A., Diane - 26

A Futile and Stupid Gesture - 82

A goldurned camera rocket taking off right next to the greatest composer of all time - *126*

AAA (the American Automobile Association, Inc.) - 78, 78n.

A Liar’s Autobiography - 45

Abel, Alan - 84

"Absence in Common: An Operator for the Inoperative Community" - 244

Access All Areas - 234

ACLU - 221

Adams, Paul C. - 244

adventure casserole - 66

Advertising Age - 239

Ahab - 217

Ajax (laundry detergent) - 26

Aldrin, Buzz - 116

Alexander the Great - 13

AllMySaguarosHaveNames.com - 41

Almond Roca - 19

Alpert, Herb - 13, 15, 39, 60, 80, 101, 150

Alternet - 212

Ama Gi - 101

Amargosa Opera House - 125

"American Pie" - 236

American Visionary Art Museum - 62

Ames, John - 182

An interesting study of the ongoing human comedy - 194

Anabasis, The - 80

Anglo-Saxon mead - 122

Anza-Borrego Desert - 61

Arbre du Ténéré (Tree of Ténéré) - 222

Arcaraz, Luis - 74

Archer, Anne - 74

Archimedes - 227

Aristotle - 14

Arizona Press Club - 128

Arizona’s Official State Liar (See Cook, Jim)

Armstrong, Neil - 82

Arne’s Royal Hawaiian Motel - 55

Arnold of Brescia - 222

Arizona Nights - 23

"As De Corazones" - 74

Astor, Lady - 223

AT&T Corporate Archives - 226

Atrocity Exhibition - 245

Ault, Joe - 157

Ausmus, Bob - 89, 165, 201, 205

Back from the Grave - 22

Bailey, Paul - 223

Baio, Andy - 236

Ball Four - 83

Ballard, J. G. - 16, 74, 81, 109, 245

Barker Ranch - 144

Bates, Warren - 177, 178

Batman - 184

Bay of Pigs - 94

Beastie Boys, The - 201

Beatlemaniacs - 165

Beatles, The - 165

Beck, Glenn (novelist) (?!) - 240

Becket, Marta - 125, 158-9

Bell, Art - 124

Bell, Bob Boze - 244

Bell Telephone Magazine - 58

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - 237, 244

Bendig, Bob - 136

Berger, Bruce - 171

BeNiceToBears.com - 130

Berlin, Irving - 47

Bermuda Triangle Service - 144

Berry, Chuck - 248

Beyond Bizarre - 240

Big Bopper, The - 161

Bisbee, AZ - 144

Biscayne, Chevrolet (see also Whip It!) - 13, 15, 60, 70, 73, 74, 77, 78n.

Blitzer, Wolf - 178

blog, origin of - 174

Blue Monk - 94

Bogart, Humphrey - 76

Bones the Carver - 80

Bonnie & Clyde’s Death Car - 125, 127

Bonnie & Clyde’s Death Car Squished Penny Machine - 125

Bono - 70

Boothland, the Mojave’s Finest Family Fun Park - 180

Borat - 238 (See also Cagri, Mahir)

Born on a Rotten Day: Illuminating and Coping with the Dark Side of the Zodiac - 240

Bottle Village - 33, 61, 247

Bourke, John G. - 6

Bouton, Bobbie - 191

Bouton, Jim - 83

Boy Scouts, Mormon - 115-116, 219

Boyle, Frankie - 223

Branch Davidian - 216

Bradbury, Ray - 125

Brando, Marlon - 98

Breaking Bad - 96

Bresson, Robert - 37

Briefe and Tragickal Historie of Our Wanton and Unwanted Meddlesomenesse, A - 228

Brokaw, Tom - 89, 188, *188*, *211*

Brokowski, Brian - 197

"Brother Ray" - 238

Brown, Charlie - 47

Brown, J. Clayton - 205

Browne, Sylvia - 183

B.T. Express - 213

Buffalo Bill’s Casino - 125

Bunny, Bugs - 80

Bun Boy - 64, 65

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - 167, 198, 220, 222, 235

Burford - 60, 93, 94, 95, 98, *99*, 100, 102, *103*,

Burning Man - 38, 39, 40, 43, 47n., 48, 55, 56, 67, 72, 86, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99, 100, 102, 122, 144, 148, 150, 171, 174, 178, 179, 180

