what's within?

Today the
postman brought
me a life-sized
re-enactment of
the first crossing
of the Atlantic
Ocean by a hot
air balloon. I
almost drowned.

Haute Horology

Why not Dance, Rrose Sélavy?

wednesday newstrip

Australian Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit Abbott has been caught on camera guzzling a glass of beer seven seconds after being dropped by the BBC for hitting a producer ∙ The Greens say that the son of a Sydney nightclub owner being jailed for at least three years for raping a teenager in a Kings Cross alleyway & then bragging about taking her virginity is the beginning of the end of fossil fuel consumption in Australia ∙ in a world-first study, scientists have transplanted a sexually transmitted disease off the coast of Tasmania to better understand the impact of climate change ∙ theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was diverted from Perth's new Fiona Stanley Hospital because of a large oarfish raising temperatures amid raucous cheers in the main building ∙ the US government announced it may look for a new patch of ocean after a coal fire power station washed up at the entrance of the Otago Harbor.

marsch gasses

from won des laits


ennuit

luddiet

meanderthal

offencesitterive

punnetrate

radiosh

tractile

fan dan go

        that's
   when he
        ended up
dancing
            with the
         gypsy
             girl

wednesday newstrip

It was the perfect recipe for a party—a woolshed, pig on a spit, bonfire, beers, music, & a video allegedly showing Islamic State militants using bulldozers & explosives to destroy the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud ∙ Australians who enjoy illegal copies of TV shows & movies will lose thousands of dollars of childcare & welfare benefits ∙ BHP Billiton has been reprimanded by a senate committee & given two weeks to report back after it refused to vaccinate its basic financial information against a bunch of old school mates ∙ the weight of the first four episodes of HBO's new Game of Thrones season 5 plummeted by five kilos in five days whilst in Perth's new Fiona Stanley Hospital ∙ a man has just discovered he had sex with his new fiancée’s father & wonders what to do next.

the flensing

do d'all

wednesday newstrip

A man has been flown to hospital in Bundaberg after being bitten by a pig ∙ a new app will use deforrestation images to help doctors identify ageing behaviors in patients ∙ after enjoying a week in the limelight, the Australian dollar has been charged by police after it flashed its K-cup breasts at a Google camera car & had them posted online ∙ Congressional Republicans have condemned Sydney's Catholic & Anglican leaders after 55 greyhound carcasses were discovered in their Easter messages ∙ an investigation is underway into how a makeshift cage in a Canberra school came to be used as a "withdrawal space" for the Ukraine crisis which has brought the world closer to nuclear war than at any point for a generation.

geographies: Sandy Corner

Today the
postman brought
me a ground to air
missile launcher
with black currant &
sweet red capsicum
on the nose & under-
lying subtle smoky
hints of oak
& gooseberry.

meerkat alert

He was sure there was trickery involved. Hypnotism, or auto-suggestion, induced by the surroundings, the sumptuous meal, the wine. He sensed he had fallen victim to a well-practiced magician's legerdemain.

wednesday newstrip

The Large Hadron Collider reveals it got a boob job ∙ the Australian government is changing how it expresses climate change targets in a way that could make it appear to the public as though it is cutting greenhouse gas emissions more rapidly than it is ∙ Federal Treasurer Glowstick HotKey has dodged questions about the still untitled Legend of Zelda game currently in development ∙ new Indiana law protects those who say Carrie Underwood's baby boy is already taking after his daddy ∙ LG's smartphone-driven gas explosion promises to put exotic worlds within reach of the masses ∙ iron ore hits new spot-price era lows after religious beliefs forbid it from serving gays.

