cage

technocracy

wednesday newstrip

A kangaroo who became disruptive when told it couldn't take a chainsaw on a plane was ordered off the flight · a dead fish has been found dressed up & tied to a chair on the side of a road in Melbourne's outer north-east · a Spanish court says a bungee jumping instructor's poor English may have led a 17-year-old Dutch woman to jump to her death without being connected by rope to a viaduct in northern Spain two years ago. The girl heard "now jump" instead of "no jump," the court ruling stated · new analysis of plasma clouds ejected by the sun suggest solar eruptions behave like a sneeze · Australians have little confidence in USeless Precedent DoNuts T®ump & worldwide he is viewed as arrogant, intolerant & dangerous, according to a new US study.

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The seaside park

Okay.
Can we
stop moving now?

Feeling  
a little
verse for veer.

geographies: Angkor Wat

wednesday newstrip

A popular flea product has been pulled from shelves over fears it's poisoned a number of cats · private space company SpaceX launched a rocket carrying a satellite from Florida's Kennedy Space Center with a previously used All Blacks haka as its first-stage booster · this is apparently the new BMW X3 — the upcoming Audi Q5 rival has been leaked online ahead of its official reveal in completely unmasked, if low resolution, images · followers & descendants of Tūhoe prophet Rua Kēnana want to revive their Israelite religion. They gathered for their last whānau hui in Rotorua, ahead of a statutory apology they will soon receive, for the illegal wrong-doings by the crown to their spiritual leader & his followers over a century ago · arcane new rules prohibit restaurants grilling medium-rare burger · if David Lynch designed a planet, it would be Uranus. Much like every episode of Twin Peaks: The Return, Uranus is fiercely unique and weirdly endearing, even though it makes no fucking sense.

In the night, passing

Topography

sometimes / spam accidentally / gets it right

ON BEHALF AND AUTHORIZED RIGHT OF PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP.

I'M MRS.MELANIA TRUMP AND THE CONTENT OF BELLOW MESSAGE
IS SIGNED AND APPROVED BY UNITED BANK OF AMERICA
AND BY THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF.
Ah, the only man who bellows when he tweets.

wednesday newstrip

When flatworms go to space, they grow two heads · T®ump sells Qatar $12 billion of US weapons days after accusing it of funding terrorism · one thing we'd never thought we'd do in a video game is play as a kid performing a fart-infused lapdance for a rather filthy gentleman in local strip club called The Peppermint Hippo · leaked audio reveals Australian Pram Minister Malcontent Turnipball ridiculing DoNuts T®ump over 'fake polls' & Russia · giant flying turkeys once roamed Australia, Flinders University research confirms · a clear majority of Americans believe the current precedent has tried to interfere with the investigation into Russia's alleged election meddling & possible campaign collusion · Chrissy Teigen shocked to discover husband John Legend has, in fact, seen her butthole · first two-headed porpoise discovered.

T®(ump's)easure Island

Today the
postman brought
me a distressed
ukelele. It was
another gift; but
unlike the earlier
cello, this time
there were no
strings attached.

still
moving

wednesday newstrip

An easyJet flight to London has made an unscheduled stop in Germany after the pilot became concerned about US Special Operations Forces assisting the Philippine military in its battle against ISIS-affiliated fighters · DoNuts T®ump sees James Comey's decision to give up dangerous stunts for the sake of his family as 'complete vindication' — & his fans agree · British Pram Minestrone Theresa MayNotStay's office says Julie Newmar, the greatest on-screen Catwoman of them all, & a man found unconscious in a Melbourne park have both agreed to support her minority government on an informal basis in Parliament · NASA video shows asteroids circling Earth after it spots 10 'potentially hazardous' space rocks that are not only delicious chip flavorings, but also brilliant all-purpose cleaners in the home · witnesses have watched on in horror as disgruntled shareholders of a Chinese zoo fed a live donkey to tigers in an ongoing dispute with zoo management.

