geographies: Clermont

wednesday newstrip

Two small asteroids are buzzing earth this weekend. See one live tonight! Kanye West announces plans for 2024 presidential run · Tesla shares fall after Elon Musk smokes weed, drinks whisky, & tells T.®ump to tell Apple to shift plants to US during interview · drinking young people’s blood could be the secret to long-lasting health, scientists claim · placebo buttons: Australian pedestrians press for no reason at traffic lights · cringe-worthy phone call exposes the real DoNuts T.®ump drinking young people’s blood.

on the road to oblivion

the struggling okapi

wednesday newstrip

Legendary rock band U2 pulls plug on concert when Bono appears ‘visibly distressed’ after Meghan Markle accidentally let her nickname for Prince Harry slip · Russia space agency announces a terminator-style kill-bot is about to start wreaking carnage on the Great Barrier Reef · Mexican city tells police to ‘look the other way’ when Japan attempts to land on an asteroid · sex in public increases dementia risk by 70% · the bishop who officiated at Aretha Franklin’s funeral apologized Friday to Ariana Grande for how he touched her onstage · Former President George W. Bush gallantly delivered a small piece of candy into the hand of former First Lady Michelle Obama during the memorial service for Arizona Sen. John McCain on Saturday.

from the San Francisco Public Library

on the 15^th anniversary of the invention of the hay(na)ku by Eileen R. Tabios.

geographies: Daintree

wednesday newstrip

NASA’s asteroid-sampling spacecraft spies its target for the first time: 11 people located from illegal vessel in Queensland's Daintree, more believed to be on the run · Vegan festival gets chop as meat lobby threatens to fire up the barbie: Melbourne African community comes together after vigilante Facebook posts · NASA found 'definitive evidence' that a tiny bone fragment found in a Siberian Cave belonged to a young girl whose mother was Neanderthal & whose father was a Denisovan · the durian often invokes a love or hate relationship — some people have literally killed to get their hands on the fruit police said after a ride-sharing passenger in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou was raped & killed by a driver · sex, lies & tabloids: hush payments to women spell danger for T.®ump.

wednesday newstrip

The brand new Netflix romantic comedy we can’t stop talking about — a young single mother who fled Syria following the deaths of two ISIS terrorist husbands hopes to one day create a new life in Australia · messages have leaked over the internet, revealing Meghan Markle’s family ‘in talks’ to star in Kardashian-style reality TV show. DoNuts T®ump says he has “nothing to hide” · It’s like a patient coming out of a coma. You might be paying for iPhone app subscriptions you're not using — here's how to cancel them · Curiosity finds strange object on the surface of Mars — Elton Musk’s rather large manhood · flooding in southern Indian state kills more than 350, displaces 800,000. British woman rescued off Croatian coast 10 hours after.

assimilation

Looking out

In the morning,
after the rain, she
listened to a couple

of Aretha Franklin
tracks & then got
ready to go out.

r.i.p.

geographies: Croppa Creek

wednesday newstrip

Evolution is getting a rethink after Kim Jong-un rocks a casual white T-shirt & farmer’s hat at staged photo op · could probiotics cause 'brain fog' and bloating? US prosecutors have charged Republican congressman Chris Collins of not paying child support · Brad Pitt slams Angelina Jolie as ‘manipulative’ after she accused him of insider trading relating to a drug trial at an Australian pharmaceutical company · US hits Russia with sanctions after US invaded by savage tick that sucks animals dry, spawns without mating · scientists take a closer look at Earth’s first animals after UK nerve agent attack · New Zealand bans foreigners buying homes as rich snap up sites to prepare for APOCALYPSE.

geographies: Gidya

rendered, unto Caesar

From the complaints log on a scam caller phone number

At 3 o'clock in the morning Who are you and why are you stupid SMS?

If it is me, I will kill and send me an SMS in the middle of the night.

Just read the manual. I do not even know the meaning of call center lines, firewalls or static IP. "There is a modem, it shines shiny." Okay, my PBX and CTI are all shining.

There was a talk on the water server. I was told you sent me fax before, but where did you send me fax?

Personal career Seminar of DODA is a young woman, a newcomer.

As soon as I called the phone, I suddenly said "I will become a john vine", so I became frightened and hung up the phone.

