What's Was New
in Magellan's Log:
Issues 41 to 60

Publications, in reverse chronological order.
This page includes only Issues 41 to 60.

For Issues 1-20 (1999-2000), click here.
For Issues 21-40 (2000-2001), click here.
For Issues 61 to 80 (2003-2004), click here.
For Issues 81 to 100 (2004-2006), click here.
For Issues 101 to 120 (2006-2008) click here.
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 No. 60
Morning Becomes Ruth. An English village, a Texas spring, and a few words. Slideshow with midi (2:32).***
The Age of Arrogance. Douglas Milburn gives the new century a name.
Dominion: A Screed. Itinerant mystic Chardo Blue Plains on which way's up.***
Yoicks R Us. Jerden Purmort helps you test your pre-Rapture sense of humor.
Doom. v. Joy. Carl Yadkin on why the pigs of privilege just keep on feeding.
Satellite Radio One More Time. Sawyer Brown tries again to explain his enthusaism.
Unicorn News. In-depth team coverage about a u-sighting in Houston.
Minds Like Ours. Ho-hum. Six more pretentious sentences from our editor in chief.***
What Most Becomes an Ant? New staff member Jason Twinhaft's inauspicious debut.
Eye Candy: the Sequel. More beautiful, free stuff for your computer screen.***
Does Saying Make It So? Doc Cuddy thinks Laura Bush was right when she said politics has nothing to do with American literature!
An Open Letter to Saddam Hussein. Ora Shay, our token Republican, tries to help the Iraqi leader out of a tight spot.
Smart Mouths 60.
Tasteless Jokes 60.
Genuflection Now! Our modest but patriotic homage to the leaders of the New American Empire.
The Ghost in the Machine, Part II. Edward Hothi shivers as he thinks about the emergence of computer consciousness.
Which Are the Bad Guys? Compare Islamic and Christian sermons.
Zen Centerfold No. 4. Another picture for horny metaphysicians. Slideshow with midi (2:30).***
Hallelujah! A Real Pro at Work! Temple Duciel rejoices in Donald E. Westlake's latest caper novel.
Risins. Henry Bob Kulup. Slightly unsettling whimsical nostalgia, or something more?

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9-11 vs. 11-1. Elinor Hoefs ponders the effects of 9-11 compared to those of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755.
Josquin Desprez. Monstra de esse matrem. Midi (2:39) with slideshow.***
Plant a Seed in the Desert. Our small contribution to international consciousness-raising.***
Phalloi & Vulvae. Sophomoric images will out. Slideshow with midi (2:08).
The American Empire: How Long, How Long? Joel Fluker on why it's gonna be a short, short ride.
Edinburgh. Jack Xamis's strange review of Alexander Chee's beautiful novel.
Fragments 59.
Only Connect. A little surrealism never hurt anybody. Slideshow with midi (3:12).***
Understanding Our Modern Age in 50 Words or Less. Two telling quotes.
Tasteless Jokes 59.
Arabic Humor. Jokes and political cartoons.
Seeing Dubya Double. Doc Cuddy wonders who we're seeing when we see Dubya.
Laissez-foutre. Poet Cheki Boggus takes us beyond laissez-faire into realms where angels fear to tread.***
So You Want to Be a Real American. A handy little check-up quiz for those who want to join us here in the richest, most powerful empire in the history of the world.

