Magellan's Log: Site Map: By Title S -- Z

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Contents of All Issues Arranged By Title

S - Z

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S.A.A.F.J: A Tale of Henry Kissinger and My Favorite Fly Swatter. Ora Shay.
Sailor's Lament. Memories of home.
Sagely Stats. Where've all the new Jesuses and Buddhas gone?
St. Basil Chapel. A photographic visit to Philip Johnson's small religious masterpiece.
St. Francis in Ecstasy. Caravaggio plus Handel = ?
Saltlick: Mind Food for Cyber-nomads. Douglas MIlburn. A new kind of meditation.***
Santa Fe. One photo of old Santa Fe with an even older melody.
Satellite Radio One More Time. Sawyer Brown tries again to explain his enthusaism.
S.A.T. Supplementary Questions for the Reality-challenged. Harriet Lobdell.
Satyr Alert! An anonymous reader's photographic proof of a mysterious encounter beside a Texas Hills Country lake.
Say Again? One faculty group's list of over- and misued words.
Schubert's Golden Oldies. A few great songs.***
SCOOP! Capitalism Does Have a Heart! The silver lining in the Enron collapse.
Scoop! World's first photos of new U.S. Ambassador's residence in Chad.
Scotsman's Delight. James Macpherson III with 14 lines of obduracy, or something. With midi.
Searching for a House Under $40K in the Texas Outback. Kai Sonderling looks for cheap studio space. Slideshow with midi (3:05).
Secondary Colors. Lulu Dilworth. Our take on Joe Klein's Primary Colors.
Second Nature. Piongo Pisgah. Grasping after the meaning of the Internet.
The Secret Behind Macro-economic Behavior. Michelle Furr.
The Secret Republican Plan for the 2004 Election.
Seeing Dubya Double. Doc Cuddy wonders who we're seeing when we see Dubya.
Semaphore Signals. Readers' letters.
Sensing. Stickum No. 291,478. Bemused by bemazed micelets.
Separated at Birth? Our solution, with visual proof, to the problem of the origins of the bizarre behavior of current American leaders.
Sept petits objets de méditation. Paintings by Jean-Marie Jonré, our most popular artist, with music by Handel (3:17).
Serious. Photos of Houston by the well-known cinematographer, Tom Richmond.
Serious Visual Denial. Humor editor Jerden Purmort has collected 25 more funny pictures to help you avoid facing reality.
SETI@home Statistics. Douglas Huang.
Seventeen Composers. A diverting little fill-in puzzle.
17 Koans for the 21st Century.***
The 17th Hole at Sawgrass. Lulu Dilworth takes golf as metaphor and finds hope for the American electorate.
75 Years' War. The 20th century and all that.
7 x 40. Forty photos from our archives to celebrate our 7th anniversary.
SEX MADE SIMPLE: The Magellan's Log Guide to Guilt-free Polymorphous Virtuosity by Maurice Fitznuggly.
Sex Trivia. How low will we sink to increase readership?
A Shard of Sky. Astraeu Chakar. Poetry. Brief, but still poetry.
Shared Roots. Astraeu Chakar. Lines of hope.
Shining a Light into the Darkness. Sylvia Thodhiss. Generate predictions for (y)our future.
Ship Ahoy! An anonymous member of our rambunctious staff indulges in p----y. Again. This time on navigation. Or something.
Shiva Dancing: The Rothko Chapel Songs. C.K. Latham.***
The Silent Minority. Phalba Gallatin on those who know but do not speak.
Sillinesses. Revered smartpants get their comeuppance (sort of).
Silver Linings for America. Ora Shay, token Republican, looks on the bright side.
Singing Lessons. Pedro Bofecillos on violence, fathers, sons, and hope.
Sites Alive! The Magellan's Log Hands-on Tour of America.
Skiatatuk Speaks! Our very own talking ectoplasm.
Skiatatuk Speaks Again! No 10,450 in our on-going messages from other planes.
Skiatatuk Speaks: Communiqué No 18,372. Another foul-mouthed message from Beyond.
Skiatatuk Speaks Again, No. 27,103. More communications from our foul-mouthed spirit guide.
Skiatatuk Speaks: Communiqué No. 364,913. Our foul-mouthed spirit guide returns.
Skintones. Kai Sonderling. 17 highly ambiguous G-rated images.
