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9-11 and In-your-face Hatred, Insanity... and Hope. Anna-Marie Quave. [In The Chiliastic Hideon.]
9-11-01: Against the Darkness. Words, images, music for times of great distress.
9-11 vs. 11-1. Elinor Hoefs ponders the effects of 9-11 compared to those of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755.
ACORNS. Old and new thoughts for a time of corruption.
The Age of Arrogance. Douglas Milburn gives the new century a name.
The Age of Emesis: 1900-2000. Diebold Essen. The old century finally gets a name.
The Age of Hideology. Reppy Toppenish. Anti-ideology to the nth degree.
An Age of Mediocrity. Diebold Essen. Potshots at sides of barns.
Ahimsa (Non-violence). Douglas Milburn on how to avoid a bloodbath in the 21st century.
Ah Swan! How Southern Are You Anyway? Ceci Lumley.
A.I. and Great Moments in Shared Dreams. Hinko Livernoix.
Alas, Guggenheim. Rean Rhyne. The opening of a cultural chasm.
Alberich, Jr. Interview: a dot-com millionaire talks about new uses for new money.
Alphabet Soup: Drugs in America. Ceci Lumley reviews DMT: The Spirit Molecule.
America the Disjunctive: Musings on Alienated Children, by Jason Twinhaft.
American Censorship: Prisons of Arrogance. Michelle Furr.
American Contributions to World Culture, No. 12,596.
American Diaspora: A Brief Guide to Fleeing. Doc Cuddy.
The American Empire: How Long, How Long? Joel Fluker on why it's gonna be a short, short ride.
American Tragedy: The Hubris of King George. What the ancient Greeks can tell us about the present mess.
Americtus: The Poison of America. Douglas Milburn on what we've lost and what we're about to lose.
Anderson Valley Advertiser. We find a great newspaper in Northern California.
And Now for My Next Trick... Pedro Bofecillos on how smart we are. Or aren't.
The Angels' Dictionary. Fools rush in where you-know-what's fear to tread.
Apocalypse Whenever. Rean Rhyne waxes poetic about how near the end is and what that means.
Arabic Humor. Jokes and political cartoons.
Architectural Conundrum. Robert L. Tufford on our antediluvian structures.
Are American Chickens Coming Home to Roost? Joel Fluker rants, bigtime.
"Are They Worth Saving?" Minutes of an overseers' meeting on board a distant UFO.
Are You a 21st Century Person? Find out whether you're living in the past.
Are You TV-Deprived? A self-help quiz by Sawyer Brown.
Art Smarts. Maurice Fitznuggly on art, past, present, future, and "other."
Arts of Smoking. A modest proposal for tobacco bars.
As the World Burns. Harriet Lobdell's nod of appreciation for Charlotte Ford's new book.
Astronomical Pornography. Marcel P. Snapfinger et al. (with midi).
At Work, One Writer. Sylvia Sikeston on Jamie O'Neill's masterpiece, At Swim, Two Boys.
AUDACITIES. Cultural one-liner. Slideshow with music (1:12).

The Baby Puritans. Cassandra goes after Boomer hypocrisy bigtime.
The Balmorhea Prophecies.
Beethoven and Barnett Newman.
Behold and See! Thirteen drawings from the "comically illustrated" Bible of 19th-century freethinker Watson Heston.
Bent Notes. The wondrous midi's of Yo Kubota.
Beyond Venturi: Son of Learning from Las Vegas. Sawyer Brown re-does Vegas.
Bibliotherapy, Cinetherapy, Cybertherapy. Books & movies that make us laugh.
Big D and the Texas Syndrome. Doc Cuddy on the danger of denial, in Texas in 1980 and in America now.
Blinders Begone! Rean Rhyne megalomaniacally formulates "Rhyne's Law" re the fate of civilizations.
Bloviation for Fun and Profit.
Bluebonnets: A Wildflower Speaks. Izora Firelands on the true source of American strength and creativity.
Blue Book: August 21, 1988 - March 3, 1997. "Beware of planets with no sense of humor..." and 200-odd similar observations for the ages.
Blue Red. Three wee sentences to help with today's synamptic re-wiring. You're welcome.
Body Blow! America in Denial. Joel Fluker.
Boomers & the Grim Reaper. Michelle Furr. Hidden fuel driving the bull market.
The Boys Across the Street. Reppy Duart on Rick Sandford's provocative novel.
Brave New Millennium. Edward Hothi on the problems of living in the 20th century, and possibly the 21st as well.
Brer Bill & the Briarpatch. Doc Cuddy. Why Redmond is whining so loudly.
A Brief Visit to Death Valley. Cultural one-liner cum photo.
Brokeback Mountain: Notes Toward a Review. Scott McComb's contrarian take.
Bull Run. Henry Bob Kulup. Two rural Americans and one problematic bull.
Bumpersticker. Our very own Do-It-Yourself bumpersticker for all agnostics-in-training.
Buy Me! How Good a Late-Capitalist Consumer R U? Sawyer Brown's 10-question quiz to test your memory for ad slogans.