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After Shocks. Fourteen lines beyond the kindergarten playpen of this tinkertoy technology [in The Chiliastic Hideon].
9-11 Redux. A True-life Story of Arab Anger and Punishment and a Theory About What Happened to Osama bin Laden and What’s About to Happen to Saddam Hussein.
I.Q. Sylvia Thodhiss vents gently about cats, trees, me, and perhaps thee.
Public Service Bumpersticker. Print, clip, and paste if you've don't quite understand the need to erase Iraq.
It's the Schools, Stupid. Behind all the other failures lies a dormant, vacuous education system.
Smart Mouths. Our latest collection of quotes gathered from hither and yon.
Remembering.
Every Day's Another Dawning. Hope for the hope-deprived, with a little midi (1:07).***
Chinese Fortune Cookies: The Updated Version.
More Galaxies Than You Can Shake a Telescope At. Slideshow of Hubble Space Telescope photos, with midi (6:47).***
Zen Centerfold No. 3. Another visual teaser for the metaphysically horny. With midi (4:01).
Implications. Pedro Bofecillos uses eight words to make two statements and ask two questions.***
Information, Please. The sites we ACTUALLY look at daily.
China Spring. Take a dharma break with 7 Chinese woodcuts and a peaceful midi (2:32).***
Howlers High & Low. Nicholas Momurray. Slips of the keyboard we shall always have with us.
Writ in Stone. Seven marmoreal tablets from a mythical city.
Is Masturbation a Crime Against God? The first draft of a Christian advice-giver's thoughts on self-abuse.
Strata: A Theologico-metaphysical Thought Experiment for the Stout of Brain and the Desperate of Heart.
Random Access Update.
The Cocksucker Sings of Paradise. Didio Antis's 3 quatrains on the still-born millennium.***
Tasteless Jokes 58.
The Magellan's Log Unofficial Operation TIPS Checklist. Now you too can squeal on your neighbor.
Hope Dashed. Doc Cuddy. The coming tragedy of American (and thus, world) capitalism.
CERCA TROVA. We explain the two little words that appear in our logo.

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"Are They Worth Saving?" Minutes of an overseers' meeting on board a distant UFO.
Midi Delight. Eleven of our best midi's from recent issues.***
Rootless. Harriett Lobdell's lines on the true value of silence.***
Audio-Visual Enema. After so much satire, we clean our eyes and ears with a bit of Bach (4:55).***
The New Revised Ten Commandments. The Big Guy in the Sky speaks directly to Karl Rove.
Lest We Forget. A brief, factual reminder of the rocky road one son of privilege has traveled.
Skiatatuk Speaks: Communiqué No. 364,913. Our foul-mouthed spirit guide returns.
As the Twig Is Bent. Team report on the favorite childhood toys of the present Republican leadership.
After Edward Hopper. Jerden Purmort. Slideshow with midi (2:32).
Ear Manna from the Heavens. Sawyer Brown gets carried away by satellite radio.
Kulchur Kwiz 807.
Ta-ta, La-la Land! Ora Shay, Token Republican, has at California.
Tasteless Jokes 57.
Brainteasers 57.
Tips on Empire-building: Learning from the Brits.
Water. Our graphic/musical contribution to simplification. Slideshow with midi (3:27).***
How to Make Soccer Really Popular on American TV. Don Pfingston. With photos.
Zen Centerfold No. 2. With midi by Angus Verspeeten.***

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The Myra Breckinridge Issue.

Magellan's Log 55
More Hot Links. Our latest collection of weird and wonderful sites.
CD Offer. The first 3 years of Magellan's Log complete on one stand-along CD.
Scotsman's Delight. James Macpherson III with 14 lines of obduracy, or something. With midi.***
Partsalot. Jerden Purmort, trying to understand the coming plutocracy, analyzes Republican hair.
Zen Centerfold No. 1. Never before in the history of the world...***
On Yoga. Douglas Milburn points at a finger pointing at the moon.
Thomas Cole: A Shared Vision. Diebold Essen on The Voyage of Life. Slideshow with midi.***
The Magellan’s Log Investigative To-do List for FBI Agents Wondering Where to Look Next.
One Library to Go, Please. Rean Rhyne explains how to make your own audio books, cheap.
Brainteasers 55.
They Don't Build Hotels Like They Used To. Magellan's Log visits the Mohonk Mountain House in the Catskills.
Kulchur Kwiz No. 806.
The Hudson River. A panoramic photo, with midi, from Palisades Park.
Metapathy in Action. Doc Cuddy on a nation of sheep.
Tasteless Jokes 55.
Mother Jones in the Gloaming. A hopeful visit to her grave, with 10 photos.
Possibly the World's All-time Greatest Roadside Historical Marker.
Soft Talk. Ora Shay analyzes the masterful rhetorical style of the present administration.

