ANIMAL TALES
Barnyard in Orbit (Life with talking
birds)
Bring 'Em Back Alive (Trapping marauding,
duck-killing raccoons)
Gopher It! (How small mammals affect the rural aquifer)
The Mighty Ducks (Daphne, Phoebe and
Peggy annoy a dinner guest)
Tales from the Pink Pig (A visit from
the rabbit witch)
Vestiges of Rabbit Worship in Rural Michigan
(Farewell, dear Binky)
GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT
Gopher It! (How small mammals interact
with the Internet)
Net Prophet (The off-line/on-line dilemma)
ROM Wasn't Built in a Day (Peter Gabriel
concocts the love bomb)
MUSIC YOU MAY WISH TO AVOID
Standing Pat (Pat Boone drops his bad
boy image and gets religion)
Sardinia Night Fever (They're monotonous,
and they're Sardinian)
The Awful Truth (Jai Uttal proves a
dose of awful can be good)
Synch or Swim (Fear of Bulgarian disco)
Songs for Unwelcome Guests (Zouk gives
me a headache)
PARTICULARLY OBVIOUS LIES
Tuva Or Not Tuva (A suggestion
for George Lucas)
The Helsinki Accord
(The Finnish alternative to Prozac)
Asteroids (Yet
this is all true...)
My Brilliant Career (How not to become famous)
Huck, The Magic Amphibian (Beat columnist
Dave Hucker's circus life)
Technobeat is Coming to Your Town (The
1995 National Technobeat Tour)
Lies My Predecessors Told You (Technobeat's
five Bob Tartes)
John, Paul, George, et Rigo (The drumming
Beatle does soukous)
PHARMACOPIA
Medicated Goo! (My wonderful Zoloft
addiction)
Rub-A-Dub-Dub (Home-brew drugs for bathtub
listening)
RADIO & TV
Mr. Whale Goes to Madison (Whad'ya Know,
Mr. Michael Feldman?)
The Needle in the Electromagnetic Haystack
(Ham radio pathology)
The Real Northern Exposure (Invaded
by Canadian TV)
Radio Free Whale (Obscure shortwave
music sources)
STRANGE PHENOMENA
Among the Spirits (A bad January
brings The Book Imp)
When You Wish Upon A Sitar (The man who sat-in with Ashwin)
Gopher It! (A wellspring of synchronicity)
A Little Seltzer in Your Pants (My
continuing clown problems)
Circular Reasonings (Crop circles)
The Geography of Dreams (My shallow
unconscious world)
Snares of a Clown (Stalked by Bobo the
Roller Clown)
Huck, The Magic Amphibian (More details
about Bobo)
TRAVELS
Sleepless in Brownsville, (A
Visit to Sun Studio in Memphis)
Mounds of Fun (West Virginia river
trek)
Branson or Bust (surviving the Osmonds
and other perils)
Finger Food (culinary adventures on
the Niagara Escarpment)
Lincoln, Blinkin', and Whale (search
for Lincoln's cabin, car, and antique radio)
Missouri Loves Company (loss of power in
Mark Twain country)
From Bauhaus to Shoe House (Pennsylvanian
pleasures)
Travels with Stinky (one rare songbird to go,
please)
Wheeling in West Virginia (Visiting New Vrindaban)
Technobeat is Coming to Your Town (The
1995 National Technobeat Tour)
Quebec And Call (Watching a whale that
stays in the water)
Mr. Whale Goes to Madison (Real estate
hunting in the Wisconsin Dells)
The Plain Truth from the Prairie States
(Greetings from South Dakota)
Sauce for the Goose (A brush with motel
mayhem in Wawa, Ontario)
Memoirs of an Egg Yolk (I'm forced to
visit Flint)
Nose to the Grindstone (Grindstone City
in Michigan's fabulous Thumb)
UNEXPECTED MUSICAL TOPICS
Forces of Nature (Finlands Värttinä)
The Corrido Corridor (Mexican narco
music)
Keep On Trunkin' (Instument-playing
elephants of Thailand)
Barnyard in Orbit (Meet the pioneers
of electronic music)
Sundanese Sunrise (Mustapha Meets Jugala)
Desi Gets His Due (Early recordings by
Desi Arnaz)
Unexpected Finnish (The U.P.'s lumberjack
harmonica man)
Bad Ideas (Good CDs marketed badly,
bad CDs marketed)
The Zig Is Up (Ziggy Marley and family
make with the non-reggae)
Tuva Or Not Tuva (Yat-Kha invents rock music for
Klingons)
The Helsinki Accord
(JPP lulls the Finns into a near smile)
Bogged Down (A long look--some would
say too long--at a Dock Boogs reissue)
In The Swing (My dad, Robert J. Tarte,
remembers the Big Band Era)
Do You Like Worms (Still waiting for the Pet Sounds' box...)
Here Comes The Son (Lots of music
from Mexico)
Memoirs of an Egg Yolk (Perplexing Indonesian
discs)
Apologies to the Eekster (Reconsidering
Eek-a-mouse)
THE WHALE
Lincoln, Blinkin', and Whale (A
food allergy diminishes him)
Cetacean Crisis (The Whale collapses
into Bill Holm's head)
Mr. Whale Goes to Madison (Real estate
hunting in the Wisconsin Dells)
Pleasure Cruisin' for a Bruisin' (The
Whale's secret deal with Kathy Lee)
Radio Free Whale (He thinks about the
Venezuelan presidency)
The Whale Spouts Off (Why he'll never
review CDs for me again)
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