Canaries in the American Coal Mine. In which our editor responds to our publisher's complaint about all the poetry we've been printing lately.
Cardiac Famine. Elinor Hoefs. Nutritional problems in the new millennium.
Caravaggio or Bust. Doc Cuddy struggles to track down two 400-year-old pictures and then tries to explain why.
Cars & Crystal Balls. Pedkop Bumbera. Reading the future by looking at cars.
Cars & Crystal Balls: Update. Pedkop Bumbera rethinks his vision of the future.
Cars & Crystal Balls: The Critic Despairs. Pedkop Bumbera on the latest car designs.
Cars longa, vita brevis. Six vehicles from the 2002 Houston Art Car Parade.
Cartography Revisited. Why maps matter.
Cassandra's Corner. Our in-house prophet.
Cast Away: The World's Longest Commercial. Sawyer Brown goes to the movies.
Cats, Cowboys, and Capitalists. F.R. Hartnough. A robber baron speaks his mind.
Caveat Cyberpunk! Joel Fluker glimpses a not-so-pretty probable future.
Caveat Emperor. In-house prophet Cassandra lets loose with a few lines of verse re what's coming.
Caveat Emperor. American democracy in extremis. Slideshow with music (1:45).
C/CC/AC. Doc Cuddy. Why "culture, counterculture, and anticulture" in our title.
Cel-a St-ll Sh-ts. Nimo Calardic. The unpleasant human truth hiding behind 9-11.
Chaos and Comity: Toward an Ecology of Consciousness. Douglas Milburn.
Cheerer-uppers. Ceci Lumley has a couple of dozen suggestions...
Children: Facts, Stats, and the Future. Notes from a lecture by Peter Benson.
Chronic Chronism. Rean Rhyne and the linguistic never/everland of quantum physics.
Churchgoers' Delight: Rate Your Religion. 20 questions to see how YOUR church shapes up.
Closets: The Sequel. Katherine Ozanic on liberations past, present, and future.
Clothesed Secret. Diebold Essen. Magellan's Log ventures into fashion theory.
Hope Dashed. Doc Cuddy. The coming tragedy of American (and thus, world) capitalism.
Comfort Me with Epigrams: The World According to Peter De Vries. Temple Duciel.
Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer. 7 photos celebrating the Wright Brothers' centenary.
Cosmography Is Destiny. Temple Duciel speculates on the origins of human violence.
Cosmology: A Thought Experiment. Cheki Boggus, Ph.D.
Counterblast! A hard-working optimist tries to light a candle in a hurricane.
Coup Corner. A page with links to all our pieces about the Bush Ascendancy.
C.R.A.B.S. Wire-service report on first scientific identification of new virulent social disease.
The Crib Makers. J.P. Astraeu. Finding hope in the failure of SETI.***
Crouching Buddha, Hidden Dharma. Chardo Blue Plains on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Cui bono? Applying the mechanics of genre fiction to, well, religion.
Culture Wars. Scott McComb. Our little survival guide.
Culture Quotient. Little quizzes to check your hipness.
CU-SeeMe & Hormonal Heaven. We tiptoe into the cyber-demi-monde.
Cut 'em Again, Harder, Harder. Douglas Milburn. The coming wave of circumcision.
The Cyber-puritan Manifesto. How to Change the 21st Century in 20 Easy Steps.

D.A.D.D. Divine Attention Deficit Disorder.
DADDY. H.B. Kulup laments poetically the constancy of Father's Day.
The Dangers of Creeping Liberalism, Tolerance, and Rationality. A powerful warning to today's youth.
The Dangers of Hope. Katherine Ozanic on 20th-century propaganda and the rise of American theocracy.
Dark Canon. Jerden Purmort uses a trick of astrophysics to find hope, sort of.
A Day in Pennsylvania: Fallingwater/Shanksville. Nicholas Momurray's Frank Lloyd Wright pilgrimage has an unexpected ending. Commentary with 2 slide shows.
Days of Denial: Some Call It Reason. Doc Cuddy offers a calendar of daily reminders to help Americans deal with the New Patriotism.
Delight in Death. Tip-toeing along the edge of the abyss.
Demonocracy. Jack Xamis, Ph.D. A new word for the disease eating at the heart of America.
Desire. Douglas Milburn. Nineteen slightly provocative words.
The Dick Principle. Harold J. Dick. Understanding the hell of daily life in the dot-coms.
Distaff Notes. Horticulture editor Izora Firelands's latest observations from her gardens.
DIY Hermits. Anna-Marie Quave on art, what it means, and what to do about it.
Dr. Strangelove Redux. Cassandra & the Bomb.
Does Good English Still Matter? Robert Lonoke.
Does Saying Make It So? Doc Cuddy thinks Laura Bush was right when she said politics has nothing to do with American literature!
Dolce far niente. Ceci Lumley. Exploring the far horizon beyond science and technology.
Dominion and Illusion. Michelle Furr on the problem of invisible empires.
Don't Read This Book! Sawyer Brown on Bill McKibben's Age of Missing Information.
Doom. v. Joy. Carl Yadkin on why the pigs of privilege just keep on feeding.
Double Double Whammy Whammy. Pedro Bofecillos on 9-11, and another (forgotten) trauma.
Double Indemnity. Douglas Milburn on the difficulties of being both an American and a Texan.
Dualities. Images that are the opposite of Tylenol. Slideshow with midi (4:00).
Duke Cute! Maybe the four funniest music videos in the history of the world.
Dwarfs, Giants, and the 21st Century. Jason Twinhaft on the dangers of predicting the world of 2100.
The D-words. What happens when Chike Boggus stops for food on I-10.

Ear Manna from the Heavens. Sawyer Brown gets carried away by satellite radio.
Ear Orgasm. Harriet Lobdell, on how to do it, earwise.
Easy Choices/Hard Choices. Harriett Lobdell on Gregg Araki's "The Living End."
The End of Theology. Courtesy of Peter De Vries, R.I.P.
Enter, Wilderness. Ceci Lumley on where the 21st century is going, like it or not.***
The Eyes Have It. Douglas Milburn. Thinking beyond the box.

