Blue Balled

 

Today the post-
woman brought
me a letter I
had written in
reply to a letter
I had earlier
written to my-
self. I was so
disappointed to
find nothing
new in it. 

wednesday newstrip

Authorities in New Zealand have been playing Barry Manilow’s greatest hits, along with the Macarena, in an attempt to dislodge anti-vaccine mandate protesters camped outside the parliament building · dog kennel hit by meteor could fetch up to $420,000 at auction · flourishing plants show warming Antarctica undergoing ‘major change’ · third person apparently cured of HIV using novel stem cell transplant · New Zealand passes law banning conversion therapy, fulfilling Jacinda Ardern's election promise · US police find young girl alive hidden under secret staircase room after having been missing for two years · fish talk more than you think—mostly about food & sex · Nicole Kidman's Vanity Fair cover leaves fans 'shocked': 'WTF is this?'

geographies: Kanagulk

 

planet-forming discs

Candi is a-
ligned with the
controversial pop
queen, an American
Socrates whose internal
accommodations combine
all the luxuries of a well-pro-
portioned dining-room with violent
video games which increase aggressive
behavior in contaminated children & young
adults.

Illegal Processions

 

wednesday newstrip

Biohybrid fish made from human cardiac cells swims like heart beats · French discoverer of AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus, Luc Montagnier, dies at 89 · household cost of living in Aotearoa rises 5.2% - Stats NZ · spillover of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant infection detected in white-tailed deer in New York · koala listed as endangered after Australian governments fail to halt its decline · solar storm wrecks 40 brand new SpaceX Starlink satellites · Russia's Vladimir Putin kept France's Emmanuel Macron at a distance for snubbing COVID demands · Sir Peter Jackson is the highest paid entertainer in the world, according to Forbes' Rich List · Papua New Guinea's hospitals are on the brink of collapse, with no money, limited supplies, & patients in dire need.

geographies: Watchem

 

wednesday newstrip

A vid of MGK making predatory comments about 17 y.o. Kendall Jenner has resurfaced & fkn yikes · Australian business man Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest launches legal action against Facebook over scam ads · 'The Enigma': billion-year-old black diamond 'from outer space' to go under the hammer · Pamela Anderson vows to 'never watch' new series Pam & Tommy: 'It's shocking that they are recreating it' · NASA details plan to retire ISS in 2030 & deliberately crash it into the Pacific Ocean · four senior aides to BoreUs SandStone have resigned from Downing Street within hours of each other amid growing pressure on the Prom Sinister · Mark Suckerburger loses estimated US$28.8 billion as Meta shares crash · New Zealand man lived on white bread to qualify for home loan, then had his pre-approval yanked anyway.

geographies: Kangaroo Flat

 

The print parts of Otoliths #64 are now available

The print parts of Otoliths issue sixty-four are now available from The Otoliths Storefront at Lulu. The Lulu Promo code up until Friday this week is 20FOR20 which gives a 20% discount.

Part one, the b&w part of issue sixty-four of Otoliths, contains poems, short stories, book reviews, concrete poems, extracts from a novel, translations, drawings, vispo, & things overlapping & in between, by R L Swihart, Heath Brougher, Jim Leftwich, Alyssa Gillespie, Sanjeev Sethi, Nathan Anderson, Mary Cresswell, Craig Cotter, Andrew Stys, Nathan Whiting, Clara B. Jones, George Moore, Joanna Walkden Harris & Pete Spence, Pete Spence (poems), Alan Catlin, Steve Carll, Richard Magahiz & John W. Sexton, Lynn Strongin, Van Whitman, Cameron Morse, David Jalajel. Tom Beckett, Jonel Abellanosa. Jon Wesick, Jack Galmitz, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Joel Chace, Ruth Lepson, Ric Carfagna, Michael J. Leach, Jeremy Scott, Aysegul Yildirim, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Francisco Gálvez, Eric Hoffman, Les Wicks, Bob Kotyk, Pete Spence (vispo), Joe Balaz, John M. Bennett, Jeff Harrison, Vernon Frazer, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Sutanuka Ghosh Roy, Réka Nyitrai, James Grabill, Mark Danowsky, Austin Alexis. Seth Howard, Anna Cates, DS Maolalai, Tony Beyer, Harvey Huddleston, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Christopher Barnes, Patrick Sweeney, Jon Cone. Charles Freeland, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, Susan Gangel, Daniel Barbiero, Betty Baxter, Penelope Weiss, Jeff Bagato, Bob Heman, Keith Nunes, Eileen R. Tabios, Joshua Martin, J. D. Nelson, Danni Storm, Jane Simpson, Sheila E. Murphy, Bob Lucky, Emmett Lewis, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., & Peter Yovu.

