alligator report : with questions for discussion.

Certainly amusing, and there were a lot of absurd elements that I quite appreciated at the time and were of a style that I later incorporated into my writing. But it didn't have enough staying power for me to rate it.

Are these stories? No. Vignettes? Not really. More like 'conceits.' Mostly pretty lame or obscure, unless you were on the same 'trip' that he was maybe.... However, there were a few unpolished gems, my favorite being The Redemption Center."" ( )