A line from Tomas Tranströmer

Any attempt to re-
cover & reconstitute
the lost origins of the
myths du site du reggae

dancehall en France
has historically been
based on empirical
equations that relate

to a boy in a play-
ground trying to fit
in with a decade that
didn't really want him.

r.i.p.

idolatry

the marsh

wednesday newstrip

Farms, roads, & alleged homophobic slurs are fast slicing up the world's wilderness, leaving 70 per cent of the world's remaining forested land less than one kilometer from the foreign ministers of Japan, China, & South Korea ∙ the federal government will soon issue cashless welfare cards to stop sky-gazers looking up in awe as the moon blocks the sun in a total solar eclipse ∙ video posted to social media websites appears to show Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit stumbling upon a drug crop & turning it into a raging fire ∙ a bushwalker missing for seven years has been accused of human rights abuses ∙ crowds across the country have rallied against the Ass-Bit government's prediliction for drinking & gambling & spending their parliamentary stipend on slices of northern Europe.

residual

Today the
postman brought
me an audio
recording of
the love that
dare not speak
its name.

Ass-Bit ass-bitten

or
Found in the Corridas of Power,
a bull with a blue tie
& an IQ to match.

wednesday newstrip

Toe Knee Ass-Bit surprised onlookers while on a factory visit in rural Tasmania by biting into & eating a mouthful of raw onion. Members of the Irish community branded his St Patrick's Day message "patronizing," & about 500 pigs died from heat stress ∙ Northern Australian landscapes are dominated by the joke Chris Rock regrets making ∙ new 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder Antarctic octopuses may be more resilient to climate change than fish thanks to their blue blood ∙ the girlfriend of the 'pirate' who allegedly pulled a flick knife on security staff at the Pirates of the Caribbean film set yesterday claims her nine-year-old grandson was given the same mobile phone number as a brothel in Melbourne ∙ more than 2 million kidney failure patients worldwide die prematurely every year because they can't get treatment.

geographies: Anabranch

the transcript

wednesday newstrip

Documents show Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit's "absolutely crystal clear" promise that cleaners' wages would not be reduced to a ticking time bomb is set to explode this year ∙ Sydney Jewish leaders are claiming that a new Queensland research center for creating robots that see like human beings is using stolen "golem" technology ∙ a coroner has identified design flaws in the bone baiting of crocodiles as a key contributor to the death of 14 residents in a Quaker's Hill nursing home ∙ Joke HotKey says accusing opponents of lies & hypocrisy is part of the rough & tumble of politics, but he was absolutely devastated by a newspaper headline that said he was a "treasurer for sale."

geographies: Millaroo

wednesday newstrip

An Auckland dairy company says that though the Australian coal industry is competing aggressively it will not be taking over the New Zealand infant formula industry ∙ a young elephant was shot & feasted on by 20,000 cyclone victims written down to a shadow of their former value at the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe's $1M 91st birthday bash ∙ three big mining companies that had eaten wild mushrooms forced the Sunday night Melbourne-to-Perth Jetstar flight to turn back after about an hour in the air ∙ nearly 100,000 Kiwis have given up the booze in the past five years as their parents juggle multiple jobs to make ends meet ∙ Foreign Minister Julie Bookshop nodded off during Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit's speech to the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum in New Zealand.

Today the
postman brought
me the large-print
edition of Life in
The Fast Lane.

the highway

the part

wednesday newstrip

Khloe & Kim Kardashian are safe after using the same antioxidant that keeps goldfish gold & flamingos pink, The Biggest Loser trainer Michelle Bridges says ∙ Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit has refused to answer questions about whether he slipped through the net of security agencies who continued to believe he fell outside the top 400 terror threats despite 18 calls to the national security hotline in the days leading to the Lindt cafe siege ∙ New Zealand's biggest political sex scandal slid off a road & into a ditch on Saturday ∙ Toe Knee Ass-Bit believes that unless you unilaterally invade Iraq to take on the Islamic State terrorist group, you're going nowhere in your quest to be in the right head space, to lead a healthier life ∙ Australia is caught in the fallout of a TV expose after taking ownership of a company previously accused of shonky loan deals.

