Irascible "Razz" Heap, compare Incredible Hulk, and Brenda drive to New Orleans to deliver hard copies of the manuscripts of 17 books, a year's writing, to Larry and Hazel, for the archive, and to photograph the archive for a documentary a pair of independent filmmakers are producing about Heap as "America's greatest living unpublished, or underpublished writer, perhaps the greatest unpublished, or underpublished American writer ever," which Heap usually shortens to "America's greatest writer."

They go by Dr. Bob's Bywater Studio and see his Be Nice or Leave paintings. They drive to New Iberia, where Heap excavated the slave quarters at Shadows-on-the-Teche, when he was just starting to write, 35 years ago. Henry Miller visited Weeks Hall at The Shadows in The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. On the way home, they stop at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Heap corresponds with publishers and agents about the book he is writing, the previous book, and the next book.

He spends the holidays with his children and grandchildren.

He begins his job search. The grant he gave himself to write is running out.

He prepares Adventures in the Underground, an anthology he edited for the Postcards From Pottersville anthology series, for Pottersville Press, for the printer.

He writes and self-publishes two pamphlets for an art exhibit at the Gallery Above, in Panama City, Text and Plagiarism. He will sell these at his book-signing table at booksALIVE 2007! at Gulf Coast Community College, a book fair sponsored by the Northwest Florida Regional Library System.

He and Brenda go to The Red Bar in Grayton Beach to hear the reggae-bluegrass fusion band Dread Clampitt play.

His book is a collection of satirical columns (squibs) he wrote for the YU News Service, a parody news and disinformation syndicate, like Ernie Pyle writing columns for the Scripps Howard chain. They appeared in the L. A. (Lower Alabama) Free Press and at his web site, The Daily Bulletin: A Newsletter on the State of the Culture, or, How To Write World Literature from Parker, Florida, where he published them daily, as he wrote them, and answered reader comment in the work, the next day. The book is thus both interactive and written in real time. Something new under the sun.

It's a portrait of a marriage, an account of combining writing, family, and work, over three decades, a meditation on accomplishment, recognition, scuffling, and making do, a restaurant guide, and a trip along the Redneck Riviera in a rental car, because the family car isn't trusted, being a clapped-out Key West rust-bucket, your father's Oldsmobile station wagon with the cruise control stuck on 35. Why can't Heap remember?

Heap has PSD, or pre-senile dementia. Like President Bush.

He can't remember what he's raving at. Just that he's pissed-off.

Wuppie stands for willfully underemployed professional. They're both college graduates. Brenda works as a clerk/typist. Heap's last job was custodian.

What are they supposed to do? Become a manager? Motivate people? Be a sharp tool for the company? Cook the data?

What would that do to your soul. Heap is the ultimate outsider.