wednesday newstrip

The Brisbane school where a teenage boy was bullied about his sexuality has evaded police & is now driving erratically on a busy highway north ∙ the forced move of a public service agency from Canberra to northern NSW will rip more than $157 million a year from the management committee of the NSW postal union ∙ Australia should refrain from adopting more protectionist policies after yet-to-be-published surveys found the record coral bleaching damage to the Great Barrier Reef earlier this year was even worse than initially thought ∙ Central America was struck on Thursday by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake after a man allegedly asked a young boy to get in his car ∙ Vivienne Westwood & Malcolm McLaren's son will burn his entire £5million punk collection now that the age of the movie star is over, & intellectual property is all that matters.

the / antecedents of / donald j. trump

Vale Fidel

A line from Fidel Castro

Parades choke rural
hamlets. Beemers are
stuck at the roadside.
Carbon partitioning

along the Central Coast's
main commuter routes
causes war, hypocrisy,
& competition. Only

educational materials
about piano playing &
music theory still have a
crunch to them through

a glut of younger buyers
who bring the fervor of
stalks of celery. But who
really wrote Shakespeare?

A line from Fidel Castro 2

Winter is getting me
down. A unit of cult-
ural information has
put the Galactic Senate

under attack, driving
it from crisis to crisis.
That slavery is inexorably
tied to the availability

of oil is the standard
paradigm for most
crises; but now recent
breeding population

trends of farmland
birds need to be fact-
ored in. Please complete
the enquiry form below

& I will provide you
with a list of exclusive
Havana Vacation Homes
available for weekly rent.

Che in Bolivia

I must write & thank Fidel for his parting gift. A book of poetry, that fits comfortably in the pocket of my camouflage fatigues. By a Yanqui yet, who set out every day to write something, even when it was hard to find something to write about. It’s an idea I’ve picked up on, have carried out.

Have kept a diary throughout this campaign, although daily Bolivia is very much the same old same old, unlike the New York I read about each night where there are "so many things in the air!" Here there are only maggots & mosquitoes, & the mutterings of peasants intimidated by our presence. They help us because they are frightened of us, & then send to tell the army because they are more frightened of the soldiers.

The army is in the next valley over. The army is now in the valley behind. We are running out of food, are running out of time. "The only thing to do is simply continue."

I am a man with two hearts. The one that beats still dreams of the revolution. The one that weeps is in my pocket, it is Lunch Poems, by Frank O’Hara.

We will move towards the next valley. That way I at least can choose the manner of my death.

An oxymoron

that says a lot about our times.

sports science

wednesday newstrip

Potentially hazardous substance detected on luggage at Cairns Airport’s international terminal has proven to be powdered Belgian waffle mixture ∙ Donald T®ump has appointed Breitbart chief Steve Bannon to oversee the new administration's transition to the alt-right version of powdered Belgian waffle mixture ∙ Denzel Washington’s publicist says news published on Facebook that the actor supports Donald T®ump is powdered Belgian waffle mixture ∙ the Federal Border Force has spent $18,000 on drink bottles, pens, & fridge magnets as part of an "education & awareness raising campaign" for its powdered Belgian waffle mixture ∙ Vladimir Putain's powdered Belgian waffle mixture is preparing a lawsuit against a "major media company" over claims that it is a white nationalist biscuit base.

lens

behind the bandage hides van gogh's ear

wednesday newstrip

A man who went diving for sea cucumbers got more than he bargained for when he swam straight into a missing nuclear bomb ∙ Xiaomi's latest smart product under the Mijia brand is an air mask that protects you from the closest full moon of the century by using a PM 2.5 nano filter ∙ the results of a NASA test into "warp drive" technology have been leaked onto the internet — & apparently show it is possible ∙ Australia's role in the biggest ever search for alien life has officially begun with a glitch in an electronic patient records system throwing medical care into chaos at a number of South Australian hospitals ∙ Trump election win causes Canada Immigration website to crash.

papadoodle

footwear #12

A line from Leonard Cohen

Big trucks drive
under bridges quick
as dogs. For mobile
canteens the new

trend is selling not
food but premium, all
natural, holistic leather
shorts which can

toughen up even a
floral shirt. If that
doesn't make you want
to recycle, nothing will.