revisiting Giorgio

Today the
postman brought
me the winter
of our discontent,
the Arab spring,
& the summer of
love, as compen-
sation because the
bookshop couldn't
supply my recent
order, The Fall, by
Albert Camus.

wednesday newstrip

On the eve of the Arab-Israeli war, 50 years ago this week, Israeli officials raced to assemble an atomic device & developed a plan to detonate it atop a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula as a warning to Egyptian & other Arab forces, according to an interview with a key organizer of the effort that will be published Monday · Ariel Winter admits her self-confidence soared after a third gravitational wave, a tiny ripple in space-time, swept past Earth at the speed of light in just 0.4 seconds on January 4 · man dies from flesh-eating bacteria after going swimming with new christian tattoos of the mugshot of a teenage girl charged with murdering an Uber driver · stormy afternoon weather & a nearby lightning strike grounded a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Thursday, forcing DoNuts T®ump to take the US out of the Paris climate change accord · putting a dried up wasp’s nest in your vagina is a terrible idea says a gynecologist after noticing that oak galls were being sold on Etsy.

nepotism

Today the
postman brought
me a directive
from the Secret
Service stating
that their Com-
mander-in-Chief,
because of his re-
fusal to accept the
science of climate
change, would,
in future, have
POTASH as his id-
entifying acronym.

two roads diverged

neither nor

wednesday newstrip

US Secretary of Homeland Security JonQuilly says the US might ban Jared Kushner from aircraft cabins on all flights into & out of the country · North Korea has fired off what appears to be a Korean boy-band T-shirt stuffed inside a ballistic wheelie bin · an eight-foot great white shark considered setting up a secret communications line with Russia during the unprecedented transition to discuss the country's military operations in Syria & other issues · DoNuts T®ump waited for a golf cart because he couldn't manage to walk 700 yards to join the other G7 leaders to pose for a group photo.

geographies: Makowata

The Itinerary of Iris Murdoch

wednesday newstrip

North Korea has fired a medium-range Queensland man serving time for foreign incursion, a week after it managed to successfully test long range leaked Facebook documents that show how the social media company moderates issues such as hate speech, terrorism, pornography & self-harm · "The nations of the Middle East cannot wait for American power to crush them." DoNuts T®ump misreads his speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh · Pram Minister Malcontent Turnipball is unapologetic about setting a four-month deadline for thousands of refugee applications, saying the incredible extravagance of Pippa Middleton's high society wedding to James Matthews must not be abused · a seed vault built deep inside a mountain between mainland Norway & the North Pole, designed to protect humanity from a food shortage crisis, has been transferred to a breathable workout suit with ventilating flaps that open & close in response to body heat & sweat.

from my favorites album

The Schwarzvogel Ficcione

Elsebet Schwarzvogel, consumptive
third daughter of the fourth
Grand Duke of Lower Saxony,
is reputed to have been
so enraptured by the resonance
of the cello she gave instructions
& a large sum of her father’s money
that on her death her intestines
were to be taken out & stretched
& strung on a quintet of instruments
she had had especially made
by those craftsmen from Cremona.
She also commissioned small works
from some of the greatest composers
of the time, & asked, without
the accompaniment of money, that
they be performed on each
anniversary of her passing. Sadly
nothing now is left except the tale
& a fragment of music
that emerged in the 1930s as
Bye Bye Blackbird & was
also destined for erasure until re-
vitalized by this recording made,
in a nice twist of synchronicity,
on the tercentenary of her death
by that great quintet of Miles Davis
from the early fifties, with Coltrane
on tenor & Philly Joe Jones driving it
along. Close your eyes. Listen for
the cello breathing in the background.

c. 2004

EMBOLISM

In the Levant

Phoenicia

went
swimming in
the Roland Barthes

sym em
bol
ism

up

is

not

down

"There is coral beneath the surface,
There is sand, and berries
Like pomegranates grow."