Failure, A Brief Essay.
A Fairy Tale for Our Times. Doc Cuddy.
Farewell to the 20th Century. Doc Cuddy bids adieu to one of his less-loved centuries.
Fathers and Sons. Caravaggio's estimate of the risks of being young.
51-L Threnody: In Memorium. Douglas Milburn, on Challenger, and now Columbia.
Fear and the Rise of American Fascism. Harriet Lobdell on the danger of the accelerating rate of change.
Fixing the Pax Americana. Doc Cuddy has a few suggestions for world peace under American hegemony.
Flat Heat. Don Pfingston. A brief but insightful commentary on seasonal reality.
The Flotsam and Jetsam of Crawford, Texas. Doc Cuddy on myopic leaders, as well as the rest of us.
The Fly-bottle and I. Douglas Milburn on words and beyond.
Folie à deux milliarde. Reppy Duart, D.D., critiques a Cardinal on 9-11.
Food4thot. Anonymous. Applied yin-yang.
Forgotten Masterpieces. Staff faves.
Forgotten Treasure. More staff faves.
The Forward Scout. Where, then, lies hope?
The Four Tyrannies. Jerden Purmort. History in one page.
The Freedom of Utah 12. Herbert Lehnert. Questions of liberty in the American desert.
Fucked Again. Doc Cuddy once more tries to understand the 20th century.
Fun with Dick and Jane and Midi. Angus Verspeeten. 8 midi responses to some old pictures.
Further Thoughts on Thales. Jerden Purmort.
Future Chinks. Our short list of design-hints from the future.
Future Plot. The rising curve of patents issued.
Future Tensed. Joel Fluker on prophecies past, present, and future.

GECW vs. GICW. A worksheet to determine your true net worth.
Gender Alert! Doc Cuddy. A world of a hundred genders? That and more.
Generation of Cowards. Our in-house prophet lets fly. At everybody. Bigtime.
Genius Alert! (Piano Division). A hint of excellence even in the 21st century.
Genuflection Now! Our modest but patriotic homage to the leaders of the New American Empire.
George Grosz (1893-1959): The Faces of Greed (27 drawings).
Germans R Us. Temple Duciel. Germany and the lessons of humility.
Ghiberti Gawkers. Observations in the midst of a madding crowd of impatient loiterers just outside Eden.
The Ghost in the Machine, Part II. Edward Hothi shivers as he thinks about the emergence of computer consciousness.
Giggling While Rome Burns. Doc Cuddy on the rise of a sugar-coated, American version of fascism.
La Giocanda Nuova. Cassandra figures out why she's suddenly smiling all the time.
Glenn Gould, Lang Lang, and les barricades mystèrieuses. Angus Verspeeten.
Gluttony. If greed is good, find out how good your are.
Gob Gripes. Staff non-faves.
God's Big Acre. Gazdagy Alamance's modest take on the Internet.
Going Off the Rails. America's tragicomic probably future.
The Golden Age of the Internet. Sawyer Brown. Is THIS the digital good old days?
Good Music. Western music in a fairly big nutshell.
The Good Old Days. Choice quotations from the halcyon days of the "New Economy."
Good Riddance? Meanwhile, back in the nest...
Grand Obsession/Grand Possession. Douglas Milburn. A review of Perri Knize's marvelous piano odyssey.
Greater & Lesser Truths. A staff compilation, for better or worse.
Greater Ears. Denise Hawkins on untangling family politics.
The Great Fallacy. Harriet Lobdell. Why both toys and ideas leave us with empty hearts.
GRRR! The Cumulative Rage of Neanderthal on the Verge of Extinction. Chardo Blue Plains.
The Guns of September. Anther Varick Ticklaw. The dangers of forgetting history.
Gustaw Herling. Piongo Pisgah. Remembering a whole century's pain.

