
Spring 2005
Letter
from the Editor

We were somewhere around November on the
edge of the high-speed desert when the drugs began to wear off. I remember
saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe we should
just call this whole issue off…"

BY I. DUKE, FORMER INTERN


Futuristics
Visionary design in transportation engineering:
The High Hat Interview with Paul Hernandez
BY GARY MAIRS

Madness In His
Method
The unparalleled universe of Harry Stephen
Keeler
BY LEONARD PIERCE

The
Joy of Slash
Why do women want it?
BY MELISSA PITTMAN

Looking
Up In The Sky
Superman as Man and Myth
BY MATT ROSSI

Seaguy
Opus Interruptus
BY HAYDEN CHILDS

Prison
Funnies
Diesel Pete in action
BY CHIP ZDARSKY



21st Century
Soul
Art and technology in the digital age
BY TIM MILLER

Joystick
Envy
Being a gamer girl
BY JESSICA LANGER

Dude
(Looks Like A Lady)
Another High Hat interactive crossword puzzle
BY JOE BOUCHER




The Bottom
Shelf
Brando
BY SCOTT VON DOVIAK

Lost Edens,
Unsung Heroes, and Metalheads on the Couch
Recent rock documentaries
BY PHIL NUGENT




Tacet
John Cage's place at the end of the century
BY STEVE HICKEN

John
Peel
A fan's notes
BY JIM EATON-TERRY

Unlocking
the Fragments
Captain Beefheart's Kandy Korn
BY WILLIAM CRAIN

Short
Reviews
Jonathan Richman, Rick Nelson, and Oscar
Brown, Jr.
BY WILLIAM CRAIN

Holy
Poledo or Redon Redux
Dinosaur Jr. brings the revelatory
BY MICHAEL TOMCZYSZYN

No Bolts
From The Blueberry
Grasping at the meaning of the Fiery Furnaces' Blueberry Boat
BY HAYDEN CHILDS




Welcome Back,
Stupid Viewers! You'll Watch Anything!
Adult Swim in the Stream of Consciousness
BY LEONARD PIERCE
Show Me The Funny
Sketch comedy and the thinking man
BY PHIL NUGENT




Images of Democracy The Democratic
Fiction
Groupthink as entertainment
BY LEONARD PIERCE

The Children's Crusade
Democracy in Comics and The Incredible Story
of Prez
BY PHIL NUGENT

Images
of Bush
Seeing The President
BY PHIL NUGENT

Truth
or Consequences
Gore Vidal's America
BY JOHN JAMES

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