Welcome to *30*

COMING SOON:  The *30* revision project.
In which our Hero Rereads, Standardizes and Corrects
various Aspects of his Great Work;
including, but not limited to:
Spelling, Punctuation, Typo Eradication, and
many other Worthy, Niggling little
Fix-ups.
On rare Occasions,
Typos may point towards Certain Hermetic Codes,
And there may be other equally Esoteric
(if not sometimes forgotten)
Reasons for
Comma Splices, Freeform Joycean Syntactical Manglings,
Cummings-esque Typographical Play, and various Dangling Structures.
But most often, however, these
(and other even More Grevious Literary Offenses)
are merely the Result of
Late Nights, Deadlines, Confusion & Coffee, Sadness, Burning Eyes, and Faulty Wetware.
We Hope to make both these Distinctions Clear
and Certain Amends Concrete.

*30*

WHAT IS THIS?

Welcome to *30*, a hybrid autobiographical novel and epillogical travelogue of the new millenium written by and starring an increasingly desperate, caffeine-fried, ex-pat "human being" named Brian Cotts.  If it has some sort of bearing on Brian's life, and on life in general, it'll wind up fictionalized and satirized here sooner or later.  Subjects range from Sailor Moon to Heidegger, death-tapes to electronic music, bitter crabby rants, thoughtful sadness, love, joy, loneliness and madness, politics and terror, cryptic allusions, confused humour, sometimes just plain confusion, and much much more!

(Not to mention what's probably the longest epilogue in the history of writing.)

C'mon in... room for one more....
--Bob.


  CONTENTS:
 

PHASE 1: 1999.
"In Which We Meet Our Heroes,
Establish A Few Parameters,
See An Opera,
Count Downwards To Apocalypse,
And Have A Few
Light And
Comical Adventures
Along The Way."

Act ONE:  "LETTING X=Y"
30.01:  January 1, 1999:  "M+Ms?"
30.02:  January 15, 1999:  "Goodnight, Gracie!"
30.03:  January 30 / February 1, 1999:  "...a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from..."
30.04:  February 14 / 15, 1999:  "V. Day Will Tear Us Apart."
30.05:  March 1, 1999:  "Refracted thro' th' Cathodes, Such A Sensitive Boy...."
30.06:  March 15, 1999:  "Playing The Game."
30.07:  April 1, 1999:  "Self-Nullification for Fun and Profit."
30.08:  April 15, 1999:  "Staring Straight Ahead."

Act TWO:  "GRACEFUL MONSTERS"
30.09a:  May 1, 1999: Graceful Monsters, scene one: "Opening The City."
30.09b:  May 8, 1999: Graceful Monsters, scene two: "Verispeed."
30.09c:  May 15, 1999: Graceful Monsters, scene three:  "A Night At The Opera."
30.09d:  May 23, 1999: Graceful Monsters, scene four:  "Two And Four Sevenths Days At The Races."
30.09e:  June 1, 1999: Graceful Monsters, scene five:  "Into.... (Closing The City)"

Act THREE:  "THE MAMBO"
30.10:  June 15, 1999:  "Greater Bitter Amplitude."
30.11a:  July 1, 1999:  "Shafts Of Light, part 1."
30.11b:  July 15, 1999:  "Shafts Of Light, part 2."
30.11c:  August 1, 1999:  "Shafts Of Light, part 3."
30.12:  August 15, 1999:  "This Is The One Where Brian Talks About How We Are Reading More And More But Reading More And More Simpler And How That Is Really Actually Quite Very Bad Indeed."
30.13:  September 1, 1999:  "M+Ms!"
30.14:  September 15, 1999:  "Moon Crisis Makeup!!!"
30.15:  October 1, 1999:  "Bodies And Nails... or something...."

CODA:      THE OTHER WAY OF STOPPING:
                  gearing up for the
                  Year 2000
30.16:  October 15, 1999:  "Loneliness Is Its Own Reward."
30.17:  November 1, 1999:  "He Shoots, He Scores!"
30.18:  November 15, 1999:  "Pastel Blue."
INTERLUDE.
30.19:  December 1, 1999:  "Trace My Name...."
30.20:  December 15, 1999:  "4'33''."
30.21:  December 31, 1999:  "*30* (The Mambo)."
 

