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"Giving well is the best revenge."
Gifts for yourself, and for any of your friends who are still awake and thinking. All drawn from the sometimes boistrous, sometimes beautiful pages of Magellan's Log. Click here for more info about, among other things, the funniest book of the 21st century (so far).

Pack Up Your Troubles
Time to get out the old kit bag. You gotta s-m-i-l-e. Slideshow with midi (1:57).

Humpty Dumpty
à la mode humaine
Astraeu Chakra weeps first for the lost treasures of the vandalized Museum of Archeology in Baghdad, then for us caught now in the senseless crossfire of blind, violent men east and west.

The Tennessee Waltz.
Illustration & midi (2:33).

TEXAS KARMA
Distraught by both the domestic and foreign antics of the misbehaving sons and daughters of the Lone Star State, we have attempted to strike a metaphysical balance in the form of two helpful visual aids.

Dotty Bach
Fiddle-dee-dee... Mix a little toccata, a pinch of fugue, a dash of dots, and what do you get? Slideshow with midi (8:51).

Minds Like Ours
Sylvia Sikeston compares us to trees and is hard put to find a difference.

Always trying to stay ahead of the old cultural curve, we propose a modest addendum to the DSM, the bible of mental problems, which we call "Post-Traumatic Bush Disorder."

Hot Links 66
Some call it escapism. We call it looking for the good, the strange, and the beautiful on the Internet and coming up with maybe our best collection of links yet.

Pseudo-Texans
Editor Doc Cuddy explains how to tell a real Texan from a fake one. Guess which group he says George W. Bush belongs to. Our editor is upset because the world thinks Dubya is the real thing.

We Live in a Library
Eschatology Editor Cheki Boggus has a go at summing everything--and we do mean everythng--up in 50 words or less.

Editorial Note: On April 3, 2003, the president informed the parents of a Marine who was killed in Iraq that their son was in heaven. We had not been aware that the president was privy to this level of information and have informed our copy editors that henceforth all pronominal references to George W. Bush must be upper-case. We apologize to those whom we may have offended by our previous lower-case references.

10.5
The art world has its "Erased de Kooning Drawing." Our editor gives you some opening lines of unwritten books. Take that, Gutenberg!

Cheerer-uppers
If you've been reading Magellan's Log a while, you can imagine what we, in our serious mode, think of as "cheerer-uppers". Ceci Lumley has a couple of dozen for you. Be sure you have the old thinking cap handy.

What Next?
So many countries, and so little time... You too can make use of the visual (and aural) aid we have created to assist our leaders in deciding which part of the globe to annex next.

Zen Centerfold 66
Yet another image for the metaphysically horny. Slideshow with midi (2:59).

Classic Broadway Midi's
Some of the great old tunes, reduced to midi simplicity, but the music still speaks...

Smart Mouths 66
Our latest collection of utterances by the woeful and the wise.

Ora! Ora! Ora!
Yep, she's back. Our token Republican rides again. This time Ora Shay's about to bust a gut over what she calls "free-thinking" critics of her favorite president.

Country Bumpkins
If obfuscation were a virtue, Nicholas Momurray would be a saint. Maybe you can figure out what he's on about here. We couldn't. But, what the heck, it's only pixels.

Chaos & Old Night: Babble On
Take a couple dozen fractal images, mix with a simple little midi, and you get Joey Ancaster's take on where we are now. Slideshow with midi (2:24).

R  O  O  M  S
Nothing like a spot of surrealism for a reality-check in periods of duress. Piongo Pisgah has 10 alternate reality vignettes for your cortical stimulation.

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