separation

a variant on a won des laits piece

wednesday newstrip

Wheat House advisers concede DoNuts T®ump's firing of American neo-Nazi Mike Enoch as the headline for DingoCon, a political convention to be held in Sydney in July, was mishandled & that they've lost control · Windows 10 S, a more restricted version of the full Windows 10 for the education market which won't work with Chrome, Opera, or Firefox, challenged the Eurovision Song Contest's decades-long reputation for cheesy, glittery, unbridled excess — & won · the Australian Fascist Facebook page confirmed that social media is emerging as the new hunting ground for scammers to find victims, according to data out today. Tickets to DingoCon are being advertised for $88 · hackers behind massive ransomware attack have made an embarrassingly small amount of money. · frustrated & isolated Precedent considering staff shakeup at demoralized Wheat House following a bloody all-in brawl believed to have been started by the serial groper.

one side of the silvered chasm

at the edges

wednesday newstrip

Early in Arkane Studios' new game, The First 100 Days of DoNuts T®ump, you're subjected to a battery of tests by Breitbart scientists, whose work commodifying a mysterious alien lifeform leads to the space station disaster you'll soon be tasked with fixing · on the Venn diagram of strange animal mating behaviors — from lobster golden showers to garter-snake orgies — duck sex is on the border between cartoonish & sadistic · Banksy Brexit mural of man chipping away at EU flag appears in Dover. Now NASA scientists are drawing up plans to dismantle it & send it hurtling into the South Pacific in the world's most spectacular demolition job · an American school teacher is being accused of allowing students to hit a piñata with a picture of the precedent during a Cinco de Mayo celebration.

the the theater ater ater

Today the
postman brought
me the State of
Denmark. I sent
it back — some-
thing was rotten.

geographies: Istanbul

trendlines

wednesday newstrip

US Precedent DoNuts T®ump has reflected on Kendall Jenner turning topless dominatrix babe in thigh-high boots calling her "a pretty smart cookie" in a television interview · T®ump said he would not rule out the use of military force against the OnePlus 5, one of the most anticipated flagship releases of the year · the European Space Agency & China are discussing a potential collaboration for setting up a human base inside North Korean leader Kim Jong-un · Wheat Haus Chief of Staff BlueRinse Priapus said Sunday that the administration has "looked at" potential changes to libel laws that would make it easier for T®ump to sue Microsoft & other console manufacturers · the Ku Klux Klan, hate groups & hate crimes, are back on the rise. Riding the wave of the politics of hate. They're popping their robes back on, emboldened to broadcast their white supremacist message like never before.

Otoliths issue forty-five is live

Otoliths issue forty-five is live.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has survived its unprecedented dive between Saturn & its innermost rings, to send back the latest issue of Otoliths that includes cosmic work from Karl Kempton, Thomas Fink, Maya D. Mason, John Xero, John M. Bennett, D.J. Huppatz, Daniel de Culla, Seth Copeland, Texas Fontanella, Jim Leftwich, Robert Lee Brewer, Jim Hanson, Olivier Schopfer, William Repass, Steve Dalachinsky, Kyle Hemmings, Craig Cotter, Jon Cone, Dah Helmer, Michael Farrell, Peycho Kanev, Richard J. Fleming, Cecelia Chapman, Jeff Crouch, Jack Galmitz, Philip Byron Oakes, J.J. Campbell, Sanjeev Sethi, Tom Montag, Darren C. Demaree, Hart Broudy, Neil Leadbeater, Volodymyr Bilyk, Stephen C. Middleton, Aidan Semmens, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Bill Wolak, Pete Spence, Clara B. Jones, Andrew Topel, Andrew Taylor & David Spittle, Marietta McGregor, Faleeha Hassan, Diane Keys, Jesse Glass, Kenneth Rexroth, Katrinka Moore, Daniel Y. Harris, osvaldo cibils, Thomas M. Cassidy, Eileen R. Tabios, David Lohrey, Edward Kulemin, Jared Chipkin, Lakey Comess, Baron Geraldo, Shataw Naseri, Logan K. Young, AG Davis, hiromi suzuki, Hugh Tribbey, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Caleb Puckett, Drew B. David, Jeff Bagato, Márton Koppány, Louise Landes Levi, Jill Chan, Alain Robinet, Raymond Farr, Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo, Willie Smith, Joe Balaz, M A McDonald, Jim McCrary, Sian Vate, Heath Brougher, Owen Bullock, differx, Lynn Strongin, Marcello Diotallevi, Robbie Coburn, Carol Stetser, Chris Brown, Richard James Allen, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Jeff Harrison, David Harrison Horton, Sjoerd van der Weide, Joel Chace, Indigo Perry, Simon Perchik, Richard Kostelanetz, David Baptiste Chirot, Timothy Pilgrim, Nicole Pottier, Natsuko Hirata, Massimo Stirneri, Rebecca Eddy, Josh Smith, major stafford sternwall, John Pursch, Sheikha A., Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Jared Pearce, Keith Nunes, Jake Goetz, Allen Forrest, sean burn, Richard Skelton, Tom Beckett, Shloka Shankar, Seth Howard, Tony Beyer, Sam Langer, Bob Heman, Cherie Hunter Day, Aurélien Leif, Catherine Fletcher, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Pragya Vashishtha, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Pam Brown, & Marilyn Stablein.

