back & forth

after Hokusai

wednesday newstrip

A group of three amateur archaeologists, aptly nicknamed "Team Rainbow Power," have unearthed the largest viking gay pride rally in the history of Denmark · demonstrators in Istanbul are anxiously waiting for the discovery of gold · Blizzard has shared new details on Overwatch, specifically the competitive mode that roamed the windswept plains of Patagonia until finally felled by a perfect storm of a rapidly warming climate & human intervention · the NSW Rugby League team's medical staff have been urgently trying to get their hands on a prescription for the drug required to treat the world's biggest automotive recall for deadly airbags · Turkish police have fired tear gas & rubber bullets to disperse giant Ice Age species including elephant-sized sloths & powerful saber-toothed cats.

Malcontent Turnipballs considers the future

wednesday newstrip

Attacks on albinos grow in Malawi as body parts are sold for witchcraft · bright orange & smelling 'amazing' - a British seagull survives a stint in a commercial vat of chicken tikka · the world's biggest smartphone maker is picking a fight with the leading fitness technology seller today after a tourist captures crazy pics of kangaroo & pig having sex · a child psychiatrist from Perth accused of filming a boy in a public bathroom in Canada has given up his right to a trio of different-colored chicks nesting in a bent antique spoon created by a Melbourne taxidermist and jeweler · patients undergoing surgery on the weekend are more likely to die than those admitted on weekdays, new research has found.

a garden

Today the
postman brought
me a birthday
card from the
Marquis de
Sade. Not for
me, I told him,
two houses up
the road. I ran
to retrieve it
the minute he
was out of sight.

condominium

recycled, because I like it

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wednesday newstrip

Auckland mayoral candidate Phil Goff & the grandfather of a little boy savagely attacked by a gang of dogs are all over each other's Instagrams - feeding donkeys, playing Twister, riding dinosaur props - you name it · complaints about the public sowing sweet peas in upmarket residential, high-value commercial & public spaces started coming in to the police just after midnight · the remains of up to 40 boy racers were found inside a euthanased crocodile in far north Queensland · large cats now dominate our food supplies · BMW is planning to reposition its high-end coupes by bringing back Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to move the city's port & turn the waterfront land into a universal cancer vaccine.

Punchlines

Get up and fight, sucker

He stood slowly, took a
long drink of water, &
added Mental Health Head-
lines to his news reader.


When I lay a man down he should stay down.

An alternative for open-
minded couples is the
American Indian tribe
known for its totem poles
& the use of pricing
as an incentive mechanism
for stimulating participation.


You have to give him credit. He put up a fight for one and a half rounds.

Don’t let embarrassment get
in the way—it is good
to be reminded that the Xinghua
Metal Wire Mesh Factory
has a genuine cure for baldness.


What’s my name, what’s my name?

“How to maintain my sexual identity in the face of the faggot husband paradox?” The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. “This is not a catastrophic situation. In the way we know a real person, except for the crucial fact that fictional others are ideally constituted rather than perceived, we develop higher-order asymptotics. They have some resemblance to shame but little likeness to guilt. It’s something akin to Zeno's most fundamental paradox, according to which a flying arrow is not moving, since at any time it is in one definite place. Additionally, it’s crucially important to monitor humidity within the winecellar.”


So I said; You go out & hit him. I’m tired.

Manifest in every—or
any—empirical manifestation
of the woven mat is a code
expression for prayer time.


Come on, George. Show me something.

The world's largest drug
company just ditched
an educational &
public-interest film project
when they found that the
three major beetle groups
under study were all
coming up one testicle short.


I’m too fast. I’m too smart. I’m too pretty. I should be a postage stamp.

Their wave speed
independent of their
triangulated per-
formance, the
two monks
spoke in riddles
that went back to
Aristotle & Aquinas.


I am the loneliest of boxing’s poet laureates.

The 44-year-old former teen idol
was sentenced to 90 days in a
Boolean prison. So dead AND My Love!


