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Fables of Innocence and Experience. Lucas Covert. With apologies to Wm. Blake.***
Failure, A Brief Essay.
A Fairy Tale for Our Times. Doc Cuddy.
Falling Leaf. Chardo Blue Plains. Haiku.***
Family Matters. Ora Shay, token Republican, on Bush-family values.
Famous All Authors Best Seller Quick Publishing School.
Farewell to the 20th Century. Doc Cuddy.
Fart Loud & Proud. Doc Cuddy. Thoughts, not all in the best of taste, on life under Bush II.
Fathers and Sons. Caravaggio's estimate of the risks of being young.
Fear and Loathing in the 21st Century. Self-tests to help you know your fears
Fear and the Rise of American Fascism. Harriet Lobdell on the danger of the accelerating rate of change.
Feeding Frenzy. Elinor Hoefs on the bizarre and dangerous behavior of an unrestrained American government.
Fenestration. Photo with midi (2:44).
The 10 11 12 13 14 15 Best Things to Do in America (and the 10 Worst Also). Ceci Lumley's guide to America for the discriminating traveller.
The Fifteenth Line. Robert Lonoke's latest visionary poem.
51-L Threnody: In Memorium. Douglas Milburn, on Challenger, and now Columbia.
Fixing the Pax Americana. Doc Cuddy has a few suggestions for world peace under American hegemony.
50 Plus. Looking up at buildings of more than 50 stories in Houston. With midi.
Filicide: The Mythic Reality of Childhood.
Filicide interview.
The First Rule of Religion. Harriet Lobdell on hypocritical piety, or pious hypocrisy.
Flat Heat. Don Pfingston. A brief, colorful commentary on seasonal reality.
The Flatness Fallacy. Anna-Marie Quave on the limits of human vision.
Fleurs de Lea. Flowers from the Magellan's Log garden. Slideshow with midi.
Flöh Haz: On Inferring the Existence of Trees. Astraeu Chakar poetizes desert-wise.
Florida Bumperstickers.
The Florida Memorandum. Doc Cuddy. Pieces of the Florida voting puzzle.
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.
F O G B O U N D. Verbal paradox + a Japanese Buddha + Schubert = ?
"La Folia" X 2. A midi extravaganza based on a famous melody.***
Folie à deux milliarde. Reppy Duart, D.D., critiques a Cardinal on 9-11.
Folly Folly. Our latest collection of images of human silliness.
Food4thot. Anonymous. Applied yin-yang.
Forgotten Masterpieces.***
Forgotten Treasure. Nice stuff from the past.
Fortune Cookies***
Found Sentence. One New Orleans graffito.
Four Corners. Boris Chao's lovely photos of part of the American West. Slideshow with midi (2:23).
The Four Tyrannies. Jerden Purmort. History in one page.
Fragmente 126. Like the Pleiades meteor shower, the ideas just keep on coming.
Fragments 59.
The Franz Liszt Jukebox.
Fraught: Faux Sonnet on the Analogies of Human Emergences. Chardo Blue Plains. More metaphysical blather from our itinerent mystic.
Free Beauty & Ryan Geiss. John Mimbres on three great graphics programs.***
The Freedom of Utah 12. Herbert Lehnert. Questions of liberty in the American desert.
Freudian Symbols for the 3rd Millennium. Harriet Lobdell's radical new take on dream images.
Fucked Again. Doc Cuddy once more tried to understand the 20th century.
Funny Stuff. Without words.
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.

Galactic Grade Report. John Mimbres. Report card for a small planet.
Galle(r)y. Pictures, some with music.***
Galveston Sconces. Jason Twinhaft on islands trapped in the past (with midi).
The Games of Childhood. Marcella T. Perry. An unknown poet's global debut.
A Garden of Millennial Visual Delights. 10 photos for your retinal delectation.
GECW vs. GICW. A worksheet to determine your true net worth.
Gehry's Tattered Titanium. Carl Yadkin. Slideshow with music (1:34).
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.
Genesis Revisited. Pudge Dimmitt offers and alternate reading of the first chapter.
The Gentle Tree. Handel's "Ombra ma fui" (a.k.a. the "Largo"). Slideshow with midi (2:49).
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).
George W. Bush's New Improved Science. We filch another secret memo from the White House...