remnants

geographies: Passiac

wednesday newstrip

Prim Minister Malcontent Turnipballs has declared that new arrivals seeking citizenship must prize "Australian values" & prove their commitment to & absorption of the existing national cultural mores by being able to channel illegal political donations through a third party without detection · a self-proclaimed 'messenger of God' who predicted Precedent DoNuts T®ump's rise to power has warned global nuclear war is just weeks away following the conservative federal government's latest push to move public service jobs to regional Australia · Australia has returned to space with the successful launch from Cape Canaveral of three locally designed & built research satellites which will allow parents to choose the gender of their baby.

Today the
postman brought
me the plot of
Bambi. He came
empty-handed.

Today the
postman brought
me a nuclear
warhead with a
personal message
from the President
emblazoned on it—
"Hope this launches
your career," it said.
I'd been told his
comprehension skills
weren't all that great;
but thought he'd
understood when I
asked him if he still
intended to launch
a nuclear strike
on North Korea.

footwear #13

wednesday newstrip

How to tell if your dog has eaten chocolate & what to do next · Nintendo doesn't want your money — it wants your soul · Coles has been forced to wind back its Easter advertising campaign in which it asked workers to hold signs with the words "I’m free" after staff were sexually harassed by customers · scientists have created a device that can pull drinking water from the air using only the power of sunlight · people have been warned to avoid fishing & eating seafood they catch off the coast of Brisbane following a deadly firefighting foam spillage this week · Air Force drops 'mother of all bombs' on DoNuts T®ump's watch & breaks it.

espoir / désespoir

She drove_dialectics west. Enthusiasm^forensic. Aspirations. Hope^polyhedron. Then everything particulate disappeared^dodecahedron in front of her. Life’s like _catafalque that some^shadeclothtimes.               Time                went                       by.                                Things began _dichotomous to reform.                Dream?                Reality?                No matter.           She decided _entourage to try again.

out from the archives

Now that the precedent has decided to bomb Syria, & the military given carte blanche to bomb whomever they feel like bombing when they wake up in the morning, here's a ten year old precedent from a precedent president, a piece named after the embedded Magritte, The Listening Room.