Burnt Well Rest Stop - 41

burrito, that goldurned - 42, 43, 45, 45n., 46, 50, 63, 66

Burrows, Jack - 245

Butters, Elizabeth - 26

Cacophony Society, Portland - 171

Cactus Forest - 11

Caffee, Lorene - 28-31, 32, 33, 37, 43, 46, 47, 49, 51, 52, 54, 55, 67, 71, 72, 89, 90, 92, 105-108, 135, 136, 137, 142, 158, 159, 167, 168, 169, 175, 176, 180, 181, 186, 187, 198, 199, 201, 203, 204, 211, 213, 217, 218

Caffee, Terry - 90, 105, 106, 107, 108, 135, 136, 137, 159, 167, 168, 175, 187, 203, 213, 217, 218, 222

Cagri, Mahir - 197, 238

California Adventure - 246

California Veterans of Foreign Wars - 221

Calle, Sophie - 16, 237-238

Cambridge University - 238

Camus, Albert - 191

can’t tear down a story - 248

capacity flexing - 78

Capone, Ade - 145

Car Talk - 145

Caravan, Dodge - 38, 39, 40, 60

Cardhouse.com - 41, 100, 100n.

Cardyhouse, Professor - 11, 12, 14, 20, 23, 32, 37-43, 45-49, 52-55, 60, 63, 64, 65, 71, 87, 93, 105, 111, 113, 115, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, *123*, 124, 125, *126*, 127, 130, 138, 144, 148, 150, *151*, 152, 153, 157, 182, 186, 219, 234, 239, 240

Carpenter, Edward - 175

Carrie from Coronado - 117

Casablanca - 76

Case, Neko - 19

Casebier, Dennis - 42, 43-45, 46, 48, 51-52, 72, 86, 114, 162, 167, 169, 177, 220, 234, 235, 247

Casino - 96

Cat and Girl - *242*

causes (final, formal, efficient) - 14

Cavazos, Rob - 239

Celebrity - 130

Chapman, Graham - 45

Chiricahua Mountains, The - 78

Chocolate Mountains - 61

Chocolate Mountains Aerial Gunnery Range - 62

"Christianity is Stupid" - 85n.

chupacabra - 72

Cima Dome - 11, 15, 46, 57, 202, 216, 218

Cinder Peak Policy Station - 90, 106, 108, *108*, 202

Cioran, E. M. - 243

City in the Sun: The Japanese Concentration Camp at Poston, Arizona - 223

City of Dreadful Night - 49

Claude, Uncle - 91

Click & Clack - 145

Clown Motel - 92, 99

Clyde’s Bloody Death Shirt - 125

Cockerham, Rob - 180

Cockeyed.com - (See Cockerham, Rob)

Colbert, Stephen - 38, 129

Coleridge, Samuel - 50

"Colonial Origins of Conservation: The Disturbing History Behind US National Parks, The" - 166n.

Concrete Island - 74

conservation - 166

Cook, Jim - 166

Coppé - 26

Cornhill Magazine, The - 142

Corry, Stephen - 166

Covington, Dennis - 129

cowboy sticks - 41

Coyote, Wile E. - 215

Coyote Blog - 223

Crichton, Michael - 131, 131n.

CrimethInc. - 108, 111

Crowe, Russell - 102

Crowl, Roy - 75

Crown King - 31

Culpepper, Dr. Brody - 102, 122, 171

D-Day (from Animal House) - 123

Dalsfjord (Norway) - 239

Dancing Baby - 110

Danneels, Godfried Cardinal - 87

Dawkins, Richard - 15

Day, Jeremiah - 160

DBR (Defense Backbone Route, aka "Damned Big Rush") - 57-58

Dead Line (film) - 110

Deadbolt - 93, 97, *128*

Death Valley Opera House - 159

decipherment of Linear B, the - 40

"Deconnect: Deconstructing the Disconnection of the ‘Disconnectivity Booth’" - 227

