Collection of Bumbastories’ Sunday, monthly, weekly, mid-week semi-monthly, and otherwise posted Bumbastories Magazines
Happy New Year! Happy 2020! May the New Year bring us all good health and all good tidings. January being the first month of the Julian calendar year, it is once again incumbent on this reporter to put together one of those Bumbastories’ Walk thru the Numbers/Mathematics for Dummies things for the number 1. Note from Editor: What follows is a re-post (plus I added a song … Continue reading The January Magazine, Tri-Holocene Édition
OK. It’s November and here comes yet another Bumbastories monthly report/March through the Numbers thing. “Oh, no,” you say. “Oh, yes”, says I. “And we’re definitely going to do another march through the numbers thing” For the Americans there’s an additional message this month, which is that you have to vote and do what you can to get other people to vote. We’ve been talking … Continue reading Hey it’s another Bi-annual November (tally up those votes!) Magazine
Semi-Annual Bumbastories October Magazine A salute to the number 10, October being the tenth calendar month. Ten 10. The final number in our number system. The end of the line. After ten we start counting again. By tens! And then by tens of tens, and tens of hundreds, and tens of thousands —- up to 10 to the googleplex, which is as far as I, … Continue reading Semi-Annual October Magazine
Happy August. Happy eighth month of the year! The month August got its name from the Roman emperor Augustus, who named the month after himself in order to celebrate, er, himself. August means admirable, and reverential, and implies all things good, which is why Augustus, nee Octavius (which already meant the eight man), re-named himself Augustus in the first place. Ol’ Augustus thought Augustus sounded … Continue reading The Bumbastories’ Semi-Annual August Magazine
Welcome to June, the sixth month. Spring is here, pandemic or not. And, as they say, summer is hard on spring’s heels. So, I certainly hope that summer is watching her step! I sincerely hope everyone is watching their step. Because these are strange days, my friend. Nevertheless and all the same, June is the sixth month, and Bumbastories is again obliged to celebrate the … Continue reading Bumbastories Semi-Annual June Magazine, Special Tri-Centennial Re-Post
The Bumbastories Semi-Quaternary May Magazine Welcome to the merry month of May! Irregardless of the pandemic, Spring has arrived. As a rule, people like Spring, and especially they like the month of May. May is a lovely name, as are April and June for that matter. Spring months all. It’s curious too that they’re all feminine names. It’s a credit to the season of Spring … Continue reading Talking Five: The Bumbastories Penta-Centennial May Magazine
Happy March! Happy Third Month of the Gregorian Calendar! And being it’s the third month, here’s a salute to the very fine and lovely number three (Watch out below. Here comes the math) Hurray for The Three! The Triad! The Triangle! The Holy Trinity! The Three Graces! Hey, there’s something about the three. It seems that everybody loves the three. Three is the charm. OK. … Continue reading Tri-Centennial March Mathness Magazine
Bumbastories proudly (not) presents the official commemorative (re) issue of the February Magazine, a second salute to the second month, a hats off to the number two, and, while we’re at it, we threw in a song. Firstly – or should it be secondly? a salute to the number two! It Takes Two to Tango The Bumbastories March Through the Numbers continues. That’s right, we’re going to cover … Continue reading Tri-Annual February Magazine
Happy New Year! Happy 2020! May the New Year bring us all good health and good tidings. Maybe this year we can get to witness a healthy impeachment trial in the Senate That would be nice. To see the Congress function properly. That would be nice. People on the streets demanding regime change. That would be nice. A restoration of the democratic process. That would … Continue reading The January Magazine, Tri-Anthropocene Édition
Contents: TWO POEMS, A SALUTE TO DECEMBER AND TO THE NUMBER TWELVE, plus some Duogesimal Meanderings A SCIENCE POEM E=mc2 Nothing is faster than light I conceptualized the race (It was a thought experiment) And, well, Nothing won… ****************************** A CHILD’S POEM Fat and Skinny had a race All around the pillow case Fat fell down and broke his face Skinny won the … Continue reading December Magazine
