What's Was New
in Magellan's Log:
Issues 21 to 40

Publications, in reverse chronological order
(the top item is the most recent).
This page includes only Issues 21 to 40.

For Issues 1-20 (1999-2000), click here.
For Issues 41 to 60 (2001-2002), click here.
For Issues 61 to 80 (2003-2004), click here.
For Issues 81 to 100 (2004-2006), click here.
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For Issues 121 to Present (2008), click here.


***Unabashedly positive. Which means that for the rest,
without asterisks, you're on your own.

Magellan's Log 40
Mary Jenewein: Paint on Paper. Sixteen powerful mixed media works.
Let's Pretend. Pedro Bofecillos. Can midi sound effects tell a story?
The Magellan's Log Rent-a-UFO Club [in The Chiliastic Hideon].
Deathbed Software. Sylvia Thodhiss. Beware this computer game.
Drone on the Range. Minimalist midi plus minimalist gif equals serenity.***
Tory! Tory! Tory! Bob Odom. On Florence King's Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady.
In Search of the Great American Haiku. Jerden Purmort.
All-Country Test-Your-Leader’s-Sanity Diagnostic Quiz.
Kulchur Kwotient 800.
Flat Heat. Don Pfingston. A brief, colorful commentary on seasonal reality.
Bull Run. Henry Bob Kulup. Two rural Americans and one problematic bull.
Dubya Gets His Wish. Joel Fluker. Pres. Bush betows medal on his teenage idol.
Body Blow! America in Denial. Joel Fluker.
Weeds. A hectoring question or a gentle reminder?
It Only Stops Hurting When I Laugh. 13 funny images from the farther reaches of the Internet.
Meditator. 250k-animated GIF as 21st-century role model.***
Tasteless Jokes 40.
[One page added to "After Words", Magellan's Log 35]
C.R.A.B.S. Wire-service report on first scientific identification of new virulent social disease.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 39
Blinders Begone! Rean Rhyne megalomaniacally formulates "Rhyne's Law" re the fate of civilizations.
["After Words" added to Magellan's Log 35]
Handle with Care. Hinko Livernoix. Remarks on the theater and other matters.
ARSE (Akashic Records Search Engine). Breakthrough technology from Bangladesh.
Reading Readiness. Bob Odom. Poetry.***
The Rape of Chopin. Angus Verspeeten. What's wrong with our ears and how to fix them.
Cats, Cowboys, and Capitalists. F.R. Hartnough. A robber baron speaks his mind.
Eleven Little Words. A coupla short sentences from a really old Chinese guy.***
Music of the Spheres. The best planetary portraits, with midi's.***
[27 pages added to Magellan's Log 35.]
Letters to the Editor added.
[18 pages added to Magellan's Log 35.]
Me! Me! Me! Reppy Toppenish. Why what I believe is right and what you believe is stupid.
Pentimento. Edward Hothi. Poetry.
Tasteless Jokes 39.
Kulchur Kwotient 799. Yet another 11-question culture check-up.
Just Say No to Tasteless Dubya Jokes! Ora Shay. Our token Republican's second column.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 38 
Gregorian Chant. Midi sequences by Richard Lee.***
Descartes enters the Information Age. Your existence validated, free of charge.
Nature. Old, old Asian words, not quite so old European music.***
Kulchur Kwotient 798.
Here Come Da Inquisition... Again. Maurice Fitznuggly. The Thought Police are back.
Tasteless Jokes 38.
[15 pages added to Magellan's Log 35.]
Huang's Law. Douglas Huang. At last, the truth about the Information Age, in one sentence.
Meteoropticon. Chardo Blue Plains. New Age glop or deep wisdom?***
Sites Alive! The Magellan's Log Hands-on Tour of America.
[19 pages added to Magellan's Log 35.]
Being There II: The Terrifying Sequel. Sawyer Brown on Dubya and Chauncey Gardiner.
