Reader's Guide to Vineland

for characters and places. Vineland finds him in impeccable form: 

Zoyd Herbert Wheeler (3) 

Thapsia (3) 

Prairie Wheeler (3) 

Cucumber Lounge, a bar (3) 

Log Jam, a bar (3) 

More is Less, a discount store for larger-size women (4) 

Breez-Thru gas station (4) 

Slide (4) 

Van Meter (8) 

The Blind Side Gazette, a newsletter devoted to bickering (9) 

Ralph Wayvone (10) 

Isaiah Two Four (16) 

Septic Tank, a band (18) 

Fascist Toejam, a band (18) 

Billy Barf & the Vomitones, a band (20) 

Gordita Beach, a California town (22) 

Melrose Fife, a fat policeman (23) 

Scott Oof (23) 

Frenesi Margaret Gates (27) 

Dr. Dennis Deeply (33) 

N.E.V.E.R., National Endowment for Video Education and Rehabilitation (33) 

Vineland Palace, a hotel (33) 

Elvissa (35) 

Trent (35) 

Phantom Creek (35) 

RC (35) 

Moonpie (35) 

Vineland Lobster, a euphemism for crawfish (35) 

Morning, one of RC & Moonpie's kids (35) 

Lost Nugget, a longhair saloon in Vineland (36)  

Bud Warriors, a beer rider gang (37) 

Lotus, another of RC & Moonpie's kids (40) 

Steam Donkey, a Vineland bar (41) 

Redwood Bayou, a restaurant (42) 

Le Bucheron Affame, a restaurant (42) 

Humbolaya, a California Cajun restaurant (43) 

Ti Bruce, chef at Humbolaya (43) 

Old Thumb peninsula (43) 

Rick & Chick's Born Again, an auto conversion shop (43) 

Eusebio ("Vato") Gomez (44) 

Cleveland ("Blood") Bonnifoy (44) 

El Mil Amores, Vato and Blood's tow truck (44) 

Bodhi Dharma Pizza Temple, a restaurant (45) 

Millard Hobbs (AKA The Marquis de Sod), a landscaper (46) 

Blodwen Hobbs (47) 

Seventh River (49) 

Ernie Triggerman (51) 

Baba Havabananda, night-manager of the Bodhi Dharma Pizza Temple (52) 

Arctic Circle Drivein (54) 

Kahuna Airlines (56) 

Dark Ocean Hotel (57) 

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The Cosmic Pineapple, an acid-rock club in Honolulu (58) 

Flash Fletcher (68) 

Crocker ("Bud") Scantling, anti-unionist (75) 

Eula Becker (76) 

Anson Weeks (78) 

Eddie Enrico & his Hong Kong Hotshots, a band (78) 

Ramon Raquello, bandleader (78) 

Shondra Wayvone (93) 

Gelsomina Wayvone (93) 

Gino Baglione and the Paisans, a band (94) 

Lugares Altos, an exclusive, walled community (95) 

Two-Ton Carmine Torpidini, a Mafia heavy (95) 

Meathook, the Vomitones' bass player (98) 

187, the Vomitones' horn player (98) 

Bad, the Vomitones' synth. player (98) 

Aggro World, a magazine (107) 

Las Hermanas de los Pepinares, a Jesuit order (107) 

Tetas y Chetas M.C., a Chicano bike gang (116) 

Moody Chastain (118) 

Norleen Chastain (120) 

The Lucky Sea Urchin, a water-trade joint (123) 

The Enraged Sparrow, a secret Ninja strategy (126) 

The Hidden Foot, another secret Ninja strategy (126) 

The Nosepicking of Death, yet another secret Ninja strategy (126) 

Drain, Oregon, a town (132) 

Lobelia, a transvestite white-slave (135) 

Chipco, a shadowy world conglomerate (142) 

Professor Wawazume (142) 

Wawazume Life & Non-Life, an insurance company (142) 

Yat Fat, a building (143) 

