In this week's MailBag we have... last week's MailBag, which just never got posted until now in the chaos surrounding QuakeCon. In our old & new collection of epistles we find the real dirt on the fish-eye effect and HALO; scholarly analyses of an over-used cliche, an over-rated novel, and an over-hyped movie; folks terribly unimpressed by doves and third-person games, and folks terribly impressed with The Blue's News Effect and "Large & Realistic Anuses" (as I think it's safe to say any normal person would be). All that and more, if you can believe it, await in this week's MailBag.