The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Imperial Trinket Repository: Design AND location revealed!
George W. Bush: the First Four Years. 56 photos to help you remember.
Germans R Us. Temple Duciel. Germany and the lessons of humility.
Get Thee to Greece. Elinor Hoefs. In praise of Mary Renault's vivid novels of ancient Greece.
Ghiberti Gawkers. Observations in the midst of a madding crowd of impatient loiterers just outside Eden.
La Giocanda Nuova. Cassandra figures out why she's suddenly smiling all the time.
Gift Shop
Gigantic Magellan's Log Poli-Sci Contest!
Giggling While Rome Burns. Doc Cuddy on the rise of a sugar-coated, American version of fascism.
Glenn Gould, Lang Lang, and les barricades mystèrieuses. Angus Verspeeten.
A Glimpse of Futures Past. Rean Rhyne. What 1969 thought a 2001 airport would look like.
Global Computer Usage. Douglas Huang. SETI@home statistics.
Global Supercomputer Usage. Latest results from Top500.
Gluttony. If greed is good, find out how good your are.
Gob Gripes. Complaints from all over.
God's Big Acre. Gazdagy Alamance's modest take on the Internet.***
God's Cops? Joel Fluker questions the wisdom of huge defense budget increases.
Go Fish. Izora Firelands, naturist extraordinaire, on incomplete anglers.
Going Off the Rails. America's tragicomic probably future.
Goldberg Variations. Played by John Sankey.***
The Golden Age of the Internet. Sawyer Brown. Is THIS the digital good old days?
Good Geek! The best computer radio show in the world.
Good Music. Beginner's guide.***
Good Neighbors. A simple little U.S. geography puzzle.
The Good Old Days. Choice quotations from the halcyon days of the "New Economy."
Good Riddance? Meanwhile, back in the nest...
Graffito No. 11942.
Grand Canyon Breaks. Arthur Varrick Ticklaw says it all in two words.***
Grand Obsession/Grand Possession. Douglas Milburn. A review of Perri Knize's marvelous piano odyssey.
The Grand Tour, 2000-style. Nicholas Momurray. Europe in one month.
The Graspable Truths of Kindergarten. Stickum No. 291, 480.
Greater & Lesser Truths. A staff compilation, for better or worse.***
The Great Fallacy. Harriet Lobdell. Why both toys and ideas leave us with empty hearts.***
The Great Hunger. The latest update from Chardo Blue Plains, staff mystic.
Great Planes. Joey Ancaster. Imaginary visual and aural landscapes in which to play.***
Great Sites: China.
Great Sites: Kitty Hawk.
Great Sites: Las Vegas.
Great Sites: Natchez Trace.
Great Sites: Texas.
Greater Ears, Wider Eyes. Denise Hawkins. Tips on family conflict resolution.
Greek Sculpture. An unabashed looked at old Greeks without clothes on.***
Gregorian Chant. Midi sequences by Richard Lee.
GRRR! The Cumulative Rage of Neanderthal on the Verge of Extinction. Chardo Blue Plains.
grün.***
Gustaw Herling. Piongo Pisgah. Remembering a whole century's pain.
GWB's Top Secret 2004 To-do List.

Haiku One, Two. Chardo Blue Plains.***
Hallelujah! A Real Pro at Work! Temple Duciel rejoices in Donald E. Westlake's latest caper novel.
Handel: Aylesford Pieces.***
Handle with Care. Hinko Livernoix. Remarks on the theater and other matters.
Happy Birthday, Martin Waldseemuller!
Happy Ears. Music for the misbegotten.***
Happy Ears 65. Our biggest (33 pieces), most entertainingly varied collection of midi files yet.
Hate in Progress. Herbert Lehnert's political observations from a recent trip around the world.
Head Graffiti. Signposts from the bathroom.
Headlights in the Darkness. Pedkop Bumbera finds two reasons for hope in current car design.
Head Reading. Lending library favs.
Headscratcher's Delight. Two wee sentences from the Hsin Hsin Ming. Slideshow with midi (0:57).
The Healing of America. US and wilderness.
Hearing Is Believing. Douglas Milburn on Alexander Sokurov's The Russian Ark.
The Heartbreak of Acute Chronological Displacement Syndrome. Astraeu Chakar gets to the bottom of your discontent.
