Brave
New Millennium
In which Edward Hothi explains (or at least tries to) what went wrong in the 20th century (not
to mention the 19th, 18th, 17th, etc.) and what's likely to go wrong in the 21st.
The Ultimate Gadget: What Am I?
Technology editor Rean Rhyne says, "Cancel your Wired subscription. The ultimate gadget is already available."
War Clouds
Chardo Blue Plains, our itinerant mystic, occasionally comes in from his
wanderings on and off the Interstates. Here's his latest dispatch.
America the Disjunctive:
Musings on Alienated Children
Jason Twinhaft vents considerable spleen on what he sees as the huge difference between American pretense and American reality.
Anthropology 452:
Puzzling Sexual Practices
Three odd photos from a Japanese site, with an odder, possibly offensive commentary from an academic anthropologist.
Dutch Doc Does
Death Doubletake
Pedro Bofecillos reports on the latest, disconcerting findings from a hard-science study of the so-called
"Near-death experience."
Me and My Mayhaws
The author draws anthromorphic conclusions from plants in
his yard.
The Magellan's Log
Rent-a-UFO Club
Astonish your friends! Impress your significant
others! Frighten your enemies!
Dubya Makes a New Friend
Going through his new desk, Dubya finds a Post-it
that Bill left behind...
The Blue Book
Notes on the Ends of Millennia, by Temple Duciel. (13 pages) 324 entries from a
journal of disovery, spread over eight years as a millennium wound down.
The Boys Across the Street
Reppy Duart grapples with one of the most profoundly disturbing books of recent years,
Rick Sandford's The Boys Across the Street. Atheism vs. deism,
homophilia vs. homophobia. And that's only for starters.
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Three Poems
Rarely, rarely do we accept reader submissions. Even more rarely, anonymous
reader submissions. Here's an instance.The Marionette Theater and The Tree Man
Complementary essays written 200 years apart by
Heinrich von Kleist and Douglas Milburn.
Do You Glow in the Dark?
Jerden Purmort's helpful checklist to enable you to determine just how close to the edge you're living these days.
I N F E R E N C E S
Our small contribution to the quest for patterns.
Graphic with midi.
The War of Art
Pedro Bofecillos explains the art of war novels, and why you might want to read Gabe Hudson's Dear Mr. President.
Churchgoers' Delight:
Rate Your Religion
Yet another of our gratis public-service offerings: A
quickie test to see just how your religion shapes up in the modern world.
The Maggots of Belsen
Time again, and "madness takes it toll" for sure. Our editor, horticulturalist
manqué, has a go at explaining Magellan's
Log in some very uncertain terms. Only for readers with strong esthetic stomachs.
Does Good English Still Matter?
Faced with a lengthy economics essay from high in a
conglomerate, Robert Lonoke throws up his editorial hands at the mix of jargon,
cliches, usage mistakes, grammar errors, and plain old bad style.
The P.A.T.
Find out if you have what it takes to hold down the biggest job in the world. Take the Presidential Aptitude Test now.
 The Mystery of the Red Dot.
Feeling that creative curiosity should be rewarded, we
reveal the meaning behind the occasional, innocuous little ruby bullets you may've
noticed on some of our pages...
Pong et seq.
Among artifacts from the short history of videogame development, Douglas Milburn seeks clues about the origins of human consciousness.
Galveston Sconces
Jason Twinhaft, incorrigible Spleen Editor, lets loose at islands
trapped in the past (with midi). |
Certificate
of Merit
A special award, suitable for framing, for our most
devoted readers. Download and admire at will.
Problems in Modern Living
25 photos illustrating the range of daily
difficulties we all face in dealing with the 21st century. (Some nudity.)
It's the Education Stupid:
9-11 and In-your-face Hatred, Insanity... and Hope
Talk about a stretch. Anna-Marie Quave looks for--and finds--a silver lining in the terrible clouds of 9-11.
Boquillas Canyon
Thomas Traherne plus desert rocks plus a bit of
banjo-picking.
Joy
Nicholas Momurray resurrects an unfairly overlooked photograph
from the Chinese student uprising in 1989.
One Light
We apply a bit of Javascript and a midi to the
300-year-old words of the English mystic, Douglas Traherne Harding.
The Walking Wounded
Doc Cuddy puts us on the couch and concludes that the 20th
century was a traumatic experience and that we are in deep denial.
Are You an Outhouse Republican
Joel Fluker asks a series of probing questions related to
bathroom habits, church-going proclivities, and the like to help you remove hypocrisy from
your political life.
Walls Walls Walls
In a poem disguised as an essay, or an essay disguised as a poem, Douglas Milburn writes
of "France and the last tragedy of the 20th century."
Hate in Progress
A German-born American travels around the world trying to figure out where and how and why we've gone so wrong in so many
places.
After Shocks
Fourteen lines outside the kindergarten playpen of this
technology.
On Reading Burgess's
Shakespeare.
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