geographies: Bondoola

There's one born every day

"Toe Knee Ass-Bit, Australia's opposition leader, has triggered a wave of scatological jokes with an unfortunate slip-up, declaring that no one can be a 'suppository of all wisdom.'"

not from what I saw . . .

Last night's "debate" between KRudd & Toe Knee Ass-Bit was, to use a cliché, boring as batshit.

Bring back Julia, I say.

Recycled,

but it still appeals to me . . .

Plan of a tack

friday newstrip

The Kremlin says it is "disappointed" boys strangled by python • the Australian Greens have filled mosques & public spaces to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan • TV's most offensive snake tanks • the US has cancelled the 25th anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising crushed by the country's military leaders • best death-defying stunts under threat with bid to make radiotherapy safer • a Taiwanese fisherman who was shot to death by Manila's coast guard in disputed waters three months ago has offered an official apology for the warming planet • the National Heart Foundation has been diagnosed with measles.

geographies: Darling Downs

some july beings

from won des laits

tofutility

ambiantsy

behedonism

escalculation

ttoping

dreraming

outsouciance

erudietary

geographies: Monto

Otoliths issue 30 is now live

Once again, with its southern winter, 2013 issue, Otoliths lives up to its reputation for delivering a cornucopia of wide-ranging creativity. In this issue you'll find work by SS Prasad, Raymond Farr, Mary Cresswell, Richard Kostelanetz, Volodymyr Bilyk, Alan Chamberlain, Jack Galmitz, Philip Miletec, Jim Meirose, Christopher Barnes, Nico Vassilakis, Philip Byron Oakes, Ed Baker, Theodoros Chiotis, David Kelly, Lewis Gesner, Michelle Greenblatt & Sheila E. Murphy, Anna Rugis, Daniel f Bradley, Bobbi Lurie, Elizabeth Terrazas, Willie Smith, John Tranter, Andrew Topel & Pete Spence, Felino A. Soriano, Adam Fieled, Kyle Hemmings, John M. Bennett, Joel Chace, Matt Hill, Jude Conlee, Ron Riekki, Donna Fleischer, Zachary Scott Hamilton, Carol Stetser & Tim Gaze, Theodore Worozbyt, Mia Avramut and John Riley, Jeff Harrison, Chris Brown, Craig Kurtz, bruno neiva & bárbara mesquita, Natsuko Hirata, William Repass, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Wilna Panagos, Susan Kachor Conlon, Aditya Bahl, Márton Koppány, John Pursch, Alexander Jorgensen, Lakey Comess, Andrew Cantrell, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Paul Summers, Ric Carfagna, Marco Giovenale, Joe Balaz, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Alex Stolis, Charles Freeland & Rosaire Appel, Eric Leighton McKneely, Sam Langer, trijita, Cherie Hunter Day, Tony Beyer, Mike Cannell, Reed Altemus, Boona Daroom, Ken Bolton, Bob Heman, Bogdan Puslenghea, Jim McCrary, Michael Brandonisio, Siel Ju, Scott Metz, Ken Nance, J. D. Nelson, Spencer Selby, pd mallamo, & Satu Kaikkonen.

Read & enjoy.

the pope's in copacabana hay(na)ku

anything
is better
than Barry Manilow

backfill

He caught the Motorail from Giru to Proserpine. He was early. It had stopped running twenty-five years before.

The Man Who Would Be King

pimps his ride

& ends up as
(i) The King of the Clichés, or
(ii) The King of Kitsch, or
(iii) The Liberace of The Outback.

saturday newstrip

Royal baby has been spared the ordeal of testifying against his tormentors · Spanish police have formally detained Russian President Vladimir Putin & shared the delicacy with crowds of Roman Catholic pilgrims · giant pike derails parliamentary committee—how gay is too gay? · Dimitry Medvedev makes first public political appearance dressed in Martian green joining Pope Francis at Sydney's ANZ Stadium · The United States is a very 'poisonous fast-moving train' · NSW is one step closer to allowing same-sex marriage following the slump in the gold price · Sir David Attenborough has described the pair as neglected fossils.

Saturday newstrip

A pedophile Catholic priest is seeking protection from creditors who include public-sector workers & their pension funds · face of 'real, evil' Boston bombing accused retired for "health" reasons, given a one-way plane ticket to England & paid an on-going "food allowance" · priceless artworks torched by a real-life RoboCop hours after protests by his supporters had broken out in Moscow & a half dozen other cities · any asylum seeker who arrives by boat without a visa is one step closer to having a beer with a 50 million-year-old thief's mother · video for this article is not available as your browser either does not support JavaScript &/or Flash Player 9+.