DefCon - 144, 148, 154

Degree Confluence Project, The - 152

Dennis and Dean - 79, 80, 102

desert, danger of - 14, 38

Desert, The - 245

Desert Dispatch - 106, 122, 202, 209

desert humor, for which there is daily need - 58

Desert is Yours, The - 234

"DESERT PAYPHONE KEEPS RINGING" - 238

Desert Tripper - 202, 216, 216n., 220

Deuce of Clubs Mystery Vending Machine - 171

DeuceOfClubs.com - 15, 20, 33-35, *35*, 43, 54, 55, 59, 80, 84, 85, 93, 95, 105, 111, 118, 119, 129, 131, 132, 136, 137, 144, 145, 157, 160, 161, 162, 165, *168*, 177, 180, 182, 184, 191, 192, 193, 195, 202, 241

Didion, Joan - 178

Dikran - 160

Dimwitty, Representative - 213

dings - 38, 46, 49

Dirtbike magazine - 235

Discordianism - 133

Discovery Channel, The - 182

Disgruntled Postal Workers - 171

Disneyland - 71, 143, 147, 171, 246

Dissonant Convergence - 38

Dix, The Reverend Doctor Morgan - 33

DIY - 11, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 54

"Do Things Right the First Time": Administrative History of the National Park Service and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Acts of 1980 - 228

Doctorow, Cory - 82n.

Doherty, Brian - 129

Dolphinear - 239

Domingo, Sharron - 105, 167, 180, 204

Domingo, Tony - 135, 201, 204

Dongo - 248

Doors, The - 26

Dr. Cliff, Evil Dentist - 100, 122-123, 124, 127, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 183

Dr. Who - 51

Drummond, Bill - 59

"Dual Symbolic Classiication and the Primary Emotions: A Proposed Synthesis of Durkheim’s Sociogenic and Plutchik’s Psychoevolutionary Theories of the Emotions" - 157

Duchamp, Marcel - 227

Duffy, Karen - 233

Durkheim, Emil - 157

DUMBASS G.D. - 122, *128*

Dunphy, Phil - 40

Dyke, John. C. Van - 245

East Mojave Diary - 89, 165, 201

eBay - 113, 161, 186, 202, 238

Ehman, Jerry - 31-2

Electric Ballroom, The - 19, 20, 21

EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle - 95

Erickson, Dolores - 76

Error number 4.2 - 63

Escape from Noise - 85n.

Exotic World - 59

expectancy violation - 20, 51, 67, 84, 165, passim

Expedition Everest - 246

Exploding the Phone - 181

exponential growth - 60

exquisite subtleties - 245

Evans, Dale - 62

Evans, Dixie - 62, 63, 65

Everest - 124, 246, 247

Evolution Control Committee - 132, 160

Factsheet Five - 37, 195

F., Julie - 71

F., Father Pete - 71

Fake Shakespeare - 74

Fake Wagner - 100

Falwell, Jerry - 148

FDR’s Folly - 223

Feinstein, Diane - 168, 213

Ferrara Pan - 178

Fiegel, Andrea - 15, 141-143, 144, 145-147, 148, 154, 158, 159, *159*, 160, 179, 180, 186, 187, 188, 202, 214, 223, 235

Fight Club - 178

Fingers, Elegant - 91

fire extinguishers, useful for extinguishing fires - 94

Fire Nazi - 67

Fisher-Price Little People - 38

Fisher-Price PXL-2000 toy video camera - 38, 101, 145

505 Unbelievably Stupid Webpages - 240

Flintstones, The - 114

Florida State University - 161

folie à deux - 48, 92

folie à plusieurs - 92

Fort, Charles - 92

Frank the salad chef - 79

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - 218

Frisby, Neal - 85

From Neglected Space To Protected Place: An Administrative History of Mojave National Preserve - 168, 180, 208, 209, 213, 214, 228-229

Frozen Bug - 43

Fucking, Austria (not to be confused with Fugging, Austria) - 85

Gambrell, Dorothy - 4, 242

garage rock - 22, 32

Garbe, Jacob - 157

Gardner, Erle Stanley - 234

Gates, Bill - 113

Gehry, Frank - 16, 237, 238

Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect - 131, 131n.

