ISBN 0-7475-2063-1 (UK hbk, 1991)

Introduction and Acknowledgements;

Part One: On Drugs

"Junk Mail" by Will Self,

"The Literary Monkey" by Will Self,

"New Crack City" by Will Self,

"Mushrooms Galore" by Will Self,

"Reeling and Writhing" by Will Self,

"Let Us Intoxicate" by Will Self,

"Strike and Crack" by Will Self,

"Drugs and the Law's Pursuit of Virtue" by Will Self,

"Inside Her Majesty's Powder Keg" by Will Self,

"The Naked Tea" by Will Self,

"Junking the Image" by Will Self,

"Street Legal" by Will Self,

"Fixing Up a Vinyl Solution" by Will Self,

"Drug Dealer by Appointment to Her Majesty's Government" by Will Self;

Part Two: On Other Things
Humour
"Off the Box" by Will Self,

"Island Life" by Will Self,

"Eight Miles High" by Will Self,

"Slack Attack" by Will Self,

"Man Enough to Have People Operate on Your Penis" by Will Self,

"Mad About Motorways" by Will Self;

Book Reviews
"Where Did I Go Wrong?",

"Three Dots to Heaven",

"B and I",

"The Book of the Film",

"The Burnt-out Shells of Men",

"Not a Great Decade to Be Jewish",

"Couch Surfing",

"Catch-23";

Features
"A Little Cottage Indusrty" by Will Self,

"The Valley of the Corn Dollies" by Will Self,

"Dealing with the Devil" by Will Self,

"Head-hunting for Eternity" by Will Self,

"Do You Believe in the Westway?" by Will Self,

"On the Edge of Blackness" by Will Self;

Profiles
"Thomas Szasz: Shrinking from Psychiatry" by Will Self,

"Damien Hurst: A Steady Iron-Hard Jet" by Will Self,

"Tim Willocks: Size Matters" by Will Self,

"Martin Amis: The Misinformation" by Will Self,

"Bret Easton Ellis: The Rules of Repulsion" by Will Self;

Conversations
"J.G.Ballard",

"Martin Amis".

"Having cut his teeth producing illustrative cartoons for the New Statesman on three-hour deadlines in the early eighties, Will Self went on to publish spot cartoons for many different journals. The best of these are reproduced in this volume together with features, critical articles and book reviews done for a host more. Most of the material is concerned with the politics, culture and ritual of intoxication; and where it isn't, it's usually about the literature thereof. From Cryonicists in LA to narcs in Amsterdam, Self drags an illegal seine-net through the polluted sea of today's weirdness, coming up with the occasional healthy fish, but lots of monsters and sports." [jacket blurb, UK hbk, 1995]