Synesthesia. Eight tactilely visual, or maybe visually tactile, photos. With midi.***
The Randy's. Our annual awards for the best explicit sex photographs on the Internet.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 37
[9 pages added to Magellan's Log 35.]
Thanks a Lot, Dubya! Ora Shay. Our token Republican columnist is so grateful.
American Censorship: Prisons of Arrogance. Michelle Furr.
Cross-stitch Prayers for the 3rd Millennium.
[17 pages added to Magellan's Log 35.]
Fucked Again. Doc Cuddy once more tried to understand the 20th century.
On the Invisible. Chardo Blue Plains.***
Timid Thinkers. Our thought for the biennium.
What People Search for in Magellan's Log.
Why We're Asking Your Support. (in Magellan's Log 1)
21st Century Mandala. A little graphic hint of global-warming things to come.
The Golden Age of the Internet. Sawyer Brown. Is THIS the digital good old days?
[12 pages added to Magellan's Log 35.]
Tripping. Book review by Reppy Duart, D.D.
Future Chinks. Our short list of design-hints from the future.
A.I.L: The Anti-Irascibility League of America. Reppy Toppenish. Help for what AILs you.
Dualities. A couple of very old Zen sentences become animated.***
Tasteless Jokes 37.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 36
Extensions. Temple Duciel, abstract as ever, poor fellow.
St. Francis in Ecstasy. Caravaggio plus Handel = ?***
How Far from Paradise? Ceci Lumley. Find out your present location re Heaven.
Klassical Karaoke. Angus Verspeeten on Toru Takemitsu's percussion concerto.***
The Good Old Days. Choice quotations from the halcyon days of the "New Economy."
Discriminating Mind. A harmless little sentence, and some harmless little music.***
Graffito No. 11942.
The Spitting Image. Diebold Essen. Frank Stella's Prince of Homberg.
Magic Yard. A bit of black & white, a bit of color, a bit of Gibbons.***
Structural Rationalism in the Works of Mann and Joyce. Y. John Long and Paul E.V. Werther.
The Oracle of Tierra del Fuego.
Tasteless Jokes 36.
The Crib Makers. J.P. Astraeu. Finding hope in the failure of SETI.***
Time-distortion Alert! Jerden Purmort. The Republican plot to take over the universe.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 35
Iris Murdoch: Fragments of a Re-cognition. Douglas Milburn.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 34 (The Wordless Issue)
Red.
Walkabout.***
Ley Line.***
Letters. Readers write re Cox and Liszt.
Ingress.***
Pedernales Falls.
Hot Links.
Texas Bluebonnets.***
Funny Stuff.
The P.A.T. (Presidential Aptitude Test). In The Chiliastic Hideon.
Animated Gif's.
Lilies..***
Last Looks. Death Masks We Have Known and Loved.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 33
Pong et seq. Douglas Milburn. Videogames and the origins of consciousness (in The Chiliastic Hideon).
Brainteasers 33.
Lecture de Texte: "Shared Roots." Robert Watson. A reader responds eloquently.
GECW vs. GICW. A worksheet to determine your true net worth.
ESL 33: Synonyms.
Shared Roots. Astraeu Chakar. Lines of hope..***
Are American Chickens Coming Home to Roost? Joel Fluker rants, bigtime.
Happy Birthday, Martin Waldseemuller!.***
Letters from Readers updated.
Saltlick. Addition of 2 meditations, one for Christians, one for scientists (see Saltlick contents).
Lest We Forget. Moore's Law in action: A page from the cyber-past.
Tasteless Jokes 33.
grün.***
Irrational Exuberances. Piongo Pisgah. Notes from the end of a marriage of inconvenience.
Yes, We Have No IPO's. Jerden Purmort. RU ready for the coming economic readjustment?
Germans R Us. Temple Duciel. Germany and the lessons of humility.
One Obscene Statistic. (See for yourself.)
Bars. Sex bars of colored light plus New-Age-ified Chopin.***