Suddenly call me and guide me to the atmosphere that I signed up for the word craftsman and contact the consumer center that will send you the document saying I contracted at a later date and correspondence I want the fraud group of this kind to catch really quickly.

I forgot my opponent's name (company name). When the electricity charges used by customers are switched to ~ our service .... It was a phone call from a "press selling service company" that says to say that. Since I did not want to be a partner, I turned down early, turned off the phone, registered as a nuisance phone.

I came while I was at work. I have something to help with this site.

wednesday newstrip

How can NASA return to the Moon? By making everything reusable, chief says · US health institute is warning people to stop reusing & washing condoms · Canada telescope picks new radio signal from distant planet, scientists puzzled over source though Windows 10 patch expert begs Microsoft: 'Please fix uptick in botched updates' · Stonehenge: Origins of those who built world-famous monument revealed by groundbreaking scientific research that people who abstain from alcohol in middle age may be at heightened risk of dementia later in life · condom manufacturer Durex has recalled some of its products sold in Australia over fears they could split, leading to Foodora, the food delivery service fighting a landmark test case on the rights of workers, announcing it will exit the Australian market at the end of the month.

Today the
postman brought
me a bag of beans
& a notice of claim
by the executors
of the estate of
the late Ray Charles,
alleging breach of

copyright by my
using without per-
mission a phrase
from a song he
was the first to
have a hit with.

wednesday newstrip

Issue #50 of Otoliths is now up

The fiftieth issue of Otoliths has just gone live. I'm proud of the achievement, but the credit for the getting here must go to the contributors to the journal, more than a thousand individuals across the issues.

Sadly, some are no longer with us — Robert Gauldie, kari edwards, Marthe Reed, Ira Cohen, Carol Novack, Bob Grumman, Michelle Greenblatt, Rochelle Ratner, Karl Young, David Mitchell, David Meltzer, Thomas Lowe (Tom) Taylor, Ed Baker, Halvard Johnson, Randall Brock, Christopher Mulrooney, Spencer Selby, Philip Byron Oakes, Jill Chan. So, to honor them & acknowledge their part in this journey over the last 12+ years, I have included in this issue a selection of their works from earlier issues.

In addition to that substantial offering, there's a variety of new work from Andre Bagoo, David Lohrey, Cecelia Chapman, Nicholas Bon, Annabelle Ballard, Kyle Hemmings, Mariana Rodríguez, Gustave Morin, Seth Howard, Raymond Farr, John M. Bennett, Jim Leftwich, Sanjeev Sethi, Michael Minassian, Andrew K. Peterson, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, J.J. Campbell, David Greenslade, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Richard Kostelanetz, Michael Prihoda, Carlyle Baker, Adam Fieled, Lakey Comess, Olivier Schopfer, Claudia Serea, Carol Stetser, AG Davis, Steve Dalachinsky, Jake Berry, Jack Foley, Daniel de Culla, Clara B. Jones, David Baptiste Chirot, John McCluskey, Willie Smith, Doren Robbins, Pearl Button, Meeah Williams, Thomas Fink & Tom Beckett, Jack Galmitz, Devon Balwit, Tom Montag, Kellyn Elson, Mary Kasimor, Jesse Glass, Federico Federici, Daniel f Bradley, M.J. Iuppa, Tim Rogers, Andrew Taylor, Sheila E. Murphy, Texas Fontanella, osvaldo cibils, Joe Balaz, Heath Brougher, Erik Fuhrer, Kevin Tosca, Alyssa Trivett, Jim Meirose, Bob Heman, Penelope Weiss, Drew B. David, Linc Madison, Nicholas J.A., Tony Beyer, J. D. Nelson, Michael Brandonisio, Edward Wells, hiromi suzuki, Michael O'Brien, Pam Brown, Elaine Woo, & 61 "AsEmIc Pieces" — 60 inside & one on the cover — by Alberto Vitacchio, plus, from the 1970s, six more newspaper columns from Kenneth Rexroth.

The print parts are, hopefully, not that far away.

reticence

wednesday newstrip

Iranian president warns DoNuts T®ump of 'mother of all wars' over anti-Iran policy · FBI documents used to wiretap former T®ump campaign adviser in Russia probe released · the Palestinian Authority claimed on Saturday that the Palestinians have managed to “incapacitate” US President DoNuts T®ump’s yet-to-be-announced plan for peace in the Middle East, which has been referred to as the “ultimate deal” or the “deal of the century” · Michael Cohen privately questions T®ump's fitness to be president. DoNuts T®ump does the same · a Russian asbestos company placed a seal with the face of President DoNuts T®ump on their product with the note "Approved by DoNuts T®ump, 45th President of the United States" · scientists discover 99-million year old snake 'frozen in time' inside amber, note its resemblance to a certain unnamed American precedent.