Skipping the 21st Century. Lulu Dilworth.
S L A C K. Ceci Lumley. A word-grid.
Sleight of Mind. Puzzles, brainteasers, etc.
"Slip Inside This House": 13th Floor Elevators.***
Slosh! Hormones and History. P.F. Brumbeloe, Jr., M.D.
Smart Ears. "Name That Tune" comes to the Internet.
Smart Mouths. Our latest collection of quotes gathered from hither and yon.
Smart Mouths 62.
Smart Mouths 63. More salty, sage, and salacious quotations.
Smart Mouths 65. Yet more good quotes, old and new.
Smart Mouths 66. Another collection of utterances by the woeful and the wise.
Smart Mouths 67.
Smart Mouths 70.
Smart Mouths 71. More thinkable quotations.
Smart Mouths 72.
Smart Mouths 74.
Smart Mouths 77. Great quotes gathered from around the Internet.
Smart Mourths 78.
Smart Mouths 84.
Smart Mouths 95. Our latest collection of noteworthy quotes.
S M I L E. Watch us work a little jigsaw while listening to Dowland's "If My Complaints" (1:28).
Smitings: A Divine Checklist. Ever wondered how the deity decides where (and whom) to strike next?
Snake in the Grass. Magellan's Log's new kind of word puzzle.
Snob Test. Robert Lonke. Rate your own scramble for status.
Soft Talk. Ora Shay analyzes the masterful rhetorical style of the present administration.
Solar Reflections. Piongo Pisgah's lines on the solstice.
So Long, Shakespeare. Five more lines of p - - - - y, much to our publisher's disgruntlement.
The Solution. To everything. Found on the streets of Bratislava.
Some Call It Faith. Douglas Milburn watches with incredulity as an American president steps over the line (again). In The Chiliastic Hideon.
Some Unknown 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.
So Weird About Little Jimmy. Chardo Blue Plains. Fiction.
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.
Spare Change. Joel Fluker. A congressional shopping list for any billions left over after the bailouts.
Speechless in the 3rd Millennium. A (mostly) humorous graphic oasis in the word-desert.
Sperm Lit 101: On Reading Lee Child. Sylvia Sikeston.
The Spitting Image. Diebold Essen. Frank Stella's Prince of Homberg.
Spoor. Beginner's guide to walking through the forest. Or the desert. Or wherever.
Springtime in America! Token Republican Ora Shay's 16th column, and it is, as she might say, a sidewinder.
Springtime in Weimar. Cassandra gets out her worrisome crystal ball again.
Squaring the Circle. Sylvia Thodhiss. Broken chords.
Staff Biographies.
The Staff of Magellan's Log. Photos of the entire staff, over the Houston skyline.
Stained Glass & Music in a Time of War.
Stained Pixels. Buxtehude organ music plus animated gifs (6:03).
Stammtisch Homeboys. Don Pfingston. Light on the edge of the barrio.
The State of the World. Our desperate collection of weird photos to help us all figure out what's going on.
Stickums. Nos. 16252 and 16253 in a long-running series of words that you live by at your own risk.
Still More Hot Links. Our latest collection of weird and wonderful sites.
Stirrings of Empire. Arthur Seymour Sullivan vs. George Walker Bush. With midi.
Stop Me If You've Heard This One. We try for the ultimate conspiracy theory.
Storm Warning. Itinerant mystic Chardo Blue Plains's latest weather report.
Strata: A Theologico-metaphysical Thought Experiment for the Stout of Brain and the Desperate of Heart.
Structural Rationalism in the Works of Mann and Joyce. Y. John Long and Paul E.V. Werther.
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.
sun (slideshow with midi).
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."
S.U.V. Driving Test. Pedkop Bumbera.
Synesthesia. Eight tactilely visual, or maybe visually tactile, photos. With midi.***

Tainted Words and the Problem of Religion. Pedro Bofecillos.
Talent Sprouts. How doth your art grow?
A Tale of Two Icons. Pedkop Bumbera. The 2000 election explained through car design.
Tales from the Brig. Jokes, mostly off-off-color.
Talking the Talk. A devilish little vocabulary quiz based on one day's New York Times.
Target. Another of our modest tributes to the glories of Late Capitalism. Image with music (3:00).
Tasteless Jokes. In every issue (almost).
Tasteless Jokes 98.