(The punchlines are, of course, the work of Muhammad Ali. R.I.P.)


originally published in Softblow
& later collected in The Codicils

with Kline in Luxembourg

wednesday newstrip

A stunning woman arrested in the States has sent the Sanders campaign into meltdown after her flawless mugshot exposed a 'personal hostility toward the senator' · now that the final installment of Naughty Dog's Uncharted series has been available for a little over two weeks, there has been increased speculation that the gaming studio has begun working on cute cat videos · Apple has been accused of removing a lesbian couple from an international version of its Mother's Day advertisement · it could have been the most devastating invasion of Europe after Attila the Hun, but the attack by the Golden Horde, led by a grandson of Genghis Khan, ended abruptly in AD 1242 when confronted by twenty-five new Customs officers · solar activity has been at very low levels for the past 24 hours following criticism by former congressman Barney Frank.

repast, repaired

m thr st assh

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uth at mach le

a point of contact

a found poem

geographies: Chillagoe 2

wednesday newstrip aka sans comment

One of the nation's oldest and most prestigious private schools is being investigated for animal cruelty after footage emerged of students tackling & wrestling sheep & rams during a rugby training camp ∙ a Virginia woman has been charged with animal cruelty after Loudoun County authorities alleged she inhumanely killed 12 to 15 chickens weekly for ritual sacrifices ∙ China denies exporting human meat to African supermarkets ∙ Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would renegotiate America’s role in the U.N. global climate accord ∙ Texas teen shoots, kills three-year-old stepson for jumping on bed ∙ NRA endorses Donald Trump for president.

a campaign speech

The Holy Sonnets unDonne

The Holy Sonnets unDonne is now available from The Red Ceilings Press as a downloadable pdf.

"I did Donne in High School. Redone at University. Thought after that that I'd be done with Donne. But no. Discovered that Donne is one of those precursor poets who, like W. C. Williams & Yeats & Apollinaire, I keep coming back to. The Holy Sonnets unDonne is a belated homage, a small sequence that uses the poems by Donne as a starting point to track how things change across four centuries yet still remain as metaphysical as ever."

wednesday newstrip

Don't read on if you're yet to watch the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest & want it to be a surprise ∙ pooches large & small came under fire on Sunday over blackface photos ∙ Pram Minister Malcontent Turnipball says new glucose monitoring technology is life-changing for five men who allegedly planned to get to Indonesia by boat so they could join Islamic State in Syria ∙ China has denounced interpretations of its military operations in the East contained in a a secret pact carving up the floundering Ottoman Empire into spheres of British & French interest ∙ a doggie daycare business owner is furious after council demanded almost $100,000 before she could open her new 2016 BMW X5 xDrive 40e ∙ Last Name should be a hidden field. Please delete if you are a real person.

the tunnel

caprice

wednesday newstrip aka the vanishing planet

a waiting

wednesday newstrip

There was much that was familiar about Donald Trump's first big foreign policy address. He vowed to pardon himself for murder, joked about his penis, said he would kill his own children if he caught them with drugs, & took a new swipe at Australia over its policy on the South China Sea ∙ on Wednesday, Tinder announced it would be unveiling yet another group-dating feature to its dating & hookup app: more than 100 wild horses mustered from the central volcanic plateau in New Zealand's North Island are today beginning their journey to new homes around the country ∙ the National Health Performance Authority report says fans have come across a major continuity error in the first episode of Game of Thrones' latest season—some Australian hospitals are spending twice as much as others to treat patients ∙ a three-way collision between spiral galaxies that has created a giant supermassive black hole with a mass three billion times that of the sun sounds very much like the insane man who told a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday: “Do I look like a president? How handsome am I?” ∙ a powerful Saudi prince has said that the kingdom is not ready to allow women to drive.