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Texas Daddies. Joel Fluker explains Dubya and Dubya's forebears and how they came to rule the world (that means us).
Me v. Me & You v. You. The dangers of the third tyranny.
Herrje, Herrje! An anonymous German reader's poem, about which probably the less said, the better.
BAPTOW. Psyhic Mme Petrofina-Blavatsky on the true hidden source of the church-sex headlines.
The Magellan's Log Universal Prayer. Just fill in the blanks to use with any religion.
The Labors of Hercules, Nos. 84,531-84,539. Colice Jeanne Pisgah. Slideshow with music (2:49).
How Will We Know When the Millennium Has REALLY Arrived? Anther Varrick Ticklaw.
La Giocanda Nuova. Cassandra figures out why she's suddenly smiling all the time.
Bye-bye, Best Products. Diebold Essen on an iconic 20th century building. With panoramic photo.
Tasteless Jokes 54.
Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be. Slide-show with midi (2:13).
Cel-a St-ll Sh-ts. Nimo Calardic. The unpleasant human truth hiding behind 9-11.

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The Magellan's Log Cyber-divining Sheep-Entrails-Replacement Fortune-Telling Machine.
The Franz Liszt Jukebox.
MLMPI. The Magellan's Log Multi-phasic Personality Inventory Test.
Cars longa, vita brevis. Six vehicles from the 2002 Houston Art Car Parade.
Some Unknown Thousands of Years Ago. Chardo Blue Plains's latest mystical suggestion.
Kulchur Kwotient No. 805.
Fun with Dick and Jane and Midi. Angus Verspeeten. 8 midi responses to some old pictures.
Technological Utopians of the World, Unite! Rean Rhyne argues for a full global stomach.
Brainteasers 53.
Tasteless Jokes 53.
Letters. The readers keep on keeping on...
The Magellan's Log Presidential I.Q. Test.
Good Neighbors. A simple little U.S. geography puzzle.
Island Revisited. Reppy Duart looks at Huxley's utopia again 40 years later.
Santa Fe. One photo of old Santa Fe with an even older melody.
The Primrose Path Game. Find out how close to true happiness you are.

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The First Rule of Religion. Harriet Lobdell on hypocritical piety, or pious hypocrisy.
21 flowers. Sylvia Thodhiss. Slideshow with midi (2:04). Give the page (850K) time to load.
The Arrogance of Vision. Elinor Hoefs on the hazards of visual acuity.
Koi Paraga? An old question with some new images and one pretty insistent midi (3:26).
PAX NOVUM. The peace symbol revised for the 21st century. Slideshow with midi (2:20).***
News & Opinion Links. Sites to help you find out what's really going on.
Dark Canon. Jerden Purmort uses a trick of astrophysics to find hope, sort of.
F O G B O U N D. Verbal paradox + a Japanese Buddha + Schubert = ?***
Brainteasers 52.
ARMAGEDDON: RU Ready??? The official Magellan's Log checklist for those who want to be prepared.
Kulchur Kwotient 804.
Oil Patch Sage. Midland correspondent Ora Shay's latest praise for George W. Bush.
Flöh Haz: On Inferring the Existence of Trees. Astraeu Chakar poetizes desert-wise.***
Tasteless Jokes 52.
Is It Empire Yet? Doc Cuddy measures America against ancient Rome, with patriotic result.
Alien Graffiti Discovered in Mexico!!! You have to see it to believe it.