Now that DoNuts T®ump

has re-aroused the enmity of the north side of the 38th parallel, it must be time to re-refer to this striking & insightful piece, one of many wonderful items from YØUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.

geographies: Gin Gin

Impressions of Duluth

wednesday newstrip

US could lose its access to the International Space Station for nearly a year following third-degree burns from coming into contact with giant hogweed · US Justice League has announced charges against 12 senior level Russian officials for hacking the Democratic National Commitee & Hilarity Clit_on’s emails during the 2016 presidential election · 'It was complete madness': fights break out as families queue for Build-A-Bear 'Pay Your Age Day' · DoNuts T®ump gives interview in which he criticizes Theresa Maypole, then dismisses UK newspaper publication as 'fake news' · supporters of the precedent were out in force in London on Saturday, at a rally outside the new US Embassy in London, with speakers from UKIP, the Football Lads Alliance, & For Britain all in attendance · rat triggers blackout at Australian ballet.

geographies: Finch Hatton

Bollywood Boogie-Woogie

word placement

Headline #1

Truckie not Emmanuel Xiberras guilty over fatal Sydney crash

Headline #2

Truck driver not guilty of grandmother ‘rubbish bag on road’ death

wednesday newstrip

Coles announces huge backflip over single-use plastic bag ban · LG patent reveals full-screen foldable phone concept with clamshell design · rhino poachers eaten by lions in South Africa · new wasp species with a giant stinger discovered in Amazonia · Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will allow protesters to fly a six meter high blimp portraying US President DoNuts T®ump as an orange, snarling baby over UK Parliament during the President's upcoming visit, it has been announced · Environmental Destruction Agency chief Scat Prunetit finds God in a lump of coal as he resigns: "I believe you are serving as President today because of God's providence. I believe that same providence brought me into your service. My desire in service to you has always been to bless you as you make important decisions for the American people."

lite kite flite

fingers / reach to / touch the sea

wednesday newstrip

Australian astronomers ponder mounting evidence microbial life may ‘hitch-hike’ between planets & the stars as Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement gives DoNuts T®ump a new opportunity to shape America · ex Orwellstralian Pram Minister John HowHard warns footage showing officers violently attacking prisoners inside a Western Australian prison shows how China could use its expats to grow influence in Australia & the region · French President Emmanuel Macron reinstates national service for all 16-year-olds, puts forward as example of possible outcomes Millennial beating veteran Democrat in shock New York victory · Leonardo DiCaprio shares first look at Charles Manson-inspired 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' in which Apple & Samsung finally settle their years-long smartphone patents squabble · Spice Girls reunion tour is happening: Mum shares sickening photo to warn of common playground mistake.

malachite

wednesday newstrip

Advisers tell DoNuts T®ump he doesn't display enough gall, so he consents to a gall bladder operation. As a result, approval rating in Alabama falls less that it has in other states · International Space Station's orbit carries it over the Wheat House. T®ump orders his newly formed Starship Troopers to shoot it down so it can't spy on his weiner. Approval rating drops 31 points in New Mexico when satellite shots of his weiner surface anyway · mother-of-five needed correction eye surgical procedure after being it told it was safe to look at satellite images of a Weimaraner's T®umpette without wearing sunglasses. DoNuts sales collapse in Oklahoma · was Pythagorean theory used to build WeinerGate in Florida? US Press Secretary Colonelle Sanders says so before she was kicked out of eatery for wearing flipflops. dePressed Secretary flips, approval rating flops.

the beast walks in snow

Lady Guinevere's hay(na)ku of love

The
beat of
my knight's heart
is the pulse
of my
daze.
 

emblematic

wednesday newstrip

Investigations reveal Australian soldiers allegedly killed a man, took his prosthetic leg, & used it as a drinking vessel · Iyanka T®ump & Jarred Cushioner made over $82m outside White House roles last year · some of Africa's oldest & biggest baobab trees — a few dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks & some as wide as a bus is long — have died or are dying & may have fallen victim to climate change, researchers have speculated · DoNuts T®ump adviser apologizes for saying there's a 'special place in hell' for Justin Trudeau · remote California ghost town on sale · the Singapore summit was, without question, a triumph for Kim Jong Un & his North Korean regime.

