Oatmeal Streetwalker was insane and everyone knew it. In and out of asylums on the backwater planet of Nottooclean, escaping whenever he had the chance, Oatmeal yearned for adventures out among the stars -- adventures that would take him beyond the farthest reaches of Hollywood stripper bars and into the private nightclubs of the rich and famous. In his wildest dreams, he imagined leading the life of a respected garbage collector on the Old Confederacy world of Boreduhron.<P>But Oatmeal got more than he bargained for when he intercepted a box of Kleenex embedded in an animated garbage can. The Kleenex contained a cryptic message from Heiya Ghodzilla, a beautiful Washroom Attendant being held captive by Dark Crater, Dark Lord of the Lithp, a dark and powerful warlord who was also very dark. Oatmeal realized instantly that he would have to rescue Ghodzilla, otherwise the plot of the story would not be long enough to support a novel, a film, and a plethora of other merchandising opportunities.<P>Armed only with a flashlight -- a memento of his father's service as a Dedi Fright -- Oatmeal accompanied a scary old clown and a ragtag band of misfits into the most savage battle for freedom ever faced by an asylum inmate. He would have to learn the bureaucratic and mysterious ways of the Farce to do battle with the ultimate weapon -- a happy face the size of a planet. Oatmeal vowed that he would save the galaxy, or he would die laughing.