PHASE 2:  2000.
"In Which A Border Is Crossed,
A World Is NOT Destroyed
(or is it?),
A Good Friend Goes To Japan,
Brian Gets Sick,
And Stasis IS The Order Of The Day."

Act ONE:  "FROM THE OTHER SIDE."
PROLOGUE:  January 1, 2000:  "Optical Panning."
30.22:  January 15, 1999:  "Natural Light."
30.23:  January 30 / February 1, 2000:  "In Which Brian Talks About Anime And The Internet In Order To Forget His Birthday Which Occurred Two Days Ago On January 30th, 2000."
30.24:  February 15, 2000:  "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRG!!!!!!!!!!!!...."
30.25a:  March 1, 2000:  "THREE DEVICES #1:  The Automobile."
30.25b:  March 15, 2000:  "THREE DEVICES #2:  The Telephone."
30.25c:  April 1, 2000:  "THREE DEVICES #3:  The Record Button."
30.26:  April 15, 2000:  "A Code In His Node."
30.27:  May 1, 2000:  "The Mouse And The Eagle."

Act TWO:  "JENNI GOES TO JAPAN"
30.28a:  "May 15, 2000":  "Working Towards It."
30.28b:  "June 1, 2000":  "Working With It."
30.28c:  "June 15, 2000":  "It."
30.28d:  "July 1, 2000":  "...The Forever."
30.28e:  "July 15, 2000:"  "The Return."
30.28f:  "August 1, 2000:"  "Summer light with Hello Kitty At McDonald's, some excellent fun!  Latebreaking News: The Power Of Japan Has A Hold On Us All!"
30.28g:  "August 15, 2000:"  "The Jenni Tape."
30.28h:  "September 1, 2000:"  "Where We Go, And What We Do When We Get There."
30.28i:  "September 15, 2000:"  "The Anthem of Shibuya."

Act THREE:  "FIZZLES."
30.29:  October 1, 2000:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 2."
30.30:  October 15, 2000:  "30/30 Vision."
30.31a:  November 1, 2000:  "Where It's At, part one."
30.31b:  November 8, 2000:  "Where It's At, part two."
30.31c:  November 15, 2000:  "Where It's At, part three."
30.32:  November 23, 2000:  "Deadlocks."
30.33:  December 1, 2000:  "Holding Smoke In My Hands (Or: a ver' long dayscushon of Jacques Derrida et day-con-struct-shun dat weel no doubt answair none of your quais-shuns and onlee mek yoor 'eads 'urt!)"
30.34:  December 15, 2000:  "The Spectacular Commodity."
EPILOGUE:  December 31, 2000:  "*30* (In The Belly Of The Beast)."
 

PHASE 3: 2001.
"In Which Another Border Is Crossed,
A Trip Is Undertaken,
A Couple Of Towers Fall,
A "War" Is Begun,
And,
Ultimately,
Anticlimax Rules."

PRELUDE:     THE OTHER WAY OF STARTING
                        winding down for the
                       Year 2001
30.35a:  January 1, 2001:  "Pygmalism."
30.35b:  January 1, 2001:  "Perfect Lives."
30.35c:  January 1, 2001:  "Crossing The Threshold (The Mouse And The Eagle, part 3)."
30.35d:  January 1, 2001:  "Extra Code."
30.35e:  January 1, 2001:  "Millennium Blues."