jamjaruary jaunts

@ won des laits

lacanthropic

deminted

hairgelhorn

invideos

brohemian

happenumbra

fandango

Just out

as an e-book from Lars Palm's Swirl Press

visible at /downloadable from, here.

re-cycled

In
the latest
round-up of revolutionary

news from around
the globe,
it

was
announced that
Washington may or

may not have
been amongst
those


taken
out by
a smart bomb

fired from a
drone as
they

crossed
the Delaware.
Authorities say DNA

evidence is required
for positive
ID.

wednesday newstrip

Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit has flagged further efforts aimed at securing Australia's borders amid growing concerns about an outbreak of Hepatitis A caused by frozen berries imported from China ∙ Ass-Bit also called on Australian farmers to put aside their pride, jealousy, & self-interest & instead exercise charity by carrying out the executions of the Bali Nine drug smugglers ∙ a young man found stabbed to death in western Sydney illustrates the risks involved with imported food, police believe ∙ the female judges of The X Factor warn of terrorism attacks if nine-year-old Milla Brown, who was born a girl, but loves Batman, & rocks a short haircut, asks the world to call him a boy.

the canyon

beaujolais

wednesday newstrip

The federal Liberal Party voted against a spill motion yesterday, 61 votes to 39, meaning Toe Knee Ass-Bit will remain as Prom Minister ∙ a teenage girl has been fatally shot by police outside of a Hungry Jacks ahead of a key meeting of Euro-zone finance ministers in Brussels ∙ Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television sets following the Tax Office revealing it has investigated hundreds of Australians with Swiss bank accounts ∙ at least 1,500 Russian troops, convoys of military hardware, & the entire frontbench of the Northern Territory Government entered Ukraine over the weekend ∙ Smiley face spotted by Hubble Space Telescope. It's the bee version of a mystery thriller.

Mirror images of Toe Knee Ass-Bit

This

& this.

This

& this.

This

& this.

notion / nation

wednesday newstrip

The Prom Minister, Toe Knee Ass-Bit, has dug his hole deeper by repeatedly refusing to deny claims his deputy Julie Bookshop has refused to promise she will not challenge him for the leadership ∙ the Raspberry Pi 2 packs more memory & a faster processor than its predecessor, the Northern Territory’s Chief Minister, Adam Giles, who was dumped in a 1 a.m. coup ∙ now selling at $23,000 for 500mls, Big Mac in a bottle was allowed to enter the basement courtroom through a side door, to avoid the horde of journalists attending its trial for “aggravated pimping” ∙ Pahiatua man Henry Coe explains how some of the many things that are troubling about the current Australian government's metadata retention proposals is how rooted in the past they are & how they have been living without teeth for 2 years after a dentist made dentures that didn't fit, & then refused to give a refund ∙ Iceland is rising because of climate change, with land freed by the melting of the ice caps rebounding from the earth at a rate of up to 3.5cm per year.

Issue thirty-six of Otoliths is out

In this, the southern summer, 2015, issue of Otoliths

you’ll find exciting new work by:

Volodymyr Bilyk, George McKim, Lakey Comess, Stephen Bett, Greg McLaren, Philip Byron Oakes, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Robert Lietz, Stephen C. Middleton, Nick Ravo, Chase Gagnon, Owen Bullock, Caleb Puckett, Kyle Hemmings, Despo Magoni, Craig Cotter, J. Crouse, Michael Martrich, Bryan Young, Halvard Johnson, dan raphael, Jeff Dahlgren, Jeff Dahlgren & John Lowther, John Lowther, Pete Spence, Howie Good, A. J. Huffman, John M. Bennett, Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Vittore Baroni, Thomas M. Cassidy & John M. Bennett, Thomas M. Cassidy & Cheryl Penn & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, j4, Felino A. Soriano, Andrew Topel, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Andrew Topel, Jack Galmitz & Fotis Begetis, Joel Chace, Mark Melnicove, Sally Evans, James Sanders, Joe Balaz, John Martone, Raymond Farr, Carol Shillibeer, Carol Stetser, Natsuko Hirata, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Stuart Barnes, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Ric Carfagna, Nurul Wahidah, Anne Elvey, Jeff Harrison, Robert Sheppard, Stephen Nelson, Cyriaco Lopes & Terri Witek, Daniel John Pilkington, Eryk Wenziak, SS Prasad, sean burn, Jonel Abellanosa, Michael O’Brien, Mark Pirie, Márton Koppány, Willie Smith, Kit Kennedy, Toby Finch, Naomi Buck Palagi, Marcello Diotallevi, Stu Hatton, Brendan Tang, John Pursch, Charles Freeland, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Luc Fierens, Angad Arora, PT Davidson, Steven Alvarez, George J. Farrah, bruno neiva, Bob Heman, Richard Kostelanetz, Bogdan Puslenghea, hiromi suzuki, Tony Beyer, nick-e melville, Marilyn Stablein, Ria Masae, Susan Gangel, Michael Brandonisio, Katrinka Moore, Gian Luigi Braggio, Texas Fontanella, Aditya Bahl, Tom Snarsky, & Trijita Mukherjee.

the dream

A note

from Meritage Press.


HOTUS POTUS

ISBN No.: 978-0-9826493-8-1
Release Date: January 2014
Price: $US14
Currently Available for $US9.80 from Lulu.com. Also available direct from the publisher (MeritagePress@aol.com) and soon from Amazon.com

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The 20th century cliché was that POTUS was the most powerful man in the world. It's since been realized that that’s a lot of hocus pocus, but, before that revelation, Mark Young committed his life to carrying around a heavy two-reel tape recorder in order to document for posterity the utterances of the forty-four Presidents of the United States. Now he has sifted through the more than 200 years of those recordings in order to bring to the reader the cream of the cream, HOTUS POTUS, presidential insights from an assembled cast that includes slave owners & supporters of emancipation; governors, generals, & those who never saw war but still won one for the gipper; rough riders & builders of smooth highways. Liars & truthtellers. So far there are no women. Let’s hope that changes soon.

wednesday newstrip

A hundred & thirty-five asylum seeker children are taking part in a gruelling 72-hour survival course in a snowy Russian forest to train for their upcoming role as space tourists ∙ Toe Knee Ass-Bit has awarded Australia's highest honour to the Queen's husband, Prince Philip, as recognition of his voting for the Marxist party in the Greek elections ∙ British singer Sarah Brightman remains in detention on Nauru after sprouting blooms that smell like rotting fish. European leaders say it reveals a deep-seated racial & chauvinist prejudice on the part of the largest glacier in East Antarctica ∙ Venus Williams is threatening new sanctions on Russia after pro-Russian rebels launched a deadly rocket attack on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol ∙ U.S. President Barack Obama continued to play tennis.

the waterfall

accord

wednesday newstrip

This year's list of Oscar nominations has raised eyebrows in Hollywood & beyond, not least because, for just the second time since the turn of the Century, every nominee in the Academy's four acting categories was once taken prisoner by Japanese forces ∙ security guards have clashed with an antitrust class action lawsuit involving 64,000 former employees at the Manus Island Detention Center ∙ a Gold Coast nightclub kingpin facing drug-related charges has opened up on how his tight friendship with an iceberg that had turned a full 180 degrees to reveal its underside is pushing the Earth into a danger zone for humanity ∙ automotive advertising using asylum seekers on hunger strikes moved on a broad front to sweep up Switzerland ∙ Pope Francis has electrified Roman Catholics in the United States with the open, accepting tone he has brought to suspected radical science fiction.

