Gluonic excitations' millennial finale

We provide an overview of theoretical developments on hybrid mesons and glu eballs in the last year at this turn of the millenium conference. Cracks in potential models of conventional mesons are developing. Hybrid meson adiab atic surfaces have been calculated and interpreted, experimental J(PC) exot ics have hybrid meson, four-quark state or nonresonant interpretations, and the strong decay mechanism of hybrids has been studied. All theoretical pr ogress on hybrid mesons in the last year is mentioned. Overall features of glueballs are visited: decays and the successes of the large N-c limit. Two promising experimental areas are mentioned: charmonium hybrids at B-factor ies and ss hybrids at Jefferson Lab.