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Sawyer Brown. The Internet and the loss of community.
Heavenly Transmission. Our staff mediums get word from the top re Dubya.
Hedged Bets. A brief guide to corporate political donations.
The Helios Cycle. Douglas Milburn.
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 Gargoyles. The founders muses on what he's done after 51 issues.
Here There Be Dinosaurs: Hubris and the American Future. Joel Fluker.
Herky-jerky World: The Short Shelf-life of Movies. Scott McComb.
Herrje, Herrje! An anonymous German reader's poem, about which probably the less said, the better.
Les Heures du Mal. A book of hours for eras in distress.
The Hills of Herculaneum. Kai Sonderling's manipulation of his painting, with midi.
Hippie Glop? Just what the world needs: another printing of old 1960s optimism.***
Hither, Thither, and Yon. Elinor Hoefs' 12 lines on how spanking and string theory look from L.A.
Hollow Homeland: The New Orleans Speech That Was Never Given.
Holy Halls. An old song of love and tolerance meets a much older landscape.
Home. Five lines of dangerously hopeful p----y by Mr. Chardo Blue Plains. Warning: Some readers will be offended by the graphic.
Home PC Ownership Statistics in the USA.
Home Sweet Home. Ora Shay, our token Republican, on the restoration of the George W. Bush boyhood home in Midland, Texas.
Home, Sweet Home. Harriet Lobdell's words of wisdom re religion, politics, science, etc.
Homeward Bound. Photo, and midi from The Sacred Harp.
Homonyms. Words that sound alike. ESL.
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. A slideshow with some flowers and some Scott Joplin.
Hope Dashed. Doc Cuddy. The coming tragedy of American (and thus, world) capitalism.
Horological Bequest. Robert Lonoke on single vision and Newton's sleep.
Hot Links. Our latest collection of unusual and useful websites.
Hot Links 62. Our latest collection of sites worth a look.
Hot Links 63.
Hot Links 64. More sites for sore eyes.
Hot Links 65. Our latest collection of edifying sites.
Hot Links 66. Maybe our best collection of links yet.
Hot Links 67.
Hot Links 69.
Hot Links 70.
Hot Links 71.
Hot Links 74.
Hot Links 75.
Hot Links 76.
Hot Links 77.
Hot Links 78. Our latest collection of Internet time-wasters.
Hot Links 80. Yet more Internet time-wasters.
Hot Links 84.
Hot Links 91. Our latest collection of sites more or less worthy of your attention.
Hot Links 94.
Hot Links 95. Our latest collection of time-wasters.
Hot Links 96. Our latest collection of noteworthy sites.
Hot Links 103. More creative time-wasters...
Hot Links 104.
Houston Mausoleum.
How Bigz Ur Booty? Our modest suggested expansion of methods of measurement.
How Capitalistic Is Your Religion? Doc Cuddy. A handy little satirical quiz.
How Corrupt Is Your Country? A little self-help test for the ethically challenged.
How Do You Spell America? Lulu Dilworth.***
How Do You Tell a Bush from a Shrub from a Weed? Doc Cuddy.
How Dysfunctional Is Your Country? A quickie checklist.
How Far from Paradise? Ceci Lumley. Find out your present location re Heaven.
Howlers High & Low. Nicholas Momurray. Slips of the keyboard we shall always have with us.
How Long Is It Anyway? Piongo Pisgah's paradigm-breaking formula for calculating the length of you-know-what before you commit yourself.
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 the Terrorist Screen Center Is Going to Solve the Unemployment Problem. Need a job> Check out the TSC's new career path.
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.
Howz Ur D.I.Q? Jerden Purmort's guide to intelligence in the new American age.
Howz Ur FQ? Ceci Lumley. Check the condition of your Fetish Quotient.
Hsin Hsin Ming: Two Translations. The Clarke and Suzuki translations, side by side.
Huang's Law. Douglas Huang. At last, the truth about the Information Age, in one sentence.
The Hudson River. A panoramic photo, with midi, from Palisades Park.
The Human Comedy: Chapters 184,532-184,551. 20 photos, some possibly offensive.
Human History in One Easy Lesson. Joey Ancaster explains it all--or at least most of it--in 10 cartoon panels.
Humans R Us. Chardo Blue Plains at his beatitudinous best.
