geographies: Les Plaines d'Abraham

collateral

Today the
postman brought
me a broken
promise. "Do
you want that
before or after
the m?" he asked.

seniority

wednesday newstrip

Sydney terror plot to resolve same-sex marriage debate with 'meat mincer bomb' foiled · Ashley Madison relaunches in Australia: political suicide says Liberal senator · T®ump vows to take 'all necessary measures' to help people have a better affair · Precedent's daughter sparks breastfeeding debate with photo · blow up North Korea to protect allies says Abe · Brian Cox predicts colonization of 'barren rock' Mars is inevitable, but says it won't be as much fun as the recent decolonizing of Anthony Scaramucci.

Otoliths issue forty-six is live

Otoliths issue forty-six, the southern winter 2017 issue, has just gone live.

I had hoped to get Anthony Scaramucci to do the launch as one of his first official duties — or, as it now seems, one of his last — but he was off complaining to a New Yorker reporter — in no uncertain terms — that Queen hadn’t got his name right in Bohemian Rhapsody. So, without him & without further ado, it falls to me to do the honors.

In this issue wondrous work, in many forms, from Charles Wilkinson, Paul T. Lambert, Seth Jani, Cameron Lowe, Cheryl Penn, Obododimma Oha, Sacha Archer, Dennis Vannatta, Fotis Begetis & Jack Galmitz, Penelope Weiss, J. Ray Paradiso, Graeme Miles, Karl Kempton, Tony Beyer, Brandstifter, Texas Fontanella, Steve Dalachinsky, Cecelia Chapman, Sanjeev Sethi, John Crouse, Jim Leftwich, Federico Federici, Laurent Grison, Tyler Pruett, Pete Spence, Drew B. David, Steven Earnshaw, Michael Prihoda, Anne Gorrick, Meeah Williams, Anwer Ghani, Lakey Comess, differx, Jill Chan, Daniel de Culla, Michael Flatt, Olivier Schopfer, Lana Bella, Jake Berry, gobscure, Jonel Abellanosa, Tony Rickaby, Darren C. Demaree, Martin Christmas, Kyle Hemmings, Lachy McKenzie, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Ian Ganassi, Thomas M. Cassidy, John M. Bennett, Diane Keys, Clara B. Jones, hiromi Suzuki, Jeff Bagato, Howie Good, Leigh Herrick, Matthew Woodman, Javant Biarujia, Raymond Farr, Iliana Theodoropoulou, Philip Byron Oakes, Seth Howard, Claudia Serea, Stanford Cheung, M A McDonald, Joe Balaz, AG Davis, Felino A. Soriano, Veronica Mattaboni, Carol Stetser, David A. Welch, David Lohrey, Stephen Nelson, Jim Meirose, C. R. E. Wells, Willie Smith, M.J. Iuppa, Susan Gangel, Kevin Tosca, Tom Montag, horace sternwall, Sabine Miller & Carole Kim, Márton Koppány, Jack Little, R. Keith, Chris Brown, Corey Mesler, Jeff Harrison, Leigh Williams & Melanie Klein, Keith Kumasen Abbott, Eric Hoffman, Brendan Slater, John Vieira, Bob Heman, A.A. Reinecke, Alain Joncheray, Caoimhe McKeogh, Mark Staniforth, Marcia Arrieta, Mark Cunningham, Rupert Loydell, Andrew Darling, Danny Blackwell, Holly Friedlander Liddicoat, Lee Nash, Jesse Glass, Eileen R. Tabios, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Indigo Perry, Timothy Pilgrim, John Pursch, Edward Kulemin, John Levy, J. D. Nelson, Marilyn Stablein, Gale Acuff, Katrinka Moore, Adam Levon Brown, Owen Bullock, Ryan Clark, Michael Brandonisio, David Baptiste Chirot, Olchar E. Lindsann, & Tom Beckett.

Enjoy!

an open letter

wednesday newstrip

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway wouldn’t have lasted a week in the Bush administration, according to President George W. Bush’s chief ethics lawyer · Sean Spicer stole a mini fridge from junior Wheat House staffers · Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is growing increasingly frustrated with the T®ump administration & could quit before the year is through, according to reports · to some on the extreme right, Arizona Senator John McCain is a traitor worthy of scorn, presumably because of his willingness to work with Democrats · Jared Kushner's explanations on Russia reveal a man wholly unsuited to his job · Precedent T®ump spoke before a small crowd of Boy Scouts today.

Today the
postman brought
me his new
libretto, called
The Pantoum
of The Opera-
ting Theater. I
suggested a slight
name change &
a relocation of the
story. “Might work
then,” I told him.

wednesday newstrip

Game of Thrones wins ratings with record audience but Saudi Arabian video of woman in miniskirt comes a close second · woman seriously injured after bag becomes stuck in escalating tensions between India & China · the Reserve Bank of Australia signals higher rate path by launching a $3.50 'neutral rate' hamburger · alien ships near Saturn? Ex-NASA scientist claims news of their existence is not fake · the giant iceberg known as A-68 that was produced in the Antarctic last week is the cutest thing ever sent into space.

coty

phitamin

wednesday newstrip

Israeli diplomat says fixing his toilet is more important than the UNESCO Hebron resolution · Vatican outlaws gluten-free bread for Holy Communion · campaigners against nuclear weapons are urging the Australian government to stop clinging to the belief the country will be protected by the United States' possession of weapons of mass destruction · Republicans blast DoNuts T®ump's idea to form cyber security unit with Voldemort Putain · the T®ump Wheat House keeps mixing up the names of Asian countries & their leaders' titles · Whoops! T®ump chases down marine in the hope of getting blown.

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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i     
g
n  
m    
e  
n      
t   
 

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."