Semaphore Signals:
Messages from Readers

Dear Magellan,
i am so glad to find your web so nice.
i really keep enjoying reading and seeing it.

thanks.thanks.thanks.thanks.
thanks.thanks.thanks.thanks.
thanks.thanks.thanks.thanks.
                                    a.s.
                                    Iran

Dear Magellan,
"Saltlick" (Magellan's Log V) is something else. It's rare gems like that that make hours and hours of otherwise pointless web-surfing worthwhile. I don't know how you can afford to just give away something so valuable.
                                                      Marilynn Daimogn
                                                      Montreal

Dear Magellan,
"Cars and Crystal Balls" (Magellan's Log VII) was a brilliant piece of social analysis. As an industrial designer of some 20 years, I've found in more and more difficult even to get on the freeway. Just being surrounded by so much derivative design is worse than depressing. Thanks for giving me a context in which I can begin to understand it.
                                                               Jeff Dayborn
                                                               Santa Monica, CA

Dear Magellan,
What a waste of bandwidth! What are you guys? The queer quorum? The feminist frenzy? I found you when I was doing an AOL search on Magellan for a geography term project. My dad nearly blew away my monitor when he caught me looking at one of your cartoons. He's watching me write this and he wants me to tell you that your stuff makes him want to puke.
                                                          Raymond J. Watson, Jr.
                                                          Boise, Idaho

Dear Magellan,
I think I've figured out your hidden agenda. Behind the dirty jokes, the dirty cartoons, the biting satire, you're really a bunch of beauty freaks at heart. What's with all these beautiful pictures you keep putting up? I mean, the Internet's supposed to be the dernier cri in Late Capitalist economic exploitation, ain't it? I wish you guys would get with the program and stop interrupting our focus on MAKING MORE MONEY with all these lovely pictures and beautiful music.
                                           Hammond Smith
                                           Auckland, NZ

Dear Magellan,
Thanks for a breath of fresh air on the Web. It's the rare site that holds surprises for a jaded surfer like myself. And Magellan's Log certainly surprised me. Repeatedly. I especially liked "The Edges of   Divinity" and can hardly wait to see the letters you're going to get from the zealots. A fine piece of work (whatever they may say to the contrary) that made me re-think some of my own prejudices.
                                                   George Manteo
                                                   Buenos Aires

Dear Magellan,
Huh. Whachew guys think you're doing? Taking up bandwidth with this kinda garbage? Too many big words, man, way too many. And your puzzles are way too hard. Lighten up, guys. Grab some suds and go get laid or somethin, fer Chrissake.
                                                  Wesley Protchard
                                                  Indianapolis

Dear Magellan,
Don't often find dirty jokes anything to laugh at, or about. But you did it.
And the China story showed me stuff I haven't seen anywhere in the American media.
                                                  Sherry Ault
                                                  Couer d'Alene

Dear Magellan,
Puzzles, jokes, plus endless games with neat, provocative ideas! A great zine. Keep it up.
                                                  Joyce Calardic
                                                  East Hampton

Dear Magellan,
Did you ever read Swiss Family Robinson? There's a great scene near the end where the family donkey is consumed by a giant snake, a python that wraps itself around the donkey, crushes it and then swallows it whole. Then the snake just sort of lies there waiting for the donkey to work its way through the digestive system. This large bulge reminds me of the Baby Boom
generation working its way through society.
                                                   MG
                                                   Austin

Dear Magellan,
No way Western scum ever understand China. You seem sad by the temple in Guangzhou. Why sad? Good riddance with old priest fornicators. Sorry I waste my time with you. Please do not write again about my glorious country.
                                                    Ming Lam
                                                    Beijing

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