The issue is centered around New Year festivities, highlighting the character of Santa Claus through a mix of jokes, humorous survival advice, mystical tales, and satirical biographies. The literary section features a biographical piece on H.P. Lovecraft, an excerpt from Eric Van Lustbader's novel, and a review of Alexander Bushkov's fantasy fiction. The social and cultural topics cover a dictionary of key terms from 1999, millennium rankings, an exploration of Soviet and modern acronyms, and an analysis of psychological manipulation in TV advertising. The issue concludes with lighthearted linguistic material, including a multilingual phrasebook and the lyrics to Jingle Bells.
Issue contents:
- Intro - Hello, our readers!
- Cats of Ulthar - Howard Philip Lovecraft: Journey to the Far Side of the Moon.
- The Life of Santa Claus - We all know Santa Claus since childhood.
- Life and death - Today he himself seemed to experience the agony of crucifixion.
- Anecdotes of Santa Claus - Grandfather Frost, what about gifts?
- Santa Claus 1 - Outside the window it was a frosty thirtieth of December and showed the boss the fig.
- Santa Claus 2 - New Year's poems.
- Father Frost 3 - all because of Borka Polikatsenko...
- Santa Claus's phone - Stories of Uncle Nightmare.
- About guests - With the onset of the New Year holidays, an increase in the number of visits of some people to others is noticed.
- Millennium Hit Parade - We present to your attention the best of the best.
- No need to la-la - a simple and straightforward bourgeois song.
- Lexicon 99 - Pushkin, Putin, Internet, Duma, foundation, “authority”...
- A little medicine... - everyone needs to know this fairly simple science.
- To those celebrating the New Year - There is such a sign: as you celebrate the New Year, the whole next year will be like that.
- Merhaba bro! - Chinese dictionary.
- Dazdraperma and her children... - a list of new names representing abbreviations of various phrases.
- Impact of advertising - methods of influencing television advertising.
- Direct speech - We did not vote for GDP, although in some ways we like it.
- The End - “The fairy tale ends here.”
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