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Boquillas Canyon. Thomas Traherne plus rocks plus music (In The Chiliastic Hideon).
Churchgoers' Delight: Rate Your Religion. (In The Chiliastic Hideon.) 20 questions to see how YOUR church shapes up.
Chad Report No. 14. Nfubi Kwaadutu toys with an Internet religious scam.
50 Plus. Looking up at buildings of more than 50 stories in Houston. With midi.
Here There Be Gargoyles. The founders muses on what he's done after 51 issues.
Genesis Revisited. Pudge Dimmitt offers an alternate reading of the first chapter.
New Letters from Readers.
Holy Halls. An old song of love and tolerance meets a much older landscape.
Reader Queries. Problems some of our global readers want us to solve for them.
Double Double Whammy Whammy. Pedro Bofecillos on 9-11, and another (forgotten) trauma.
The Titanium Notebooks. Artifacts from the desert outside Roswell?
Yea & Nay: On Reading Alice Munro for the First Time. Temple Duciel and Sylvia Sikeston.
Magellan's Route. A crib sheet, with portrait and map, for 8th grade geography reports.
Brainteasers 51.
Cyber-haiku. Painful laughs for the computer-challenged.
Folie à deux milliarde. Reppy Duart, D.D., critiques a Cardinal on 9-11.
The 20th Century in 20 Minutes. Angus Verspeeten on Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio.
Stirrings of Empire. Arthur Seymour Sullivan vs. George Walker Bush. With midi.
Tasteless Jokes 51.
Wittgenstein Clarified. Piongo Pisgah answers all your questions.in 2 sentences.
The Idea Man updated.
The Games of Childhood. Marcella T. Perry. An unknown poet's global debut.
What Is Texas Mysticism Anyway? Doc Cuddy explains it all. Well, almost.

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Mi NASA es su NASA. Slide show of true-color photos of the earth, with midi.***
Noblesse Oblige in the Permian Basin. Ora Shay on Bush vs. the media barbarians.
Hymnlet to the Night. Chardo Blue Plains offers a few thoughts on night dwellers. With midi.
A Normal Person Wouldn't Steal Pituitaries. Hong Kong movies subtitles revisited.
Cockleburr Kin: Notes toward an Autobiography. Douglas Milburn. With midi.
Anthropology 452: Puzzling Sexual Practices. In The Chiliastic Hideon.
Importation Intent. Nfubi Kwaadutu. The latest, scandalous news from Central Africa.
Ah Swan! How Southern Are You Anyway? Ceci Lumley.
The Hills of Herculaneum. Kai Sonderling's manipulation of his painting, with midi.***
ACORNS. Old and new thoughts for a time of corruption.
Roll of the Dice. Our random access link updated to include all recent issues.
Lightning: 2 Questions. Bloce Kaibob on NASA's global map of lightning strikes.
Noirer Than Thou. Reppy Duart on Donald E. Westlake's Parker novels.
Confusing Entanglements. Words from the Hsin Hsin Ming (with midi).***
S.A.T. Supplementary Questions for the Reality-challenged. Harriet Lobdell.
Brainteasers 50.
God's Cops? Joel Fluker questions the wisdom of huge defense budget increases.
How Bigz Ur Booty? Our modest suggested expansion of methods of measurement.
Miserere. A midi of Allegri's setting of Psalm 51, with slide show.***
Tasteless Jokes 50.

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Hsin Hsin Ming: Two Translations. The Clarke and Suzuki translations, side by side.
The King of the Earth. Lulu Dilworth on the world's reversion to monarchy, under guess-who.
Africa Calling. Nfubi Kwaadutu's latest dispatch from the Republic of Chad.
SCOOP! Capitalism Does Have a Heart! The silver lining in the Enron collapse.
Tie-Dyed. A colorful crossword.
The Land of Eleven Seasons. Fractal landscapes (with midi).***
Kulchur Kwotient No. 803.
Fear and Loathing in the 21st Century. Self-tests to help you know your fears.
Fleurs de Lea. Flowers from the Magellan's Log garden. Slideshow with midi.***
Skiatatuk Speaks Again, No. 27,103. More communications from our foul-mouthed spirit guide.
[Auto-fellatial (i.e., intra-referential) links added throughout the site.]
Brainteasers 49.
On Hearing Lang Lang. Angus Verspeeten.***
The Buddha at Kamakura. John La Farge's old watercolor, with midi.***
Tasteless Jokes 49.
The Fifteenth Line. Robert Lonoke's latest visionary poem.***
pH for the Value-free New Millennium. Henry Bob Kulup. Test your own millennial values.
Dualities. Kai Sonderling's latest painting, with some old music and older words.***