songlines

the muses

wednesday newstrip

New Zealand scientists are breeding sheep to fart & burp less · Kim Jong-un ‘begged for summit with T®ump on his knees’ according to Ruby Jewel-leilani who, at the time, was also down on his knees giving the precedent a blowjob · broccoli coffee: scientists hope powdered veg can improve diets, cut down crop waste · Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies including Huawei · Sydney Harbor Bridge disappears: mystery dinosaur skeleton sells for $3 million at Paris auction.

I remarked on this

in the days of Bush. Even more appropriate when I re-remarked on it last year. As the days go by, that last paragraph becomes more & more appropriate for our times.

“The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even a mob with him by the force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second or third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

—H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

wednesday newstrip

What’s new in the latest Apple iphone update? — 'don't roast marshmallows over a volcano', warns US geological survey · frozen Pluto has wind-blown dunes made of methane sand · most of your vitamin supplements really are useless, says huge new study · ancient reptile fossil Megachirella pushes origin of lizards back 75 million years · ‘I am not a racist’: Roseanne Barr goes on the attack again, with Michelle Obama in her sights · DoNuts T®ump says North Korea meetings 'very positive,' but don't waste your money · poo has been mysteriously raining from the sky in Canada, leaving cars “inundated” with excrement, repulsed drivers say.

La Sagrada Familia II

Norman Mailer was never politically correct, but he was correct, politically

"Lyndon Johnson was first preceptor of the key that politics-is-property so you never give something away for nothing. Convention politics is therefore not the art of the possible so much as the art of what is possible when you are dealing with property holders. A delegate's vote is his holding — he will give it up without return no more than a man will sign over his house entire to a worthy cause.

"Such property relations are to be witnessed for every political sinecure in the land - judgeships, jobs, contracts, promises — it comes down to chairs in offices, and words negotiable like bonds.

"Politics at national level can still be comprehended by politics-as-property provided one remembers that moral integrity (or the public impression of such) in a high politician is also property, since it brings power and / or emoluments to him. Indeed a high politician — which is to say a statesman or a leader — has no political substance unless he is the servant of ideological institutions or interests and the available moral passions of the electorate. A politician picks and chooses among moral properties. If he is quick-witted, unscrupulous, and does not mind a life of constant anxiety, he will hasten — there is a great competition for things valuable in politics — to pick up properties wherever he can, even if they are rival holdings. To the extent a politician is his own man, attached to his own search for his own spiritual truth — which is to say willing to end in any unpalatable position to which the character of his truth could lead him — then he is ill-equipped for the game of politics. Politics is property. You pick up as much as you can, pay the minimum for the holding, extract the maximum, and combine where you may."

Norman Mailer; Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968)

geographies: Duaringa

wednesday newstrip

Giant flatworms invading France have been ignored for almost 20 years · researchers find rice grown in the high carbon dioxide environments expected in the next 50 years may be less nutritious · North Korean official slams 'ignorant & stupid' Pence remarks, suggests he might be the oldest object in the solar system · a Queensland senator has raised eyebrows in Parliament after claiming that racism is virtually non-existent in Australia · NFL mandates anthem respect: Stand up, or stay in the locker room. Decision called “unpatriotic” · eight hours in, Dark Souls remastered captures the heart of the original but T®ump backers fear he's deserting them · anorexic mother-of-one who pretended she had cancer to disguise her 800-a-day laxative pill habit dies after being admitted to hospital weighing just 35kg.

The expanding network

: I lose my grip & begin to drift :
: get a hamster &/or a tropical fish :

Many people are new to this process.

Are there any Finnish males
whose names begin with S?

geographies: Anabranch

wednesday newstrip

A very hungry black hole has been found in Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, gorging on stars & launching a plume of ash 9100 meters into the sky · some evangelicals believe the transfer of the US embassy & the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital will help bring about the so-called Rapture · are octopuses alien? New theory argues Earth was 'seeded' by interstellar genetic code · a Brisbane pub goer hurled abuse at Prom Minister Malcontent Turnipballs after the prim manistereotype got served before he did · Google sells the future, powered by your personal data.