Yak Doc, a workshop (148)  

Roscoe, Brock Vond's factotum and partner (148) 

Puncutron, a machine (149) 

Evoex, a new tranquilizer (158) 

Michiko Yomama, Takeshi's ex (159) 

Babies of Wackiness, a TV series (159) 

Nukey, a computer game that includes elements of sex and detonation (160) 

The Ordeal of a Thousand Broadway Show Tunes, a Ninjette sanction (167) 

Your Mama Eats, a restaurant (167) 

Galaxy of Ribs, a dish (167) 

Brisket Fantasy (ditto) 

Cheapsat, an economy communications satellite (169) 

Ortho Bob Dulang, a Thanatoid (170) 

Zero Inn, a Thanatoid hangout (172) 

Mi Vida Loca, Vato & Blood's Custom Deluxe tow truck (177) 

Taco Carajo, a Mexican restaurant (182) 

Gorman (The Specter) Flaff, a Vietnam War speculator (182) 

Once Upon a Chitlin, an upscale soul-food restaurant (183) 

Weed Atman, a math professor turned revolutionary (188)  

Mrs. Lo Finto, an Italian mother (190) 

Zero Profile Paint and Body, an auto alchemy shop (192)  

Ditzah Pisk Feldman, a radical film editor (194) 

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Zipi Pisk, Ditzah's sister (196) 

Mirage, an astrologer and 24 fps member (197) 

Death to the Pig Nihilist Film Kollective (197) 

Krishna, a 24fps sound person (197) 

Sledge Poteet, a black radical filmmaker (196) 

College of the Surf (203) 

Rex Snuvvle, a graduate student (207)  

All Damned Heat Off Campus (ADHOC), a committee (208) 

The People's Republic of Rock and Roll (PR3) (209) 

Jinx, Weed's wife (211) 

The Blackstream Hotel, a Thanatoid hangout (219) 

Holytail, the last refuge for pot growers in northern California (220) 

Willis Chunko, Vineland County sheriff (220) 

Karl "Kommandant" Bopp, an ex-Nazi (221)  

Piggy's Tavern and Restaurant, a grower's hangout in Holytail (221) 

Dr. Larry Elasmo, a dentist (225)  

Chickeeta, his assistant (225) 

BAAD (Black Afro-American Division), revolutionary Brothers (230) 

UHURU (Ultra High-speed Urban Reconnaissance Unit, AKA Bruno) (231) 

Virgil "Sparky" Ploce, a comical anti-communist (251) 

Quilbasazos, a Mexican fishing village (257) 

Indolent Records (283) 

Leonard, a midwife (285) 

Dmitri and Ace, Hub Gates' spotlight crew (287) 

Knucklehead Jack's, a biker bar down the street from a federal facility (300) 

Wendell "Mucho" Maas, a record producer (307) 

Trillium, Mucho's (forever eighteen) friend (308) 

Count Drugula, Mucho the Munificent's former alter ego (309) 

Dr. Hugo Splanchnick, a snoot croaker (310) 

Intemperate Hill (318)  

The Fast Lane Lounge, a Vineland bar (318) 

Vegetable Road, on the way to Zoyd's place (319) 

Tokkata & Fuji, a Japanese trading company (325) 

Bubble Indemnity, a store in the Noir Center (326) 

The Lounge Good Buy, ditto 

The Mall Tease Flacon, ditto 

The Lady 'n' the Lox, ditto 

Dwayna (329) 

Lucky (329) 

Fleur (332) 

Sid Liftoff, a movie producer (337) 

Roy Ibble (338) 

Chuck's Superslab of Love Motor Inn and Casino (343) 

The Harleyite Order, transvestite, bike riding nuns (358) 

Sister Vince, said order's theologian (359) 

Elmhurst, Zoyd's lawyer (359) 

Tex Weiner, Sasha's current romantic interest (and what size is his whatsis?) (361) 

Holocaust Pixels, a Thanatoid band (363) 

 

 

 

 

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