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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Some Things You Should Know about the Author | p. xv |
The Author Will Now Rationalize | p. 1 |
Chocolate = Enabler | p. 8 |
In Which an Unhealthy Pattern of Dependence Is Established | p. 10 |
An Ill-Advised Discussion of Freak Economics | p. 16 |
Night of the Living Freak | p. 21 |
Mistakes Were Made | p. 25 |
Caravelle: An Elegy | p. 29 |
I ™ Manny | p. 39 |
Feeding the Beast | p. 45 |
A Top-Secret Chocolate Situation | p. 51 |
The Politics of the Rack | p. 56 |
The Last Man in America with | p. 62 |
The Capo Di Tutti Freak | p. 71 |
The Love Song of Ray | p. 76 |
Welcome to the Boom | p. 82 |
There Are Men upon This Earth Who Tread Like Gods | p. 90 |
Feuilletine, Revealed | p. 97 |
Freak Fetish | p. 105 |
The Official Dark Horse Freak of Philadelphia | p. 108 |
Wee Willie and the Pop-a-Licks Rage | p. 115 |
Southern-Fried Freak | p. 123 |
Chocolate Haiku | p. 130 |
Freak Retentive | p. 139 |
In the Belly of the Freak | p. 142 |
The Unstoppable Freak Energy of | p. 145 |
Southbound with the Hammers Down | p. 163 |
The Candy Bar on Your Chin | p. 168 |
The Marshmallow Parallax | p. 177 |
A Depressing but Necessary Digression | p. 189 |
Boise: Gateway to . . . Boise | p. 191 |
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Idaho Spud | p. 195 |
Huckleberry, Hounded | p. 206 |
American Lunch | p. 214 |
How Will the Spud Survive? | p. 218 |
The Past Is Just Ahead | p. 224 |
Remember This Name: | p. 231 |
A Second Depressing but Necessary Digression | p. 238 |
A Little Hidden Bomb in My | p. 240 |
A Few Final Relevant Facts | p. 244 |
Acknowledgments | p. 253 |
Freak appendix | p. 255 |
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