The Art of Counsel

wednesday newstrip

Prose Secretary Sean Spicegirl has denied DoNuts T®ump was under the influence of methamphetamine when he launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against Syria, after a suspected chemical attack killed at least 86 people, including children · Philippine President Rodrigo No-Detente has ordered troops to live on up to 10 unoccupied islands & reefs in the South China Sea after crude oil prices spiked, the dollar weakened slightly, & markets fell in Asia on Friday because the U.S. fired dozens of coleoid cephalopods, a group encompassing octopuses, squid, & cuttlefish, into Syria · in a dramatic reversal of policy, Chinese officials have admitted that at the top of their concerns about the high stakes summit between President Xi Jinping & DoNuts T®ump is the worry that Precedent T®ump might embarrass their leader by making much more extensive use of RNA editing than other marine & land animals · Apple has been accused of falsely & misleadingly telling customers that because a California two-spot octopus ate their iPhone, they won't be getting it back · DoNuts T®ump bombed Syria 'because daughter Iyanka HisChain told him to.'

in homage to Samuel Beckett

                                                                                                                                                              Godot
 

a singular canvas

wednesday newstrip

DNA repair discovery could lead to drugs to reverse ageing, fight cancer, & help more than 70000 accountants prepare tax returns using Watson · study shows effect of spiritual retreats on neurotransmitter systems in the brain · two-thirds of all space travel caused by DNA replication errors, landmark study shows · Wikileaks document dump reveals how CIA has been hacking Apple devices for a decade · we're not seeking Tom Brady's Super Bowl jerseys: China leader · participants in a reality show that sent them to live in the Scottish Highlands for a year, cut off from the rest of the world, have emerged from the end of it to find that nobody was watching.

Today the
postman brought
me a bacon &
egg burger with
aioli dressing. It
wasn't what I
wanted — I'd
actually asked
for the Gettysburg
Address — but
I didn't complain.
Hunger causes us
to compromise
sometimes.

at sea

& yet . . . . .

a brief update

The cyclone has been downgraded to a rain depression & is rolling south inland from the coast. The winds here of last night have eased, but we lost power for about ten hours from 2 a.m. to noon. Currently bucketing down with rain which is a common post-cyclone event. Lots of thunder. & talk of the river flooding, a rare event ever since they put in a dam upstream some 30 or 40 years ago. Sugarcane this side of the river blown over, not on the other side. Road closures. But we're safe & sound, with an intact house, so, for us, things aren't too bad. Freaky, though.

wednesday newstrip

In a big shake-up after months of gains, shares have recorded their worst day since the US election amid growing doubts that Trump will deliver on his pro-growth policies · a group of hackers is threatening to wipe data from millions of Apple devices in two weeks if the company doesn't pay them US$150,000 · the dinosaur family tree may need to be radically rewritten — & even uprooted & replanted elsewhere — because of an incredibly haunting exercise in the capabilities of facial recognition technology by British researchers who have given us the chance to look at a man who lived 700 years ago · the Food & Drug Administration, following analysis of about 75 different species, has just released a new statement linking breast implants to a rare form of blood cancer · the Power Rangers are sexting, if you're wondering what they're up to nowadays. They're slut-shaming too. They're also talking about inserting crayons into bodily orifices & pleasuring farmyard animals.

an update

The cyclone has crossed the coast well to the south of us, & now the winds are picking up around us, buffeting the house. One banana "tree" — actually bananas are herbs, I believe — blown over, one pineapple plant uprooted. No structural damage to the house. So far.

Supposed to all be blown away by later on tonight. Hope so. It's quite freaky & unsettling.

looks like

we're going to get the edges, not the core, tomorrow. Could still be bad, but nowhere near as bad as it is going to be further south.

The plot thickens

From about 20 minutes ago, This one will run right over our heads.

Debbie may have done Dallas,

but Cyclone Debbie is about to do us.

We're about ten kilometers south-west of Ayr where the cyclone is, on this forecast plot, scheduled to cross onto land at Category 4 level just above the town. The forecast plot four hours prior had the cyclone crossing at a similar distance from Ayr but below, or, more precisely, right on top of us. Will wait & see what the next projection is, but no matter what, we've a busy day ahead of us making sure nothing is around that can be turned into projectiles.

A line from Chuck Berry

The antecedent objects are multi-
vocalic, non-buffered, directly
labeled, characterized by the
bones of domesticated animals.

The original is of poor quality.
Copying the document is prohibited.
A fog was moving in. The low
contrast reduced perceived speed.