Handle with Care. Hinko Livernoix. Remarks on the theater and other matters.
Happy Birthday, Martin Waldseemuller!
Hate in Progress. Herbert Lehnert's political observations from a recent trip around the world.
Head Graffiti. Words to the wise, and the unwise.
Hearing Is Believing. Sawyer Brown on Alexander Sokurov's The Russian Ark.
The Heartbreak of Acute Chronological Displacement Syndrome. Astraeu Chakar gets to the bottom of your discontent.
Headlights in the Darkness. Pedkop Bumbera finds two reasons for hope in current car design.
The Healing of America. US and wilderness.
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Sawyer Brown. The Internet and the loss of community.
Herds & Stories. Sylvia Thodhiss on conformity and non-conformity.
Here Come Da Inquisition... Again. Maurice Fitznuggly. The Thought Police are back.
Here Comes Ugly. Pedkop Bumbera is really worried about next year's cars.
Here There Be Dinosaurs: Hubris and the American Future. Joel Fluker.
Here There Be Gargoyles. The founders muses on what he's done after 51 issues.
Herky-jerky World: The Short Shelf-life of Movies. Scott McComb.
Hippie Glop? Just what the world needs: another printing of old 1960s optimism.
Hollow Homeland: The New Orleans Speech That Was Never Given.
Home. Five lines of dangerously hopeful p----y by Mr. Chardo Blue Plains. Warning: Some readers will be offended by the graphic.
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.
Homophobia: Unlucky Us. Robert Tufford on the last, silent, social poison.
Hope Dashed. Doc Cuddy. The coming tragedy of American (and thus, world) capitalism.
Horological Bequest. Robert Lonoke on single vision and Newton's sleep.
Houston Mausoleum.
How Bigz Ur Booty? Our modest suggested expansion of methods of measurement.
How Corrupt Is Your Country? A little self-help test for the ethically challenged.
How Dysfunctional Is Your Country? A quickie checklist.
How Far Is It to the Next Lascaux? Old art, new art, and future art...
How Soon? Staff prophet Cassandra foresees major doom and gloom, but with a distant tiny light at the end of a long tunnel.
How Stupid Can You Get. Douglas Milburn, on the suicidal attackers of America.
How Stupid Can You Get, Part 2. Douglas Milburn. The hidden dangers of Realpolitik.
How's Your W.Q.? Didio Antis has come up with a test of your "Wisdom Quotient."
How to Make Soccer Really Popular on American TV. Don Pfingston. With photos.
How to Yo-yo.
How 21st Century Are You? Maurice Fitznuggly's checklist for the cyber-insecure.
How Will We Know When the Millennium Has REALLY Arrived? Anther Varrick Ticklaw.
Huang's Law. Douglas Huang. At last, the truth about the Information Age, in one sentence.
Human History in One Easy Lesson. Joey Ancaster explains it all--or at least most of it--in 10 cartoon panels.
Human Sexuality: The Problem. Why the second--or the tenth--coming is never enough.
Humpty Dumpty à la mode humaine. Astraeu Chakra on the loss of art--and so much more--in Baghdad, and in Washington.
Hymnlet to the Night. Chardo Blue Plains offers a few thoughts on night dwellers. With midi.

In.at.ten.tive.ness. Maurice Fitznuggly. The dangers of living at digital speeds.
Inferences. Added to The Chiliastic Hideon.
Information, Please. The sites we ACTUALLY look at daily.
Interfaces. Angus Verspeeten on the world after McLuhan (that means us).
Interior Trends. Happy with your cubicle? No? Find out why.
Interstate Highways: We Rate 'Em.
Idea Man. Staff suggestions for a better world.
The Importance of Being Professional. Katherine Ozanic. Another of our free self-help tests to improve your 21st century life..
Intellectual Life in America. Maurice Fitznuggly on those who sit and think.
In the Shallows. Further notes on neo-speciation.
I.Q. Sylvia Thodhiss vents gently about cats, trees, me, and perhaps thee.
Iris Murdoch: Fragments of a Re-cognition. Douglas Milburn.
Irrational Exuberances. Piongo Pisgah. Notes from the end of a marriage of inconvenience.
Irrational Non-Exuberance. Doc Cuddy despairs of both the Republicans and the Republic.
Is It Empire Yet? Doc Cuddy measures America against ancient Rome, with patriotic result.
Island Revisited. Reppy Duart looks at Huxley's utopia again 40 years later.
It Really Is the Economy, Stupid. Katherine Ozanic on the reflections in the recently formed Lake George, Louisiana, and, well, compassion.
It's the Education, Stupid! Why 0.2951 is the Magic American Number, by Elinor Hoefs.
It's the Education, Stupid. Michelle Furr looks for a way through the wilderness.
It's the Ontogeny Recapitulating the Phylogeny, Stupid!
It's the Schools, Stupid. Behind all the other failures lies a dormant, vacuous education system.
It's the Stupidity, Stupid. Douglas Milburn tries to understand voter behavior in the red states.
It's the Teachers, Stupid! Joel Fluker. Not-so-gentle advice for a young teacher.
"I Want My Mommy!" Elinor Hoef tries to put Sept. 11 into a much larger perspective.

Je n'accuse pas: Us and Scapegoats. Doc Cuddy tries to figure out whose fault IT is.
Johann-come-lately. In which we trace roots of certain German feelings of inferiority.
John Fowles on Men, Women, and War.
Johnny Got What? Elinor Hoef reminds us of Dalton Trumbo's shocking war novel.
Joy. Nicholas Momurray appreciates a forgotten photo from Tiananmen Square.
July 20, 1969, and All That. What the moon-landing did.

KAF! KAF! Let Us Prey. Doc Cuddy looks for--and finds--some hope in this belligerent world.
The King of the Earth. Lulu Dilworth on the world's reversion to monarchy, under guess-who.
Kinky Friedman, & Terminal Hip. A small tribute to a Texas Jewboy made good.
Koi Paraga? Chardo Blue Plains has suggestions for your metaphysical travel plans.

Lachen und Weinen (Laughing and Crying). German humor on the Internet.
Lascaux Redux: The Origin of Sub-Species. Reppy Toppenish.
Let 'Em Speak Greek. Henry Bob Kulup. What's wrong with America's schools.
Lethe Lite. Cassandra. What's really wrong with television.
Let's Pretend. Pedro Bofecillos. Can midi sound effects tell a story?
Lines Composed on Mount Holyoke a Few Miles Above the Oxbow of the Connecticut River, 2006. Douglas Milburn.
Lines to a Father on His Day. Henry Bob Kulup on daddies and their violence, both private and public.
A Little Thought Experiment for the Rich & Powerful. Chardo Blue Plains gigs 'em again.
Lost Generation Gap. Maurice Fitznuggly. A hard look at the boomers in mid-life.