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Joy. Nicholas Momurray appreciates a forgotten photo from Tiananmen Square. (In The Chiliastic Hideon)***
Recent Letters.
Dutch Doc Does Death Doubletake. Pedro Bofecillow on near-death experience research. (In The Chiliastic Hideon)
Squaring the Circle. Sylvia Thodhiss. Broken chords.***
A.I. and Great Moments in Shared Dreams. Hinko Livernoix.
"I Want My Mommy!" Elinor Hoef tries to put Sept. 11 into a much larger perspective.
The Discriminating Mind.***
Tongue Guns. Doc Cuddy on "the half-hidden subtext behind talk radio."
M.U.L.E. The Humanity and Elegance of an Antique Computer Game. John Mimbres.
Thinking Against the Wind. Doc Cuddy's latest collection of thought-provoking quotes.
Matched Pairs. 8 sets of visual gags gathered from the Internet.
Mojo for the Modern Age. Edward Hothi discovers the source of Bush-power.
Skintones. Kai Sonderling. 17 highly ambiguous G-rated images.
At the Time of the Extinction of the Fire. Robert Watson. Lines for solstices.
Tasteless Jokes 48.
Bent Notes. The wondrous midi's of Yo Kubota.***

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The Best... and Worst of Magellan's Log. Special Issue.

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Brainteasers 46.
The Secret Republican Plan for the 2004 Election.
Here Comes Ugly. Pedkop Bumbera is really worried about next year's cars.
Global Supercomputer Usage. Latest results from Top500.
Hippie Glop? Just what the world needs: another printing of old 1960s optimism.***
Words to the Unwise. Malapropisms of international English.
Chapel of St. Basil. A photographic visit to Philip Johnson's small religious masterpiece.***
As the World Burns. Harriet Lobdell's nod of appreciation for Charlotte Ford's new book.
China X 15. Wm. S. Pollard III. New photographs of China.
The People's Republic of America??? Doc Cuddy's worried about the Bill of Rights.
New Hot Hot Links. Our latest collections of weird and semi-wonderful web sites.
Bumpersticker. Our very own Do-It-Yourself bumpersticker for all agnostics-in-training.
Circles of Bach. A partita and slowly changing circles.***
Yoga Tip. Piongo Pisgah sums it all up in one sentence.***
Tasteless Jokes 46.
Midland's Own Boy George. Ora Shay. Words of praise for Dubya in time of war.

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In the Gloaming. Robert L. Tufford. Nature poets we shall always have with us.
Reality Check No. 14,739.
Why There Is an Angel on Top of the Christmas Tree.
Lachen und Weinen (Laughing and Crying). German humor on the Internet.
Dominion and Illusion. Michelle Furr on the problem of invisible empires.
Words! Our version of the last line of the "Hsin Hsin Ming."
Glenn Gould, Lang Lang, and les barricades mystèrieuses. Angus Verspeeten.***
The View from Louisiana. Nimo Callardic.
Daily Quotation. Words to more or less live by.
Shining a Light into the Darkness. Sylvia Thodhiss. Generate predictions for (y)our future.
Potholes of Prose. Jerden Purmort's dandy little collection of metaphorical misdemeanors.
Say Again? One faculty group's list of over- and misued words.
The Cosmos and I. Pedro Bofecillos. Poetry. Approach at your own risk.
The Good Old Days of Pre-Neo-Capitalism. A brief quote, to be read and then wept over.
Free Beauty & Ryan Geiss. John Mimbres on three great graphics programs.***
Things Fall Apart. Joey Ancaster.
One Light. Douglas Traherne Harding's 300-year-old words.*** In The Chiliastic Hideon.

