kph Beethoven

wednesday newstrip

Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit will move the "center of government" to the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqqa in eastern Syria for a week next month in keeping with his election promise to offer girls as young as 11 access to contraception without parental consent ∙ a British mother says she has had her turtle seized by a Spanish hospital pending a GoPro tour of the Great Barrier Reef as seen from the point of view of its inhabitants ∙ the Agriculture Minister, Barnacled Joystick, has cited a Prom Minister diktat forbidding his ministers to appear watching sea lions do their groovy sea lion thing on the TV show Q&A, a spokesman for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has said ∙ Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has hinted he will resign if remote indigenous communities in the Torres Strait Islands & Northern Peninsula area vote 'yes' in Sunday's referendum on an aid-for-reforms package.

Pour Prévert, some autumn leaves, replayed

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                                r
       f            e                          s
                     s

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        e              m                  e

wednesday newstrip

Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit was in Singapore last week promoting the shooting death of a Rebels bikie member whose body was found in bushland north of Sydney ∙ Toyota Australia has extended the range of vehicles involved in the Android Developer Tools safety recall ∙ notorious Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf is still alive after investing more than $1 billion in the retail petrol sector ∙ too much male sexual attention harms the potential of Australia's "great north" according to a new Australian & Canadian study ∙ what creature has a better life than a beloved, spoiled family fruit fly?

The little Corsican

VII.IV.XV

By Ed
Dorn's
early
light.

Today the
postman brought
me semen from
a papal bull. Un-
fortunately, the
only holy cow
I know of is too
busy camping

it up with the
rest of the crew
of the sixties TV
series Batman
to be available
for insemination.

wednesday newstrip

Speculation is rife that BlackBerry will do the previously unthinkable & release left-handed psychopaths & sociopaths on to the market ∙ Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit is rated in the top 10 dogs that attack people, says a vet ∙ kangaroos applaud 'creative thinking' behind means-tested public education ∙ climate change & the consequent concentrations of carbon dioxide that are expected by mid-century may cause Madonna to become the elephant in the room ∙ Green MP Mojo Mathers says vulnerable people are being pressured to buy hearing aids their pet dogs don't need ∙ the holy month of Ramadan provides us with an opportunity to rethink our priorities & to set our goals for the remaining year.

geographies: Cremorne

wednesday newstrip

Janet Yellen says it is hard to have great confidence in predicting what the market reaction will be to Iggy Azalea operating an iPhone or iPad without moving a muscle ∙ a statement released by China's foreign ministry says that China will cease building additional islands, though it plans to blend different fictional universes together to complete existing land reclamation efforts ∙ mind control is nearly here thanks to the decline of Tasmania's top predator, the Tasmanian devil ∙ Toe Knee Ass-Bit is facing another ministerial rift over proposed laws stripping intestinal bacteria of citizenship because the draft legislation is not expected to go back to full cabinet for further consideration ∙ researchers have discovered that terrorists can leak into the bloodstream after extreme exercise & cause a shift in the state's ecosystem.

The Charm v.4

wednesday newstrip

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission is seeking industry feedback on whether or not supplying retail fixed broadband services to groups such as Islamic State would lessen competition in the online recruiting of homegrown fighters ∙ Health authorities are still looking for patients of an unregistered dentist who may have infected them with hepatitis & HIV while running an illegal summit on terrorism in Melbourne's west ∙ Homer & Marge Simpson are to separate after more than 25 years together following Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bookshop's claim that the Islamic State group is recruiting highly-trained technicians & scientists to take over the hit cartoon ∙ Malaysian authorities have detained "a Hydra-headed monster" for allegedly stripping naked on Mount Kinabalu in an act some locals say angered tribal spirits & caused a deadly earthquake.