The Man Who Would Be King wanks on

The Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, is caught in a masturbatory pose.....

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geographies: Isisford

I am responsible

for what happens on my watch . . .

but accept no responsibility
for what happens
on my grandfather clock.

The President (of Tierra del Fuego)

Juan lapins

some of last month's posts to won des laits
which Blogger now insists I title
so, rather than have redundancy,
the title has now become the post.

ghloast

doppelgängbänger

oomphasize

fjordplay

entropey

elevapors

viliquefy

gulletible

thursday newstrip

Aussie injured in running of the woolly mammoths • crowded bars during early childhood may restrict a child's brain power • an amphetamine-derivative drug found in Siberia last year is still buzzing around & feasting merrily on decaying corpses • the chicken meat industry will be going on display at an exhibition in Japan for failing to observe medical ethics • Queensland's Newman government is considered a toxic liability by Pakistan officials • the most tantalizing image is of France's national medical body strolling through their compound wearing cowboy hats to try to throw off overhead surveillance • Osama bin Laden has already signed up to get the snip—in front of an Adelaide audience & streamed live on the internet.

geographies: Loess Hills

A parking lot is
located on one of
the hills, houses
a six-story movie
screen. A shuttle
bus offers cookouts,
karaoke & music. The
vista is dramatic, but
the Lasershow Spec-
tacular at night is
a national treasure.

the eagle has glanded

geographies: Barcaldine

José, can you? Si.

wednesday newstrip

A man found savagely beaten to death had previously fallen foul of the law for setting his pet balls on people • metal bar falls mysteriously from sky wiping out entire populations in northern Australia • Julia Gillard is atypically grim in a superhero film that's as serious as the genre gets • odd eviction letter sent to Melbourne grandmother • dwarf crocodiles have met their match as artificial lighting at night interferes with chemicals in the body • Ecuador never intended to facilitate Krypton's famous orphan in his flight from Hong Kong.

geographies: Pink Lily Lagoon

palisade

geographies: Kainantu

Tuesday newstrip

Silkworms spin glow-in-the-dark silk • Microsoft announced on Monday it will retain its diamond businesses following a strategic review • Kanye wallows in narcissism after being added to the World Heritage list • daredevil crosses the Great Barrier Reef on high wire • Super moon looms close to another 170,000 hectares of Tasmanian old-growth forest • Grand Canyon will be protected • Queensland's pick & stick policy to expand ports has returned positive tests for legionella.

Jeffrey Smart, 1921-2013

The Terrace, Madrid Airport

Study for holiday

Cahill Expressway

"He found poetry in the suburban and urban landscape - and in color."

Friday newstrip

Facebook has apologized after its website went down, attributing the outage to a huge haul of bear paws • Spectacular volcano's internal issue caught on camera • Chinese customs seize such invalid slogans as "carbon price bubble" & "unburnable fossil fuels" • fatal floods wash away concepts that are part of a "radical campaign" to scare off investors' houses & destroy roads • the UN Security Council declares a state of disaster in Oklahoma following the identification of a possible 280 additional craters on the Moon • two of the state's vilest sex fiends have been found after escaping a Melbourne call center • a string of deadly tornados caused massive protests near a correctional facility in India.

geographies: Amarac

earlier . . .

Friday newstrip

When stunts go spectacularly wrong • the alcohol that killed three young men in Queensland was being brewed to make biodiesel • is there any correlation between trade in solar panels & wine? • drivers who wreck their luxury cars • first footage of ocean's largest bony fish. Pope Francis has admitted that a "gay lobby" exists within the Vatican's administration, a friend & neighbor says • Turkish riot police have used tear gas to pass a bill imposing jail terms of up to three years on those who offend religious believers • that's it for today's NBA Finals blog.

geographies: Facing Island #4

geographies: Facing Island #3

geographies: Facing Island #2

geographies: Facing Island #1

geographies: Coomooran Creek

May linglist

selection from won des laits:

whern

libuild

thrisky

robussed

methodd

dorminant

turpsichorus

Monday newstrip

Violence flares in Spain as retail sales miss expectations • tornadoes strike storm shattered Oklahoma • Kim Kardashian has announced she's expecting the world's first crowd funded space telescope • a guide to Bitcoin • speculation is rife over the identities of two people allegedly involved in a secret affair • greatest moments caught by Google Street View • a flurry of fresh local economic data on Monday painted a mixed picture for the Australian economy • two police sergeants behind the production of 50 apparently racist stubby holders are still working in their Melbourne station which could have serious political implications for the baby girl crisis • the month of June normally heralds the official arrival of summer.