Today the
postman brought
me a lifesize full-
color effigy of
Donald Trump. I
put it in the back-
yard to keep the
fruit bats at bay.
The plan backfired.
So much orange
that the fruit bats—
dare I say it?—
went bananas &
have started
arriving in ever-
increasing numbers.

skyline

Issue forty-one of Otoliths is live

Otoliths salutes May Day once again with its own Internationale, a multi-country list of contributors in issue forty-one, the southern autumn issue.

Come celebrate the 10^th anniversary of the journal with Pam Brown, Jesse Glass, Philip Byron Oakes, Marco Diotallevi, Travis Cebula, Charles Borkhuis, Kyle Hemmings, Daniel Y. Harris, Jack Galmitz, Mark Melnicove, Michael Allen, Raymond Farr, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Texas Fontanella, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Archana Kapoor Nagpal, Pete Spence, Joel Chace, AG Davis, Márton Koppány, Sanjeev Sethi, Martin Law, Gheorghe Marian Neguțu, Niloofar Fanaiyan, Tomás Sánchez Hidalgo, Andrew Brenza, Luisa-Evelina Stifii, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Baron, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Tim Suermondt, Scott MacLeod, John W. Sexton, Andrew Topel, Francesco Aprile, Catherine Vidler, Olivier Schopfer, Lakey Comess, Louise Landes Levi, Richard Kostelanetz, bruno neiva, Hugh Schwarz, Timothy Pilgrim, Billy Cancel, Cecelia Chapman, Amelia Dale, sean burn, Zachary Scott Hamilton, Bill DiMichele, Javant Biarujia, Valeria Sangiorgi, Steve Dalachinsky, Charles Freeland, Michael Prihoda, Bobbi Lurie, Glen Armstrong, Jeff Harrison, Martin H. Levinson, Carol Stetser, Christopher Barnes, hiromi suzuki, sutcliffe lovingood, Edward Kulemin, Laurent Grison, Ana Prundaru, Clara B. Jones, Marco Giovenale, William Garvin, Stephen Nelson, Aidan Coleman, Rebecca Eddy, Bob Heman, Annette Plasencia, Bogdan Puslenghea, Carla Bertola, Tom Beckett, Alberto Vitacchio, Susan Gangel, Jeff Bagato, Kit Kennedy, Owen Bullock, J. D. Nelson, Brendan Slater, John Pursch, Ginny O'Brien & Michael Basinski, Matthew Carbery, Karl Kempton, Seth Howard, Sal Randolph, Gian Luigi Braggio, Robert Lee Brewer, Shloka Shankar, Shloka Shankar & Bill Waters, Tony Beyer, Marcia Arrieta, Tim Wright, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Michael Brandonisio, Eric Hoffman, Reijo Valta, & Katrinka Moore.

Enjoy!

taproot

a home on a range

wednesday newstrip

A video has been released showing huge flames erupting from methane gas on the surface of a woman in a wheelchair in Queensland, Australia ∙ following the discoveries of seven tiny teeth from an ancient monkey that made a 100-mile trek across the ocean between North & South America & a giant, fossilized tooth of an ancient killer whale in Beaumaris Bay, every Australian child will be eligible for subsidized dental care under an ambitious new Turnipball government plan ∙ New Zealanders & their pets have consumed more than 600 tonnes of seafood sourced from a Thai conglomerate condemned for its use of slave labor, including the locking of indentured laborers in cages ∙ the U.S. Justice Department said it has withdrawn a request to force Apple to reveal data from a cellphone linked to millions of low-income adults congregating at a shopping centre in country New South Wales.

K-dash

Note #1 for a treatise

Today the
postman brought
me a pamphlet
describing the ways
in which erectile
dysfunction can
be a frightening
thing if left un-
treated. It made
me stiff with fear.

conditioned

In the Delta, one letter is sacred

wednesday newstrip

The Leap Manifesto is a document that calls for a radical restructuring of the next GTA title from Rockstar as Canada swiftly moves toward ending the use of fossil fuels ∙ Australian doctors have issued a warning about swaddling infants, after a study indicated the popular calming method could lead to disappointingly quick intercourse later in life ∙ when massive stars die, they sometimes go supernova — exploding in incredible bursts of energy which means Nova Scotia Power no longer has to run its Cape Breton biomass plant around the clock to produce electricity ∙ a 30-year-old-man has been charged for driving a motorized beer cooler while drunk ∙ This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. Video will play in 5 seconds.

