Volume VI, Issue I
January 2004

The "Ice Everywhere" Issue

Spokescat of the Month:
"You have to sleep sometime. And you know I'll get you for this." Check out more imaginative Japanese kitty humiliation at Catprin Tailor for Cats

Snowcrystals.com - THE coolest web site on all things icy and crystalline

Under the Gorden Arches, somewhere in Japan... lurk the searchers at Engrish.com

Worried that your travels are irrelevant? Okay, neither are we, but when the time comes, spend some time with our friends at Ethical Traveler

F E A T U R E S

Poet Ethan Gilsdorf "In the Snow" plus some amazing snowflake macro-photographs from Rasmussen & Libbrecht

It's cold and peaceful here. But over there on the Equator.... riverman takes on a new Life In Congo, Part I -

It's More than Big Stones, and We Got 'Em - Curling bumps Orienteering to second place for the title of Dumbest Sport.

Andrew Hartnagel gets lost in a Tofino Quest, on Vancouver Island in search of the Holy Grail of Hippie Tree-Huggers.

In the grossly understated words of Lewis and Clark: "The curiosity of the men as regards this creature has pretty much been satisfied." McBee defies the season's first freeze.

L E T T E R S

Horrifying pop-up (fraught with innuendo) of the month: Why Fred the Trumpeter Swan was relocated to a breeding program for anti-social behavior.

T H E C A S U A L C O O K

Cry me a River: Onion lore, Odes to Onions and Onion Soups for the New Year.

E D I T O R I A L - Enlightenment the EZ Way with Your Very Own Cosmic Answer Machine

... So here's the thing I've discovered about making practical decisions: Practicality sucks....

Editor in chief: Leslie "NY Minuet" Strom, Assistant Editor: Dave "Saffron-Haired Boy" McBee, Design, layout, advertising, electronic distribution: Leslie "is in the Bat-room" Strom, Contributing editors: Myron "Bat Guano" Buck, Ethan "Still searching for the French word for whimsy" Gilsdorf, Mike "Bats Will Get Me" McCrea, Gail "Bat-house" Boysen-Preset, Martha "Bat-Mobile" Strom, Marcia "We like bats in Fiji" Tapp, Reader of the Year: Dave "Show us your bat-looooove" Sacher

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SITES WE DIG

Bring us a Shrubbery! Why plant just any old tree? HistoricTrees.org

Not for Tourists - clever local guides for New York, Chicago, and LA

Sweetheart Abbey, New Abbey, Scotland by Cheryl Conlon, professional travel photographer

Jim Miotke