Back in his busted-up Chicago office, Jonnie is broke, hungover, lawsuit-ridden—and somehow still dreaming big. In this episode of No Hair All Heart, Mookie Spitz reads from the 25th section of Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine, diving into a surreal, satirical sci-fi tale of stolen ideas, doomed romance, multiversal chaos, and one washed-up anti-hero's cosmic delusions.
As Jonnie flips through a suspiciously familiar graphic novel found at the airport—a book that suspiciously mirrors his own life—he fails to notice what’s blindingly obvious to everyone else: the fourth wall of his own story has crumbled. The events he's reading about aren't just parallels—they're prophetic. But Fazoolie, in true fashion, remains oblivious, caught somewhere between paranoia and narcissism, imagining himself both victim and visionary.
Inside the book-within-the-book, a vengeful, omnipotent space goddess falls for Reality's dumbest mortal—a man too distracted by his own bullshit to realize he's the center of her wrath. She assumes the form of Alice from Lewis Carroll's Adventures in Wonderland and threatens to annihilate entire universes if her love interest doesn’t respond. Meanwhile, Jonnie—deep in debt, getting dumped, surrounded by legal threats, and on the edge of sobriety—fantasizes about what he’d do with godlike power, even as his real life crumbles.
This situtation captures Johnny’s spiral with unflinching humor and emotional bite, a wild blend of speculative fiction, cultural critique, and existential freefall—equal parts hilarious and tragic. A story about obsession, denial, and a man too lost in his own ego to see the plot twist swallowing him whole.
The Novel
Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine
First Reading
Episode 1: Audiobooks & Summaries
Episode 2: Audiobooks & Summaries
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