Tasteless Jokes 102.
Tasteless Jokes 110.
Ta-ta, La-la Land! Ora Shay, Token Republican, has at California.
Tasteless Jokes. You'll find the best of the worst in every issue.
Tattoos. Skin art slide show, with music.
Taughtology. Katherine Ozanic. Nine words to live by.
T.B.+P.K.=2004! Our proposal for the ideal running mates in the 2004 presidential election.
Teaching. Joel Fluker takes out after teachers, and non-teachers.
Teaching: A Thought Experiment. Angus Verspeeten.
Tears. Photo by Douglas Huang. Music by John Dowland (4:32).
Technological Utopians of the World, Unite! Rean Rhyne argues for a full global stomach.
Tehuacana: A Novel. Metafiction.***
Ten Miles to School, Twenty Feet of Snow. Computer user's lament.
The Tennessee Waltz. Illustration & midi (2:33).
10.5. Douglas Milburn. Opening lines of unwritten books.
Ten Things We Wish We'd Thought of First.
10,000 Jesuses. Reppy Duart, D.D., on Jesus 1,000 years from now.
Ten Tips for Tumultuous Times. Our token Republican, Ora Shay, offers life-guidance.
Ten Words: Introduction and Contents.
Ten Words No. 1: How I Inadvertently Redecorated the Church of St. Stephen in Montenegro. A short story by Sawyer Brown.***
Ten Words No. 2: The Initiator. A short story by Sawyer Brown.***
Ten Words No. 3. One Hundred Square Inches of Blue Sky. A short story by Michelle Furr.***
Ten Words No. 4. Petrov the Good. A short story by Ceci Lumley.***
Ten Words No. 5: White Elephant. A Short Story by Robert Odom.
Ten Words No. 6: The Calhoun Cure. A short story by Rean Rhyne.
Ten Words No. 7: Marion Beauregard Flagler's Last Day. A short story by Sylvia Sikeston.
Ten Word No. 8: Dangers of the Orgasm. A short story by Temple Duciel.
Ten Words No. 9: My Career in Art. A short story by Jerden Purmort.
Ten Words No. 10: Dragstrip Porsche. A short story by Angus Verspeeten.
Ten Words No. 11: Hover Craft. A Short story by J.M. Pyka.
Ten Words No. 12: Sleepy Lobster. A short story by Douglas Milburn.***
Ten Words No. 13: Treehuggers at 10. A short story by Diebold Essen.
Ten Words No. 14: Milles Boners. A fictitious memo by Doc Cuddy.
Ten Words No. 15: Shade. A short story by Maurice Fitznuggly.
Ten Words No. 16: The Rebel of Orange County. A short story by Edward Hothi.
Ten Words No. 17: The Malvern Hills. A short story by Sylvia Sikeston.
Ten Words No. 18: The Golden Mean of Marfa. A short story by Elinor Hoefs.
Ten Words No. 19: Rez Rape. A short story by Bloce Kaibab.
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?
Test Your Rose-colored Ray-bans. Pedro Bofecillos. A quiz to check your ability to guess the future realistically.
Texanization. A quiz to help you find your place in the modern Texo-centric world.
Texas Atonement. Jerden Purmort suggests an act of contrition for the two Bush regimes.
Texas A to Z: An Opinionated Guide. Sylvia Sikeston.
Texas Bluebonnets.
Texas Daddies. Joel Fluker explains Dubya and Dubya's forebears and how they came to rule the world (that means us).
Texas Karma. Doc Cuddy. A couple of visual aids to clarify where things stand metaphysically in the old Lone Star State.
The Texas Problem and What to Do About It. The staff of Magellan's Log comes up with the answers.
Texas Tao: The Wit and Wisdom of Texas Truckers. Hardy Metcalf, Ph.D.
Texas vs. China.
Texas Zen Hymnbook.
Texas Zen Hymnbook CD released.
T.G.C.E.K.A.S. Emma Kirkby fans gather here.
Thanatotic Bloopers. Elinor Hoefs vents spleen on what she calls the deathbook industry.
Thanks a Lot, Dubya! Ora Shay. Our token Republican columnist is so grateful.
That Old Time Religion. Hymns and stuff.***
The Discriminating Mind.
There's No Substitute for Cubic Decibels. Rean Rhyne on satellite radio.