geocaching - 241

Geographies of Media and Communication - 244

Getzug, Steve - 187, 202, 208, 211

Giant Cactus Forest and Its World, The - 232

Gila Mon - *118*, 119

Gilmore Girls, The - 233

Ginsberg, Allen - 82

Girl Trouble - 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, *24*, 32, 34, 35, 43-44, 54, *54*, 56, 67, 87, 117, 131, 191, 192, 193, 194, *229*

Glass, Booth - 50, 68, 69, 71, 72, 84, 100, 107, 116, 116n., 160, 161, 192, 193, 197, 205, 206, 217, 225, 233, 241, 244

Glasser, Peter - 222

glycol fumes - 68

Goffs, CA - 114

Godfather, The - 208 (See also National Park Service)

Goodfellas - 208 (See also National Park Service)

Goodman, Saul - 96

Götterdämmerung - 184

Graceland - 123

Grand Canyon, The - 218

Grant, Amy (but not her Mandible) - 161

Grape, The - 79

Grapevine Shortwave, The - 161

Great Goobagoos - 166

Greg the Bunny - 193

Gresham, William Lindsay - 125

Grieg, Edvard - 117

Grigg, Will - 219

Grouchy One, The - (See Wheelie, Bon von)

Guide to the East Mojave Heritage Trail: Ivanpah to Rocky Ridge - 169

Guild of American Luthiers, The - 231

Gulley, Mary Lou - 22, 32, 248

Haas, Chuck - 117

Hamilton, Kevin - 244

Hamlet - 34, 84

Hampster Dance, The - 110

Harden, Scott - 235

Harris, Trent - 26

Hartley, Lara - 106, 122, 128, 144, 202, 203, 236

Harvey House - 80

Harvey, Paul - 174

Hasford, Gustav - 225

Hatfields, The - 22, 231

Heald, Weldon F. - 78

Hector Mine Quake - 184

Heidelberg, Kurt - 72

Heintzen, Carrie (Ray) - 136, 169

Heisenberg, Werner - 15, 165

Helter Stupid - 85

Hendricks, Edson - 198, 198n.

Herb Alpert Whipped Cream Apple Pie Shooters - 150, 151

hermetic tendencies - 23, 26

Hibberd, James - 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 233

Highsmith, Patricia - 81

Hill, Greg (Malaclypse the Younger) - 133

His Girl Friday - 129

His Mighty Folkness - 61

Historia Discordia - 133

Hitler, Adolf - 227

Hodgman, John - 82, 82n.

Hofstadter, Douglas - 243

Home Games - 191

Hopper, Edward - 61

Horace - 95

Hostess Cupcakes - 42

Howes, Paul Griswold - 232

Huizinga, Johan - 159

Human Magic 8-Ball project - 67

Humphrey, Zephine - 11

Hunter, Ian - 50

Hynde, Chrissie (The Great) - (See Pretenders, The)

"I Am the Six o’Clock News" - 187

"I promise I’ll be cool" - 179

"I SPOTTED THE FED" - 154

I’ll Gather My Geese - 27

"I Wanna Destroy You" - 222

ideas, bulletproof - 237

Illustrated Life and Times of Billy the Kid, The - 244

Independent Film Channel - 145

Inside Edition - 182

insufficiently modeled expeditions - passim

International California Mining Journal - 240

Iron Law of Bureaucracy, The - 223

Irwin, Kenny - 101

Isham, Sean - 206

Jack Rabbit Speaks, The - 93, 171

Jackson, Elfin - 67

James, Jesse - 222

Jane, Minty - 98

Jane, Tecopa - 118, 119, 144, 149, *151*, 152, 153, 154

Janis, Jackie - 161

Jaunt: The Journal of the Crackerjack Adventurer - 162

jazz, heroin, human blood - 64

Jeffords, Thomas J. "Tom" - 182, 182n.

Jennings, Tom "FidoNet" - 55, 55n., 56

Jesus - 227

JFK - 123

Jillette, Penn - 81, 81n.

