Magellan's Log 123: Culture Counterculture Anticulture

April 2008
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"Is the voyage worth making that does not enhance awareness of our shared humanity?"

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"Giving well is the best revenge."
--Douglas Milburn.

wpe16.jpg (1945 bytes) The Rainbow Bird
Dire decades need strong songs. Slideshow with midi (6:22).

Australia got the convicts. Canada got the French. We got the Puritans.
—Dan Savage.

Apposite Apothegms
Apposite? Apothegms? Find out here. Where else except Magellan's Log are you going to find Dan Neil, Gandhi, and J.G. Ballard on the same page?

Shovelfuls of selfidness have to be got out of the way before you can even begin to think about not-thinking.
—DM.

bad ad.jpg (25625 bytes) No Bucks for Bad Ads
Once again our uppity editor is on a rant, this time about advertising and what he calls its "static mindprint."

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
—Thelonius Monk.

Leçons des Ordinateurs de ténèbres
Once again we make it our business to alienate readers by publishing p----y, this time nine puzzling lines by Izora Firelands, with a French title yet. Go figure.

The world an open book and we so many small spiders scurrying across its pages.
—DM.

The Wry Above, the Mud Below: An Appreciation of Dave White's Exile in Guyville. Temple Duciel goes ga-ga over the hilarity of a Texas boy's (mis)adventures in West Hollywood (and environs).

We so want our art and science in pretty packages. The desire warps everything.
—DM.

How much barbaric DNA do races discard before setting out for the stars?
—DM.

The Flatness Fallacy
Anna-Marie Quave explains why, though the earth may not be flat, our conscioussness is.

Explorers' Rule of Thumb: Pacifics, as Magellan discovered, are generally much bigger than they first appear to be.
—Izora Firelands.

The Relentless Pursuit
of Ragged Perfection
Five notes on the lack of genius in the current age, by Ceci Lumley. Our cartography editor has a go at false gods of false greatness and other impeities of the present era.

Discussing religion with a gay Christian is like discussing economics with a gay Republican.
—Douglas Milburn.

Mind Meteors
sandstorm.jpg (10878 bytes) Our editor in chief takes another whack at scientific orthodoxy re certain puzzling ripples in the history of consciousness.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
—William Pitt the Younger (1783).

What's Wrong with the World
wpe12.jpg (7549 bytes) Marcel P. Snapfinger, little-known staff malingerer, has a go at the Big Problem, with a little help from a few ~~million~~ ~~billion~~ trillion friends.

Only those lot in their navel mitake irony for art and imitation for inspiration.
—DM.

The acquisitive self is only a surival tool, which is why it obsesses on its own (illusory) immortality.
—DM.

The world wants answers no more truthful that those it gets from weekly homilies and Nobel Prize winners. The small percentage in extremis needs and wants more but because of a lifetime of learne wrong thinking can't get it.
—DM.

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