They Don't Build Hotels Like They Used To. Magellan's Log visits the Mohonk Mountain House in the Catskills.
Things Fall Apart. Joey Ancaster.
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."
Thomas Cole: A Shared Vision. Diebold Essen on The Voyage of Life. Slideshow with midi.
Thought-provoker. A strange little statistic to help you think outside of the box.
Thought Unbound: Reality Addiction. Chardo Blue Plains.***
A Thousand Hounds. Reppy Duart. An unlikely, all-stops-pulled review of an unlikely book.
3000 C.E. & the Great How-dun-it. Which of our books are they gonna be reading a thousand years from now?
3 Life-saving Bookmarks. Free! Free! Free! A handy version of the Hsin Hsin Ming.
The 3 Turnings. Elinor Hoefs. Personality problems in us, and in the body politic.
3 x 3 x 50. 450 random images from our massive archives. NOT safe for work. Slideshow with midi (5:17).
Through a Doorway Darkly. Slideshow with Bach midi 3:44).
Thunderclaps. Chardo Blue Plains. Timely tips on disappearing.***
Tibet, Tibet, Tibet. Ceci Lumley. Eliot Pattison's The Skull Mantra.
Tidying Up America: The Secret Republican Budget Plan for the Next 4 Years.
Tie-Dyed. A colorful crossword.
Time-distortion Alert! Jerden Purmort. The Republican plot to take over the universe.
Times Square in the Round. Paul Hester's 270-degree panoramic night photo.
Time Travel! Read shocking fragments from a 42nd-century encyclopedia.
Timid Thinkers. Our thought for the biennium.
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.
Tips on Empire-building: Learning from the Brits.
The Titanium Notebooks. Artifacts from the desert outside Roswell?
Today's Brainteaser.
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.
Toilet Training. Six sad and angry lines from Harriet Lobdell.
tomseyes. Still images captured by cinematographer Tom Richmond.
tom's world. A small portfolio of recent still pictures by cinematographer Tom Richmond.
Tongue Guns. Doc Cuddy on "the half-hidden subtext behind talk radio."
Top 10 Midi's. The best music files that have appeared in Magellan's Log.
Tory! Tory! Tory! Bob Odom. On Florence King's Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady.
Totentänze. Hurd Bohner. Poetic artifacts from the early 1960s.***
Toward Gingerbread. Back to Hansel and Gretel.
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.
Traffic Ooze. Nicholas Momurray. Travel in China.
Tranquillity Base 2? Doc Cuddy on hope during Vietnam and the lack of hope during Iraq.
Transcriptions. A collection of midi transcriptions of, shall we say, variable quality.
Trennungsangst. Ulrich von Kleinschwanz-Ohnehosen. Why what's wrong is wrong. Maybe.
Trickledown Economics Revisited.
The Tree Man (Revised). Douglas Milburn.
Treemonisha. Scott Joplin. A tribute.***
Trees. Nicholas Momurray revisits Joyce Kilmer. Somewhat immodestly.
Tree Talks. Huang Xiao-Yi. Chinese poetry.***
Tripping. Book review by Reppy Duart, D.D.
Tristan Times 2. Back to the past. Tristan and Isolde jolts our critic.
Troublesome word pairs. ESL exercise.
Truth. Well. Sort of. Maybe.
The Truth About Magellan's Log. In which an unnamed staffer comes pretty close to spilling the beans.
Turner paintings. With music.***
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.
21st Century Sexuality: An Informal Update. 36 photos that show how things are hanging these days.
21 flowers. Sylvia Thodhiss. Slideshow with midi (2:04). Give the page (850K) time to load.
Two Rooms in Houston. Edward Hothi re Rothko and Twombly in 12 lines.
2001 & the Murk Ahead. Mme. Anna-Magdalena Petrofina-Blavatsky.
2001 Contest. Make a poster for HAL's birthday.
2/29: Remembrance of Time Lost, or, What Price Capitalism.
2002 American Election Results. Our one-sentence analysis pretty well wraps it up.
2028 and All That. A calendar celebrating the 25th anniversary of the American Empire.
29 Words for a Time of Severe Psychic Contagion.
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 Ugliest, Meanest, Most Vicious* Crossword Puzzle Ever Made About George W. Bush. *And Also the Truest.
The Ultimate Gadget. Rean Rhyne. In The Chiliastic Hideon.