MLMPI. The Magellan's Log Multi-phasic Personality Inventory Test.
The Madness of King George: Folie à trois cents millions. Doc Cuddy does a psychiatric work-up on a certain prominent individual.
The Magellan's Log Visual Argument for Unintelligent Design.
The Magellan's Log Universal Prayer. Just fill in the blanks to use with any religion.
The Magellan's Log Really Short Reading List & Brief Guide to Worldly Wisdom.
The Maggots of Belsen. Douglas Milburn. The what-it-is of Magellan's Log, sort of.
M&M. Michelle Furr. Two far-out reaons why the NASDAQ crash may not be too bad.
Male Adolescence. Stephen Fry on male teen angst.
Mardi Blas 2000. Bob Odom. Leers and boredom in New Orleans.
Marijuana Use in the United States. The official map, and our corrected map.
Market Warning! Ready for Y10K?
Mark Twain's War Prayer (1904).
Mars II: The Bill and George Show. Doc Cuddy on the Gates and Bush reading habits.
Me and My Century. Single images representing the 20th century.
Me and the Archie Bunker Syndrome. Sawyer Brown. Truth in voting.
Me and the NY Times. Cuddy kudos (and brickbats) for the essential newspaper.
Meanwhile, Back at the Louvre... The current state of High Art. Slideshow with midi (1:59).
Me! Me! Me! Reppy Toppenish. Why what I believe is right and what you believe is stupid.
Memento Mori. Douglas Milburn on some of the backstory behind Magellan's Log.
Metapathy in Action. Doc Cuddy on a nation of sheep.
Me v. Me & You v. You. The dangers of the third tyranny.
Michel Foucault à la Bernaise. Where and how the French went wrong.
Microsoft & the Texas Railroad Commission. Joel Fluker. Capitalist nightmares.
Mi Elección Es Su Elección. Doc Cuddy on fixing American miseducation.
Milburn’s Cat vs. Schrödinger’s Cat. Wuss vs. Heisenberg et al.
Milburn's Razor. An addendum to Occam's Razor, for the new millennium.
Millennial Culture-at-a-Glance. Our helpful guide.
Millennium No. 3: Babies, Bathwaters, and Poets. Maurice Fitznuggly. What the 21st century doesn't know it needs.
The Millennium Project. Our modest proposal for finding a solution to the problem of human violence.
Mind Meteors. Douglas Milburn on certain puzzling ripples in the history of consciousness.
The Mind of George W. Bush. Doc Cuddy on George W. Bush as a product of deep West Texas.
Mind Poison. Our handy clip-n-save pocket guide to what's wrong and how to fix it.
M.I.Q. Maurice Fitznuggly on the multiplicity of intelligences (yawn).
Ms. Fixit. Our very own curmudgeon list antiquated artifacts we need to fix right away.
Moments Musicaux. Henry Kulup. The disappearance of music from private discourse.
Monsters, Inc. Lulu Dilworth. First Robespierre, then James Baker. Now what?
Mother Jones in the Gloaming. A hopeful visit to her grave, with 10 photos.
M.U.L.E. The Humanity and Elegance of an Antique Computer Game. John Mimbres.
Music and Movies. Our list of the best--and the worst.
La musique, c’est à toi: Celebratory Field Notes Toward a New Music. Douglas Milburn.
Mutants R Us. Doc Cuddy. The search for cosmic contact lenses.
My Myth vs. Yours. Let's make a deal...
Myra Breckinridge: An American Epiphany. Douglas Milburn.
Myopia and Megalomania. Lulu Dilworth offer short-term despair and long-term hope.

Les naivités dangereuses. Rean Rhyne. The dangerous misuse, and death, of words.
NASDAQ, George W. Bush, and the World Trade Center. Rean Rhyne on the present troubles.
Naughty But Nice. Musings on good and evil by Reppy Duart.
NCM & the Roots of Consciousness. Hinko Livernoix. Naure-Centered Meditation? Why not?
Neo-Edwardians: Us the Unknowing. Cassandra predicts. Again.
The Next Big Thing: The Tragic Irony Behind the Present American Administration. Doc Cuddy.
The Next Year-Zero. Mired in durance, we are voyeurs of permanence.
The New Musics: Celebratory Field Notes Toward a Better World. Douglas Milburn.
The New Mutants. Leslie A. Fiedler.
The New Olduvai Theory. Cassandra's introduction and link to an overlooked keynote speech at a recent geololists' meeting.
The New Frankenstein. Piongo Pisgah. Hidden digital dangers.
News & Opinion Links. Sites to help you find out what's really going on.
Nicotine Stains. Henery Bob Kulup on the unknown dangers of a nicotine-free society.
9-11 and In-your-face Hatred, Insanity... and Hope. Anna-Marie Quave. [In The Chiliastic Hideon.]
9-11 vs. 11-1. Elinor Hoefs ponders the effects of 9-11 compared to those of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755.
19 Movie Pitches.
98-pound Weaklings, Whoopee Cushions, etc. Classic ads from the golden age of comic books. Slideshow with midi (2:05).
No Bucks for Bad Ads. Doc Cuddy takes out after advertising.
Noir and American Truth: Lines After Reading Megan Abbott. Elinor Hoefs reaches for the dark heart of America.
No Joy in Mudville. Ceci Lumley. Who's having fun in this Age of Affluence?
Non-P* Lit Crit. Doc Cuddy deconstructs the Elitists and admires Donald E. Westlake.
North Dakota Wants to Know. Chardo Blue Plains has a question.
Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be. Slide-show with midi (2:13).
Not All Texans Are Like George W. Bush. Izora Firelands discovers a great tree in Columbus, Texas.
Novalis. Douglas Milburn. New translations of old ideas.
November 2, 2004 and the Dictatorship of Deceit. Joel Fluker.
Nursery Tales. Saramae Anahuac has a question about the cultural sacred cow of your choice.