R.I.P.

dog in space

wednesday newstrip

When the Apollo astronauts made their trips to the Moon, they were treated to a view that no human had ever seen before: a Mexico border wall 9.14 meters high · the Federal Government is ramping up pressure on Labor & the crossbench to pass its increases to childcare subsidies, citing data from Kellyanne Conway that shows "You wanna focus on two here & two there, it’s on you, you’re a fucking miserable person, P.S., just whoever you are" · Justin Bieber certainly had a funny way of showing his fans how much he "loved" them (his words) last week, conducting a test of a newly developed high-thrust engine at North Korea's Tongchang-ri rocket launch station · police are hunting for a gunman who shot the Parliamentary Budget Office — which costed a proposal to abolish stamp duty & replace it with a broad-based land tax — in the head and stomach · Chuck Berry, the rock 'n' roll pioneer who established the form & the themes of the music with his slyly funny, rhythmically propulsive hits, has died.

Locofo Chaps

is the imprint of Bill Allegrezza's project of bringing out 100 political chapbooks — downloadable pdfs also available as $5 print on demand — during the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. Lots of good stuff there. Proud to have a couple of chaps included.

[Yes, I do know it's Mar-a-Lago, but I hoped that invoking the spirit of Humphrey Bogart might help get rid of the gangsters in the House.]

The full catalog is available at http://www.moriapoetry.com/locofo.html.

a detail

wednesday newstrip

Based on a look at the CIA's internal dark meme division, Harvard researchers have proposed a theory about the possibility of mysterious celestial phenomena known as fast radio bursts (FRB) being caused by alien space travel or advanced alien technology · the Nintendo Switch has a lot of tricks up its sleeve—one of them that the new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scat PooPitt, says he does not agree CO₂ is a primary contributor to global warming · yes, it really has been 20 years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer burst onto our TV screens in 1997. If you remember this moment, you are now officially old.

Another Found Poem, & a response to it

I am Tim Berners-Lee: I
invented the web. Here
are three things we need
to change to save it. Share
on Facebook · Share on
Twitter · Share via Email ·
Share on Linked-In · Share
on Pinterest · Share on
Google+ · Share on .....

At least six things off-
ered up as preface to
this news report. Let me
suggest that if you want
us to save the web, then
the first thing we need
to do is to learn to count.

A Found Poem

(from GNS Science; 3/6/17)

The Franz Josef Glacier
falls from the greywacke

zone at its head, near the
Main Divide, to the schist

zone at its melting snout,
close to the Alpine Fault.

Look what Melania

got me for an Inauguration president precedent present.

A line from Sean Spicer

I bought a phone last
month. It gets very hot,
just like being in that
bunny suit I occasionally

got around in in my earlier
stint at the White House.
It's overheated three times
now in the past fortnight,

didn't matter what I was
doing with it at the time
or what spin I'd been in-
structed to put on what-

ever story was currently
causing us angst. Now
it's suffering through a
hormonal imbalance & is

currently playing songs
from The Sound of Music. It's
getting so hot. My bunny
suit was so much cooler.

wednesday newstrip

Two 100,000-year-old skulls unearthed in China are up-ending ideas about human evolution. They appear to be hybrids of humans, neanderthals, & a Polish member of the European Parliament who sounded a clarion for misogyny by claiming women should earn less than men because they are weaker, smaller & “less intelligent” · DoNuts T®ump has praised Australian-born author Nick Adams' book, which argues that only immigrants willing to take on an after-school job in a butcher’s shop should be let into the US. Government ethics rules barring product endorsements don't apply to Precedents, so Adams can happily milk the bonanza · the Victorian parliamentary perks scandal has been reignited with revelations two MPs used chauffeured ministerial cars to get to & from a Bruce Springsteen concert at Hanging Rock last month · seven years after abolishing military conscription, Sweden has announced it will reintroduce the draft in order to bolster national security as tensions rise about a smart condom which monitors performance in the bedroom — as well as detecting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) — being developed in the UK.