The Art of Living

The orange people
used to be every-
where. Now only
a few scattered centers
are left. All small,
except, of course, for
Donald Trump, the
center of the universe,

with his swollen head
& disconnected brain.
The body transformed
by a business suit; but his
face still stained from the
clothes he wore before.

wednesday newstrip

Japanese satellite Astro-H seems to have been damaged by an equipment failure & not by a collision with tens of thousands of students, as proposed by initial theories ∙ Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron warned Western leaders on Friday that the Islamic State plans to use drones to spray nuclear material over Western cities in order to turn people gay ∙ a leading newspaper has reported that an unnamed country's lawmakers are considering laws that would enforce the death penalty for people who show a lack of interest in social media ∙ premature babies across Victoria are set to benefit from a new online screening tool which will check for space debris ∙ Greek authorities are gearing up to send hundreds of failed asylum seekers back to Turkey as part of a controversial EU migrant deal that has been dubbed "absolutely illegal" by a senior United Nations official.

constraint

elephant(l)ine

The Elephant in the (Next) Room

The Celebean Herd

wednesday newstrip

It's one of ancient Egypt's greatest mysteries, but now the final resting place of Madonna's past relationships may finally have been found, in the room beyond King Tut's tomb ∙ new photographs appear to show a clump of fecal material from Donald Trump circling a young star ∙ security in Belgium remains at its second highest level after cruise-ship passengers on a luxury two-week voyage around the South Pacific were struck down by gastro ∙ Cubans are brimming with a combination of excitement & trepidation as the latest preview build of Windows 10, with some features that are high on the wish lists of developer "insiders," prepares to land in Cuba on Sunday evening ∙ half a century after their leaders dismissed good manners as a bourgeois cultural affection, China's new elite are flocking to Western-style finishing schools to be tutored in politeness & how to serve British afternoon tea.

Today the
postman brought
me a maelstrom.
I got
sucked

.

Ludovicanus does Deutsche Disney

Wink: I'm looking for scientific papers / books on Disney (especially with regard to gender / gender roles). About tips I would be very happy. : Hug:

I want my undergraduate work like writing about the representation of the female gender role, probably by a comparison of the films Sleeping Beauty & Maleficent. I wanted only to Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs & The Ice Queen - Completely unabashed write, but since my supervisor said that I should come up with a good reason why exactly the two movies. They were extremely successful & were therefore seen by many children unfortunately not enough there. As a comparison of the different representations of the characters from Sleeping Beauty might be justified better. A few books I have, however, is a bit thin.

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The work has been completed, graded and defended orally. Who wants to read time, can send me a message, I will send then a Dropboxlink to work as a PDF. :-)

You wrote in the short time your Diss ?! : dd

: Giggle: ne, as far as I am not. If the Bachelor thesis: Laughing Until Diss it is far ...

but Warste still fast. Here is estimated to half a year for.

What rating would it?

In the note there are two numbers that are also used for programming in the computer language. ;)

Komische mixture. How was the Teilnotefür work. That you should but out with the report.

: Jump: jump: top: Congratulations and super interesting topic

wednesday newstrip

The Ohio primary has become a battle for the soul of the Republican Party since a Chinese official put forward a novel plan for Woody Island, a tiny, tropical, & very much contested speck in the South China Sea ∙ chaos reigned on the streets of our major cities overnight after Federal MP Clive Palmer refused to give any guarantees about the future of 550 employees at his north Queensland nickel refinery ∙ U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump & his partner, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, can still enjoy the Murray River this long weekend, despite the blue-green algae outbreak ∙ Sen. Marco Rubio has arrived home for repairs after running aground in Antarctica, railing against 'those stupid people who developed tools with which to slice & mash their food, meaning our ancestors needed to chew much less.'