The Official, Scientific Magellan’s Log Early-days Poll of Attitudes Among Citizens of the American Empire.
The Oilman's Burden. Rudyard Kipling updated for the new empire.
Oligarchy Now! Lulu Dilworth's checklist to get you in tune with the new times.
On Disappearance. Reppy Duart tries to ponder the Really Big Question.
One Library to Go, Please. Rean Rhyne explains how to make your own audio books, cheap.
One Light. Douglas Traherne Harding's 300-year-old words.***
The One-percent Dissolution: Glenn Gould, George W. Bush and Me. Doc Cuddy improbably links an inspired pianist and a misguided president.
One Picture Is Worth 200,000,000 Words. A graph of war deaths through the centuries.
On Being Ramona Holland: An Encounter with a Remarkable Voice. Angus Verspeeten.
On Hearing Lang Lang. Angus Verspeeten.
On Leadership. Doc Cuddy bemoans the lack thereof.
On the Invisible. Chardo Blue Plains.
Oops! The Eternal Adolescence of the American Mind. Our editor again goes way out on a limb (what else is new?).
The Ages of Cowardice. Anna-Marie Quave on, well, everybody.
Our Leaders Speak: The Wit and Wisdom of the Bush Administration Faced with the Largest Natural Disaster in American History.
Our Trip to Santa Fe. A photographic report.
Out of the Mouths of Babes. Doc Cuddy on Clinton Boisvert and unacknowledged American fear.

Pacific Afternoon. Herbert Lehnert. Thoughts on a beach in Southern California.
Page Rage. Doc Cuddy. Why digital books are so slow in coming.
Panama Report. Ginkgo Balboa, our man in the Canal Zone, in epistolary exchanges with our editor.
Paradises Then and Now. West of Eden, we glance back.
Paranoid's Delight: Interview with the Alien. Rean Rhyne.
The Passionate Many Many Many. Diebold Essen. Old passions vs. the Internet.
Patience. A pixel-stitched sampler for a troubling age.
PAX NOVUM. The peace symbol revised for the 21st century. Slideshow with midi (2:20).
Peace Profits and War Wounds. Douglas Milburn. The real cost of war at home.
The Peaks of Otter: Notes from a Trip to Virginia. Douglas Milburn.
P.I.S.P.A. Jerden Purmort. The 7 types of men, phallicly speaking.
Pixels' Delight. Mystic Chardo Blue Plains's latest enigmatic report from the American Outback.
Plant a Seed in the Desert. Our small contribution to international consciousness-raising.
Poetaster's Delight. A list of the poems we've published.
The Poison of Power. Joel Fluker on how we got into this mess, and how we may get out.
Polynos: The Fragmente Issue: Petit hommage à Friedrich von Hardenberg a.k.a. Novalis mostly writ while reading Cormac McCarthy.
Pong et seq. Douglas Milburn. Videogames and the origins of consciousness.
The Pooh Profits. Douglas Milburn. A memento mori for the 21st century.
Practitioners. A few words to the wise concerning kultural kwiksand.
Prayer Redux. Religionists will be distraught. Others merely traught.
The Price of Sin: Movie Posters Like They Don't Make Anymore.
Prig Presidents & Forgotten Revolutions. Robert Lonoke on 1789 and... us!
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.
Problems in Modern Living. 25 photos (some nudity). In The Chiliastic Hideon.
Problems in Modern Living: The Non-utopian Evidence. 42 photos that suggest things are not going swimmingly, life-wise.
Problems in Modern Transportation. 11 photos.
Problems of Modern Sexuality. 24 photos indicating that erectile dysfunction may be the least of our sexual problems.
Pseudo-Texans and Other Fake Cowboys I Have Known. Doc Cuddy.

The Quiet Ecstasy of Piety. Douglas Milburn. A psychic explorer's surprise at home.
The Quiet Hour Revolution. Saramae Anahuac's modest proposal to grease some of the world's squeakier wheels.

The Randys. Our annual awards for the best explicit sex photographs on the Internet.
The Rape of Chopin. Angus Verspeeten. What's wrong with our ears and how to fix them.
Rapunzel Redux. Angus Verspeeten is transformed by the piano-playing of Valentina Lisitsa.
Reading-readiness for Grown-ups. Astraeu Chakra. 10 comic strips to exercise your narrative skills.
Readings for Possible Futures. A recently unearthed 1960s artifact.
readme.txt. Two lists of books: the standard European canon, and our suggested additions.
Really BIG Mo. Doc Cuddy. Tomorrow's out-of-date before it gets here.
The Relentless Pursuit of Ragged Perfection. Ceci Lumley on the lack of real genius in the present era.
Replacing Religion. Lines Written in a Stalled Rental Car at a BP Gas Station/ Convenience Store on the Marion- Mount Gilead Road in Marion, Ohio, While Waiting for Avis to Send a Replacement Vehicle (Which They Did with Admirable Alacrity), by Katherine Ozanic.
Reverse-engineering Militant Islam. Catherine Ozanic on the forgotten way of peace at the heart of Islam.
Revolution No. 2? Anna-Marie Quave tries to see a peaceful, positive way out of the present political mess.
Risins. Henry Bob Kulup. Slightly unsettling whimsical nostalgia, or something more?
Rootless. Harriett Lobdell's lines on the true value of silence.
Rove v. Rave. Pedro Bofecillos takes out after the anti-fun people presently running America (and the world).
Rubaiyat Redux. Edward FitzGerald's effective, if highly ambiguous, antidote to the madness of whatever era you happen to find yourself in.
Rules of Human Cultural History. A photograph. Of a wall. With words.
R U Vaginally Challenged? Doc Cuddy compares horny young Muslims and repressed American politicians.

