3000 MPH in Every Direction at Once

What if everyone actually was famous for exactly fifteen minutes? What if Joey Ramone could save the world? What if the spiritual enlightenment of saints and sages was a sexually transmitted disease? These are the fictions. Neon signs that predict a city's future. Companies paying people to insult their clients online. Edgar Allan Poe's New York is still alive, but not well. These are the facts. And they say speculative fiction and personal essays don't belong in the same book. Whether in the glossy pages of the men's magazine Razor or the stolen reams of office supplies that make up the zine The Whirligig, the writing of Nick Mamatas is your hitchhiker's guide to the new, and very weird, millennium. Don't know where the world is headed? Nick does and it's 3000 miles per hour in every direction at once.

Contents:

• Introduction by Zoe Trope
• The Daniel Boone of Jersey City (essay)
• Your Life, Fifteen Minutes from Now
• Brother Theodore Is Dead (essay)
• Time of Day
• Do the Wall Street Hustle (essay)
• The Armory Show
• It's an Honor to Be Nominated
• Impression Sunrise
• Why I Flame (essay)
• Joey Ramone Saves the World
• Beer on Sunday
• How to Rid the World of Good (essay)
• The Birth of Western Civilization
• Old Boilers and Old Men (essay)
• Scarlet Women Watch TV Till Dawn
• Travel Between Heavenly Bodies