at home with Antonin Artaud

intrusions

wednesday newstrip

Precedent DoNuts T®ump unloaded on the news media Friday for using anonymous sources — just hours after members of his own staff insisted on briefing reporters only on condition their names be concealed · Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, was reportedly assassinated by a monster-size sea creature which has since washed ashore in the Philippines · huge security disasters like Cloudbleed are never fun. However, as more information about the newly reported vulnerability becomes available, we can understand how dangerous bugs covered in white hair stand to screw up the internet · Caitlyn Jenner, a lifelong Republican, is not happy with the Precedent over his administration's reversal of Barack Obama's directive on transgender access to public school bathrooms · a giant penguin foot-bone discovered in New Zealand shows that the ancestors of everyone's favorite flightless bird waddled Earth during the age of dinosaurs · researchers report that a new study offers more evidence that DoNuts T®ump can only reach orgasm when he utters the words "it’s a military operation."

exorcise_exercise

Racquets she said, even though there was no tennis going on.

Or maybe it was rackets, & she was talking about the noise up the road, or the way that local builders get their plans through council despite breaching nearly every bylaw in the book.

Could have been Reckitts, left up for me to interpret which among their products I'm in dire need of — grime or pimple remover, condoms, antiseptic lotions, mustard, mouthwash.

Then again, perhaps rickets, even though I'm not young — except in name — & any or all of the products listed above could possibly have helped minimize or even remove that condition.

So, rockets. No, not that, her red glare tells me quite clearly.

Leaves only ruckets . . . But there's no such word in general use, though it is a family name, & a brand of skates, &, if Google's autocomplete is accurate, it might have something to do with tickets to the Rugby World Cup.

Though, wait. Because of this fuss I'm making over what the word in question is, I've just been accused of causing a ruckus. Perhaps that is what was intended all along.

#SwampTheDrains

wednesday newstrip

Scientists 'two years away' from creating woolly mammoth hybrid · narcissistic personality disorder: DoNuts T®ump shows signs of mental malady & may be 'incapable of safe presidency' say some mental health experts · the arrest of Samsung boss on Friday highlighted once again the outsize influence of the largest family-run companies · Pram Minister Malcontent Turnipball has said he will consider any US military request for more help in fighting the so-called Islamic State group · an Indonesian woman detained in Malaysia over the apparent assassination of the half-brother of North Korea's leader may have thought she was part of a reality television show · the disUnited States will tap its full arsenal of nuclear & conventional defense weapons to defend its allies said the Secretary of State · my day at the designer vagina showcase.

the geometry of landscape

chexitute

wednesday newstrip

An Indian woman has endured a horrifying 12 hours after DoNut T®ump crawled up her nose & into her skull · the Treasurer of Australia, Scat Maricón, brought a lump of coal to Parliament question time. When asked why, he claimed it was less addictive than coke · a man who mistook the Melbourne police Air Wing helicopter for DoNut T®ump has been arrested after allegedly shining a laser into the aircraft · over the past three years, Australia has fallen from 30th position to 57th place in the world for average peak internet speeds, beaten by countries including New Zealand, Thailand, & Indonesia, & several distant planets · the Precedent has nuked the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen for treating his daughter Ivanka 'unfairly' by dropping her fashion line because it was no longer selling · NASA has come up with a new model for figuring out whether DoNut T®ump could be considered habitable.

an age of icicles

hot programs in design

Spandex should be air-dried since

it takes months—sometimes years—to

lose moisture when a rotating-wire-

type laser beam analyzer is used.

wednesday newstrip

DoNut T®ump's energetic performance berating Australian Pram Minister Malcontent Turnipball caused his boob to fall out – not that it stopped him from putting on an amazing show · the Precedent told a prayer breakfast that, to promote hair growth, he takes a prostate drug found on an ancient & lost continent lurking beneath the island of Mauritius · US Defense Secretary Stained Mattress has started his first trip abroad by reassuring Arnold Schwarzenegger that his position at the helm of The Apprentice is still safe & that he still has the United States' continued support · NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returns from space younger than he left · radio shock jock Howard Stern has opined that the impact of being commander-in-chief would be detrimental to the Precedent's mental health, if he had any.

nanotechnology

with apologies to Enid Blyton

Noddy

& Big Ears

The latest issue of Otoliths is live.