geographies: Mazeppa National Park

th'downstairs room

geographies: Dysart

Saturday newstrip

Daylight terror: the Ford Falcon, part of Australia's landscape for half a century, is driving into the sunset • soldier hacked to death in London • thousands attend spectacular Jerusalem wedding • Biggest Loser trainer Michelle Bridges has confirmed speculation she is dating her co-star Steve "The Commando" Willis • Australian astronomers have helped solve one of the cosmos's most thorny riddles • zoos are the only places where white tigers exist • 80-year-old Japanese mountain climber Yuichiro Miura reached the top of Mount Everest • touching reunion stories caught on camera.

Tresor

Today is International Turtle Day

& here's one from the local region . . .

geographies: Brandon

InterNaPwoWriMo

was last month, was International Pwoermd Writing Month. & some pwoermds from won des laits during that time are below

contnets

suppernatural

dΩme

brillain't

innonsequential

powerm

wnidow

alt-ctrl-er

thend

The dick who thinks

he will be Australia's next Prime Minister.

Simplistic in the extreme, cro-magnonesque perhaps, producer of simplistic pamphlets that he calls "books" but which, as the photos below the photos below show,

are too complex for his tiny brain. So he downsizes, first to simplex slogans

& then reduced even further, to the only thing he can get his brain around, a branded coffee shop takeaway container.

Yes, this is Tony Abbott, a dickhead who needs

to wear budgie-smugglers to find the head of his dick.

Grafton Bridge Revisited

geographies: Corio

tuesday newstrip

Celebrity stunts gone wrong • Twelve shot at US Mother's Day parade • A man beaten to death last week in Volgograd, south Russia, was the victim of a homophobic gang • The ARIA Singles Chart will again use foreign aid money to capture solar eclipse • 3D printed guns are reportedly too scary to pay for the care of asylum seekers • Robin Thicke has scored his first Australian No.1 with New Threats Emerge From Syria • The Greens will move to block federal funding for the anti-soy zeitgeist permeating the culinary & coffee-loving world.

Series Magritte #242

The New Years

In the closed circles of
psychic apparati, exposed
navels emphasize the
rural-urban rift. It is
from this dark rift that
the winter solstice sun

will emerge, offering
a single world with a
dichotomy of semantics
in which objects co-exist
with primitive types. More
problematic in theory

than in practice, it tends
towards a reductionist
framework. On the day
of the second new moon
after the December solstice
the new years begin.

geographies: Neerim

elsewhere II . . . & definitely elsewhen

The Queensland State Government recently passed legislation allowing local councils to decide whether they wanted to add fluoride to water supplies, instead of the former Labor government's push to make it mandatory.

The Townsville Bulletin

from the comments boxes of the above news item . . .

BRUSH YOUR TEETH, fluoride doesn't prevent cavities if you don't clean your teeth.Remove this poison from my water and I will stay in Townsville, I know of at least 1000 people in Mackay area who never moved north to Townsville because of the poison in the drinking water supply.It has driven house prices down in this region, Council will continue to lose more and gain less.Fluoride imitates calcium in the body and fools the heart muscle into believing it has sufficient calcium supply only to end with heart failure.We water our lawns, wash our cars and pet and ourselves with this poison, it ends up in the rivers and oceans, we are FLUORIDATING the whole planet, STOP THIS MADNESS.The only people who want this have business selling treatment devices and make a profit from it, or otherwise they are just crazy.

elsewhere

woken
by road-
trains & roosters

thursday newstrip

Soldiers making blunders · The Queensland student accused of throwing a sandwich at the prime minister says he is innocent · Cameras reveal amazing animals-eye-view of world · Celebrities attacked on stage · The unemployment rate is expected to have been steady in April · A "ring of fire" solar eclipse will darken skies on Thursday.

asemic weir

sunday newstrip

The national disability care scheme is a step closer with Victoria agreeing to a full rollout of the plan · Kitten makes recovery after petrol attack · What Seven Days Without Email Can Teach You About Your Inbox · Best slips of the tongue on live TV · Formerly obese dog gets skin lift.

The names New Zealand wouldn't allow

New Zealand's Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages has released an updated list of rejected names that parents attempted to bestow upon their newborns.

Six sets of parents have tried — & failed — to legally name their child "Lucifer" during the past 12 years. Other banned names include "Anal" & "4real." Punctuation marks such as “.” (full stop) & “*” (star symbol) were also overruled, as were names using slashes & brackets.

