VLVL 4: Business Un Usual

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 27 10:39:52 CDT 2003


The chapter introduces a few more "business" and work  partnerships and
provides additional details on partnerships and work agreements we know
about from previous chapters. 

We have RC & Moon Pie's farm where Zoyd has a sideline in Crawdads. 

Rick & Chick's Born Again where Zoyd goes, I think, to pick up a
carborator--Jikov 32,
Skoda and where he runs into Vato and Blood, owners of  V&B Tow's.


Millard Hobbs & Blodwen's The Marquis de Sod lawn-care service where
Zoyd works off the books (getting paid in cash) doing lawn and tree
work. Zoyd goes there for a disguise and some cash. 

The Slow but Healthy Food Bodhi Dharma Pizza Temple employs Zoyd's
daughter and is run by one Baba Havabananda.  

NEVER, Tubal Detox run by Dr. Dennis Deeply, M.S.W., Ph.D, a Bisectorial
business funded in part by the National Endowment for Video Education
and Rehabilitation, private and public grants, contracts ... including
one signed by Drug Enforcement Agent Hector Zuniga. 

Hector and Brock Vond have a contract with Zoyd. 

Hector has a contract and project with Ernie Triggerman and some other
Hollywood paranoids

Marijuana Farming & Dealing and  CAMP, DEA, DOJ, RICO

Flashback--Frenesi Student/Filmaker/Snitch and Zoyd-- Gutter
Cleaner/Playing in the Band/Dealing drugs and Blood's business in
Vietnam which is supported and protected by elements of the Vietcong. 


Zoyd has a partnership, concerning his daughter's welfare,  with Sasha
and now with I-24 and the Vomitones who have a gig at Ralph's daughter's
a mafia wedding which Zoyd "arranged." 

The string of California Cajun Restaurants where Zoyd sells his crawdads
and
some gin mills, Lost Nugget,  Steam Donkey,  where he cries in his beer.



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