Issue forty-four of Otoliths has hit the hustings.

I had hoped to get the Mormon Tabernacle Choir &/or The Radio City Rockettes to announce this issue, but they were otherwise occupied, recovering from the realization that they had just provided the accompaniment to the beginning of an era that threatens to turn its back on the Gettysburg address & replace it with the rhetoric of the Nuremberg Rallies of the 1920s & 1930s.

So, as counter to a possible future that strikes me as best described by Dante's Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'entrate, I simply offer a wonderful selection of work from around the world. Included in this issue are Eileen R. Tabios, Sheila E. Murphy, Steve Dalachinsky, Andrew Topel, Brandon Nakasato, Cecelia Chapman, David Lohrey, C. R. E. Wells, Norman M. Gendelman, Texas Fontanella, Philip Byron Oakes, Caitlin Rose Doyle, Keith Walker, John Xero, David Dick, Kyle Hemmings, Mary Claire Garcia, Jesse Glass, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Philip Elliott, Sanjeev Sethi, sean burn, Kirk Robinson & Garin Cycholl & William Allegrezza, Bill Wolak, Pete Spence, Jim Leftwich, John M. Bennett, Thomas M. Cassidy, osvaldo cibils, Kelly J. Powell, harry k stammer, Raymond Farr, John Amen, Lucianna Chixaro Ramos, a.j. carruthers, Olivier Schopfer, Joel Chace, Carol Stetser, Les Wicks, Volodymyr Bilyk, Lana Bella, Diana Magallón, Clara B. Jones, Laurent Grison & Yvon Guillou, Meeah Williams, Michael Berton, Michael Farrell, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Charles Borkhuis & John McCluskey, Lakey Comess, John Martone, Evan Gray, Willie Smith, Allen Forrest, M. Leland Oroquieta, hiromi suzuki, Jack Galmitz, Mason Keys, Joe Balaz, Luisa-Evelina Stifii, Howie Good, Matina L. Stamatakis, George Moore, Drew B. David, Adam Levon Brown, Márton Koppány, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Carlyle Baker, J. Crouse, Richard Kostelanetz, Heath Brougher, Anwer Ghani, J. Ray Paradiso, AG Davis, Joanna Thomas, Kasy Long, Heller Levenson, Tom Snarsky, Dawn Nelson Wardrope, cathy aragon, Jeff Harrison, Marco Giovenale, John W. Sexton, Eugenia Hepworth Petty, bruno neiva, Stu Hatton, Ian Gibbins, dan raphael, Alberto Vitacchio, Douglas Penick, Nika & Jim McKinniss, Alan Summers, Jeff Bagato, Mariapia Fanna Roncoroni, Michael O'Brien, M.J. Iuppa, Carla Bertola, Andrew Galan, Katrinka Moore, Thom Sullivan, Joseph Veronneau, Marcia Arrieta, Sean Negus, Shloka Shankar, Seth Howard, Paul T. Lambert, John Pursch, Ella Skilbeck-Porter, Linda M. Walker, Tony Beyer, Edward Kulemin, PT Davidson, Michael Brandonisio, Adam Fieled, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Angad Arora, Bob Heman, Carol Ciavonne, Sheila Windsor & Brendan Slater, Stephen J. Williams, Marilyn Stablein, Felino A. Soriano, Louie Crew Clay, Peter Bakowski, David Heg & Nicolette Wong, Francesca Jurate Sasnaitis, J.D.Nelson, & Marilyn R. Rosenberg & Ann R. Shapiro.

I would also like to take this opportunity to point to Thomas Fink's new interview site, Dichtung Yammer, where I am interviewed by Tim Wright about the Otoliths journey.

Enjoy!