hubble bubble

the chariot

wednesday newstrip

Asylum seeker boat crashes onto reef after being turned back by an aggressive foreign fish that can move across dry land & choke birds ∙ Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit has read the riot act to his colleagues, warning there would be personal consequences for anyone caught leaking, according to leaks from last week's party room meeting ∙ environment groups believe Australia has embarrassed itself by ducking questions at a United Nations climate change conference in Germany on the fatal attraction between certain marsupials & why these species literally fuck themselves to death ∙ National Australia Bank has completed its $5.5 billion capital raising after selling more than 65 people, including a pregnant woman, overnight on Thursday ∙ laboratory tests will soon reveal how the last wild population of the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot came to be infected with the latest version of Apple's iOS in the Tasmanian forest.

faux fauve

appliance

wednesday newstrip

To lump the Microsoft Surface three, launched late last month, in the identical class as a woman, 22, shot in the upper leg in a residence behind Joe's Organic Market on Victoria Rd is to significantly misrepresent it ∙ Chile's Very Large Telescope has captured a stunning new image of a Petition to Take Away Iggy Azalea's Billboard Music Award for "Fancy" ∙ insurgents seized the opening ceremony of the 65th FIFA Congress in Zurich in the latest in a series of recent gains by a newly effective opposition coalition that includes the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda ∙ a man who appears to have attacked a bear at a Polish zoo is suffering from a systemic fear of failure that is stifling the growth of innovative new ideas ∙ the humble vending machine could have a Wi-Fi device installed to track elderly dementia patients.

envelope

wednesday newstrip

Kim Kardashian West says her sister Kylie Jenner has been unhappy, since she was 10, with China's territorial claims around artificial islands built in the South China Sea ∙ the heavy sell-off in bank shares has deepened, led by Westpac's dive into a new disc format ∙ images on an Islamic State website show what looks very much like an iPhone 5S but with the colored plastic backing of an iPhone 5C overrunning Iraqi government defences east of Ramadi ∙ Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit is insulting Australians' intelligence by using negative & childish slogans to deal with the current refugee crisis ∙ Google on Thursday apologized for a Maps mishap that directed users to the White House when a racist term was searched.

trans/verse

          Or is
               it an inter-
                    section
                         where ideas
                              have the

                             greenlight &
                         words can't
                    turn right
               to follow
          them?

wednesday newstrip

Republican lawmakers in the U.S. Congress backed new spending cuts for Amtrak on Wednesday, just hours after it landed on a property north of Longreach in Queensland ∙ the Federal Government's National Ice Taskforce will begin its community hearings on board a balloon in South Australia's south east ∙ Agriculture Minister Barnacled Buoys says two pet dogs belonging to US actor Johnny Depp will be put down unless the actor removes them from Australia ∙ Toyota and Nissan are recalling tens of thousands of cars in Ireland that may be affected by claims Netflix has overtaken Foxtel as the subscription service of choice in Australia ∙ Malcontent Turncoatabull has urged his government colleagues to show "more respect" for new mothers. Scientists are scrambling to recover the priceless data.

sou

the proposition

wednesday newstrip

Drug companies are on the brink of war with the Ass-Bit government over proposed cuts in this week's budget which they warn will restrict Kylie Jenner's access to artificial plumping techniques to make her pout more full ∙ police in Indonesia have reportedly arrested a man for trying to smuggle the world's fifth-largest economy stuffed inside of plastic water bottles ∙ wearing army fatigues & rare birds, the fifth in line to the throne disembarked in the Ohio jail featured in the film The Shawshank Redemption ∙ Russia said an unmanned supply ship set for the International Space Station has gotten a lot of flak for its efforts to improve the nutritional value of school lunches & reduce the rate of childhood obesity ∙ mysterious 'alien' signals from Parkes telescope found to be coming from facility’s microwave ∙ climate change is a hoax led by the United Nations so that it can end democracy & impose authoritarian rule, according to Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit's chief business adviser.

The Charm v3

the aperture

wednesday newstrip

Scientists are at a bit of a loss after finding the most overhyped fight in the history of sport orbiting a small cool star some 500 light years away ∙ the Australian doctor who featured in an Islamic State propaganda video is being investigated by TV Week & the Apple Watch ∙ Turkish riot police fired water cannon & tear gas to disperse a thousand celebrities using social media during this year's Logies ∙ about one in six species now alive on the planet could become extinct as a result of the Eurovision Song Contest ∙ women "invite" rape whenever they have the nerve to walk alone at night, according to the mayor of Albury in New South Wales.

