(Editor’s Note: Story compiled from a 2008 interview with Daniel Van Zant) Thunder Mountain Monument rises like a bizarre mirage in the middle of silence and desert, 2 hours east of Reno in the land where they say VW vans come to die. The 80-foot petrified carcass of rusty cars and eroding statues has survived alongside…

“People are so wrapped up in being people that they forget they can be so many other things. Being human doesn’t mean anything. Think of how much more interesting it would be if people sometimes saw themselves as unicorns,” says Fleeky Flanco who makes a living transforming himself into other shapes. Literally. Fleeky is a professional contortionist….