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Part three of issue sixty-four of Otoliths is WHOL / OHLW / LWOH AND OTHER POEMS by Scott MacLeod which, as its title suggests, is, first, a reduction of Ginsberg's HOWL to its basics — the letters used as they appear & their frequency, followed by a ranking of the number of appearances — & then a rebuilding & expansion of the poem. Plus OTHER POEMS to round the chapbook out.

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wednesday newstrip

US authorities search for missing monkeys after truck carrying 100 primates crashes in Pennsylvania · Bitcoin value tumbles almost 50 per cent since record November · exotic 'X' particles detected for the first time in quark-gluon plasma · China accused of foreign interference after Australian Pram Minister Scat SorrySon's WeChat account hijacked & renamed "We are the Chumpions" · Joe BidenMyTime calls reporter a 'stupid son of a bitch' after being questioned on inflation · new condom could increase protected sex & decrease sexually transmitted infections · Swiss banking bonking CEO claims $307,000 spent at strip clubs was business expense · a rocket owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX is so out-of-control it’s going to crash into the moon.

Issue sixty-four of Otoliths is now live.

Issue sixty-four, the southern summer issue of Otoliths, has just gone live.

In Frank Herbert's Dune, melange is an addictive drug that, among other things, turns a user's eyes blue. This issue of Otoliths can't promise that, but it is a mélange, an exciting mixture of many things by many people — Christian ALLE, R L Swihart, Cecelia Chapman, Heath Brougher, Jim Leftwich, Alyssa Gillespie, Edward Lee, Sanjeev Sethi, Nathan Anderson, Mary Cresswell, Elaine Woo, Craig Cotter, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Andrew Stys, Nathan Whiting, Clara B. Jones, George Moore, Joanna Walkden Harris, Pete Spence, Alan Catlin, Steve Carll, Richard Magahiz & John W. Sexton, Jennifer Weigel, Lynn Strongin, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Scott MacLeod, Rhys Trimble, Vin Whitman, Cameron Morse, Grzegorz Wróblewski, David Jalajel, Tom Beckett, Jonel Abellanosa, Texas Fontanella, Jon Wesick, Jack Galmitz, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Diana Magallón, Joel Chace, Ruth Lepson, Robyn Groth, Ric Carfagna, Michael J. Leach, Dave Read, Carol Stetser, Randee Silv, József Bíró, Jeremy Scott, Daniel de Culla, Aysegul Yildirim, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Francisco Gálvez, Eric Hoffman, Les Wicks, Amrita Tandon, Bob Kotyk, Rosella Quintini, Joe Balaz, Jeff Crouch, John M. Bennett, Ioan Bunus, Mindaugas Žuromskas, Jeff Harrison, Keith McKay, Vernon Frazer, Hrishikesh Srinivas, John Levy, Sutanuka Ghosh Roy, Réka Nyitrai, James Grabill, Mark Danowsky, Austin Alexis, Judith Skillman, Seth Howard, hiromi suzuki, Anna Cates, DS Maolalai, Andrew Topel, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Tony Beyer, Harvey Huddleston, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Stephen Nelson, Christopher Barnes, Karl Kempton, Patrick Sweeney, Elmedin Kadric, Jon Cone, Ruggero Maggi, Dawn Nelson Wardrope, Charles Freeland, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, Susan Gangel, Daniel Barbiero, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Betty Baxter, Jim George, Penelope Weiss, Jeff Bagato, Marilyn Stablein, Bob Heman, Keith Nunes, Eileen R. Tabios, Joshua Martin, J. D. Nelson, Danni Storm, Jane Simpson, Michael Brandonisio, Pearl Button, Melissa Clendenin Johnson, Sheila E. Murphy, Mario José Cervantes, Bob Lucky, Emmett Lewis, Márton Koppány, Barnaby Smith, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Kristian Patruno, Peter Yovu, Kate Tough, & Maggie Carson.