Magellan's Log Issue No. 32
Walls Walls Walls: France & the Last Tragedy of the 20th Century. Douglas Milburn. (in The Chiliastic Hideon)
George Grosz (1893-1959): The Faces of Greed (27 drawings).
Caveat Cyberpunk! Joel Fluker glimpses a not-so-pretty probable future.
Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré: Recent Work 1999-2001. Latest paintings.***
The Physics Question of the 21st Century.***
THEM vs. US. vs. HER. Bloce Kaibab on politics and hubris.
Irrational Non-Exuberance. Doc Cuddy despairs of both the Republicans and the Republic.
U Date 'Em. Scott McComb. A quiz for the advertising-encumbered.
A Glimpse of Futures Past. Rean Rhyne. What 1969 thought a 2001 airport would look like.
Alphabet Soup: Drugs in America. Ceci Lumley reviews DMT: The Spirit Molecule.
Red Dot additions. See Chiliastic Hideon.
Chad Report No. 11. Nfubi Kwaadutu. Sen. Thurmond comes to N'Djamena.
Skiatatuk Speaks: Communiqué No 18,372. Another foul-mouthed message from Beyond.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 31
A Little Thought Experiment for the Rich & Powerful. Chardo Blue Plains gigs 'em again.
Buddhist's Lament. Pedro Bofecillos.
Prig Presidents & Forgotten Revolutions. Robert Lonoke on 1789 and... us!
Chad Report No. 10. Nfubi Kwaadutu. Tripp opens bi-partisan destination resort!
Amenhotep: A Wounded Sonnet. Denise Hawkins.
The Magellan's Log Short Supplement to Roget's Thesaurus of the English Language.
Voices from the Past. John D. MacDonald's private eye Travis McGee on education.
An Age of Mediocrity. Diebold Essen. Potshots at sides of barns.
Brainteasers 31: 4 Headaches.
Unscientific Questions. John Mimbres. Dangers of the herd-instinct in science.
ESL 31: An ESL Fairy Tale.
Kulchur Kwotient 797.
Tasteless Jokes 31.
Nfubi's Nfan Mail. Our beloved correspondent in the Republic of Chad gets letters.
Mars II: The Bill and George Show. Doc Cuddy on the Gates and Bush reading habits.
Chad Report No. 9. Nfubi Kwaadutu. When the lights go down in N'Djamena...

