Archived Issue
Table of contents for the October 2001 issue:
October 2001
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Moocat le Meaux Moocat le Meaux edits moocat.net. His work has been published and produced in several venues, including The Daily Reveille, The Culture Report, New Delta Review, and the now-defunct San Francisco Review. |
Essays | |
| Geography as Destiny | On not being there... | |
| “Bastards” and “Sons-of-a-Bitch” | “there’s this interesting trend I’ve noticed... That is, using the words ‘bastard’ and ‘son-of-a-bitch’ is now considered not only civil, but almost a patriotic act...” | |
| [All but 3 travelogs from le Meaux’s 1995-96 Southeast Asia travelogs are being withheld from publication on this site, pending possible print publication.] | Travelogs | |
| Meet the Family | “...something leads me to not think twice about dating a Gay Thai Buddhist Monk/Pimp who parents a little girl...” | |
| Sick | “More than anything I feared Malaria, because a fellow on the bus told me he had known friends who had it, and it basically means vomiting all night.” | |
| Cheetah Girl | ...in which we first meet our kick-ass Thai heroine | |
| The Dogs and Cats of Malaysia | “There is usually a Colonel Sanders statue in front of every KFC outlet, only here, the Colonel has Asian eyes!” | |
| I Scream for All | “At this point I have no idea how many--if any--have died, what is the extent of the wounds, how long will we be out in the sun waiting for help, are any of my ribs broken, will this be the end of my journey?” | |
| Poetry | ||
| Questions for Understanding Martins Ferry, Ohio | With fond apologies to both James Wright and to the Poetry Society of Fu Jen University in Taiwan | |
| This Is Just To Tell You | With fond apologies to W.C. Williams | |
| Not-Cat (and what-not) | ||
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Michael Stone Johnson Michael Stone Johnson is a poet living in Baton Rouge, La. |
The Origin of Teeth and Bones | |
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Mehshur de Gupta Härē-shyo Mehshur de Gupta Härē-shyo was a 17th-century comedy writer from the Himalayan plateau. His Gajandra inscriptions were discovered in 1953, translated into English in the 1970s, and finally transcribed into HTML near the close of the 20th century. |
Gajandra Meets the Scatoman | In which we first happen upon our hero, in perhaps his smelliest adventure ever! |
| Gajandra and the Curse of the Six Monkeys | In which the prophet/prince relieves the people (and himself) of the painful onslaught of empirical investigation. | |
| Gajandra and the Eating Lesson | In which Jutu tells the ailing Gajandra a story to lift his spirits... | |
| A Moment of Self-Doubt | In which the young hero muses as to the worth of it all... | |
| Gajandra and the Great Rumble | In which Gajandra attempts to save his Kingdom from financial ruin with the help of a gay little frog... | |
| Gajandra and the Problem with Sa-Noor | In which the heir to the throne conquers a nasty personal problem | |
— The Editor