TYPHOON

Today the
postman brought
me a man who'd
lost his leg to a
crocodile. "Which
one?" I asked.
"Can't tell," he
said. "You've seen
one croc, you've
seen them all."

after escher

wednesday newstrip

Britney Spears strips down to just her towel & reshapes Mars, causing major changes in the red planet's weight & orientation ∙ Madonna's outrageous outfits have shaped the music & fashion worlds but the Obama administration remains split over backing requirements ∙ Prim Minister Malformed Turnipball has failed to endorse a pledge made by the Attorney-General to hold a same-sex marriage plebiscite by the end of 2016 ∙ the edgy-looking C-HR sub-compact crossover that debuted in production form at the Geneva motor show on Wednesday is set to reach these shores in early 2017, but will its decision to wear the current New Zealand flag as a cape hold any sway in the midst of the flag referendum?

chitinous

sigils

transference

wednesday newstrip

It's Oscars time again —and we're bringing you all you need to know about best actor award nominee, the 1.8-liter Atkinson-cycle petrol four producing 72kW/142Nm, series parallel hybrid system with Ni-MH batteries and electric motor generators ∙ an elderly dementia sufferer who crashed her car & was missing for four days in remote rural New Zealand told her family a crowdfunding campaign to hire God saved her ∙ the long-rumored iPhone with 4-inch screen & faster chip, & a next-generation iPad Pro, has signed a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) agreement with Veterans Administration, which will allow it to market its innovative, non-invasive bladder ∙ the Joint Facility at Pine Gap — the spy station at the center of fascination & consternation in the Australia-United States alliance — has developed a new version of its humanoid robot which can walk in snow, pick up objects, & stand up to intense scrutiny by oversight committees without giving any information away.

at present: tense

wednesday newstrip

The lip gloss has come off Prim Minister Malformed Turnipball's countenance now that the honeymoon period resulting from his usurpation of the top jibe in Australian politics has passed ∙ a man looks at a television screen showing an image of Kim Jong Un as the search continues for a teen mum who couldn't look after her “beautiful” three-day old boy so left him on the doorstep of a NSW home ∙ sixteen passengers were escorted from a Jetstar plane at Melbourne Airport last night for bringing a brown-bag lunch every day for a week ∙ Australians who believe security agencies can protect them from a 106-year-old woman waving her cane & breaking into a jig as she is introduced to the Barack Obama & the First Lady are living in dreamland, a prominent military strategist warns.

travelogue

against indolence

wednesday newstrip

The United States is urging Kanye West & Taylor Swift to quit firing at each other as reports of fresh violence between the two parties threaten their efforts to counter Islamic State ∙ the general manager of a storage facility where a woman was stuck in a lift for fourteen hours overnight has called out droves of masked & beaded citizens in Beaufort for publicly gaslighting National Condom Day in the lyric of their latest release ∙ physicists celebrate confirmation of Albert Einstein's last major prediction & now it's time to give Ruby Rose the undivided attention she deserves.

A Star of the Sea

wednesday newstrip

Lite n' Easy has warned its customers not to eat the salad component of meals delivered this week because it may be contaminated with puzzling Kimojis &/or a sex toy ∙ a large crocodile caught at a beach near Townsville's CBD—a "macho dude" with one eye & three teeth—also contained Kimojis among the body parts found in its stomach. They included an image of Jesus Christ's face, a wedge of cheese, scattered pills, & a Hand of Fatima ∙ a woman has allegedly been caught with 26 stolen goats in the back of her truck in central NSW ∙ a woman has been taken away by police after throwing a Kimoji laced with salmonella at N. Z. Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce during a news conference at Waitangi.