Act ONE:  "STATIC ANATOMIES."
30.36:  January 15, 2001:  "The Crackdown."
30.37:  February 1, 2001:  "Always Thought It Sounded Like What You'd Call A Sleepy Cartoon Hamster."
30.38:  February 14/15, 2001:  "...And Along Comes Brian In The Baby Carriage (V. Day Part 3).
30.39:  March 1, 2001: "The I Ain't Got Nobody Post-Nietzsche, Post-Baudrillard Blues, or: Losing Your Gravity."
30.40:  March 15, 2001:  "In The Court Of The Cro-Magnon King."
30.41:  April 1, 2001:  "Nil Spiral 30 Loops (Wounded Polymetheus Version)."
30.42:  April 15, 2001:  "Superheroes."
30.43:  May 1, 2001:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 4."

INTERLUDE.

Act TWO:  "VANCOUVER."
30.44a:  May 15, 2001: Vancouver, prologue:  "Penumbral Rover."
30.44b:  May 23, 2001: Vancouver, part 1:  "Searching For A Comfortable Zero."
30.44c:  June 1, 2001: Vancouver, part 2:  "In The Nest."
30.44d:  June 8, 2001: Vancouver, part 3:  "The Voices Of Insects."
30.44e:  June 15, 2001: Vancouver, part 4:  "One Of Three."
30.44f:  June 23, 2001: Vancouver, part 5:  "Over There.
30.44g:  July 1, 2001: Vancouver, part 6:  "What You Need."
30.44h:  July 8, 2001: Vancouver, part 7:  "Maybe Call It Something That's Self Reflexive And Witty While Referring To Both The Movie 'Things' AND To The Emily Carr Student Installation."
30.44i:  July 15 - August 1, 2001:  Vancouver, part 8:  "The Unutterable."
30.44i.00:  July 15, 2001:  "The Unutterable."
30.44i.01:  July 15, 2001:  "Pieces Of A Modern Style."
30.44i.02:  July 15, 2001:  "Spring Idyll."
30.44i.03:  July 15, 2001:  "Like Pictures."
30.44i.04:  July 15, 2001:  "Cherry Blossom."
30.44i.05:  July 15, 2001:  "The Classical."
30.44i.06:  July 15, 2001:  "Walking..."
30.44i.07:  July 15, 2001:  "Revelation"
30.44i.08:  July 15, 2001:  "Distraction."
30.44i.09:  July 15, 2001:  "Ballard's Reverie."
30.44i.10:  July 15, 2001:  "Through The Mists Of Time."
30.44i.11:  July 15, 2001:  "Feeling Wanted And Needed."
30.44i.12:  July 15, 2001:  "Overheard Dialogue In The Foodcourt Of A Mall."
30.44i.13:  July 15, 2001:  "What Separates us From The Animals."
30.44i.14:  July 15, 2001:  "The Secret Face Of Expo '86."
30.44i.15:  July 23, 2001:  "'In this no-infinity, infinity is found....'"
30.44i.16:  July 23, 2001:  "B.G.M."
30.44i.17:  July 23, 2001:  "What REALLY Separates Us From the Animals."
30.44i.18:  July 23, 2001:  "In An Octopus's Garden."
30.44i.19:  July 23, 2001:  "In The Event."
30.44i.20:  July 23, 2001:  "Blue Sky on Mars."
30.44i.21:  July 23, 2001:  "Robert Crumb."
30.44i.22:  July 23, 2001:  "Floating Point (The Mouse And The Eagle, part 5)."
30.44i.23:  July 23, 2001:  "It's All Over But The Rage."
30.44i.24:  July 23, 2001:  "Neo Geo."
30.44i.25:  July 23, 2001:  "Limits."
30.44i.26:  July 23, 2001:  "Catching Cars."
30.44i.27:  July 23, 2001:  "Notes."
30.44i.28:  July 23, 2001:  "After The Gramme."
30.44i.29:  July 23, 2001:  "New Wheels For My Wagon (The Mouse And The Eagle, part 6)."
30.44i.30:  August 1, 2001:  "Pastoral Bliss, with garbage."
30.44i.31:  August 1, 2001:  "Trigger Happy."
30.44i.32:  August 1, 2001:  "1997:"
30.44i.33:  August 1, 2001:  "Hiropon."
30.44i.34:  August 1, 2001:  "Pastoral Bliss, with supercandies."
30.44i.35:  August 1, 2001:  "2001:"
30.44i.36:  August 1, 2001:  "Still Feeling Wanted and Needed (and maybe even a little loved)."
30.44i.37:  August 1, 2001:  "Faster Than The Speed of Life."
30.44i.38:   August 1, 2001:  "Spinning Away."
30.44i.39:  August 1, 2001:  "Discreet Music."
30.44i.40:  August 1, 2001:  "...And Maybe Even Feeling More Than A Little Decentred And Strange."
30.44i.41:  August 1, 2001:  "Where You Get Love."
30.44i.42:  August 1, 2001:  "Spiral Honey."
30.44i.43:  August 1, 2001:  "Empty Frame."
30.44i.44:  August 1, 2001:  "Aporia."
30.44j:  August 8, 2001: Vancouver, part 9:  "Making An Impression."
30.44k:  August 15, 2001: Vancouver, epilogue:  "Ease."

