Point and Shoot, Florida (YU)--When he was a war correspondent, Ernest Hemingway called himself Ernie Hemorrhoid, the poor man's Pyle.

A reference to Ernie Pyle, who wrote for Stars and Stripes.

He lived with the troops, ate what they ate, slept in the field. Got shot at.

Hemingway liberated the Ritz Bar in Paris.

Hemingway hung out with officers.

I don't know if the officers knew the difference, but the GIs did.

I'm not sure Hemingway knew the difference.

Before the war, Pyle was a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain. He drove around the Southwest visiting remote places and talking to ordinary people and filing six 1,000-word pieces a week that read like a letter from a friend.

Heap rode around the Redneck Riviera writing two 500-word pieces a day for YU News Service that read like a letter from a friend. He was a raving correspondent.

Walker Percy wrote him, "Thanks for Screed. It's good diatribe. The reason I know is that diatribe makes me feel better. And I felt better reading it."

Sometimes Heap called himself Jack the Raver. Blaster Al drew a picture of him with a stub of a pencil for a nose and slobber running down his chin.

The columnist Heap compared himself to was Kurt Schwitters, who built a statue in his apartment in Hanover he called his merzbau, or Cathedral of Erotic Misery, or Schwitters-Column.

Every day, Schwitters added to it, and everything he added changed the relation of existing pieces to each other, and the whole.

Schwitters was a collage artist. He called his collages merz. One time he pasted a banknote on the canvas that said Kommerzbank, and pasted over everything but merz.

Heap pasted paparazzo on a collage, and pasted over everything but razz.

He was his own paparazzo.

He threw a digital, point-and-shoot camera in his fanny pack and went off to have adventures and write about them for outdoor magazines. He was an adventure travel correspondent.

Think of Clint Eastwood in the movie The Bridges of Madison County.

Heap was writing The Volcanoes of Wakulla County.

He was going to erupt, like the Wakulla Volcano.