R.I.P.

not worth

for the disUnited States

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,


And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,


I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

The / divorce can't / be far behind

after Donald Trump checks his wife's ballot paper

& sees she's voting for the Greens.

wednesday newstrip

Dr Simon Clulow of Newcastle University has discovered Elon Musk, the well-known inventor & business magnate, in a swamp close to Newcastle ∙ an overwhelming majority of voters are disgusted by Kendall Jenner having so much to drink on her first official boozy night out that she completely forgot she'd been gifted a brand new car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars ∙ the Malaysian military official who defecated outside a Wellington woman's home & was convicted of indecently assaulting her has lost 70kg after fears of being unable to fit into an airplane seat ∙ Jay Z harbors doubts that Kanye can unite the country by flashing his bright orange groin in an effort to ward off predators ∙ a former Ontario fertility doctor is facing allegations he used his own sperm to impregnate both major-party nominees.

Today the
postman brought
me a pickle-
odeon. The films
that came with
it were a bit on
the sour side, but I
much preferred
them to the
sweetness other-
wise on offer.

Now out

from Beard of Bees

the creepiest clown in town

is also a KKKlown

wednesday newstrip

Bob Dylan was stunned to learn that Khloe Kardashian has accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature ∙ Customs has made its largest ever meth bust, seizing $176 million worth of the drug that was found hidden inside a man who went missing from a walking track on Auckland's west coast on Saturday ∙ video shows the federal effort to build a 5-mile fence around the highly anticipated Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, protecting a 600-acre 'ua'u nesting habitat from hungry felines ∙ the number of migrants sleeping rough on the streets of Paris has risen by at least a third since a pilot project to reintroduce sexual education to Quebec's schools ran into considerable delays.

Otoliths #43 is live.

Issue forty-three, the southern spring 2016 issue of Otoliths is now live & available for your reading & viewing pleasure.

No tricks, just treats this All Hallows' Eve. Work in a variety of styles & a variety of media from Jesse Glass, El Habib Louai, Scott MacLeod, Maria Damon & Alan Sondheim, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Cecelia Chapman, Pete Spence, Kyle Hemmings, Heath Brougher, Volodymyr Bilyk, George McKim, Nicole Pottier, John J. Trause, Sanjeev Sethi, Ian Ganassi, Jim Leftwich, Willie Smith, Philip Byron Oakes, Mary Claire Garcia, Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy, AG Davis, Peter Ganick, differx (Marco Giovenale), Jim Meirose, Mark Roberts, Olivier Schopfer, William Repass, Texas Fontanella, Michael Gottlieb, John W. Sexton, Edward A. Dougherty, Eric Hoffman, hiromi suzuki, Simon Perchik, John M. Bennett, Ivan Argüelles, Scott Helmes, John Xero, Pat Nolan, Andrew Topel, Daniel John Pilkington, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Raymond Farr, Lakey Comess, Bill Dunlap, Christopher Barnes, Robert Okaji, Jeff Bagato, Nico Vassilakis, Mitchell Garrard, Keith Higginbotham, Fabrice Poussin, Richard Kostelanetz, Sabine Miller, Meeah Williams, sean burn, Louise Landes Levi, Brendan Slater, Oscar Towe, Tom Beckett, Mark McKain, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Jorge Lucio de Campos, Eileen R. Tabios, Andrea Mason, Joe Balaz, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Jacqueline M. Pérez, Owen Bullock, Roger Mitchell, Steve Dalachinsky, Jeff Harrison, Aurélien Leif, Holly Day, Stephen Vincent, Carol Stetser, nick nelson, Seth Howard, Taylor Leigh Ciambra, Poornima Laxmeshwar, Hamish Spark, Márton Koppány, Alicia Cole, Cara Murray, bruno neiva, Jack Kelly, Mark Cunningham, Massimo Stirneri, Matt Dennison, Olchar E. Lindsann, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Darren Marsh, Nika & Jim McKinniss, Natsuko Hirata, Tony Beyer, Edward Kulemin, John Pursch, Irene Koronas, Darren C. Demaree, nick-e melville, Josette Torres, Shloka Shankar, Piotr Kalisz, Ella Skilbeck-Porter, Bob Heman, Garima Behal, Paul T. Lambert, J. D. Nelson, Michael Brandonisio, Eddie Donoghue, Katrinka Moore, Indigo Perry, & Marilyn Stablein.