Understanding Our Modern Age in 50 Words or Less. Two telling quotes.
Unicorn News. In-depth team coverage about a u-sighting in Houston.
The United States: R.I.P. If worse comes to worst, we have our front page ready for November 3, 2004.
U N I T Y. The world's longest, slowest Internet slideshow.
Unscientific Questions. John Mimbres. Dangers of the herd-instinct in science.
Unseen Resonances. Slideshow with midi (4:45).
Up and At 'Em. Manic music (Chopin) and a restless, 500k animated gif.
Up-lifting Jokes.
An Urban Image for Jaded Eyes.
The U.S. of E. An uplifting secret memo from the desk of Donald Rumsfeld.
US Vs. THEM. Cheki Boggus on the roots of human conflict.

Vernal Verbiage. Cassandra, our own prophet, laments the flood of words.
A Very Brief Essay on the Origin of Anthropomorphic Deities. Reppy Duart, D.D.
Victory in Iraq Day! Jerden Purmort and Douglas Huang celebrate.
La Vida un Sueño. Pedro Bofecillos on taboos, dreams, frontiers, and the great silence.
La vida un sueño. Back to the basics. Slideshow with midi.
Vietnam / Iraq: Quotations from Another War, 1961-1995.
The View from Louisiana. Nimo Callardic.
Vikings in Oklahoma? Come with us to the Runestone State Park in Heavener, OK. (Yes, you read that right.)
The Visitation. Pond, flowers, light, plus Bach.
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.

Waiting for the Reichstag Fire. Doc Cuddy despairs of the present bunch in Washington and looks to the past for help.
Walkabout.
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)
War Clouds. Chardo Blue Plains. [In The Chiliastic Hideon.]
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.
The War on Errorism. Joel Fluker gives us a new word to desribe the domestic behavior of the present American government.
Watch It! Obscurantist editor Piongo Pisgah with a few "words of advice for aspirant metaphysicians."
Watch, Out! Jason Twinhaft on the dangers of clock-watching.
Water. Our graphic/musical contribution to simplification. Slideshow with midi (3:27).
The Water of the River. Chinese folk melody. Plasma animation with midi (2:38).
The Water or the Wave? A question from John Fowles's The Magus. Image with midi.
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.
We Sit for Our Self-portrait (Sort of). A map of 1,000 pages of Magellan's Log, courtesy of WebTracer2.
Westward Ho! Bloce Kaibab. Our pocket guide to America for international travelers.
What Do These Things Have in Common? Word game.
Whatever Happened to the New Millennium Anyway? A handy checklist.
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 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 We Be. Bach + WS = Slideshow with midi (1:45).
Wheel Words. Quotations.
Whompff! Millennial culture quiz.
Why Bill Bradley's Gonna Be the Next President. Doc Cuddy.
Why Magellan's Log?
Why There Is an Angel on Top of the Christmas Tree.
The Willed Suspension of Belief. Douglas Milburn. Life among the sleepwalkers.***
What Changed? In 9-11 Cassandra sees her usual doom- and- gloom, but some hope too.
What, Me Repressed? The Magellan's Log Test of Reality-denial.
What. Me Worry? A graph of the size of the Arctic ice pack over the last 20 years.
What Next? Our visual (and aural) aid for deciding which direction expansion of the empire should take now.
What People Search for in Magellan's Log.
What's Wrong? (ESL 30) Find the mistakes in 20 sentences.
What's Wrong with the World. Marcel Snapfinger does his best.
What's Wrong with This Picture? An exercize to test your "imperial citizenship readiness."
What's Wrong with This Picture? Part II Jerden Purmort's second little graphic "citizenship-readiness" test.
What They Didn't Teach You in Vacation Bible School.
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. Katherine Ozanic stumbles.
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.
Where Lies Hope? A clue in an unlikely place, the editorial page of The Times of London...
Where the Universe Ends! Startling photographic proof of the place where existence stops.
WHEREZIT? 19 photos whose location you try to figure out (he-he).
Wherizit? A little quiz to test your map-sense.
Wher RU? 10 photos of famous places for you to identify.
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.
Why Dubya Can't Lose. Ora Shay.
Why We're Asking Your Support.
Windows: The Hidden Features. What you paid for but'll never see.
