Magellan's
Log 120 (January 2008)
MMVIII. Thirty-four
little mind-benders from our ontology editor.
Magellan's
Log 119 (December 2007)
And Now for My
Next Trick... Pedro Bofecillos on how smart we are. Or aren't.
Noir and American Truth: Lines After Reading Megan
Abbott. Elinor Hoefs reaches for the dark heart of America.
Meanwhile,
Back at the Louvre... The current state of High Art. Slideshow with midi (1:59).
M.I.Q. Maurice Fitznuggly on the multiplicity of
intelligences (yawn).
Oops! The Eternal Adolescence of the American Mind.
Our editor again goes way out on a limb (what else is new?).
Ghiberti Gawkers. Observations in the
midst of a madding crowd of impatient loiterers just outside Eden.
Magellan's
Log 118 (November 2007)
Chum. An issue for
only the most refined poetasters. Others should avoid.
Magellan's
Log 117 (October 2007)
The Adventures of Wusser
Britches, The World’s Most Independent Cat.
Wusser Britches Gets Lost.
Wusser Britches Goes Outside.
Wusser Britches Makes a Friend.
Wusser Britches Goes Shopping.
Wusser Britches Goes to Church.
Wusser Britches Visits the Vet.
Wusser Britches Takes a
Vacation.
Magellan's
Log 116 (September 2007)
Blütenstaub 2007.
An issue for only the most compulsive of introspectors. Other should avoid.
Magellan's
Log 115 (August 2007)
The Next Year-Zero. Mired in durance, we are voyeurs of permanence.
Inferences. Added to The Chiliastic Hideon.
Magellan's
Log 114 (July 2007)
In the Shallows.
Further notes on neo-speciation.
Magellan's
Log 113 (June 2007)
EXCITABILITY.
Slideshow with midi (4:51).
The Healing of America. US and wilderness.
Anthills. Where the sun's rays meet even deep
underground.
Magellan's Lesson. Anyone for the other
shore?
The Blooming Grove Bronze Tablet.
Practitioners. A few
words to the wise concerning kultural kwiksand.
D.A.D.D. Divine Attention Deficit Disorder.
Johann-come-lately. In which we trace roots
of certain German feelings of inferiority.
Praise. Words in denial thereof.
Truth. Well. Sort of. Maybe.
What They Didn't Teach You in Vacation
Bible School.
Today's Brainteaser.
Americtus: The Poison of America. Douglas
Milburn on what we've lost and what we're about to lose.
Magellan's
Log 112 (May 2007) Text Effects Issue
Toward
Gingerbread. Back to Hansel and Gretel.
Sillinesses. Revered smartpants get their
comeuppance (sort of).
Human Sexuality: The Problem. Why the
second--or the tenth--coming is never enough.
Paradises Then and Now. West of Eden, we
glance back.
Instant Guide to a Wasted Life.
Prayer Redux. Religionists will be
distraught. Others merely traught.
Beginner's Guide to Life on Earth. Ten
easy-to-follow rules.
Good Riddance? Meanwhile, back in the
nest...
1-Worders.
Zen Centerfold 112. Slideshow with midi
(3:43).
Cui bono? Applying the mechanics of genre
fiction to, well, religion.
The Triumph of the Ill. Leni Riefenstahl et al.
updated.
Spoor. Beginner's guide to walking through the
forest. Or the desert. Or wherever.
My Myth vs. Yours. Let's make a deal...
The Two Questions of the Century.
Sawyer Brown.
Going Off the Rails. America's
tragicomic probably future.
Bloviation for Fun and Profit.
Michel Foucault à la Bernaise.
Where and how the French went wrong.
Magellan's
Log 111 (April 2007) SPECIAL ISSUE
The staff revolts,
demanding really CREATIVE assignments. The editor ponders, then sets them to work. Result:
19 movie pitches.
Magellan's
Log 110 (March 2007)
The Solution.
To everything. Found on the streets of Bratislava.
On Disappearance. Reppy Duart tries to
ponder the Really Big Question.
Tasteless Jokes 110.
Millennium No. 3: Babies, Bathwaters, and
Poets. Maurice Fitznuggly. What the 21st century doesn't know it needs.
The Ossification of Dominant Beliefs.
Sylvia Thodhiss. P----y.
The Ages of Cowardice. Anna-Marie Quave
on, well, everybody.
Problems, Problems, Problems.
39 photos to induce laughter (or tears).
On Erring.
What's Going on Here? Hope for the
hopeless, thanks to Albrecht Altdorfer, with a little help from his friends at Magellan's
Log.