Humpty Dumpty à la mode humaine. Astraeu Chakra on the loss of art--and so much more--in Baghdad, and in Washington.
HUSH! Horticulturalist Izora Firelands's bit of admonitory free-verse.
The Hustling Vanities of Sentient Dust. Elisabeth Ney.
Hymnlet to the Night. Chardo Blue Plains offers a few thoughts on night dwellers. With midi.

Ice 43. Nine lines re frozen minds and seas.
Idea Man. Ideas from all over.
Imperial I.D. Card. Our own modest proposal in the War on Terrorism.
Imperialists! Tyrants! Dictators! Theocrats! U Rate 'Em. Jason Twinhaft.
Imperial Verities. Anna-Marie Quave. Rules for getting on successfully in the new world order.
Implications. Pedro Bofecillos uses eight words to make two statements and ask two questions.
Importation Intent. Nfubi Kwaadutu. The latest, scandalous news from Central Africa.
Inferences. Added to The Chiliastic Hideon.
Instant Guide to a Wasted Life.
Interfaces. Angus Verspeeten on the world after McLuhan (that means us).
If I Were a Mandala. Harriet Lobdell. Kohinoor drawings from the gender wars.
The Importance of Being Professional. Katherine Ozanic. Another of our free self-help tests to improve your 21st century life..
Inaner and Inaner: Pick Your Favorite Dufus. Morsels of human wisdom, then and now, for you to rate.
In.at.ten.tive.ness. Maurice Fitznuggly. The dangers of living at digital speeds.
Information, Please. The sites we ACTUALLY look at daily.
Ingress.
In Search of the Great American Haiku. Jerden Purmort.
Intellectual Life in America. Maurice Fitznuggly on those who sit and think.
Interior Trends. Happy with your cubicle? No? Find out why.
Interregnum or Neoregnum? Anna-Marie Quave on American democracy, past, present, and future.
Interstate Highways: We Rate 'Em.
In the Gloaming. Robert L. Tufford. Nature poets we shall always have with us.
In the Shallows. Further notes on neo-speciation.
Intimate Insights. Staff bios.
Invitation to an Illusion. Ceci Lumley's ten lines of non-prose re, well, everything.
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 God a Necrophile? Reppy Duart, D.D.***
Is It at Least Remotely Possible That America Takes Organized Religion Just a Tad Too Seriously?
Is It Dictatorship Yet? Doc Cuddy's handy little checklist.
Is It Empire Yet? Doc Cuddy measures America against ancient Rome, with patriotic result.
Is It Fascism Yet? A checklist to help you keep up with how things are going, Bush-wise.
Island Revisited. Reppy Duart looks at Huxley's utopia again 40 years later.
Islands of Quality. Maurice Fitznuggly. The good, the less good, and the lousy.
Is Masturbation a Crime Against God? The first draft of a Christian advice-giver's thoughts on self-abuse.
I Spy. Joel Fluker. What the Galactic Federation thinks about us.
Is Your Nation's Leader an Extra-terrestrial in Disguise? Maurice Fitznuggly.
It All Adds Up! A number fill-in puzzle for ESL.
It Only Stops Hurting When I Laugh. 13 funny images from the farther reaches of the Internet.
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! Michelle Furr.
It's the SEX, Stupid! Elinor Hoefs. Lewinsky, etc. one more time.
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.
IYOOB. Our proposed new, patriotic calendar for dating world history.

Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré: Recent Work 1999-2001. Latest paintings (with midi).***
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 Appleseedlings. Chardo Blue Plains on UFOs as cosmic gardeners.***
Johnny Got What? Elinor Hoef reminds us of Dalton Trumbo's shocking war novel.
Jokes. Each issue contains a link to a page of more or less offensive jokes.
Josquin Desprez. Monstra de esse matrem. Midi (2:39) with slideshow.
Joy. Nicholas Momurray appreciates a forgotten photo from Tiananmen Square.
July 20, 1969, and All That. What the moon-landing did.
Jumbelodeon. Random images plus Bach. Slideshow with midi (1:32).
Just Say No to Tasteless Dubya Jokes! Ora Shay. Our token Republican's second column.
Just 16 Words? Our public service bumper sticker to help us remember why we invaded Iraq.

