one from the past

periphery / to carry around

Melbourne, Australia 8 July 2011
nzepc video project

the Otoliths cover images: a compilation

I have put together a compilation of all the images used on the covers of Otoliths. It's called Threescore and Ten, & is available as a free PDF viewable on screen or downloadable from Sandy Press with the direct URL of
https://www.sandy-press.com/blog/threescore-and-ten-the-images-of-the-covers-from-otoliths-may-2006-to-august-2023/

Well worth a look!

wednesday newstrip

Supercharge your kale juice: fermentation ramps up antioxidant & anti-inflammatory powers · Marjorie Taylor Greene received $10K from McCarthy ahead of vote to keep him as speaker · officials say at least 189 bodies were found decaying at Colorado funeral home · granny flats could be the answer to Australia's housing crisis · a Perth nurse who engaged in a threesome with two vulnerable patients & gave them tips on how to self-harm has been banned from practicing for five years · US rejects UN resolution to condemn violence against civilians in Israel-Gaza war · City of Sydney's first Aboriginal councillor calls for public statue overhaul, amid 'truth-telling' push following referendum defeat · Sydney Opera House marks half a century on the harbor.

wednesday newstrip

From selling deodorant to running the country: New Zealand votes in a new Prime Minister, center-right Christopher Luxon, who will work in a coalition with an even further right party, ACT (Association of Consumers & Taxpayers) New Zealand · a driver in the UK thought using double-sided tape & autumn leaves to obscure a number plate was the perfect way to avoid speed camera fines. They were wrong · Microsoft officially owns Call of Duty as Activision Blizzard takeover is complete · thousands turn out for pro-Palestinian rallies in Melbourne, Sydney, & Adelaide · Indigenous Australians call for ‘week of silence’ after referendum failure · Elon Musk congratulates National’s Luxon on N. Z. election win. “Congratulations & thank goodness!” Seems like he still has trouble with Jacinda Ardern.

Racism writ large

Australia votes No to Voice to Parliament, with all six states rejecting change.

Due in a great measure to the rantings of Mr Potato Head, aka Peter Dutton, aka Putrid Dustbin, the right-wing Opposition parties leader, who followed the DoNuts T.®ump playbook & turned a moral question — should the original inhabitants of the continent be recognized in the Constitution with the creation of a body that would have the ability to advise the Government on matters that related to their culture — into a political blitzkreig based on lies & misinformation.

The Referendum question was a simple one:

129 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice

In recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia:

there shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice;
the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples;
the Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.

recently, at Series Magritte

La Bonne Aventure



The clichés, which should
have been here in numbers, 
are nowhere to be seen. Have
fled, some further down the
seaside cliffs, some gone on
board that passenger liner
which is now full steam a-
head for the open sea, all
struck dumb by a sensory
perception of the androgy-
nous eroticism inherent in 
this oversized nose, at once
both phallic & feminine. Only
that synecdoche sycamore re-
mains, certain that, at some 
time soon, the equivalent of a
fig leaf might just be needed.

wednesday newstrip

Israel will want to examine very closely, over the next few months, its intelligence & military failures that allowed Hamas fighters to run rampant around southern Israel · Mum brutally mocked by thousands after posting ‘ridiculous’ babysitter advert which included among the conditions, if you have tattoos, get them removed · an Australian reality TV star has been busted offering sex to a woman at a Melbourne bar in exchange for drugs. “Turns out he only wanted coke from me” she said after he couldn’t perform because of ‘coke dick’ · a woman in the US has recalled her shock when she discovered she was experiencing a rare superfetation pregnancy – when you conceive while already pregnant · thousands dead as earthquake ‘turns Afghan villages to sand’ · the most popular dog’s name in Australia is Luna.

Today the post-
woman brought
me an aspidistra.

*

George Orwell
once told me 

I had to keep 
them flying. I'm 

trying, George, 
I'm really try-

ing. But it's very 
hard to do when 

there isn't that 
much wind about.

wednesday newstrip

Man hailed by T.®ump admin as a victim of #MeToo hysteria charged with dismembering his girlfriend · Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp doubts that DoNuts T.®ump will face trial in his state before the 2024 election · T.®ump may have violated terms of release during Glock stunt · yet another T.®ump ally loses bid to move Georgia case to federal court · it has been revealed that the husband of a controversial pro-T.®ump mayoral candidate for Franklin, Tennessee, who has built her campaign on her opposition to a Pride event in the city as harmful to children, once rocked American flag Speedos — & nothing else, save for a gold chain, glasses, & shoes — to a Pride event in Chicago · T.®ump's fraud defense so bad it is 'defying the very laws of physics' · first T.®ump co-defendant to plead guilty in Fulton County election interference case · DoNuts T.®ump calls for shoplifters to be shot.