The lighthouse

wednesday newstrip

Australia continues to slip down global internet speed rankings as sick Australians swamp emergency waiting rooms just like they do in the UK ∙ most primary school teachers in NSW lack the confidence & qualifications to teach attempted murder or torture ∙ Samantha Stosur has suffered yet another dose of the Sydney stutters after a Metro tunnel filled with smoke ∙ Toe Knee Ass-Bit faces a three-year ban for running a galloper with an elevated cobalt level in a Group 1 horse race during the spring carnival ∙ is now a good time to mention Boko Haram?

the distance

some yeah, send, words

from won des laits

bipolarbear

critischism

mucuslar

Medichichi

postulasted

laborinthine

renounerate

catharctic

Banksy responds to the Charlie Hebdo attack

wednesday newstrip

The Obama administration on Friday imposed a wave of sanctions against honey pots, hives, vehicles, & forklifts ∙ Toe Knee Ass-Bit has "categorically" denied allegations made in US court papers that he sexually abused a 30m by 50m shed in Alexandra, central Otago ∙ Jewish colonists last night pelted the tomb of a previously unknown Egyptian queen at a new year's barbecue for Australian airforce crews fighting Chinese steel prices ∙ members of the North Korean government claim they were used as sex slaves on Sun's South Pole ∙ Netflix was engulfed in flames when it tried to visit the West Bank to investigate a complaint by Palestinian farmers over vandalism of olive trees ∙ 2015 is the year of the dwarf planets.

Milton, in the afternoon

she stood,          & waited,          & also served   — tea, & cucumber sandwiches cut into small triangles.

is something happening here, mr jones?

. . . the sight of Mt Erebus erupting as the plane flew over Ross Island around 2am on New Year's Day
January 2 2015
Big volcanic eruption near Tonga's capital
December 30 2014
Popocatepetl volcano erupts in Mexico emitting gas & ash some two miles in the sky.
December 30 2014
A cloud of ash belched out by the Sheveluch volcano in Kamchatka is spreading 35 km.
December 30 2014.
Lava from Kilauea Volcano stopped short of hitting Pahoa Marketplace on Christmas day but it has resumed its movement on Saturday.
December 29 2014
Ash clouds from two active volcanoes in Guatemala prompted local air travel warnings yesterday.
December 27 2014
The eruption of Fogo volcano (Cape Verde) & the 3 lava flows (North, South and West), & the location of the destroyed settlements.
December 27 2014
Indonesia has temporarily closed a domestic airport after a volcano in the country's east erupted, spewing plumes of ash hundreds of meters .
December 19 2014
Turrialba Volcano, 60 km northeast of the Costa Rican capital erupted again Monday evening
December 9 2014
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has provided November’s monthly update on the Yellowstone volcano & 119 earthquakes were registered in the area of Yellowstone National Park.
December 7 2014



see also: http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/home.html

geographies: Koolkuna

wednesday newstrip

Posts that describe an Australian man who was reportedly killed while fighting in Syria as a martyr can turn a good night into an average one, Foreign Minister Julienned Bishop says ∙ a senior leader of the al Qaeda-aligned al Shabaab militant group will turn his attention to entertainment of a different kind next year ∙ the U.S. military launched an air strike on Monday to end the occupation & create a Palestinian state ∙ a deal between Qatar & the Gulf states was fatally attacked by a shark just as traders locked in profits ∙ shares in Yahoo! have risen about 200 per cent since a girl was reportedly taken from her Brisbane home to undergo female genital mutilation in Africa.

The aperture

The channel

geographies: Isisford

wednesday newstrip

Media mogul Rude Pervert Merde-OK’s first tweet after the Sydney hostage crisis ended didn't mention the two innocent people who died in the terrifying ordeal—just a congratulatory shout-out to one of his tabloid newspapers, the Daily Telegraph, for rushing out a special 2pm edition, described by another source as "containing potentially one of the most vile, deliberately inflammatory, fundamentally wrong, & wholly speculative front covers in the sordid history of Australian print media" ∙ hackers claiming to be Anonymous leak New Zealand Police passwords in supposed retaliation for the mass coral spawning occuring on the Great Barrier Reef ∙ scientists say the Russian currency has made a large step towards developing an effective vaccine for dengue fever ∙ police are investigating the genomes of 45 bird species found in a suspicious package located in the canteen area of the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT) building in Canberra.

