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bother? We escaped into canons and rounds, eternal recurrence in music, from "Row,
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Re: Cage. The Critic Responds.
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our sloppy perforrmance practice way back in Magellan's Log 25 when we presented
the world Internet premiere of John Cage's landmark 20th century piano piece, 4'33".
Found Sentence
Sometimes one sentence is worth a thousand words. As proof, we offer this graffito from New Orleans (with midi).
 The World's Shortest Book Review
The editor innocently assigned a new novel to a staff member for review. Weeks later came
the unexpected, extremely terse results.
There are some works of art that stupid people
will never understand because they weren't made for stupid people. And there are a lot of
stupid people. Why should anyone assume that any work of art can be reduced to the level
of comprehension of a contemporary eight-year-old?
--Robert Hughes.
Fart Loud & Proud!
In which our despairing editor makes a few modest
proposals, not all of which are in the best of taste, concerning possible life-choices
in the Bush II era.
Fundamentalist Christian Alert!
Our 2 staff-mediums inadvertantly transmit a
most disturbing image, apparently right from the top, at the moment of Dubya's
coronation.
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 Me & Archie Bunker
Sawyer Brown, one of our favorite house- intellectuals,
gets in a lot of trouble when he starts really
looking at his own voting behavior...Voting Patterns
Herbert Lehnert, on the puzzling behavior of
the American electorate, in response to Sawyer Brown's piece above.
Lulu Dilworth draws a line from Robepierre to
James Baker, not a pretty line but one which, she says, we ignore at our own peril.
Now we've really done it. Not only have we made up a new word (based on a perfectly
respectable Greek root-- see above) for all you people having problems dealing with the
Bushies. We've even created a diagnostic
quiz to see just where you fit in the larger scheme of Late Capitalism.
BULLETINS FROM CHAD!
Nfubi Kwaadutu, our man in Chad, checks in with the
latest news from Saharan Africa, where excitement is building concerning the presumed
appointment of Katherine Harris as US ambassador. Next, our intrepid correspondent
delivers the up-to-the-minute inside poop on
Chadian reactions, including those of Ambassadortrix-presumptive Katherine Harris, to
violence in the Congo. And click here for the
story behind the surprise appointment of Linda Tripp as Ms. Harris's assistant.
SCOOP!!!
Magellan's Log is pleased as punch to scoop the world and present the first photographs of the new U.S. ambassador's
residence in N'Djamena. "N'Djamena?" you say. And we say, "Yes, as in
the capital of the Republic of Chad."
Regular readers of Magellan's Log will have noticed that occasionally we O.D. on words,
our own as well as the trsillions of other words on the Internet. When that happens, we
work up a kind of graphic oasis, a word-free zone. This one we call "Speechless in the 3rd Millennium."
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