wednesday newstrip

NRA chief slams anti-gun 'elites' after Florida school massacre; T®ump continues push to arm teachers · elderly New South Wales man attacked with lawnmower · DoNuts T®ump jokes about his bald spot · stop squeezing avocados say producers, there are better ways to test ripeness · he lied, he boasted, he bullied & demeaned, & the crowd couldn't have loved it more. The thousands of workaday Americans in a convention hall in Maryland, cheering DoNuts' every unhinged word. They still want to "lock her up." They still want to "build the wall" · a survivor of the Florida high school shooting says she has “never been so unimpressed by a person in my life” than when the Prissydance called her in the hospital.

dust of the locusts

goes without saying

wednesday newstrip

Wheat House aides advised the Precedent against golfing so soon after the shooting tragedy in Parkland, Florida · Fergie's NBA All-Star Game national anthem confuses, amuses, & reveals human beings on brink of achieving immortality by year 2050 · Jar Jar Kushioner & dozens of Wheat House staffers handle sensitive information without permanent security clearance · millions of dollars, favorable coverage: what we can tell you about the new Benjamin Notjustanyahoo graft case roiling Israel · during the 2016 election cycle, the NRA spent $1 million on direct contributions to candidates, paid out another $3.1 million on lobbying & another $54 million on outside activities, such as television ads & communication to voters & members · doctors not convinced on medical cannabis.

Manxious

wednesday newstrip

Man is struck by lightning while in the shower & 125000 people are left without power as North Korean cheerleaders steal the show at the Winter Olympics · Israeli minister says Christie Brinkley's daughter Sailor Brinkley Cook going nude for Sports Illustrated sent clear message to Iran · Flat-Earther who saw SpaceX launch brands it an elaborate hoax · Mount Canobolas bushfire was charged with one count of engaging in an act of terrorism & was remanded in custody · Kourtney Kardashian screams with fear as her house is infested with tarantulas.

scene from above

Flowers of the Abyss

Hélas! tout est abîme
wrote Baudelaire—all is
abyss, a completely
automated world of self-
assembling machine-flowers
made possible by an
emergent form of video
expression. Each change
brings out new curves in
the shoreline; in the same
ambient space there is a
region where the perception
of the image is still affected
by the dead blue screen. A
message appears to say
there is a problem with
the file. All windows
bare the infinite to me.

Pulcinella goes dancing

wednesday newstrip

Earth's magnetic poles could be about to flip sparking chaos & mass blackouts after an emotional-support peacock was prevented from boarding a United Airlines flight at Newark Liberty International Airport · Robert Wagner named 'person of interest' in the 1981 death of Natalie Wood as Australia spy agency takes possession of secret files left at second-hand shop · 19-year-old bitcoin millionaire says dwarf galaxies threaten standard model of cosmology · human skeletons arranged in spooky circular shape found in ancient Mexican pit make smart speakers tough to recommend · if you don't make a fortune in the next ten years, it's your own fault.

a diagram

The latest issue of Otoliths is now live

Rounding out the twelth year of its existence, issue forty-eight, the southern summer, 2018, issue of Otoliths has just gone live.

Once again, it's a cornucopia of diverse goodies, with work from Sheila E. Murphy, Douglas Barbour, Texas Fontanella, John M. Bennett, Diane Keys, Baron Geraldo, Mark Cunningham, Alyssa Trivett, Bill DiMichele, Jim Meirose, Guy R. Beining, Kyle Hemmings, Seth Howard, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Cecelia Chapman, Jim Leftwich, Steve Dalachinsky, Magdalena Ball, Sanjeev Sethi, Lynn Strongin, AG Davis, David Lander, Lawrence Upton, Raymond Farr, Trivarna Hariharan, Clara B. Jones, Pete Spence, Jill Chan, Drew B. David, Jon Cone, Philip Byron Oakes, Karri Kokko, David Rushmer, Andrew Brenza, Marcello Diotallevi, Kathryn Hummel, Federico Federici, Mark Pirie, Diana Magallón, Laurent Grison, Jack Galmitz, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Sacha Archer, Justin Sheen, Felino A. Soriano, David Baptiste Chirot, Alice Savona, Thriveni C. Mysore, Howie Good, Thomas M. Cassidy, Brandon Roy, Brandstifter, Rich Murphy, hiromi suzuki, gobscure, Joel Chace, Volodymyr Bilyk, Olivier Schopfer, Brendan Slater, Joe Balaz, John Levy, Tom Beckett, Lakey Comess, Clay Thistleton, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Poornima Laxmeshwar, Penelope Weiss, Carey Scott Wilkerson, Thomas Fink, Maya D. Mason, M.J. Iuppa, Ivan Klein, mary c fogg, Tony Beyer, Jeff Bagato, Charles Wilkinson, J. Paul Dutterer, Jessie Janeshek, Jeff Harrison, Louise Landes Levi, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Mary Kasimor, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Michael O'Brien, Linda M. Walker, Keith Nunes, Jesse Glass, Andrew Topel, Cheryl Penn, Richard Kostelanetz, Edward Kulemin, Karl Kempton, Ryan Scott, Emma Burgess, Katrinka Moore, Timothy Pilgrim, Marilyn Stablein, Seth Copeland, Vassilis Zambaras, Bob Heman, Brooks Lampe, Anwer Ghani, Chris Brown, J. D. Nelson, Jacqueline M. Pérez, Michael Brandonisio, Paul T. Lambert, & David Kjellin.

Enjoy.