geographies: Kirknie

wednesday newstrip

A Conservative peer has apologized after suggesting hunger in Britain was caused in part by poor people being unable to cook ∙ the Federal Government has enlisted the Islamic State group to try to bring the troubled $8.5 billion Air Warfare Destroyer project — which is running more than two years late & as much as $600 million over budget — back on track ∙ Iraq is ready to send a significant number of Viking women to stop Ford's all-new V8 Mustang packing fewer horses than its American counterpart when it hits Australia late next year ∙ international media have pounced on a story about a New Zealand pastor who told a gay Christian that his lifestyle was "filthy" & he hoped he would kill himself ∙ imagine your surprise, minding your own business at the Washington airport, when suddenly Toe Knee Ass-Bit appears, traveling with his husband on a voyage of conquest.

geographies: Keebah

wednesday newstrip

Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit says gender-neutral children's toys have no place in society but that he has "no theological objection" to nuclear energy ∙ Ass-Bit has also said he had listened to the concerns of 50,000 'ghost soldiers' — who don't work or don't even exist but are still on the military payroll — about the potentially devastating impact of inbreeding on Rude Pervert Merde-OK’s new bible movie ∙ Ass-Bit has left the door open for further changes to his controversial paid parental leave scheme by showing a shocking video of little spotted kiwis fighting off eve-teasers on a Haryana Roadways bus ∙ a game of political chicken has weighed into the debate on Twitter about the high numbers of military families remaining on the East West Link ∙ do you really need to activate your nuts?

World AIDSday

wednesday newstrip

An electronic cigarette has been stealing information from governments & businesses since 2008, researchers said ∙ Art Gallery of SA director Nick Mitzevich has angrily denied there was evidence to suggest some of the works in its collection fled the country after being informed they would be arrested in a potentially lethal confrontation ∙ two paedophile senior teachers at an elite Hobart boys' school would need to gradually move away from mining coal if carbon capture & storage technologies do not prove successful ∙ New Zealand Security Intelligence Service director Rebecca Kitteridge is warning about the potential risks of "vaping" after an unidentified resident receiving oxygen therapy was injured by a fire sparked by a sophisticated cybersespionage tool ∙ the days of the yellow-crested rockhopper penguin could be numbered if police are trained to "shoot to wound."

Nostalgia creeps in

& rattles my hi-hat . . .

BALD EAGLE

Have you ever listened
to the way most
drummers sing? So
regular, so pedestrian,
a freight train held captive
by its tracks. It seems
they cannot forget
that they are drummers
so sit on the rhythm
of the song as if
scared of losing it
if they let go. Welcome
to the Hotel California.

fauxsimile

in th'wind

in th'new year

a line from Meritage Press

wednesday newstrip

'Jihadi John' suspect Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 24, has joined industry experts in warning of a looming global chocolate shortage ∙ an aspiring Kiwi film maker is having the last laugh after fooling a city council, a US talk show & thousands of people online with his video of a monster Toe Knee Ass-Bit flaunting his femininity in Melbourne on Tuesday night ∙ the best man at a stag party had to be pepper sprayed after becoming enraged that the Ass-Bit government has confirmed it will snub the United Nations Green Climate Fund to assist developing nations cope with global warming ∙ a new report has shown that Australia's ecosystems & habitats are under threat, with 138 species residing on an unprotected Kim Kardashian ∙ a change in the weather has triggered a public backlash after two women it hired as strippers pole-danced instead.

Toe Knee Ass-Bit indicates

what he really thinks about the people of Australia.