John Paul II - 87

Johnson, Lee (Pacific Bell Telephone Company) - 220

Journal of Prevarication - 166

Joyboy, Mr. - 76, 77, 78, 79

Junction Jack - 193

juoksentelisinkohan - 11

juvenile distraction - 244

Kahuna - 21

Karen the entomologist - 99

Karp, Josh - 82

Kasem, Casey - 147

Kendall, K. P. - 21, 87

Kent, Clark - 51

Kesey, Ken - 243

Kierkegaard, Søren - 219

Knight, Leonard - 62, 67, 121, 153

Koufax, Sandy - 213

Kovacs, Ernie - 114

Krishna - 93-99, *99*, 100, 102, *103*, 113, 118, 122, 161, 178, 182, 199

Kristin - 144, 148, 151, *151*, 152, 158

Kristofferson, Kris - 224

KMUD - 161

KROQ - 119

Kubla Khan - 50

Kyne, Happy - 97

Lackey, Heather McGee - 11

lackumen® - 33n.

Lambert, Kit - 59

Lanfair phone - 44, 114, 114n., 172

Langenscheidts Konversationsbuch English-Deutsch - 65

last plane to Lisbon - 76

Laurie - 141, 145, 146, 147

LaVette, Bettye - 52

Lawrence of Arabia - 152

laying the groundwork for an insanity plea - 35, 113, 123

Layne, Ken - 211

Lazarus Ledd - 145, *145*

LBJ (no, not the dumb one) - 247

Lee, Gypsy Rose - 62

Lemper, Ute - 98, 147

"Liam Gallagher with Butterflies" - 98

little bits of pattern - 238

Livi in SLC - 117

lone, goofy dancing guy - 133

Lonely Planet’s California - 212

Longstocking, Pippi - 60

Love, American Style - 19

Lectures on Literature - 83

Letterman, David - 16, 110

Lewis, Clyde - 31-2

Lifetime Channel - 232

Lincoln, Abe - 60

Little My - 154

Logan, Theodore "Ted" - 51

"Looking Back on the Spanish War" - 130

Lucky the Art Car - 38, 93, 95, 101

Lucky225 - 241

Lydon, John - 235

Lyman, Arthur - 144

madness, desert - 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 48, 92, passim

Madrid, New Mexico - 158

Mcintyre, Lynn - 90, 135, 175, 176

Mad Greek, The - 64, 152

Magic Boy, Elfin - 97

Magritte, René - 227

Mahler - 61

Malcolm, Janet - 129

Manilow, Barry - 84

Mann, Professor Steve - 227

Manson, Charles - 144

March, April - 118, 118n.

Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque, The (see also Evans, Dixie) - 62

Marshall, Nancy - 191

Martian Chronicles - 125

Martin, Dean - 57

Martin, Mary (former National Park Service Superintendent of the Mojave National Preserve) - 165, 167, 168, 202, *207*, 207-213, 215-221, 223, 224, 227, 228, 229, 235

Martingale system, the - 123

Martinez, Juan - 83

Marx, Harpo - 97

Masters, Vic - 118

Matrix, The - 26

Max - 97

McCandless, Christopher - 90, 162

McIntyre, Pete - 125

McKinnon, Shannon - 133, 159, 160, 161, 198, 200

McLean, Don - 236

McLuhan, Marshall - 15, 165

"Me and Bobby McGee" - 224

Mencken, H. L. - 223

Metafilter - 236

memes - 15

Mesozoic Era - 57

metastasizing California cities - 62

Meyer, Warren - 223

Mitchell Caverns - 220

Model Patient: My Life As an Incurable Wise-Ass - 233

Modern Family - 40

"Mojave Desert Phone Booth Art Show: An Art Show About A Mail Art Project About A Newspaper Article About An Internet Phenomenon About A Phone Booth In The Desert" - 160

Mojave Magic - 149, 152

Mojave Memorial Cross - 221

Mojave Mirage - 147

Mojave Moon - 74

Mojave Phone Booth (film) - 54, 238, *238*

Mojave Phone Booth, The - passim (Srsly? C’mon.)

Mojave Road Guide - 72, 167, 220, 235

Mojave’d (v.) - 236

Molina, Laura - 40, 200, 202

Monaco, James - 130

Monster Midway - 125

Mooncalf, Senator - 213

Moore, Bob - 162

Morgan, Ted - 129

Morganthau, Henry - 223

Morris, Errol - 145

Morrison, Jim - 233

Motel Living - 68

Mount Everest - 246, 247

Mount Rushmore - 218

Mountain Monograms - 119

movie with Jack Nicholson walking through the desert with no dialogue for three hours - 79

MSHA - 108

MTV - 33

Musical Instrument Makers Forum - 231

My Mystery Castle - 22, 32, 248

My Side of the Mountain - 150

Myrick, Shady - 107

Nabokov, Vladimir - 69, 83

Nachman, Gerald - 182

Nash, Waylon - 235

National Park Service (NPS) / Mojave National Preserve - passim

National Park Service Morning Report - 221

National Register of Historic Places - 241

NBC Nightly News - 137, 187-189

Neatorama - 212

Negativland - 85n.