Satellite Radio One More Time. Sawyer Brown tries again to explain his enthusaism.
Say Again? One faculty group's list of over- and misued words.
Second Nature. Piongo Pisgah. Grasping after the meaning of the Internet.
The Secret Behind Macro-economic Behavior.
The Secret Republican Plan for the 2004 Election.
The 17th Hole at Sawgrass. Lulu Dilworth takes golf as metaphor and finds hope for the American electorate.
75 Years' War. Robert Lonoke looks at almost a century of war.
Shining a Light into the Darkness. Sylvia Thodhiss. Generate predictions for (y)our future.
Sillinesses. Revered smartpants get their comeuppance (sort of).
Singing Lessons. Pedro Bofecillos on violence, fathers, sons, and hope.
Sites Alive! The Magellan's Log Hands-on Tour of America.
Skipping the 21st Century. Lulu Dilworth asks permission to be excused for 100 years.
Smart Mouths 63. More salty, sage, and salacious quotations.
Smart Mouths 66. Another collection of utterances by the woeful and the wise.
Smart Mouths 67.
Smart Mouths 71. More thinkable quotations.
Some Thousands of Years Ago. Chardo Blue Plains's latest mystical suggestion.
A Song of War. The Iraqi war song, with inspired lyrics by John Robbins.
The Spitting Image. Diebold Essen. Frank Stella's Prince of Homberg.
Springtime in Weimar. Cassandra gets out her worrisome crystal ball again.
Stammtisch Homeboys. Don Pfingston. Light on the edge of the barrio.
Stirrings of Empire. Arthur Seymour Sullivan vs. George Walker Bush. With midi.
Strata: A Theologico-metaphysical Thought Experiment for the Stout of Brain and the Desperate of Heart.
Suddenly, Next Summer. In-house prophet Cassandra explains the coming doom-and-gloom.
Summing It Up. Chardo Blue Plains on what it all means, Alfie.
Super-insanities. The staff's latest pick of crazy (and possibly offensive) photos from the Internet.
Survival of the Niftiest. Astraeu Chakar on the "psychic origin of species."

Tainted Words and the Problem of Religion. Pedro Bofecillos.
Talent Sprouts. Nicholas Momurray scrambles toward hope for the new century.
A Tale of Two Icons. Pedkop Bumbera. The 2000 election explained through car design.
Target. Another of our modest tributes to the glories of Late Capitalism. Image with music (3:00).
Taughtology. Katherine Ozanic. Nine words to live by.
Teaching. Joel Fluker takes out after teachers, and non-teachers.
Technological Utopians of the World, Unite! Rean Rhyne argues for a full global stomach.
Ten Things We Wish We'd Thought of First.
10,000 Jesuses. Reppy Duart, D.D., on Jesus 1,000 years from now.
Test Your Faith. Jerden Purmort's quiz to see how you shape up as a citizen of the world's newest theocracy.
Test Your Gullibility. John Mimbres.
Test Your Imperial Subjectship. Jerden Purmort. Are you going to be a good member of the New World Order?
Texas Daddies. Joel Fluker explains Dubya and Dubya's forebears and how they came to rule the world (that means us).
Texas vs. China.
Texas Zen Hymnbook.
Thanatotic Bloopers. Elinor Hoefs vents spleen on what she calls the deathbook industry.
THEM vs. US. vs. HER. Bloce Kaibab on politics and hubris.
Thinkers Anonymous. Free membership card in our new organization for those who think too much (or at all).
Thinking Against the Wind. Doc Cuddy's latest collection of thought-provoking quotes.
Thinking the Unthinkable. Herman Kahn's "escalation ladder."
Thought-provoker. A strange little statistic to help you think outside of the box.
Thought Unbound: Reality Addiction. Chardo Blue Plains.
3000 C.E. & the Great How-dun-it. Which of our books are they gonna be reading a thousand years from now?
The 3 Turnings. Elinor Hoefs. Personality problems in us, and in the body politic.
Timothy Leary's Last Laugh. Edward Hothi on how American wound up being run by nitwits.
Timothy Leary--Warts and All. Astraeu Chakar is unhappy with the blindered reviews of the first biography of Leary.
Tip for Would-be Paradigm Shifters.
Today's Obscene Statistic. (See for yourself.)
To Flee or Not to Flee. Doc Cuddy on the coming American exodus.
To F--- or to Be F---ed, That Is the 21st-Century Question. Angus Verspeeting on what to buy with $3,000.
Tongue Guns. Doc Cuddy on "the half-hidden subtext behind talk radio."
Tory! Tory! Tory! Bob Odom. On Florence King's Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady.
Toxicity and Incompetence. Doc Cuddy on the source of poison in American society.
Toys R Not Us. Cassandra. Our curmudgeonly prophet on why PDA's are bad for you.
Tranquillity Base 2? Doc Cuddy on hope during Vietnam and the lack of hope during Iraq.
Trennungsangst. Ulrich von Kleinschwanz- Ohnehosen. Why what's wrong is wrong. Maybe.
Trickledown Economics Revisited. A couple of statistics to give you pause.
Tripping. Book review by Reppy Duart, D.D.
The Triumph of the Ill. Leni Riefenstahl et al. updated.
2/29: Remembrance of Time Lost, or, What Price Capitalism.
TV Commercials as Haiku. Diebold Essen.
The 20th Century in 20 Minutes. Angus Verspeeten on Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio.
21st Century Mandala. A little graphic hint of global-warming things to come.
2028 and All That. A calendar celebrating the 25th anniversary of the American Empire.
Two Cultural Icons Reconsidered. Sylvia Sikeston on Austen and, um, Mahler.
The Two Questions of the Century. Sawyer Brown.

