Point and Shoot, Florida (YU)--Sometimes Heap interviews himself and calls it a column.

Q: Much of The Hero's Journey: The Life and Work of Joseph Campbell follows a Q&A format.

A: You could call this book THE IMMOBILIZED HERO'S JOURNEY: THE LIFE AND WORK OF RAZZ HEAP.

Except it already has a title. VIGNETTES AND FEUILLETONS: SQUIBS FROM A WRITING LIFE. Or SQUIBS, for short.

Plus, who is interested in Razz Heap's life and work? It's not like he's Joseph Campbell.

Q: Do you see any similarities?

A: Yes.

Campbell was formally educated, but his post-graduate work took him further afield than his faculty committee would allow, so he abandoned his academic pursuits and educated himself, through lifelong reading, travel, and study with mentors who lacked credentials themselves. Folk masters, as it were.

Q: Like Doc Ricketts, of Cannery Row and Sea of Cortez fame.

A: Yes, and John Steinbeck himself.

Q: What analog of that do you see in your own life?

A: Me going to visit, and talk to, and write about Jack Rudloe, Gulf Specimen Laboratory, in Panacea, and his next door neighbor, singer-songwriter and novelist Slim McElderry, who lives in an Army surplus barracks from Camp Gordon Johnston in Carrabelle next to Rudloe's lab, on Dickerson Bay, in Panacea. The bay The Living Dock at Panacea is about.

Q: That's a funny story about you stopping to eat at The Oaks, in Panacea, and picking up a copy of The Living Dock at Panacea at the cash register, and buying it, as a birthday present for Brenda, and Rudloe coming over and asking you if you wanted him to autograph it, and you saying, "Are you Jack Rudloe?"

Him saying yes, you saying, "Why, yes. Please inscribe it `To Brenda Saunders, love, Jack.'"

Him saying, "Are you Jack Saunders?"

A: Yes. We had corresponded but not met. I had read all of his books and he had read all of mine. And we had the mutual friend, Slim. Or Em. Or Mack.

Q: And now the two of you have the same publisher. Jeff Potter, Out Your Backdoor Press.

A: The three of us. Potter published Mack's Panacea Fantasía.

Q: No, they couldn't come to terms. Mack published it himself, and called it Chicanery Row: A Panacea Fantasy.

A: I first dug an Indian mound in Panacea in 1965. That's the year Rudloe founded his lab, with encouragement from John Steinbeck (Ricketts was dead), and help of Mack. Our lives have intertwined ever since. I see Rudloe at book fairs and Mac comes by on a visit to bless our house, from time to time.

I interviewed them both when Rudloe published Potluck, his novel about a shrimper smuggling marijuana to keep from losing his boat.

Q: What book was this in?

A: One of the unpublished ones.

HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY REPORT WRITER AND FOLK ART CRITIC. April 15 - April 25. 33,000 words. Brenda's brothers and sister ask her to live in the old home place, fix it up, and buy it from them. Brew gets outplacement counseling, assesses his career goals, sees that he can afford to retire. Moves to Parker, goes on social security, draws unemployment. Rides around, walks on the beach, eats seafood, out, and writes. Gives himself a new web site, roman-feuilleton.com. Drives over to Grayton Beach to see Balder on Sunday. Drives to Georgia to help Brenda pack boxes in preparation for selling the house and moving to Florida. Brew dreams of selling his book to a newspaper, which will serialize it, or writing free-lance pieces, on a regular basis, but the book takes over, and makes it unfit for a family newspaper. Brews starts publishing his books in pamphlet form. Sends one to Sundog Books, in Seaside, but it comes back Return to Sender. They want Dog Fancy magazine, not road-kill possum chili recipes. He gives them to people he meets at The Red Bar. A local enclave of Buzzard Cult members forms. He rents a booth at the Fall Arts and Crafts Festival at Downtown Carillon Beach, but doesn't sell any pamphlets. Slim McElderry sends Brew a CD, The Black Hole, about Bush stealing the election. "Bushwa Blues," an update of Leadbelly's "Bourgeois Blues," and "Faretheewell Democratic," an update of "Fare Thee Well, Titanic." Dick Vajs visits, with a lady friend from West Virginia, an artist and writer. Dread Clampitt cut their first CD, with cover art by Brian Hand and band photograph by Dawn Anderson. Wild Horse, a former bandmate of Potter Brown, dies, and Brew and Brenda drive to Milton, for the viewing, at a funeral home, Sunday night Gerald comes over from Slidell. Owen and Balder come. Brenda stays for the funeral on Monday. Owen and Balder play fiddle and mandolin, at the funeral. Brew drives to Panacea on Monday to interview Jack Rudloe about Pot Luck, stops in the Tattered Pages bookstore and at the Wakulla News, in Crawfordville, on the way home. Brew collects YU News Service columns in a book called ART "HOME" BREW: THE SALVAGE ARCHEOLOGIST OF FLORIDA'S CO-OPTED COASTS, COMPARE ART BRUT, combines the book with A POET WRITES AGAINST THE WAR, and pitches the pair as A Bushed Generation, by analogy with the Lost Generation, or the Beat Generation. Then Brew renames the book BUSHWA BLUES: THE HERO-WITHOUT-EMPLOYMENT, and writes agents and editors about it, without linking it to A POET WRITES AGAINST THE WAR. Brew hears a clock ticking in his head, as his unemployment benefits run out.

Q: Gaston Lagaffe, le héros sans emploi (hero without a job).

A: That's the hero of no use. The feckless hero. The immobilized hero.

The immobilized hero, c'est moi.

I mean, folk art critic?

I Drive to Panacea?

Self-published pamphlets and a web site on the worldwide web?