New Pornographers, The - 209

Nibble, Lazlo - 87, 119

Nichols & May - 132

Nicholson, Jack - 79

Nicole - 148, 150, 151, *151*, 152, 158

Nietzsche, Friedrich - 76

Nimoy, Leonard - 27

Ninjalicious - 234

Nixon, Richard - 229

Normal, Illinois - 38

Norman, Larry - 187

oddly farseeing - 61

Official Dumb - passim

Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! - 175

On the Border with Crook - 6

1-800-COLLECT - 110, *110*, 234

One Long Trail of Toilet Brushes - 192

O’Neil, Roger - 188, 213

OOPArt - 50, 54, 84

Oprah (TV show) - 182

Orwell, George - 130, 210

Out West: The Newspaper That Roams - 195

Overton Window, The - 240

P3 list - 178, 183, 188

Pacific Bell Telephone Company - 37, 54, 100, 185, 197, 202, 203, 205, 206, 208, 216, 227

Pale.org - 238-239

Pascal, Blaise - 19

Paterson, Katie - 239

pattern interrupt - 67, 84, 169, 181, passim

Paul, Daniel - 59-68, 70-79, 93, 115, 144, 150, 151, *151*, 154, 187, 241

Payphone Project, The - 83, 84, 85, 160

Pedal It! - 39, 46, 49, 93, 95

Pere Ubu - 238

Perkins, Edna Brush - 55, 124, 143, 146

Pete & Pete, The Adventures of - 117

Phillips, Dale - 21, 194

Pierson, John - 145

Phone Booth (film) - 31

"Phone Booth Man (P.B.M.)" - 61

PhoneLosers.org - 86

Phoneswarm - 239

Pioneer 10 - 100, 101

Plutchik, Robert - 157

plutons - 57

poetdog - 21

Pointless Exercise in Archaeology, A - 72

pointless telephony - 33, passim

pointlessness - 15, 16, passim

Pont de Gagliano - 238

Ponyboy GirlieToolshed - 55, 59-68, 70-79, 91, 93, 98, 115, 154, 187, 227, 241, 247

Ponyboy and Girlie Fencepost - 60

postponed suicide - 243

Pournelle, Jerry - 223

Powell, Jim - 223

Prairie Grove (Arkansas) - 241

Presley, Elvis - 123, 227

Preston, William S. "Bill" - 51

Pretenders, The - 221

Primm, NV - 125

Prisbrey, Tessa "Grandma" - 33, 61, 247, 248

progressive stages of flesh-eating gruesomeness - 61

Project SETI - 13, 28, 31

pumpkinification - 228ff.

Putch, John - 145, 238

pyramids, Egyptian - 69, 70, 245

Quayle, Dan - 13

Rand, Sally - 62

Ray, Bob - 107, 108, 135, 169, 187, 203, 204, 205, 207

Ray, Emerson - 90, 106

Ray, Fay (see also Wray, Fay) - 106, 107, 136, 207

Real Clue Crime Stories - 203

Real Deadwood, The - 182

Reality Syndicate - 215, *215*

Reason magazine - 129

Recipes for Disaster - 108, 111

Rector and the Rogue, The - 33

RedBoxChiliPepper - 86

Reeves, Keanu - 225

Reopening the Mojave Road - 234

Reynolds, John - 216, 220

Reynolds, Mike - 208

Rhymes o’ a Driftin’ Cowboy - 117

Rice, Anne - 122

"Ring en telefonkiosk" - 85

Ringo, John - 245

Ringo, Johnny - 245

Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! - *174*

Roberto, Derek - 136, 159

Roberto, Kaarina Cleverley - 136, 147, 159, 214

Robison, Nicholas von - 22, 25, 27, 32, 34, 56, 87, 88, 191-195, 212, 230-232

rocks, much-contested pile of unassuming white decorative - *71*, 115, 116, 119, 121, 147, 155, 213, 217, 218, 222