INTERLUDE.

Act THREE:  "*30* (LETTING....)"
30.45:  September 1, 2001:  "Stoppage."
30.46a:  "September 15, 2001:"  "Whatever's Old's New Again, part 1: Falling Up"
30.46b:  "September 23, 2001:"  "Whatever's Old's New Again, part 2:  The End Of The End."
30.46c:  "October 1, 2001:"  "Whatever's Old's New Again, part 3:  The Turnpike."
30.46d:  "October 8, 2001:"  "Whatever's Old's New Again, part 4:  Bert."
30.46e:  "October 15, 2001:"  "Whatever's Old's New Again, part 5:  Redundancy Theory."
30.47a:  November 1, 2001:  "People Who Matter, part one: Nick Currie (Momus)."
30.47b:  November 8, 2001:  "People Who Matter, part two: Dave Sim."
30.48:  November 15, 2001:  "The State Of The Nation.
30.47c:  November 23, 2001:  "People Who Matter, part three: Laurie Anderson."
30.49:  December 1, 2001:  "End Game."
30.47d:  December 5, 2001:  "People Who Matter, part four: J.G. Ballard."
30.47e:  December 10, 2001:  "People Who Matter part five: William Gaddis."
30.50:  December 15, 2001:  "The Kindness Of Women."
30.51:  December 20, 2001:  "The Gap."
30.52:  December 25, 2001:  "'Tis The Season."
30.53:  December 30, 2001:  "'Winning' The 'War.'"
30.54:  "December 31, 2001:"  "*30* (Insignificance)."
 

EPILOGUE: 2002-8.
"In Which Nothing Is Real
        or:
When an Entire Millenium
Jumps the Shark
What's a Boy to Do?"

REMOTE FEED.
EP.01:  January 1, 2002:  "'Going' To The 'Show.'"
EP.02:  January 15, 2002:  "Crisis Points."
EP.03:  February 1, 2002:  "Epilogue Journal 1: Surfing The Vacuum."
EP.04:  February 8, 2002:  "People Who Need People, part 1."
EP.05:  Ferbruary 15, 2002:  "Epilogue Journal 2: MORT."
EP.06:  February 23, 2002:  "Like Pictures."
EP.07:  March 1, 2002:  "People Who Need People, part 2."
EP.08:  March 8, 2002:  "Epilogue Journal 3: No-Man's Land."
EP.09:  March 15, 2002:  "People Who Need People, part 3."
EP.10:  March 23, 2002:  "Epilogue Journal 4: The Tip Of The Iceberg."
EP.11:  March 25, 2002:  "(FOOTNOTE)."
EP.12:  April 1, 2002:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 7:  Dinner With The Aardvark."
EP.13:  April 2, 2002:  "People Who Need People, part 4."
EP.14:  April 4, 2002:  "Endless Summer."
EP.15:  April 5, 2002:  "Some Scattered Comments About Eija-Riitta Eklöf-Berliner-Mauer And Her Relationship With The Berlin Wall."
EP.16:  April 8, 2002:  "'Speaking' His 'Mind.'"
EP.17:  April 15:  "People Who Need People, part 5."
EP.18:  April 23, 2002:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 8:  The 'Real' World."
EP.19:  May 1, 2002:  "Vanishing Point / Journal 5: Interpolations."
EP.20:  May 8, 2002:  "Whatever's New Is Old Again."
EP.21:  May 15, 2002:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 9:  The 'School' Of 'Life'."
EP.22:  May 23, 2002:  "Heather's Soliloquy."
EP.23:  June 1, 2002:  "Mindful Of The Calm."
EP.24:  June 8, 2002:  "People Who Need People, part 6."
EP.25:  June 15, 2002:  "Epilogue Journal 6: Midnight Rain."
EP.26:  June 23, 2002:  "On The Edge Of The Periphery Of The Belly Of The Beast."