HOB

Today the
postman brought
me a pièce de
résistance. Just
the one—I'm
on a diet.

oboe

wednesday newstrip

Opposition Leader Ball Shortened says Pram Minister Malcontent Turncoatabull should show he is still a conviction politician & allow a parliamentary vote on same-sex marriage instead of spending $160 million on an "opinion poll" ∙ former entertainer & convicted sexual predator Rolf Harris has reportedly told friends & family he plans to release a comeback album called Justice For All ∙ Australia's national greenhouse gas emissions are set to keep rising well beyond 2020 on current trends, with the projected growth rate one of the worst in the developed world, a new analysis has found ∙ one in 10 Australian university graduates is semiliterate, according to a new OECD report. More alarming for Britain, where that number is apparently about one in five.

positional play

Issue forty of Otoliths is out

Issue forty of Otoliths, the southern summer, 2016 issue, is now live. It's brought to you by the letter E — that gives you a wide range of superlatives to choose from. I'm going for Exceptional. & Early.

In the issue you'll find Steve Dalachinsky's long sequence as collage; Emma Smith's wonderful paintings; Karl Kempton's remarkable 30-image Rune 12: Dream of the Cross; plus plays, essays, collage, prose poetry, pidgin poetry, other prose, other poetry, photographs, paintings, drawings, animated gifs, as well as some things that cannot be categorized, from a remarkable cast of creators — Susanna Lakner, Philip Byron Oakes, Sheila E. Murphy, Jack Galmitz, Richard Kostelanetz, Bill Wolak, Kyle Hemmings, Jim Meirose, Pete Spence, Marco Giovenale, Jim Leftwich, John Crouse, John M. Bennett, Louise Landes Levi, Sanjeev Sethi, Craig Cotter & Lan Yuan-Hung, Owen Vince, Steve Timm, Raymond Farr, Pat Nolan, Olivier Schopfer, Jared Chipkin, Joel Chace, Diana Magallón, Mark Cunningham, Colin Campbell Robinson, Martin Edmond, Chris Wells, David Adès, Allen Forrest, Christopher Crew, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Melanie Dunbar, Sabine Miller, Kirsten Kaschock, Bobbi Lurie, Willie Smith, Anne-Marie JEANJEAN, Joshua Baird, dan raphael, Susan Laura Sullivan, Scott MacLeod, Thomas M. Cassidy, Dennis Vannatta, Heath Brougher, Lakey Comess, Keith Kumasen Abbott, Laurel L. Perez, Patrick Cahill, Darren C. Demaree, Jesse Glass, Anne Gorrick, Shataw Naseri, Francesca Jurate Sasnaitis, Joe Milford, Shawn Haggerty, Valeria Sangiorgi, J. Crouse, sean burn, Jeff Harrison, Alberto Vitacchio, Vernon Frazer, Mark Russell, Charles Freeland, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Felino A. Soriano, hiromi suzuki, John Pursch, Carol Stetser, Andrew Taylor, Stephen C. Middleton, PT Davidson, M. J. Iuppa, Erik Blagsvedt, nick nelson, Shloka Shankar, Howie Good, Joe Balaz, Ric Carfagna, Michael Brandonisio, Cherie Hunter Day, Clara B. Jones, Tony Beyer, Carla Bertola, Susan Connolly, Volodymyr Bilyk, Anne M Carson, Stephen Nelson, Bob Heman, Michael David Conduit, Katrinka Moore, Ian Gibbins, Carey Scott Wilkerson, J. D. Nelson, Thomas O'Connell, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, David Jalajel, Lucas Smith, Marilyn Stablein, Seth Howard, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Marty Hiatt, Deepika Chauhan & Angad Arora, & Tim Wright.

Enjoy!

Today the
postman brought
me a pasta
maker. My heart
gave out —
I'd asked for
a pacemaker.

concern

Since your dancing
delights me
I







will
honor you
with this arabesque.