Rogers, Don - 192-195

Rogers, Roy - 59, 62

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - 223

Roseanne (TV show) - 182

Rosenbaum, Ron - 130

Rothstein, Sam "Ace" - 96

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - 215

Route 66 Magazine - 162, 211, 219, 233

Roy’s (Amboy, CA) - 75, 76, 77

RTFM - 127

Rubin and Ed - 83

Ruess, Everett - 73

Russell, Leon - 61

Ruth, Babe - 13

S., Andrew - 130

S., Daryl - 148, 150, 151, *151*, 152, 158

S., Robin - 136, 137, 167, 169, 170, 175, 180, 186

Safer, Morley - 130

saguaros - 15, 37, 41, 42, 51

Salton Sea - 61, 62, 67

Salvation Mountain - 59, 60, 62, 65, 67, *80*

Salvation on Sand Mountain - 129

"Sam Yorty with Moths" - 98

Santa’s Village - 62

SAP (Self-Amusing Personality) - 20

Satan’s Pilgrims - 20

Schram, Dennis - 211, 168

Schrödinger, Erwin - 165

Scissorhands, Edward - 181

Scooby-Doo - 167

Scotty’s Castle - 92

Seneca, Tracy - 150

Seriously Funny - 182

Shady Dell Trailer Park (Bisbee, AZ) - 144

Sherwood, Deputy - 224

Shop Mop the Garage Cat - 79, 80

Short-Timers, The - 225

Sibelius, Jean - 117

Siegfried and Roy - 161

silicone, better than love - 60

Simic, Andre - 159

Singing Lunch Lady - 86

Singing of the Ice, The - 239

60 Minutes - 130

Skype - 239

Slab City - 61, 62

Smart, Maxwell - 51

Smith, Richard C. - 58

Snap Judgment (podcast) - 232, 241, 247

snowflake button joke, the never-ending - 40, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 115, 122

social engineering contest - 145

Soda Mountain - 238

Soft Boys, The - 222

Sokol, Bob - 132

SoMar Gallery - 148

Sonnichsen, C. L. - 182

Sophia - 247

Sopranos, The - 208 (See also National Park Service)

Soronprfbs, The - 201

South Park - 238

speculative telephony - passim

Spengler, Oswald - 33

Spivey, Victoria - 199

Split Screen (IFC) - 145

Springer, Curtis Howe - 220

Stalin, Josef - 223

Stafford, Jim - 25

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur - 73

Stein, Gertrude - 64

Stillwell, Hallie Crawford - 27

Strecker, Candi - 20

Stripes - 95

Stuckey’s travel store - 45, 48, 64, 90, 106, 107, 169, 222

Subcommandante Marcos - 143

Sun, the; goes red giant - 37

Sun’s Anvil, the - 152

"Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down" - 75

Sunrise Rock - 221

Sure-Wouldn’t, Deputy - 224 (See also Sherwood, Deputy)

sweetheart suit - 167-168

Sylvie - 74

T., Elizabeth - 90

T., Gordon - 33, 67, 95

Tate Modern - 59

Taylor, Anthony - 108

Taylor, Doyle - 107, 108

Telemegaphone Dale - 239

Telephone game, the - 131

"Telephoning the Blues" - 199

TenHouten, Warren - 157, 158, 159

Tex-Who-Had-Never-Been-to-Texas - 122

The Columns Hotel, New Orleans - 122

thieves, god damned - 64, 116, 224, 225

This American Life - 110

Thomas, Mark - 83, 84, 85, 160

thoughtless pantomimicry - 73

tiny snowman - 127, *127*

To Dance on Sand - 159

Tom Mix Memorial Rest Stop - 101

tombstone for the Mojave Phone Booth - 222, *222*

Tony, the Riderless Horse - 101

too much time on one’s hands - 44, 56, 81-82, 86, 132, 157, 173, 237

Tosh.0 - 234

Total Information Awareness - 183

"Touch Me" — 26

Trademark G of the ECC (see also Evolution Control Committee) - 132, 160

troglo-site - 34

Trouble with Being Born, The - 243

Tuff Darts - 61

Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods, The - 158

Twain, Mark - 59, 130

U., Lisa - 5, 160, 235

U2 - 70, 70n., 177, 222

Ultimate Book of World Lists: The Best and the Worst of Our Time, The - 240

"Una Paloma Blanca" - 119

Unitarians - 128

United States of Strange, The - 240

Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader - 212

Unsworn Industries - 239

Ur-Booth - 127

Urban Dictionary - 237

US West - 110, *110*

Vallance, Jeffrey - 98, 206 (?)

