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

Publisher's Warning!
I appear to have a staff revolt on my hands. I have repeatedly reminded them of the commercial dangers of p----y. NOBODY reads p----y (except Europeans and maybe a few Chinese). Yet these people keep publishing stuff that NO right-minded American is interested in. To alert the unsuspecting reader I have had our designer insert an appropriate warning symbol beside the contribution of each malefactor.
                 --Belding Sprigg, Publisher.

Canaries in the American Coal Mine. In which our editor responds to our publisher's warning about all the poetry we've suddenly started printing.

Clone, Sweet Clone
Architecture editor Cal Yadkin has some eye candy for you in the form of 12 pairs of photos, old buildings matched with new ones, as evidence (some of it pretty funny) that these days architects aren't just paying homage to the past, they're cloning it.

Brokeback Mountain: Notes Toward a Review.
Scott McComb swims against the tsunami of praise for the gay cowboy movie. Which he judges to be as closeted as the two main characters are.

Horological Bequest
Robert Lonoke on (some of) the dangers of single vision and Newton's sleep.

Go Fish
Heedless of the publisher's dire warnings ("Only EUROPEANS read p----y!"), the staff keeps on turning out, well, p----y. This time our resident naturist is the sinning one.

Inane and Inaner:
Pick Your Favorite Dufus
Here we go again, trying to figure out if present-day humans are stupider than past humans. We've picked out a few choice quotes from then and now for you to rate...

A U D A C I T I E S
Here we go again off the deep end with another of our hyper-cultural one-liners that can only be described as, well, audacious. Slideshow with music (1:12).

Two Rooms in Houston
The editor keeps warning the staff about too much p----y. And still they persist. This time out Edward Hothi's persiflage seems to be about art. Or something.

Watch It!
The least popular of our editors, Piongo Pisgah, comes of out hiberation (or wherever) to offer a few "words of advice for aspirant metaphysicians." You probably don't want to bother.

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"Giving well is the best revenge."
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The War on Errorism
Washington correspondent Joel Fluker suggests we need a new word for--and a new way of thinking about the domestic behavior of the present American government.

Apocalypse Whenever
Rean Rhyne takes his turn at annoying the publisher with "A Few Crackpot Words on the Possible Cause Behind Errant Drivers, Greedy Capitalists, Dumb Politicians, and Expedient Sermonizers."

Hither, Thither, and Yon
Elinor Hoefs checks in from L.A. with twelve lines of prettiness re spanking, string theory, and that sort of thing.

Zen Centerfold 98
Yet another bit of music-cum-graphics for the metaphysically pubescent. Slideshow with midi (1:35).

Tasteless Jokes 98
At last we descend once again from the heights of elitest cultural analysis and satire to what some consider the depths of humor. How low will we go? Find out here.

The Texas Problem
and What to Do About It
Aware that their home state (which is also the site of their creative endeavors) has lately had a disturbing tendency to rub the rest of the world the wrong way bigtime, the Magellan's Log staff recently went on a weekend retreat to figure out what to do to make things better...

The Tree Man
Unexpectedly, our editor recounts an encounter in a local park that left him speechless, so to speak. An apparently homeless person feeds the birds, remembers Velazquez, and speaks perhaps too fondly of trees.

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