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cc: God. John Mimbres gets optically gushy about WinAmp and its visualizations.***
More Bumperstickers.
Welcome back, history! Doc Cuddy harshly chides the young and middle-aged greedy.
NASDAQ, George W. Bush, and the World Trade Center. Rean Rhyne on the present troubles.
Blütenstaub. 32 quotations gathered from here and there and there.***
Kindergartens I Have Known. Chardo Blue Plains. More trans-galactic musings.
Tasteless Jokes 43.
A Very Brief Essay on the Origin of Anthropomorphic Deities. Reppy Duart, D.D.
On Leadership. Doc Cuddy bemoans the lack thereof.
RIFT. The poet of the Rubaiyat, plus Bach, plus a computer graphic...***
Bricks.***
NCM & the Roots of Consciousness. Hinko Livernoix. Naure-Centered Meditation? Why not?***
The Visitation. Pond, flowers, light, plus Bach.***
One Path? Many Paths? Some nice color-shifting gradients plus a bit of Vivaldi..***

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Kulchur Kwotient 802.
When in doubt, advertise. Doc Cuddy. Should we enlist Madison Avenue in the war effort?
More Hot Links. Our latest collection of worthwhile sites.
Fathers and Sons. Caravaggio's estimate of the risks of being young.
Les naivités dangereuses. Rean Rhyne. The dangerous misuse, and death, of words.
When Art Smarts. Diebold Essen. Derek Jarman's The Last of England.
How Stupid Can You Get. Douglas Milburn. The hidden dangers of Realpolitik.
Get Thee to Greece. Elinor Hoefs. In praise of Mary Renault's vivid novels of ancient Greece.
Moonlight's End. A Beethoven midi with some abstract slides.***
Tasteless Jokes 42.
Spare Change. Joel Fluker. A congressional shopping list for any billions left over after the bailouts.
One Picture Is Worth 200,000,000 Words. A graph of war deaths through the centuries.
Attaboy, 43! Ora Shay, our Token Republican, praises Dubya's crusade against evil.
How to Yo-yo.***
It's the Education, Stupid. Michelle Furr looks for a way through the wilderness.
Wings of Song: Letter to a Young Friend in a Time of War. Sawyer Brown.***
Port Arthur. A picture and some thinking or non-thinking sounds.***

Magellan's Log 41 (9-11-01)
Homeward Bound. Photo, and midi from The Sacred Harp.
Memo. An alleged top-secret note from "ObL" to his global operatives.
What Changed? In 9-11 Cassandra sees her usual doom-and-gloom, but some hope too.
Beethoven and Barnett Newman.***
Thinking the Unthinkable. Herman Kahn's "escalation ladder."
The Guns of September. Anther Varick Ticklaw. The dangers of forgetting history.
HOPE. A slideshow with some flowers and some Scott Joplin.***
"Cui bono?" Sylvia Sikeston names her Number 1 suspect for September 11.
Quarrelsome Quips from the Ancient Chinese, No. 18,452.
How Stupid Can You Get. Douglas Milburn, on the suicidal attackers of America.
We, ALL the People. Harriet Lobdell on the bad and the possible future good of 9-11-01.
On Leadership. Doc Cuddy. A crisis report card for our expensive pols in D.C.
9-11-01: Against the Darkness. Words, images, music for times of great distress.***
Me and My Mayhaws. Douglas Milburn anthropomizes two plants [in The Chiliastic Hideon].
La Campanella. Bernd Krueger's wonderful midi version of the Liszt etude.***
The New Millennium Inkblot Test.
The Maggots of Belsen. The what-it-is of Magellan's Log, sort of [in The Chiliastic Hideon].
Kulchur Kwotient 801.
Brainteasers 41.
Tasteless Jokes 41.
Lascaux Redux: The Origin of Sub-Species. Reppy Toppenish.

***Outrageously positive material.

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