Vatnajokull (the sound of) - 239

Viral Factory - 239

Virgin Mobile - 239

Vi$$er, Yo-Landi (of Die Antwoord) - 33

Voltaire - 19

W., Britain - 236

wackity-woo - 240

Wagner, Richard (Thee Graytest Composer of All of the Tymes) - frontis., 11, 13, 20, 21, 34, 37, *50*, 51, 53, 54, *54*, 55, 64, *69*, 70, *70*, *71*, *75*, 76, *80*, 87, 89, *99*, 100, 101, *103*, 117, 119, *120*, 122, *126*, *139*, 144, 145, *145*, 148, *149*, *151*, *155*, 161, *163*, 165, *170*, 184, *200*, *229*, 248, *249*

Wagner, Slim - 120

Wagnergnügen - 38, 101

Warren, Earl - 243

Warren Commission, The - 243

Washington, Glynn - 241

Waugh, Evelyn - 75

Waxy.org - 236

wayfinding, faulty - 47-48

WearCam - 227

Web Redemption - 234

West, Adam - 184

Whip It! (see also Biscayne, Chevrolet) - frontis., 12, 15, 39, 60, 62, 65, 66, 68-76, *69*, *70*, *75*, 78-80, *80*, 91-96, *99*, 100, 101, 102, 114, 119, 145, 149, *176*, 249

Wheelie, Bon von - 19, 20, 21, 22, 32, 34, 34n., 56

"When the Daylight Comes" - 50

Whipped Cream & Other Delights - 39, 60, 72, 93, 119, 121

Whiskey Pete’s Casino - 125

White, Stewart Edward - 23

White, Theodore H. - 178

Whitewater Kayaker’s Little Book of Wisdom - 77, 80, 94

White Zombie - 122

Who, The - 59

Wickenburg Institute for Factual Diversity - 166

Wig (Cynthia) - 144, 150, 151, *151*, 153, *153*, 154, 183, 235

Wig Out! - 11, 20, 21, 22, *22*, 23, 25, 56

Wikipedia - 198, 212, 222, 236, 238, 247

Wilcox, Charlie - 54n., 90, 107, 108, 117, 136-139, *139*, 162, 167, 169, 173, 175, 177, 182, 185, 187, 199, 200, 217, 218, 219, 222, 248

Wilcox, Rena - 90, 138-139, 218, 223

Wild, Peter - 107

Wild Goose Chronicles, The - 26

Wild Ones, The - 98

Wilderness Man - 239

"Wildwood Weed" - 25

Williams, Montel - 182-184

Win Ben Stein’s Money - 40

"Wind Beneath My Wings" - 160

Windmill Station - 90, 106

Wireless Flash - 86

Woodall, Sarah Jane - 42

Woodsy Owl - *226*

Woodward, Bob - 131

WordPerfect - 157

World Power Systems - 55, 56

World’s Tallest Thermometer - 64, 142, 150

Wotan - 34, 39, 114, 127, 159

Wow Signal, the - 32, *32*

Wray, Fay (see also Ray, Fay) - 106n.

WRIF (Detroit) - 87

Wrong Number Audra - 53, 56, 98, 159

X Magazine (settle down, not porn)- 11, 37, 38, 161

X-Files, The - 33n., 225

Xenophon - 80

Xochitl - 225

Y., Nanette - 90, 138

Y2K bug - 178

Yeats, W. B. - 25

Yellowstone - 218

"You're the man now, dog!" (See YTMND)

Yorty, Sam - 98

YTMND -215

Yuppieslayer - 202

Yseult, Sean - 122

zines - 11, 20, 21, 22, 37, 38

Zenas the lawyer - 84

Zzyzx - 220, 235