U-Buy-It. Match 1940s ad images with the product being sold.
U Date 'Em. Scott McComb. A quiz for the advertising- encumbered.
The Ugliest Building in the World? Woodrow Stockdick does architecture. Bigtime.
The Ultimate Gadget. Rean Rhyne. In The Chiliastic Hideon.
Understanding Our Modern Age in 50 Words or Less. Two telling quotes.
U N I T Y. The world's longest, slowest Internet slideshow.
Unscientific Questions. John Mimbres. Dangers of the herd-instinct in science.
US Vs. THEM. Cheki Boggus on the roots of human conflict.

A Very Brief Essay on the Origin of Anthropomorphic Deities. Reppy Duart, D.D.
La Vida un Sueño. Pedro Bofecillos on taboos, dreams, frontiers, and the great silence.
Vietnam / Iraq: Quotations from Another War, 1961-1995.
The View from Louisiana. Nimo Callardic.
Vive l'afference / Vive l'efference. Go figure. Slideshow with midi.
Voices from the Past. John D. MacDonald's private eye Travis McGee on education.
Voting Patterns. Herbert Lehnert on the puzzling behavior of the American electorate.

The War of Art. Pedro Bofecillos on the art of the war novel, and why you might want to read Gabe Hudson's Dear Mr. President.
War Clouds. Chardo Blue Plains. [In The Chiliastic Hideon.]
The War on Errorism. Joel Fluker gives us a new word to desribe the domestic behavior of the present American government.
The Water or the Wave? A question from John Fowles's The Magus. Image with midi.
The Willed Suspension of Belief. Douglas Milburn. Life among the sleepwalkers.
The Walking Wounded. Doc Cuddy. Humanity as a victim of PTSD.
Walls: A Meditation on Power. Harriet Lobdell.
Walls Walls Walls: France & the Last Tragedy of the 20th Century. Douglas Milburn. (in The Chiliastic Hideon)
We, ALL the People. Harriet Lobdell on the bad and the possible future good of 9-11-01.
Weeds. A hectoring question or a gentle reminder?
Welcome back, history! Doc Cuddy harshly chides the young and middle-aged greedy.
We Live in a Library. Cheki Boggus sums everything up in 50 words or less.
What Changed? In 9-11 Cassandra sees her usual doom- and- gloom, but some hope too.
What Happened to Movies That Matter? Ceci Lumley.
What Is Texas Mysticism Anyway? Doc Cuddy explains it all. Well, almost.
What, Me Chatter? Chardo Blue Plains on what's wrong with your/my/
everybody's internal reality. Yawn.
What, Me Wise??? The fatal flaw of capitalism (as now practiced).
What. Me Worry? A graph of the size of the Arctic ice pack over the last 20 years.
What Most Becomes an Ant? New staff member Jason Twinhaft's inauspicious debut.
What Price Empire? Lulu Dilworth on why now is like the summer of 1914.
What's Going on Here? Hope for the hopeless, thanks to Albrecht Altdorfer, with a little help from his friends at Magellan's Log.
What's Wrong with the World. Marcel Snapfinger does his best.
When Art Smarts. Diebold Essen. Derek Jarman's The Last of England.
When in doubt, advertise. Doc Cuddy. Should we enlist Madison Avenue in the war effort?
Where Are the Aliens Now That We Really Need Them? Rean Rhyne on the role of scapegoats in history and the desirability a UFO-landing.
Which Are the Bad Guys? Compare Islamic and Christian sermons.
Which Future Is in Our Car(d)s? Pedkop Bumbera's hopeful take on the 2005 Detroit Auto Show.
"Who Ate la Plume de Ma Tante?" Jason Twinhaft on American linguistic provincialism and what to do about it.
Wings of Song: Letter to a Young Friend in a Time of War. Sawyer Brown.***
The Wise and Foolish Virgins One More Time. Anonymous, on pain.
The World's Dirtiest Picture. Cassandra.
Worrywarts and Curious Cats. Piiongo Pisgah on human nature and its little problems.
Writing Funny About Cars. In Praise of Tom McCahill, John Phillips, and Jeremy Clarkson (Among Others). Pedkop Bumbera.
Writ in Stone. Seven marmoreal tablets from a mythical city.
Wrong Notes & Imperfect Pitch. Sylvia Sikeston. The sense and nonsense of "reality."
Wrong Thinking and the Current American Mess. Doc Cuddy.

Yoga Tip. Piongo Pisgah sums it all up in one sentence.
Yoicks R Us. Jerden Purmort helps you test your pre-Rapture sense of humor.
You Are What You Believe. Maurice Fitznuggly's self-help test re systems of belief.

Zone Red. Cassandra rides again! More prophecies of doom and gloom.

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