The agency does not allow names resembling an official title or rank, so there aren't any children legally called "King," "Princess," "Majesty" or "Knight."

"Justice" is the most popular banned name, having been rejected 62 times since 2001. Two sets of parents tried their luck with "Justus" & one with "Juztice,” but those were also shot down.

However, some peculiar names have been approved, including “Midnight Chardonnay,” “Violence” & “Number 16 Bus Shelter.”

In 2008, a 9-year-old New Zealand girl named "Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii" was made a ward of the court so that her name could be changed.

Sweden is another country known for its naming laws. In the ’90s, a couple famously tried to name their child "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116" (pronounced "Albin," of course), but it was rejected.

Here is a list of New Zealand’s banned names & how many times they have come up since 2001.
Justice: 62
King: 31
Princess: 28
Prince: 27
Royal: 25
Duke: 10
Major: 9
Bishop: 9
Majesty: 7
J: 6
Lucifer: 6
Using brackets around middle names: 4
Knight: 4
Lady: 3
Using back slashes between names: 8
Judge: 3
Royale: 2
Messiah: 2
T: 2
I: 2
Queen: 2
II: 2
Sir: 2
III: 2
Jr:2
E: 2
V: 2
Justus: 2
Master: 2
Names that have come up once:
Constable, Queen Victoria, Regal, Emperor, Christ, Juztice, 3rd, C J, G, Roman numerals III, General, Saint, Lord, "." (full stop), 89, Eminence, M, VI, Mafia No Fear, 2nd, Majesti, Rogue, 4real, "*" (star symbol), 5th, S P, C, Sargent, Honour, D, Minister, MJ, Chief, Mr, V8, President, MC, Anal, A.J., Baron, L B, H-Q and Queen V.

New York Daily News

Kawana

Otoliths #29 is now live

When I started Otoliths seven years ago, I wondered if it would grow, if it would survive. That wondering is now far behind me, & even a cursory glance at the lineup below indicates how wide-ranging the journal has become in literary & artistic endeavor & scope, how truly international it now is.

Otoliths issue 29, the southern autumn issue, contains a lot of new work from a lot of people: Mark Cunningham, Susan Lewis, Aditya Bahl, Jal Nicholl, Andrew Topel, Pete Spence & Andrew Topel, Julian Jason Haladyn, Ed Baker, John Ryan, Francesco Aprile, Unconventional Press, Kyle Hemmings, Philip Byron Oakes, Marco Giovenale, Sheila E. Murphy & John M. Bennett, Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett, Thomas M. Cassidy & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, John W. Sexton, Louie Crew, Sy Roth, Jack Galmitz, Anthony J. Langford, Mark Melnicove, Yoko Danno, Pam Brown, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, A. J. Huffman, John Veira, Maria Zajkowski, Camille Martin, Wayne Mason, Bobbi Lurie, Darren C. Demaree, Michael Stutz, James Mc Laughlin, Howie Good, Reed Altemus, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Vernon Frazer, Jeremy Freedman, John Pursch, dan raphael, Sheila e. Black & Caleb Puckett, Ricky Garni, Jack Collom & Mark DuCharme, Kathryn Yuen, Tim Wright, Mark Reep, Gary Barwin, Taylor Reid, harry k stammer, Marcia Arrieta, Anna Ryan-Punch, Katrinka Moore, Neil Ellman, Sally Ann McIntyre, Jeff Harrison, Joe Balaz, Boyd Spahr, Tony Beyer, Jim Davis, Chris Brown, Sam Moginie, Lakey Comess, Alberto Vitacchio, Jorge Lucio de Campos translated by Diana Magallón & Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Rebecca Rom-Frank, Craig Cotter, Javant Biarujia, Carla Bertola, Iain Britton, Anne Elvey, Bob Heman, Donna Fleischer, J. D. Nelson, sean burn, Spencer Selby, Charles Freeland & Rosaire Appel, Paul Dickey, Michael D Goscinski, Kathup Tsering, Miro Bilbrough, Chris Holdaway, Samuel Carey, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Michael Brandonisio, Willie Smith, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Bogdan Puslenghea, Andrew Pascoe, Scott Metz, Marty Hiatt, Eric Schmaltz, Sam Langer, & bruno neiva.