INTERLUDE:  July 1, 2002

THE WAR PARTY.
EP.27a:  July 8, 2002.  "Prologue: Art Decade."
EP.27b:  July 15, 2002:  "Part 1:  Shattered Times."
EP.27c:  July 23, 2002:  "Part 2:  Naked Hippies And The Meaning Of Democracy."
EP.27d:  August 1, 2002:  "Part 3:  July / August."
EP.27e:  August 3, 2002.  "Part 4:  Wishful Thinking."
EP.27f:  August 8, 2002.  "Part 5:  The Scouting Expedition:  THE NUMB BEFORE THE STORM."
EP.27g:  August 10, 2002.  "Part 6:  Riding In Cars With Alex (1)."
EP.27h:  August 15, 2002.  "Part 7:  The Scouting Expedition: THE OTHER SIDE."
EP.27i:  August 23, 2002.  "Part 8: "Real Men Don't Wear Hats."
EP.27j:  September 1, 2002.  "Part 9:  Safety, Dancing."
EP.27k:  September 8, 2002.  "Part 10:  BANG!"
EP.27l:  September 9, 2002.  "Part 11:  Riding In Cars With Alex (2)."
EP.27m:  September 10, 2002.  "Part 12:  August / September."
EP.27n:  September 11, 2002.  "Part 13:  How I spent my September 11th, a real good essay by Brian Cotts."
EP.27.o:  September 15, 2002.  "Part 14:  Passive Mode."
EP.27p:  September 18, 2002.  "Part 15:  Ralphie Knows Best."
EP.27q:  September 23, 2002.  "Part 16:  The Anticlimax After The Storm."
EP.27r:  October 1, 2002.  "Part 17:  The Language Of Love."
EP.27s:  October 3, 2002:  "Part 18:  October Idyll."
EP.27t:  October 5, 2002:  "Part 19:  Aporia (part 2)."
EP.27u:  October 8, 2002:  "Part 20:  Night Vision."
EP.27v:  October 15, 2002:  "Part 21:  Real Men Don't Wear Hats-- SIDE B: Pop Goes The World."
EP.27w:  October 23, 2002:  "Part 22:  Wipeout, or a brief survey of the history and meaning of Hüsker Dü."
EP.27x:  November 1, 2002:  "Part 23:  October Fragments."
EP.27y:  November 8, 2002:  "Part 24:  Dust."
EP.27z:  November 15, 2002:  "Epilogue:  Heathen."

INTERLUDE:  November 23, 2002.

THE ART OF EXHAUSTION.
EP.28:  December 1, 2002:  "People Who Need People, part 7."
EP.29:  December 8, 2002:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 10."
EP.30:  December 15, 2002:  "People Who Need People, part 8."
EP.31:  December 23, 2002:  "People Who Need People, part 9."
EP.32:  January 1, 2003:  "Wind/Stopping/Depreciation."
EP.33:  January 8, 2003:  "Stopping/Depreciation/Null."
EP.34:  January 15, 2003:  "Bob's Soliloquy."
EP.35:  January 23, 2003:  "We're NOT Guppies, People!!!!, or: Some Flies Are Better Left Zipped (The Lost *30*)."
EP.36:  January 30, 2003:  "Depreciation/Null/Ruins."
EP.37a:  February 1, 2003:  "Houston, We Have A Problem (1)."
EP.37b:  February 8, 2003:  "Houston, We Have A Problem (2)."
EP.38:  February 15, 2003:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 11: The Wolf And The Penguin."
EP.39: February 23, 2003:  "Some Thoughts On The Art Of Teaching Students Who Don't really Want To Be There."
EP.40:  March 1, 2003:  "Scuttling."
EP.41: March 8, 2003:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 12:  The Wolf And The Penguin (continued)."
EP.42:  March 15, 2003:  "Knee Play."