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wednesday newstrip

Deposed Australian Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit will face a disciplinary hearing over a botched repair of the famous golden mask of King Tutankhamun ∙ all but one of Australia's state premiers & chief ministers have signed a declaration calling for a crack down on gay conversion therapists who claim they can "cure" homosexuality ∙ scores of medical experiments on mysterious, invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagna sheets or hazelnuts are being conducted in secret at a number of Sydney hospitals & universities ∙ a new report suggests the reason most early extraterrestrial lifeforms would have been struggling to stay alive on Earth may be because a rapidly changing climate wiped out the 'lumps' in the thin gas that lies between the stars in our galaxy ∙ an apparent kidney transplant from a pig to a baboon will attempt to stand for parliament at Australia's next federal election.

ex / change

wednesday newstrip

The federal government is reportedly considering two major options for changing Australia's tax system, but only one includes increasing the rate of self-harm among asylum seekers in offshore & onshore Australian detention centers ∙ a cell phone game which promoted the killing of Aboriginal people has been removed from app stores ∙ which Apple Watch model, size, material, color, & strap should you buy given that small cars are set to make a comeback in 2016? ∙ rats born with an inherited condition that leads to blindness have had their eyesight improved, thanks to a botched drug test at a private clinic in western France ∙ it looks like an eight-legged cross between a pig & a bear but a tardigrade is in fact a crash involving a Smart car & a bus in London Road, Enfield.

Today the
postman brought
me a package
from the Amelia
Earhart Foundation
in Nigeria purporting
to contain A. E.'s
last words embel-
lished on a vellum
scroll & encased
within a container
made of metal from
the Lockheed Electra
in which she made
her last flight.

geographies: Toonpan

t in c

lemon, lime, & bitters

wednesday newstrip

The Australian sharemarket plunged to a 2½ year low in response to the shock news that David Bowie had died shortly after 7am ∙ MTV Australia has been labelled 'trash' after posting a racist tweet requesting “English subtitles” for Latina actresses Eva Longoria & America Ferrera when they presented a Golden Globes award ∙ cookies are used on this site to serve more sex attacks to you & improve your experience ∙ the founder of an infamous Chinese cracking forum, 3DM, has said that pirated games containing the widely available & cancer-causing supplement chromium may all but disappear within two years.

A line from David Bowie

Now that the Esterházy
family are offering a
4 inch stiletto heel in
aromas of ripe red plum,

clove, or coffee, the
disease rate has risen
massively. The vanilla
version—eye liner by

urban decay set off by in-
tricate stencil patterns in
substantial leather from
Wenzhou Jinke Light In-

dustry—is a beauty editor's
favorite way to add value
to treatment media. We were
touring the Doge's Palace &

admiring the institutional
applications of a standing
cinema whose hilt was coated
with petroleum jelly to give

off moisture on dry days
so you don't have to wait
for the salt to set. Sitting
at your desk is killing you.

RIP

found

monaural

Car_apace

wednesday newstrip

Despite a monsoonal weather forecast for Sydney over coming days, century-old artifacts, including a wool balaclava, have been found by heritage experts as they chip away at the snow & ice ∙ Origin of life Energy says it'll vigorously defend a claim by a former employee that the CEO spent nearly $6000 in an afternoon playing 'Jurassic World' on his Dad's iPad ∙ Surf Life Saving Australia has discovered in the dark waters of the ocean a fossil from an extinct species of elephant dating back 100,000 years that could easily fit in your hand ∙ Iran's supreme leader has said Saudi politicians will face 'divine vengeance' over VertiGo, a Disney-developed robot that uses propellers to climb up walls ∙ looking at satellite images of covered up leaks at oil & gas fields in New Zealand & Queensland is the latest in gravity-defying robot technology ∙ a fake tan is the only safe tan, so there should be no shame at all in going faux.

Today the
postman brought
me an already ex-
pensive castle in
the Pyrenees. If
if I'd added the
optional extra of
the giant bird
found in those
Magritte paintings
it would have cost
me an arm & a leg
on top of a basic
price I can barely
afford. & since Ma-
gritte is dead, I don't
trust the vendor's
guarantee that the
artist will paint
any missing limbs
back on me just
like he did to the
model in Attempting
the Impossible.