Introduction: Wurlitzers and chicken bones -- Burn man on a Texas porch -- Cowboys incorporated -- Assiniboia death trip -- 19 knives -- Bear on a chain -- Dangle -- My white planet -- Knife party -- Song from under the floorboards -- Flat-out earth moving -- Skin a flea for hide and tallow -- Night march in the territory -- The scout's lament -- Pompeii book of the dead -- Jesus made Seattle under protest -- Dancing nightly in the tavern -- Goose, dog, fish, stars -- Righteous speedboat -- California cancer journeys -- Bluebird driver -- The hospital island