Permian Basin Blues. Token Republican Ora Shay
on George W. Bush's latest problems.
Wrong Thinking and the Current American Mess.
Doc Cuddy.
Magellan's
Log 109 (February 2007) SPECIAL ISSUE
Mnemonicae. 80 wee
photos to help remember that which cannot be forgotten.
Certificate of Merit. An award for our
most devoted readers. Added to The Chiliastic Hideon.
Magellan's
Log 108 (January 2007)
Polynos:
The Fragmente Issue: Petit hommage à Friedrich von Hardenberg a.k.a. Novalis
mostly writ while reading Cormac McCarthy.
Magellan's
Log 107 (December 2006)
Tip for Would-be
Paradigm Shifters.
Milburn's Law of Attention. 20 words, 1 comma,
2 periods.
North Dakota Wants to Know. Chardo Blue Plains has
a question.
Let It Scroll No. 96,412. Jason Twinhaft. A
thought for the day.
Problems in Modern Signage: Nos.
497,512-497,575. 64 pix.
Reverse-engineering
Militant Islam. Catherine Ozanic on the forgotten way of peace at the heart of Islam.
3 x 3 x 50. 450 random images from our
massive archives. NOT safe for work. Slideshow with midi (5:17).
Brave New Millennium. Edward Hothi on
the problems of living in the 20th century, and possibly the 21st as well.
Pacific Afternoon. Herbert Lehnert.
Thoughts on a beach in Southern California.
A Modest Solution. Douglas Milburn. The
Magellan's Log plan for fixing Iraq.
Psychomanteum. Sort of.
Let's just call it a meditation device and let it go at that. Slideshow with midi.
8-lane Quatrains. A nano-second epiphany
on Interstate 10 near downtown Houston.
The Invisible World of Daddies. Didio
Antis has been reading old Chinese texts again. His response this time? A BIG nineliner.
Wheel of Wheels. A bit of canonical
amusement for the winter solstice, etc.
Looking for the Answer? Have we got the
page for you! Click now for our world-famous, absolutely free slide-show called
"Watch This Space for the Answer."
Magellan's
Log 106 (November 2006)
Tasteless
Jokes 106. More low-quality time-wasters.
Promontories. Anna Marie Quave waxes poetic
re vanity, etc.
The Truth About Magellan's Log. In which an
unnamed staffer comes pretty close to spilling the beans.
Beginner's Guide to Misery. Anonymous.
The Fly-bottle and I. Douglas Milburn on words
and beyond.
21st Century Sexuality: An Informal
Update. 36
photos that show how things are hanging these days.
American Diaspora: A Brief Guide to
Fleeing. Doc Cuddy.
Palimpsest. Slideshow with midi (Corelli)
6:48 re America.
Mind-tailings. Chardo Blue Plains reports
from Leadville, Colorado.
The Persimmon Tree. Science editor Rean
Rhyne tries his hand at fiction.
John Fowles on Men, Women, and War.
Suddenly, Next Summer. Cassandra, on
the post-Bush era.
Easy Choices/Hard Choices. Harriett Lobdell
on Gregg Araki's "The Living End."
Where. Katherine Ozanic stumbles.
DO NOT Spread This Rumor. Ora Shay,
our token Republican, tries to stop the spread of a vicious rumor about George W. Bush.
Magellan's
Log 105 (October 2006) SPECIAL ISSUE
The Peaks of Otter: Notes from
a Trip to Virginia. Douglas Milburn.
1. Interstate
Trivia Question.
2. America Becomes Europe.
3. Wilderness Lost.
4. A Glimpse of The Trail of Tears.
5. Delight in Death.
6. Scars.
7. Wrinkles.
8. Toxicity.
9. Vanity etc.
10. Words Lie About
11. The Shock of the Very Old
12. How Far Is It to the Next Lascaux?
13. The Curse of Realism
14. The Forward Scout
15. Durance
16. Two Termini
17. Time Machine
18. My Invisibilities Are Bigger Than Your
Invisibilities
19. Midges Accrete
20. The Implications of Landscape as an
Object of Meditation
21. Despoiling the Earth
22. Ten Thousand Songs
23. Reportage
Magellan's
Log 104 (August-September 2006)
Life for
Dummies (On One Page). Douglas Milburn. Yup. Everything you need to know. On one page.
The Staff of Magellan's Log.