The acrobats' routines finish, & the elephants enter. The circus band, silent for the last twenty-three minutes, does not so much strike up but rather glides into the introductory accompaniment, Sibelius' Valse Triste. A graceful transition. Pindar & Duncan would be equally delighted. "The light foot hears you, & the brightness begins, / god-step at the margins of thought....."

Issue thirty-seven of Otoliths is live

Issue thirty-seven of Otoliths, the southern autumn 2015 issue, is now online.

Depending on your time zone, it's either Walpurgisnacht or May Day. Which means, along with occasional bonfires & dancing & raisings of the People's Flag, it's time for Otoliths to celebrate its birthday.

So join in any or all of the four activities, kick up your heels & sing as you read / view work from a multinational crew consisting of Naomi Buck Palagi, Laura Hyde, Michael Prihoda, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Mark Cunningham, Felino A. Soriano, Philip Byron Oakes, Claudio Parentela, Ed Baker, Ivan Argüelles, Jim Leftwich, Kevin Rabas, Claire Nashar, George Moore, Kyle Hemming, John Lowther, Amanda Earl, Massimo Stirneri, Hamish Spark, Annette Plasencia, Lakey Comess, Glenn R. Frantz, Bill DiMichele, Roger Mitchell, Collin Schuster, Texas Fontanella, Thomas Fink, Thomas Fink & Maya Diablo Mason, Claudia Serea, John M. Bennett, Thomas M. Cassidy & John M. Bennett, Sarah James & Dan Haynes, J. Crouse, Willie Smith, Richard Kostelanetz, Catherine Zickgraf, Cecelia Chapman, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, M. J. Gette, Javant Biarujia, Raymond Farr, Jack Galmitz, Howie Good, bruno neiva, Tony Rickaby, B. J. Muirhead, Carol Stetser, Steve Gilmartin, Karl Kempton, David Dick, hiromi suzuki, John Pursch, Pete Spence, Jim Meirose, Marco Giovenale, John Jay Flicker, Joe Balaz, Jeff Harrison, Bobbi Lurie, Jake Goetz, Bob Heman, Les Wicks, Enola Mirao, Alberto Vitacchio, Marcus Liljedahl, Marcia Arrieta, Angad Arora, Carla Bertola, Yuxing Xia, sean burn, Jack Little, Paul Siegell, Jen Crawford, Shloka Shankar, Matt Trease, Jill Jones, Márton Koppány, Mary Cresswell, William Allegrezza, PT Davidson, Tim Wright, Gian Luigi Braggio, Anne M Carson, Brentley Frazer, Véronique Champollion, Marty Hiatt, Michael Brandonisio, J. D. Nelson, & Katrinka Moore.

Look round, the Frenchman loves its blaze,
The sturdy German chants its praise,
In Moscow's vaults its hymns were sung
Chicago swells the surging throng.

wednesday newstrip

Chinese scientists say they've genetically modified human embryos to prepare for an alien invasion, sparking debate over mysterious slow-flying bright lights in the sky ∙ since walking British headline Katie Hopkins wrote her now notorious column referring to refugees as "cockroaches" & Australia as a nation of "tiny hearts," she has won four Grammys & her debut album has shot back to the top of the ARIA charts ∙ Indonesia is facing an international petition demanding the country change its name to Outdonesia as it prepares to execute 10 convicted drug smugglers by firing squad ∙ pro-Israel Republican members of Congress are seeking to start a war with Iran because the Nike sports brandname sounds like an Arabic slang word for sexual intercourse ∙ recent studies have linked prolonged exposure to those cheesy songs from radio that get stuck in your head to a decrease in the size of the brain & a higher risk for strokes & possibly dementia.

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