geographies: Broome

 

wednesday newstrip

New Zealanders are leaving the country in record numbers, mainly to Australia, but the country still recorded a net migration gain in the 12 months to September 2025 · T.®ump calls Marjorie Taylor Greene resignation 'great news for the country' · Ukraine faces losing dignity or key partner under US plan, Zelensky says · U.S. senators say Marco Rubio told them Trump's Ukraine peace plan is Russia's 'wish list' · US drug dealer branded a killer by AI sues Google · at least 38 million tonnes of rubbish is disposed of illegally in England every year according to a UK parliamentary committee investigating "waste crime" · Virgin & Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires · a haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for USD $54.7 million & became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction · a Gustav Klimt portrait has sold for $236.4m, a record for a modern art piece.

recently at Series Magritte

Dialogue Revealed by the Wind



A wind, a cold wind has come
  Arthur Miller: The Crucible
"Nakedness has a way of showing
itself," she said. "If not the wind, then
some other act of nature. Though is it
natural that we should be standing
here, headless, legless, words that
usually describe some condition of
drunkeness? & is standing the right
word to use when we have nothing
left to really let us stand?" The other
two might have nodded in agree-
ment, had they not been beheaded 
& now had nothing left to nod with.

vanity fair

 

geographies: Hawker

 

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AC/DC concert in Melbourne registered on earthquake detection equipment as the rock icons played their first concert in Australia in a decade · private emails written by sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claim US President DoNuts T.®ump knew about "the girls" & "spent hours" with a victim at his house · Sydney 'fortune-teller' allegedly ran $70m fraud by telling clients she saw a billionaire in their future · ratepayers in two regional councils will foot a $2 million bill to dispose of thousands of tonnes of contaminated organic waste in Western Australia's South West region · 'chaos situation' as potential asbestos exposure in colored sand closes Canberra schools · DNA proves Adolf Hitler may have had micropenis, one testicle · a free concert in Melbourne CBD by Amyl and the Sniffers, who are currently touring as the opening act on AC/DC's world tour. was canceled after overcrowding & safety concerns.

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Mexico’s president presses charges after street groping incident · feral pigs devour 99 out of every 100 lambs on a Central West NSW farm · lawmakers outraged that president is gilding White House as Snap food stamps in jeopardy amid longest US shutdown. Pity it wasn't the President who was gelded · a UPS cargo plane's left wing caught fire & its engine fell off moments before the aircraft crashed & exploded after take-off in Louisville, Kentucky · Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves 114 dead & 127 missing in Philippines · a bill that will allow the government to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation has passed the Australian parliament · Microsoft has began contacting more than 2.7 million Microsoft 365 Personal & Family subscribers in Australia to apologize & offer refunds after tech giant failed to communicate all subscription options & that subscribers could opt out of the AI option · American music star Jelly Roll accuses Sydney’s Louis Vuitton store of treating him 'like a criminal.'

Now out from Sandy Press

Just released from Sandy Press.

Mark Young
From the Cave's jukebox [Some more Tom Beckett Titles]
Sandy Press
ISBN: 979-8-9924582-6-8
Prices: $US 10.00 (paperback); $US6.00 (Kindle)
URL: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZ2486MH

Rediscovered during Mark Young's trawling through past posts & pages while putting together an introduction to his 2024 compilation, 100 Titles From Tom Beckett, was another list of Beckett titles, this time a blog post containing sixteen titles that were later augmented by a further twelve to become a 'fragment' in his 2015 APPEARANCES; A NOVEL IN FRAGMENTS. Tom described them as "… titles of imaginary songs that appear on an imaginary jukebox in an imaginary bar called the Cave, a very special club house for the legendary performance art group Vaudeville without Organs."

A comment from Young on the blog post indicates that he had seen them; but, unlike earlier instances from 2003 onwards, had not acted on them. That just might have turned out to be a good thing; because instead of sixteen titles being dispersed amongst various collections, it is now possible to present all the poems derived from those songs on that imaginary jukebox in a single volume, From the Cave’s jukebox.

wednesday newstrip

Wealthy homeowners in the US are paying big bucks to install wasp nests as decor, according to the New York Times · T.®ump first warns Putain 'we have a nuclear submarine off your shore' after Russian cruise missile test, then makes 'immediate' nuclear weapons testing order two days later · Earth has reached its hottest temperature of the past 125,000 years, & its "vital signs" are being pushed to the brink, the 2025 State of the Climate Report has warned · Elongated Muskrat wants a trillion dollars or he'll leave Tesla · Australian Opposition Leader has defended her criticism of the prime minister, claiming a Joy Division T-shirt he wore when arriving back in Australia has antisemitic connotations · Dictionary.com reveals 6-7 as Word of the Year, capturing the chaos of 2025 internet culture · attracted to 'shiny' objects, children in Gaza mistake unexploded bombs for toys.