THE HEART'S FILTHY LEGION.
EP.43a:  March 19, 2003:  "Shock!  And!!  Awe!!!"
EP.43b:  March 23, 2003:  "Line, Please!"
EP.43c:  April 1, 2003:  "Radical Hermetics."
EP.43d:  April 8, 2003:  "Gasping For Air."
EP.43e:  April 15, 2003:  "Support."
EP.43f:  April 23, 2003:  "Bowling For Iraq."
EP.43g:  May 1, 2003:  "Bored Now...."

INTERLUDE: May 8, 2003.

FEAR.
30.EP.44:  May 15, 2003:  "The Daily Grind."
30.EP.45:  May 23, 2003:  "DeLilloscape."
30.EP.46:  June 1, 2003:  "MCtv."
30.EP.47:  June 8, 2003:  "Mall Voices."
30.EP.48:  June 15, 2003:  "Calgary, again."
30.EP.49:  June 23, 2003:  "Harry Potter and the Gargantuan Lineup of June 21, 2003."
30.EP.50:  July 1, 2003:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 13: Infinite Return."
30.EP.51:  July 8, 2003:  "Retreating To A Useful position (1)."
30.EP.52:  July 15, 2003:  "Duckies."
30.EP.53:  July 23, 2003:  "Retreating To A Useful position (2)."
30.EP.54:  August 1, 2003:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 14: Kevin."
30.EP.55:  August 8, 2003:  "Bob And The Meaninglessness Of Morning."
30.EP.56:  August 15, 2003:  "Bob And The Blackout."
30.EP.57:  August 23, 2003:  "Bob And The Will To Pornography."
30.EP.58:  September 1, 2003:  "Retreating To A Useful Position (3)."
30.EP.59:  September 8, 2003:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 15: Rust Never Sleeps."
30.EP.60:  September 15, 2003:  "Bob And Heather and The End Of The End Of The Century (the beginning)".
30.EP.61:  September 23, 2003:  "Heather's Soliloquy (II).
30.EP.62:  October 1, 2003:  "Bob And Heather and The End Of The End Of Century (the end)."
30.EP.63:  October 8, 2003:  "Retreating To A Useful Position (4)."
30.EP.64:  October 15, 2003:  "The Mouse And The Eagle, part 15: The Clarity of    ."
30.EP.65:  October 23, 2003:  "Bob And Heather in:  Run, Bob, Run."
30.EP.66:  November 1, 2003:  "Bob's Soliloquy (II)."
30.EP.67:  November 8, 2003:  "Bob And Heather: 4'33''."
INTERLUDE.
30.EP.68:  November 15, 2003:  "Retreating To A Useful Position (5)."
30.EP.69:  November 23, 2003:  "Residue."
30.EP.70:  December 1, 2003:  "Pynchonia."
30.EP.71:  December 8, 2003:  "The Case Of The Missing M+Ms."
30.EP.72:  December 15, 2003:  "FEAR."