KAF! KAF! Let Us Prey. Doc Cuddy looks for--and finds--some hope in this belligerent world.
Karl Rove, Machiavelli, and Me. Doc Cuddy predicts Karl Rove's next move to get his boss out of all these messes.
Keel-hauled. The Publisher speaks.
Kindergartens I Have Known. Chardo Blue Plains. More trans-galactic musings.
The King of the Earth. Lulu Dilworth on the world's reversion to monarchy, under guess-who.
Kinky Friedman, & Terminal Hip.
Kitty Hawk.
Klassical Karaoke. Angus Verspeeten on Toru Takemitsu's percussion concerto.
Koans for the 21st Century. Twelve, count 'em, twelve.
Koi Paraga? An old question with some new images and one pretty insistent midi (2:26).
Koi Paraga? Chardo Blue Plains has suggestions for your metaphysical travel plans.
Kulchur Kwotient. A series of not-so-trivial trivia quizzes.

The Labors of Hercules, Nos. 84,531-84,539. Colice Jeanne Pisgah. Slideshow with music (2:49).
Lachen und Weinen (Laughing and Crying). German humor on the Internet.
Lachrimae (with midi, 2:44). Thomas Cole plus Thomas Dowland.
Laissez-foutre. Poet Cheki Boggus takes us beyond laissez- faire into realms where angels fear to tread.
Lamentations. Seven recent paintings by Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré. With midi's from Handel's Aylesford Pieces.
The Land of Eleven Seasons. Fractal landscapes (with midi).***
Languages & Landscapes. Izora Firelands waxes, um, poetic.
Lascaux Redux: The Origin of Sub-Species. Reppy Toppenish.
The Last Illusion. In The Chiliastic Hideon.
Last Looks. Death Masks We Have Known and Loved.
Last Things. A little quiz to help you get through these difficult "End Times."
Las Vegas. Travel. Epiphany in the desert.***
Laws of the Universe (Updated for the New Millennium). Jerden Purmort.
Lawyer Jokes.
Leadership Then and Now. Washington Correspondent Joel Fluker puts the current batch of American leaders in historical perspective.
Leçons des Ordinateurs de ténèbres. Once again we make it our business to alienate readers by publishing p----y.
Leçons de Ténèbres.
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the Second.
Lecture de Texte: "Shared Roots." Robert Watson. A reader responds eloquently.
The Legacy of George W. Bush.
Lest We Forget. A brief, factual reminder of the rocky road one son of privilege has traveled.
Lest We Forget. Moore's Law in action: A page from the cyber-past.
Let 'Em Speak Greek. Henry Bob Kulup. What's wrong with America's schools.
Lethe Lite. Cassandra. What's really wrong with television.
Let It Scroll No. 96,412. Jason Twinhaft. A thought for the day.
Let's Pretend. Pedro Bofecillos. Can midi sound effects tell a story?
Letters. Readers respond.
Ley Line.
Life for Dummies (On One Page). Douglas Milburn. Yup. Everything you need to know. On one page.
Lightning Strikes 23 Times. Slideshow with midi (2:46).
Lightning: 2 Questions. Bloce Kaibob on NASA's global map of lightning strikes.
Lilies.
Lines Composed on Mount Holyoke a Few Miles Above the Oxbow of the Connecticut River, 2006. Douglas Milburn.
Lines Found by Mr. Temple Duciel in the Poste Restante, Duino, Italy.
Lines to a Father on His Day. Henry Bob Kulup on daddies and their violence, both private and public.
Lingams & Yonis. Authentic sex advice from the Sub-continent.
Links for the Misbegotten.
Links LS 1999 recorded rounds of computer golf.
"The Little King, An American Fairy Tale," by Henry Bob Kulup. Read it and weep.
A Little Thought Experiment for the Rich & Powerful. Chardo Blue Plains gigs 'em again.
The Long Jaded Wrath. Amis Monteo. A novella writ as if 1950-1999 didn't happen.***
Lost Generation Gap. Maurice Fitznuggly.
Lost Worlds. Rean Rhyne and Angus Verspeeten. 9 planets for imaginary exploring, with midi's.
LTTE Template. A ready-made, easy-to-use letter to the editor.
Lucinda, by Friedrich Schlegel. Douglas Milburn translates a 200-year-old best-seller.

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

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