Magellan's Log Issue No. 30
Brainterteaser 30: Number Fill-in.
Trennungsangst. Ulrich von Kleinschwanz-Ohnehosen. Why what's wrong is wrong. Maybe.
The Paintings of Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré.***
ESL 30: What's Wrong? Find the mistakes in 20 sentences.
Famous All Authors Best Seller Quick Publishing School.
Times Square in the Round. Paul Hester's 270-degree panoramic night photo.***
Chad Report No. 8. Nfubi Kwaadutu. Trouble in N'Djamena following a report that Jeb Bush may displace the beloved Ms. Harris.
Crouching Buddha, Hidden Dharma. Chardo Blue Plains on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Gigantic Magellan's Log Poli-Sci Contest!
Kulchur Kwotient No. 796.
Cast Away: The World's Longest Commercial. Sawyer Brown goes to the movies.
The Chad Report No. 7. Nfubi Kwaadutu shows us the softer, empathic side of K. Harris.
Are You a 21st Century Person? Find out whether you're living in the past.
Is It Remotely Possible That America Takes Organized Religion Just a Tad Too Seriously?
Tasteless Jokes 30.
Zone Red. Cassandra rides again! More prophecies of doom and gloom.
Against Sepsis in a Time of Contagion. Diebold Essen. Twelve minutes of Bach.***
The Chad Report No. 6. Nfubi Kwaadutu. An entire nation falls in love with Linda Tripp.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 29
Voting Patterns. Herbert Lehnert on the puzzling behavior of the American electorate.
Monsters, Inc. Lulu Dilworth. First Robespierre, then James Baker. Now what?
Heavenly Transmission. Our staff mediums get word from the top re Dubya.
Me and Archie Bunker. Sawyer Brown. Truth in voting.
The Chad Report. Central listing of Nfubi Kwaadutu's essential dispatches from Chad.
Fart Loud & Proud. Doc Cuddy. Thoughts, not all in the best of taste, on life under Bush II.
The Chad Report No. 3. Nfubi Kwaadutu. The Saharan infatuation with Ms. Harris continues.
Bulletin from Chad! Nfubi Kwaadutu. Katherine Harris denies complicity in Congo violence.
Re: Cage. The Critic Responds. Morton Bernheimer on Magellan's Log vs. John Cage.
Tasteless Jokes 29.
Found Sentence. One New Orleans graffito.
Speechless in the 3rd Millennium. A (mostly) humorous graphic oasis in the word-desert.
Misothamnisty! Our diagnostic quiz to help you cope with George II.
Canons & Rounds. From "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" to Pachelbel.***
Scoop! World's first photos of new U.S. Ambassador's residence in Chad.
The World's Shortest Book Review. Ceci Lumley.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 28
The Chad Report. Nfubi Kwaadutu. The state of the world as viewed from North Africa.
Dubya Makes a New Friend. We haven't heard the last of Monika. (In The Chiliastic Hideon)
The World According to Tom DeLay. Quotes to live by.
Are You an Outhouse Republican? Joel Fluker. Helpful political self-tests. (In The Chiliastic Hideon)
Snake in the Grass. Magellan's Log's new kind of word puzzle.
A Thousand Hounds. Reppy Duart. An unlikely, all-stops-pulled review of an unlikely book.
Talking the Talk. A devilish little vocabulary quiz based on one day's New York Times.
***Greater & Lesser Truths. A staff compilation, for better or worse.
The Bush-Baker Survival Kit. Essential gadgets for the socially engaged.
Dubya and the Dow. What our crystal ball says about the future of the market.
Coup Corner. A page with links to all our pieces about the Bush Ascendancy.
***My Love Is Like an Orange, Orange Rose. Douglas Milburn. A fairy tale for the vision-impaired.
ESL 28: Crazy Eights. A little vocabulary exercise.
New correspondence from readers.
Tasteless Jokes 28.
Brainteasers 28: Hidden Words.
Kulchur Kwotient No. 794.
Random access hyperlink added to front page of all issues.
The Magellan's Log Complete & True Timeline of Critical Landmarks & Essential Dates in Human History, Including Several Things Your Eighth Grade Teacher Never Mentioned.
8% and the Lottery Syndrome. Lulu Dilworth. Hope in the 2000 election.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 27
"The Little King, An American Fairy Tale," by Henry Bob Kulup. Read it and weep.
Florida Bumperstickers.
***The 3 Turnings. Elinor Hoefs. Personality problems in us, and in the body politic.
Mme Anna-Magdalena Petrofina-Blavatksy, staff psychic, makes her third appearance.
***Dolce far niente. Ceci Lumley. Exploring the far horizon beyond science and technology.
***Lost Worlds. Rean Rhyne and Angus Verspeeten. 9 planets for imaginary exploring, with midi's.
Westward Ho! Bloce Kaibab. Our pocket guide to America for international travelers.
Curtains. Kai Sonderling. Images for the optically challenged, with Chopin midi's.
New letters.
Really Really Last Words. Staff-gathered quotes for the second ending of the millennium.
ESL Fun: Fast Food.
Brainteasers 27.
Kulchur Kwotient No. 793.
Oligarchy Now! Lulu Dilworth's checklist to get you in tune with the new times.
How Capitalistic Is Your Religion? Doc Cuddy. A handy little satirical quiz.
Tasteless Jokes 27.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 26
GRRR! The Cumulative Rage of Neanderthal on the Verge of Extinction. Chardo Blue Plains.
The Freedom of Utah 12. Herbert Lehnert. Questions of liberty in the American desert.
A Tale of Two Icons. Pedkop Bumbera. The   election explained through car design.