30.EP.73:  December 23, 2003-INFINITY AND BEYOND!!!!:
"30."
     PART 1:  "Two-Sword Technique."
        INTERLUDE 1:  "Sloth or Entropy."
     PART 2:  "Being Cornered."
        INTERLUDE 2:  "The Land Of Piss And Geckos."
        INTERLUDE 3:  "Reasonable Affectiveness Disorder."
     PART 3:  "Staring Into The Sun."
        INTERLUDE 4:  "The Sickness."
        INTERLUDE 5:  "Cold Blue."
        INTERLUDE 6:  "The Fire Sermon."
     PART 4:  "OWNED!!!!"
        INTERLUDE 7:  "Night."
        INTERLUDE 8:  "Flushing Clean."
        INTERLUDE 9:  "Welcome To The United States Of AAAARRRRRRGH!!!"
        INTERLUDE 10: "From The Mashi-Maro Notebook."
     PART 5:  "The Nausea Years."
        INTERLUDE 11:  "Ventolin."
        INTERLUDE 12:  "Kitty Cat."
        INTERLUDE 13:  "Sedna."
        INTERLUDE 14:  "Deluge."
        INTERLUDE 15:  "And It's Never Coming Back."
     PART 6:  "Weapon Of Choice."
        INTERLUDE 16:  "The Mathematics Of Longing."
        INTERLUDE 17:  "The Little Aardvark Who Could, And Then Almost Did, Sorta, But Not Really...."
        INTERLUDE 18:  "Give Me Anything, Anything. Please. Let Me Share Your Love."
        INTERLUDE 19:  "The Real Sun."
        INTERLUDE 20:  "Whooper."
        INTERLUDE 21:  "OBLIVION, with bells."
     PART 7: "*30*"
          *30*
               INTERLUDE 22:  "The Athenian."
               INTERLUDE 23:  "The Art of Worlds."
               INTERLUDE 24:  "Proles."
               INTERLUDE 25:  "Carbon."
               INTERLUDE 26:  "Audrey's Adventures in the Afterworld."
               INTERLUDE 27:  "Selected Extracts..."
               INTERLUDE 28:  "Why the World is Lesser Now."
          *30*
               INTERLUDE 29:  "The Perfumed Garden."
               INTERLUDE 30:  "30 Questions."
               INTERLUDE 31:  "The Age of Majority."
               INTERLUDE 32:  "Concerto for Voices."
               INTERLUDE 33:  "Flat Panel Displays."
               INTERLUDE 34:  "Let Me Be Your Polygon Stranger."
               INTERLUDE 35:  "More Selected Extracts..."
               INTERLUDE 36:  "Easy As Provenance."
          *30*
               INTERLUDE 37:  "Still More Selected Extracts..."
               INTERLUDE 38:  "Return to Ithaca."
               INTERLUDE 39:  "100 Reasons..."
               INTERLUDE 40:  "Designer Voodoo."
               INTERLUDE 41:  "The Right Stuff."
               INTERLUDE 42:  "And Yet Even More Selected Extracts..."
               INTERLUDE 43:  "Televictuals."
               INTERLUDE 44:  "The Roil, The Choke."
               INTERLUDE 45:  "By My Gate."
          *30*
               INTERLUDE 46:  "The Designer Philosophy of 2007."
               INTERLUDE 47:  "Murder is on His Mind."
               INTERLUDE 48:  "What We Always Wanted."
               INTERLUDE 49:  "The Burial Sands."
               INTERLUDE 50:  "Born Under the Great Curve."
               INTERLUDE 51:  "Archive."
               INTERLUDE 52:  "The Monk."
               INTERLUDE 53:  "The Noose."
               INTERLUDE 54:  "The Snows of Villon."
               INTERLUDE 55:  "Oil & Gold."
          *30*
                    .light.
          (the bakery)
               INTERLUDE 56:  "SUNUP, on the couch."
               INTERLUDE 57:  "Delta-T."
               INTERLUDE 58:  "Let the Letter Read You."
               INTERLUDE 59:  "The Land of the Dead Digital Dream."
               INTERLUDE 60:  "Twix Bar, M&Ms, & the Icicle Palace."
               INTERLUDE 61:  "The Secret Face of 2012."
               INTERLUDE 62:  "Perfect Lives."
               INTERLUDE 63:  "The Evolution of the Dark."
               INTERLUDE 64:  "The Heartbreak of the Cute."
               INTERLUDE 65:  "Coda."
               INTERLUDE 66:  "Walk-by Theatricality in the New Translocational Space Age."
          (the garden)
               INTERLUDE 67:  "Night Games."
               INTERLUDE 68:  "Atrocities."
               INTERLUDE 69:  "Curtain Caw."
               INTERLUDE 70:  "An Echo of an Echo."
               INTERLUDE 71:  "December, 2007."
               INTERLUDE 72:  "Three Dialogues."
          (the act of being polite)
               INTERLUDE 73:  "The Secret of Life."
               INTERLUDE 74:  "Why When Every Time a Copy of Carl Hiaasen's Novel 'Hoot' Comes Into the Store I Am Instantly Filled With a Deep, Crippling, and Almost Inexpressible Sadness."
               INTERLUDE 75:  "When the Cat's Away..."
               INTERLUDE 76:  "Sakamoto Night."
               INTERLUDE 77:  "Ghost Tracks."
               INTERLUDE 78:  "And yet..."
          (the shrieking of nothing)
               INTERLUDE 66:  "Walk-by Theatricality in the New Translocational Space Age." (con't)
          *30*.