Wings of Song: Letter to a Young Friend in a Time of War. Sawyer Brown.***
Winstat. Rean Rhyne. Our statistical tribute to Microsoft innovation.
The Wise and Foolish Virgins One More Time. Anonymous, on pain.
With a Vengeance. Sylvia Sikeston reviews Eileen Dreyer's latest, excellent mystery.
Wittgenstein Clarified. Piongo Pisgah answers all your questions.in 2 sentences.
Woodcuts. Old-timey pix with old-timey music.***
Word Puzzles.
Words! Our version of the last line of the "Hsin Hsin Ming."
Words & Numbers. A 20-pack of number problems makes one long word puzzle.
Words to the Unwise. Malapropisms of international English.
Word Fill-in Puzzle.
The World According to Tom DeLay. Quotes to live by.
The World's Biggest Tie. Doc Cuddy. What the voters really meant on Nov. 7.
The World's Dirtiest Picture. Cassandra.
The World's Fastest Bach. A 2-part invention adjusted for the fast-paced 21st century. Midi (0:32).
The World's Shortest Book Review. Ceci Lumley.
World Time
Worrywarts and Curious Cats. Piongo Pisgah.
Write Me! Sylvia Sikeston decimates The Da Vinci Code.
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.
The Wry Above, the Mud Below: An Appreciation of Dave White's Exile in Guyville. Temple Duciel.
Wusser Britches Gets Lost.
Wusser Britches Goes Outside.
Wusser Britches Makes a Friend.
Wusser Britches Goes Shopping.
Wusser Britches Goes to Church.
Wusser Britches Visits the Vet.
Wusser Britches Takes a Vacation.
"W.W.D.D." Our latest bumper sticker, which stands for "What Would Dubya Do?"
Why Bother? Jason Twinhaft on how to be a good citizen in triumphalist America.

Yea & Nay: On Reading Alice Munro for the First Time. Temple Duciel and Sylvia Sikeston.
Yes, We Have No IPO's. Jerden Purmort. RU ready for the coming economic readjustment?
Y2Kindness. Magellan's Log goes all soft and squishy.***
YINYANGBANG. Animated gifs + music = a break from all those Internet words.***
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.
You Are What You See. Nicholas Momurray. Interpreting your environment.
You gotta s-m-i-l-e. Watch us work a little jigsaw while listening to Dowland's "If My Complaints" (1:28).

Der Zaubergarten. Photograph by Joey Ancaster, music by Anna-Marie Quave. With midi (1:38).
Zen Centerfold No. 1. Never before in the history of the world...
Zen Centerfold No. 2. With midi by Angus Verspeeten.
Zen Centerfold No. 3. Another visual teaser for the metaphysically horny. With midi (4:01).
Zen Centerfold No. 4. Another picture for horny metaphysicians. Slideshow with midi (2:30).
Zen Centerfold 63. More eye candy for the metaphysically horny. Slideshow with midi(2:39).
Zen Centerfold 65. Slideshow with midi (2:26).
Zen Centerfold 66. Slideshow with midi (2:59).
Zen Centerfold 67. Another image for the metaphysically prurient. With midi (4:41).***
Zen Centerfold 69. Slideshow with midi (2:06).
Zen Centerfold 71. With midi (2:23).
Zen Centerfold 72. Image with midi (1:58).
Zen Centerfold 74. Images and music for the metaphysically horny. Slideshow with midi (3:10).
Zen Centerfold 75. More images and music for the metaphysically horny. Slideshow with midi (1:36).
Zen Centerfold 77. Image and music (1:28).
Zen Centerfold 80. Slideshow with music (1:30).
Zen Centerfold 86 (Slideshow with midi (3:52).
Zen Centerfold 87.
Zen Centerfold 93. Slideshow with midi (1:45).
Zen Centerfold 94. Another titillating photograph for the metaphysically prurient. Slideshow with midi (1:33).
Zen Centerfold 96. Slideshow with midi (3:59).
Zen Centerfold 98. Slideshow with midi (1:35).
Zen Centerfold 104. Schubert, "The Wanderer." Slideshow with midi (5:47).
Zen Centerfold 112. Slideshow with midi (3:43).
The Zen Writer's Progress. Ten tortuous steps on the brambly path of the wholly word-addled.
Zone Red. Cassandra rides again! More prophecies of doom and gloom.

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