***Great Planes. Joey Ancaster. Imaginary visual and aural landscapes in which to play.
Eye Chart. Check your vision, um, metaphysically speaking.
Sperm Lit 101: On Reading Lee Child. Sylvia Sikeston.
Laws of the Universe (Updated for the New Millennium). Jerden Purmort.
The World's Biggest Tie. Doc Cuddy. What the voters really meant on Nov. 7, 2000.
Moments Musicaux. Henry Kulup. The disappearance of music from private discourse.
The Florida Memorandum. Doc Cuddy. Pieces of the Florida voting puzzle.
***Rosson's Rocks. Nine contemporary American scholar's stones.
U-Buy-It. Match 1940s ad images with the product being sold.
The Magellan's Log Cyber-Humours Test. How do you fit in the Brave New Digital World?
BTV. Pedro Bofecillos. A revisionist view of historical chronology.
US Vs. THEM. Cheki Boggus on the roots of human conflict.
It All Adds Up! A number fill-in puzzle for ESL.
Kulchur Kwotient 792.
Brainteasers 26.
Jokes for Magellan's Log 26.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 25
Disgustingly Eurocentric Music Quiz.
Does Good English Still Matter? Robert Lonoke.
Top 10 Midi's. The best music files that have appeared in Magellan's Log.
Seventeen Composers. A diverting little fill-in puzzle.
The Boys Across the Street. Reppy Duart on Rick Sandford's provocative novel.
Musical Quotations.
Music and Movies. Our list of the best--and the worst.
***Musician Jokes. The absolute worst music humor we could find on the Internet.
***"La Folia" X 2. A midi extravaganza based on a famous melody.
The Walking Wounded. Doc Cuddy. Humanity as a victim of PTSD.
Fun Stuff for Magellan's Log 25.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 24
***Ancient Paradox Mocks Docs. Ceci Lumley. Translation problems in the Tao Te Ching.
American Contributions to World Culture, No. 12,596.
Thought-provoker. A strange little statistic to help you think outside of the box.
Me and My Century. Single images representing the 20th century.
2001 & the Murk Ahead. Mme. Anna-Magdalena Petrofina-Blavatsky.
Children: Facts, Stats, and the Future. Notes from a lecture by Peter Benson.
***Quote Me This. Quotations, with pictures, and music by Josquin Desprez.
1900-1999. Reppy Toppenish solves the problem of what to do about the 20th century.
Smart Ears. "Name That Tune" comes to the Internet.
The Official Magellan's Log Guide to Perfection.
The New Frankenstein. Piongo Pisgah. Hidden digital dangers.-23.
Fun Stuff for Magellan's Log 24.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 23
The Ecstasy of Sanctimony. Temple Duciel on Philip Roth's The Human Stain.
2/29: Remembrance of Time Lost, or, What Price Capitalism.
Are You a Curmudgeon? Harriet Lobdell. A checkup quiz for the socially maladjusted.
I Spy. Joel Fluker. What the Galactic Federation thinks about us.
Qar Quiz. Questions they never ask on the driver's license test.
Lethe Lite. Cassandra. What's really wrong with television.
Teaching: A Thought Experiment. Angus Verspeeten.
Slosh! Hormones and History. P.F. Brumbeloe, Jr., M.D.
Cars & Crystal Balls: Update. Pedkop Bumbera rethinks his vision of the future.
What Happened to Movies That Matter? Ceci Lumley.
The Texas Tao. Hardy Metcalf, Ph.D. Eavesdropping on truckers. E-book.
Let 'Em Speak Greek. Henry Bob Kulup. What's wrong with America's schools.
Fun Stuff for Magellan's Log 23.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 22
The editor grades Magellan's Log 22.
***The Quiet Ecstasy of Piety. Douglas Milburn. A psychic explorer's surprise at home.
You Are What You See. Nicholas Momurray. Interpreting your environment.
Nicotine Stains. Henery Bob Kulup on the unknown dangers of a nicotine-free society.
***Oak Creek Canyon August 26, A panoramic photograph.
***EYEmageS. Isometrics for the retina.
Wherizit? A little quiz to test your map-sense.
Self-help Index added.
Gluttony. If greed is good, find out how good your are.
No Joy in Mudville. Ceci Lumley. Who's having fun in this Age of Affluence?
Ten Words No. 19: Rez Rape. A short story by Bloce Kaibab.
***Grand Canyon Breaks. Arthur Varick Ticklaw says it all in two words.
TV Commercials as Haiku. Diebold Essen.
Ear Orgasm. Harriet Lobdell, on how to do it, earwise.
Are You TV-Deprived? A self-help quiz by Sawyer Brown.
Cosmology: A Thought Experiment. Cheki Boggus, Ph.D.
***Petrophilia. New photos of scholar's stones added.
Ten Words No. 18: The Golden Mean of Marfa. A short story by Elinor Hoefs.
Fun Stuff for Magellan's Log 22.

Magellan's Log Issue No. 21
The editor grades Magellan's Log 21.
***Bibliotherapy, Cinetherapy, Cybertherapy. Books & movies that make us laugh.
The End of Theology. Courtesy of Peter De Vries, R.I.P.
Ten Words No. 17: The Malvern Hills. A short story by Sylvia Sikeston.
Home PC Ownership Statistics in the USA.
***The New Mutants. Leslie A. Fiedler.
Word Fill-in Puzzle.
Cut 'em Again, Harder, Harder. Douglas Milburn. The coming wave of circumcision.
Test Your Gullibility. John Mimbres.
Ten Words No. 16: The Rebel of Orange County. A short story by Edward Hothi.
***Big Bend National Park: The Basin. Pedro Bofecillos. Our guide to the park, in 3 words.
Stammtisch Homeboys. Don Pfingston. Light on the edge of the barrio.
Fun Stuff for Magellan's Log 21.

***Outrageously positive material.

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