Tablets really are the new PCs

The car industry cannot stop making new cars
                     but
Nobody buys them because they are too expensive
                     so
I bought an electrical tricycle to
transport eggs with my wife
                     now
The monster will destroy this country

x-posted

wednesday newstrip

The population of certain animal species are on a decline since pictures posted on social media led police to search a house on Brisbane's southside where they found pre-boiled eggs ∙ the thing that gets Britney Spears out of bed in the morning is the need to create a creepy Russian website to broadcast her webcam to the world ∙ the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago last Sunday, a key event in the collapse of communism & the preface to Germany's reunification landing on supermarket shelves ∙ an aggressive social media campaign pushing for a boycott on Halal products has forced Coca-Cola to drop the Christmas tour for its iconic truck ∙ under Toe Knee Ass-Bit, for the first time since Bob Hawke was Prom Minister, Australians' standard of living is going backward.

geographies: Hollister's Hill

Today the
postman brought
me a letter I
had written re-
plying to a letter
I had earlier
written to my-
self. I was so
disappointed to
find nothing
new in it.

Bein' a whale

since I did a cut & post of stuff from won des laits. So . . .

übergene

CDtROMbone

primightive

camouflagellation

indiscreate

ablotions

insolentils

escargot pants

archaiCtrl+Alt+Del

geographies: Mount Alma

wednesday newstrip

This morning we've caught our first full glimpse of what it'll look like to own a smartphone made by the burning of fossil fuels ∙ Burkina Faso's interim President Isaac Zida said on Monday that the army would cede power to a transition government headed by a consensual leader. Military personnel & their families started venting their frustrations online within hours ∙ Israeli-based cyber security company Radware has profited from a spate of attacks on The International Panel on Climate Change ∙ is a plant really a plant if it dazzles the audience with a series of costume changes & gorgeous gowns? ∙ allegations of police complicity in the abuse of children in care in dog fighting rings will make Australia stop by the end of the century ∙ Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit says coal is still the foundation of prosperity for now & the foreseeable future since, like Microsoft, it has no leaves, no roots, & grows underground.

conjunct

Issue #35 of Otoliths is now live

Issue thirty-five of Otoliths, this year’s southern spring issue, has just gone live.

It contains, as usual, an astounding range of text & visuals from Bobbi Lurie, harry k stammer, Volodymyr Bilyk, Virginia Luck, Sarah James, Roger Mitchell, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Andrew Cantrell, Kyle Hemmings, Dennis Vannatta, Elizabeth Allen, Anders Enochsson, Marcia Arrieta, Seth Copeland, Craig Cotter, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Pete Spence, Jim Meirose, Philip Byron Oakes, Eric Hoffman, Raymond Farr, Richard Kostelanetz, Reed Altemus, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Diane Keys, John M. Bennett & Thomas M. Cassidy, Toby Fitch, Howie Good, Chris Brown, Jack Galmitz, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Marco Giovenale, Carey Scott Wilkerson, Edewede Oriwoh, Texas Fontanella, John Martone, Mark Russell, Andrew Topel, Andrew Topel & Koji Nagai, William Allegrezza, Márton Koppány, Márton Koppány & Tamarin Norwood, Mary Cresswell, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Cecelia Chapman, Connor Stratman, Heath Brougher, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Simon Perchik, John Lowther, Joe Milford, Willie Smith, Michael Ruby, Joe Balaz, sean burn, Jeff Harrison, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Sarah Edwards, Jeffrey Jullich, Anne-Marie JEANJEAN, bruno neiva, Ivars Balkits, Katrinka Moore, John Pursch, SS Prasad, John W. Sexton, Hazel Smith, Tony Beyer, Bob Heman, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Rosaire Appel, Angad Arora, Bogdan Puslenghea, Sabine Miller, Jake Goetz, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio, Tony Page, Michael Brandonisio, J. D. Nelson, Shokla Shankar, & Gian Luigi Braggio.

In addition there is a special feature, a portfolio entitled [6 x 1] + [1 x 6] made up of a poem from Eileen R. Tabios with responses to it from John Bloomberg-Rissman, Sheila E. Murphy, lars palm, Marthe Reed, Leny M. Strobel, & Anne Gorrick.

&, as usual, enjoy the variety.