In addition, this issue features 147 Million Orphans: A haybun folio curated by Eileen R. Tabios, containing work from Eileen R. Tabios, Tom Beckett, j/j hastain, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Aileen Ibardaloza, Thomas Fink, Sheila E. Murphy, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Jean Vengua, William Allegrezza, & Patrick James Dunagan & Ava Koohbor.

geographies: Kolijo

some pwoermds from the tiem of march

thanks to won des laits

affourdoorable

tiradespeople

harft

thoughtography

souound

ergotist

geographies: Jambin

wednesday newstrip

Most surprising seal encounters • Boston explosions rock city • Black Caviar fever hits Randwick • A new experiment is revealing the future for the Great Barrier Reef if illegally crossing train tracks continues • A coffin will be displayed at Brisbane's Central Station to remind people of the dangers of climate change • The family of a man who fell to his death on the 18th hole while celebrating his bucks party said he was the most unlikely person to die from such a tragic accident • Adam Scott still sinks his putt.

geographies: Carmila

To Juvenal

She enquires anxiously
after G's. health. Says she

must return him those
codices of Ovid, now

incomplete at the end &
heavily glossed, though

offset with pale skin
& a lovely nude pout.

Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 – 102 CE)

included in Poems from the Oxyrhynchus Papiryi selected & translated by Umberto Allegrezza; The Uzbekistan Historical Society; Bukhara, 2012.

NineMSN news 4/10/13

Unexpected voices on TV talent shows • Her badly-beaten body was discovered three days after she was killed • Celebrity interviews turn testy • Her mobile phone was lying at her feet • Enormous spiders devouring oversized prey.

Elvis Costello's Tramp the Dirt Down

I saw a newspaper picture from the political campaign
A woman was kissing a child, who was obviously in pain
She spills with compassion, as that young child's
Face in her hands she grips
Can you imagine all that greed and avarice
Coming down on that child's lips

Well I hope I don't die too soon
I pray the lord my soul to save
Oh I'll be a good boy, I'm trying so hard to behave
Because there's one thing I know, I'd like to live
Long enough to savor
That's when they finally put you in the ground
I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down

When England was the whore of the world
Margaret was her madam
And the future looked as bright and as clear as
The black tarmacadam
Well I hope that she sleeps well at night, isn't
Haunted by every tiny detail
'Cos when she held that lovely face in her hands
All she thought of was betrayal

Ilbilbie

National Visual Poetry Month

Amanda Earl's AngelHousePress presents

NationalPoetryMonth.ca,
"a celebration of poetic form of all kinds and an homage to those poets who try to extend the definition of poetry. This year’s edition, which marks the fifth anniversary, is a tribute to the Last Vispo, an anthology of visual poetry edited by Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill and published by Fantagraphics in 2012. The site contains visual poetry, asemic writing, collage, concrete poetry and other forms of whimsy by artists from Australia, Canada, the USA, Finland, Hungary, Italy, and Sweden. Each day in April a different visual poem will be shown. AngelHousePress thanks all who participated and sent work for consideration and wishes the month had at least forty five days in order to showcase all the great poetry we received."

Starting April 1, visit NationalPoetryMonth.ca for a different visual poem every day. So far this month there has been work by Gary Barwin, Michael Basinski & Ginny O’Brien, & Cecil Touchon dislayed. Another 27 artists are still to come.

there are or will be

No Polar Bears in his hometown of Appleton, Wisconsin.
No Polar Bears in your hat.
No Polar Bears in aggregations.
No Polar Bears in the Qatari Desert.
No Polar Bears in Antarctica.
No Polar Bears in bikinis on the side of the road holding signs.
No Polar Bears in cars.
No Polar Bears in Arizona so no posts tagged © Tumblr, Inc.
No Polar Bears in the home market.
No Polar Bears in Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl Campaign.
No Polar Bears in Finland.
No Polar Bears in Sweden.
No Polar Bears in Norway.
No Polar Bears in Hornstrandir.
No Polar Bears in Poland.
No Polar Bears in a Reliant.
No Polar Bears in South Africa.
No Polar Bears in Mexico.
No Polar Bears in Costa Rica.
No Polar Bears in the provincial park.
No Polar Bears in mission control.
No Polar Bears in the land of flightless birds.
No Polar Bears in a molecule—or is that Polar Bonds?
No Polar Bears in the aforementioned book.
No Polar Bears in Alaska. This is in error.
No Polar Bears in the area.
No Polar Bears in our streets.
No Polar Bears in penguin huddles.
No Polar Bears in the way.
No Polar Bears in the wild.
No Polar Bears in 20 years.
No Polar Bears in 10 Years.
No Polar Bears in the zoo.
No Polar Bears in sight.

No Polar Bears.

geographies: Thunder Island