THE MEETING.

--30--
 
  


Vignettes:
"In Which Other
Incidental Topics
Catch Brian's Eyes
And Are Expostulated Upon,
Usually In The Most Trivial
And Annoying
Manner Possible."

(1999)
30.VIN.01:  "Em Eye See, Kay Eee-- Why?"
30.VIN.02:  "Gungan Dub."
30.VIN.03:  "Terrible Days."
30.VIN.04:  "Free Raiding."

(2000)
30.VIN.05:  "R 'n' R High School."
30.VIN.06:  "Notes For The Apocalypse."
30.VIN.07:  "MORE Notes For The Apocalypse."
30.VIN.08:  Waiting For... y'know...."
30.VIN.09:  "Harry Potter and the Bitter, Elitist,
Misanthropic, Cappuccino-Swilling Machine."
30.VIN.10:  "Bonked On Their Heads And Fed To The Robots."
30.VIN.11:  "As Hyper-Real As It Gets!"
30.VIN.12:  "SPLORT!"

(2001)
30.VIN13: "Vampyre Players."
30.VIN.14:  "The Fabulous Sequel."
30.VIN.15:  "Terminus."
30.VIN16:  "One Note At A Time."
30.VIN.17:  "911."
30.VIN18:  "The Question Answered
or
Prologue to 30.46."
30.VIN.19:  "Stephen Dixon (a *30* on 30)"
30.VIN.20:  "More Brains!"

(EPILOGUE)
30.VIN.21:  "The Other Side of X."
30.VIN.22:  "The Beacon."
30.VIN.23:  "... Or Die Trying!"
30.VIN.24:   "Standing On My Own Two Hands."
30.VIN.25:  "Treadstone Mass."
30.VIN.26:  "That Vicious Cycle."
30.VIN.27:  "Immortality Mailbag."
30.VIN.28:  "Brian's Heaven and Hell."
30.VIN.29:  "The Cut That Thrills."
30.VIN.30:  "Ghost Voices Trapped in the old Walls of Home."
30.VIN.31:  "Numb."
30.VIN.32:  "Nothing."
30.VIN.33:  "Rifle Free."
30.VIN.34:  "Dining At The Table With Lazarus Long."
30.VIN.35:  "All Hands in the Fire."
30.VIN.36:  "The Great Reversal."
30.VIN.37:  "Isolationist Chic."
30.VIN.38:  "Galt's Punchline."
30.VIN.39:  "Including this Title, Precisely ELEVEN Instances
of the Word 'Fuck.'
(12 If You Count the Header,
13 If You Count the Table of Contents)."
30.VIN.40:  "In the Shadow of My Pale Companion."
*Home*
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*30* is a work of fiction and, because certain aspects of it are autobiographical, contains a catalogue of various individuals both real and imagined; therefore any so-called "real" persons represented in *30*, regardless of whether or not their names have been changed to protect their identities, are used by the author either fictitiously or for the purpose of satire.
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