Photos of the entire staff, over the Houston skyline.
p a x v o b i s c u m. Twenty-six
land- and waterscapes. Slideshow with midi (4:16).***
Zen Centerfold 104. Schubert, "The
Wanderer." Slideshow with midi (5:47).***
Herky-jerky World: The Short Shelf-life of
Movies. Scott McComb.
The Legacy of George W. Bush.
Hot Links 104.
Rules of Human Cultural History. A
photograph. Of a wall. With words.
Further Thoughts on Thales.
Jerden Purmort.
Failure, A Brief Essay.
Ice 43. Nine lines re frozen minds and seas.
Suddenly, Next Summer. In-house
prophet Cassandra explains the coming doom-and-gloom.
Our Trip to Santa Fe. A photographic
report.
Timothy Leary--Warts and All. Astraeu Chakar
is unhappy with the blindered reviews of the first biography of Leary.
Caveat Emperor. American democracy in
extremis. Slideshow with music (1:45).
Houston Mausoleum.
Magellan's
Log 103
(June-July 2006--7th Anniversary Issue):
PS, I Love You! In Praise of Photoshop. Jason
Twinhaft.
Texas Atonement. Jerden Purmort suggests
an act of contrition for the two Bush regimes.
DADDY. H.B, Kulup laments poetically the constancy
of Father's Day.
Invitation to an Illusion. Ceci
Lumley's ten lines of non-prose re, well, everything.
Mind Poison. Our handy clip-n-save pocket
guide to what's wrong and how to fix it.
PIK-chur.com. What if in the past there'd
been a site that was for painting what Flickr is for photography...
CLARITY. Alkan's "Festival of Aesop"
plus 70 montages. Slideshow with midi (9:05).***
7 x 40. Forty photos from our archives to celebrate
our 7th anniversary.
Kulchur Kwotient No. 810. As Rome burns, yet
another of our trivia quizzes...
Rapunzel Redux. Angus Verspeeten is transformed
by the piano-playing of Valentina Lisitsa.
Mysterious Barricades. Harpsichord plus photos. Slideshow with mp3 (3:00).***
Hot Links 103. More creative time-wasters...
Homophobia in the White House. By
altering a few phrases, Doc Cuddy reveals the depth of prejudice in the president's
anti-gay-marriage speech.
WHEREZIT? 19 photos whose location you try to
figure out (he-he).
Magellan's
Log 102 (May 2006):
Ship Ahoy! An anonymous member of our
rambunctious staff indulges in p----y. Again. This time on navigation. Or something.
Ozymandias, the Sequel. Sic
transit gloria Bush (with apologies to Shelley).
We Sit for Our Self-portrait (Sort of). A
map of 1,000 pages of Magellan's Log, courtesy of WebTracer2.
What, Me Chatter? Chardo Blue Plains on
what's wrong with your/my/
everybody's internal reality. Yawn.
Do’s and Don’t’s. Understanding
the new rules of freedom of expression in 21st-century America.
Tasteless Jokes 102.
3 Life-saving Bookmarks. Free! Free!
Free! A handy version of the Hsin Hsin Ming.
Blue Book: August 21, 1988 -
March 3, 1997. "Beware of planets with no sense of humor..." and 200-odd
similar observations for the ages.
Je n'accuse pas: Us and Scapegoats. Doc Cuddy
tries to figure out whose fault IT is.
Zen Centerfold 102. Beethoven plus some
pictures. Slideshow with midi (7:07).***
Myopia and Megalomania. Lulu Dilworth offer
short-term despair and long-term hope.
Magellan's
Log 101 (April 2006):
Desire. Douglas Milburn.
Nineteen slightly provocative words.
Problems in Modern Living: Nos.
692,412-692,447. 36 photos from the Internet to help you keep up with the collapse of
civilization as we know it.
Beauty Break 101. A Chopin scherzo plus
20 images. Slideshow with midi (7:29).***
Home Sweet Home. Ora Shay, our token
Republican, on the restoration of the George W. Bush boyhood home in Midland, Texas.
Problems of Modern Sexuality.
24 photos indicating that erectile dysfunction may be the least of our sexual problems.
Satyr Alert! An anonymous reader's
photographic proof of a mysterious encounter beside a Texas Hills Country lake.
Art Smarts. Maurice Fitznuggly on art, past,
present, future, and "other."
The Dangers of Hope. Katherine Ozanic on
20th-century propaganda and the rise of American theocracy.
Generation of Cowards. Our in-house
prophet lets fly. At everybody. Bigtime.
The George W. Bush Presidential Library and
Imperial Trinket Repository: Design AND location revealed!