Coming soon

geographies: Port Douglas

Today the
postman brought
me a check-
ered board from
Rrose Sélavy.

from pelican dreaming, 8/9/2004

Found word for the day

Otoliths — "earstones" — are small white bony structures found in the head of all fish other than rays, sharks, & lampreys. They provide a sense of balance in much the same way that the inner ear provides balance in humans. They also aid in hearing. In some fish, the otolith is connected through fine hairs to the swim bladder & this aids the fish to hear behind itself.

Growth rings, much like those of a tree, record the age & growth of a fish from the date of hatch to the time of death in such detail that everything from the year of hatch, the migration pathways & the temperature of the water can be analysed from the otolith.

wednesday newstrip

What happened when Google's new AI assistant sounded too human — the resulting monster 23.8m-wave is largest ever recorded in southern hemisphere · North Korean nuclear test had energy of 10 Nagasaki bombs & moved mountain, geophysicists say · LGBT references blurred out of Eurovision by Chinese government · astronomers have found a record-breaking pair of stars orbiting with a dizzying speed among five things you need to know about the Netflix business model · Hobart's homeless shelter in cow shed after wild weather blows away tents · ask your baby's permission before changing diaper, says sexual consent expert · Israeli forces kill dozens in Gaza protests as anger mounts over US embassy move to Jerusalem. "What a glorious day for Israel," Pram Minister Knittingyahoo said.

addendum

Today the
postman brought
me a slice of
gorgonzola. I ate

it later while
reading La Bête
humaine & got
turned to stone.

wednesday newstrip

DoNuts T®ump speaks at NRA convention fourth year in a row; sends 'fountains of lava' into air; forces evacuation of thousands · German city braces for Prince Harry & Meghan Markle's big day · T®ump says Rudy Giuliani needs to 'get facts straight' on Australian court convicting Muslim woman for failing to stand · failure of triple-0 services leaves Telstra users exposed to Britney Spears sharing weird videos of her scantily clad self working out with boyfriend · Hawaii bans payments to porn star Stormy Daniels but Australia reluctant to follow suit · women who eat fast food may release chemicals that damage coral reefs.

geographies: Jerona

geographies: Giru

wednesday newstrip

Kim Jong-un & Moon Jae-in to reunite & release new music for first time in over three decades · the world's oldest known spider tries to reset ties with China; moots 5-point agenda · DoNuts T®ump's cosmetic procedures 'need more rules' · fans of Studio 10 have been left fuming after the announcement of orders to prohibit the display of "'death symbology/iconography" · Bill Cosby verdict is the best-selling Zelda Game of all time, kind of · Brexit failure looks more likely every day, is likely to have an outsized impact on military culture-at-large · horses read, remember human faces, take some time to think about family health during immunization week.

The latest issue of Otoliths is now live

Otoliths issue forty-nine, the southern autumn 2018 issue, has just gone live.

This issue is dedicated to Jill Chan, Spencer Selby, & Philip Byron Oakes, all regular contributors who have recently passed. They will be deeply missed.

Contributors to this issue are: Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Lauren O'Connor who interviews Louise Landes Levi, Aditya Shankar, Simon Perchik, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Dawn Nelson Wardrope, Kyle Hemmings, George Messo, Sanjeev Sethi, R. Keith, Joseph Cooper, Mary Cresswell, Drew B. David, Jim Leftwich, John M. Bennett, Steve Dalachinsky, Lynn Strongin, Daniel de Culla, Seth Howard, David Lohrey, Rose Knapp, Philip Byron Oakes, Darren C. Demaree, Francesco Levato, Holly Friedlander Liddicoat, Kathleen Reichelt & Randee Silv, Olivier Schopfer, Willie Smith, Thomas M. Cassidy, Carol Stetser, Andrew Topel, Michael Thomas Nelmida, Dah, Pete Spence, Jasmine Nihmey-Vasdi, J. Crouse, Heath Brougher, Clara B. Jones, fátima queiroz, Andrew Hale, Penelope Weiss, Adriána Kóbor, József Bíró, M.J. Iuppa, Linda King, Alyson Torns, J. Ray Paradiso, Sheila E. Murphy & Douglas Barbour, hiromi suzuki, AG Davis, Márton Koppány, Francine Witte, Jeff Bagato, Joe Balaz, Izzy Oneiric, Daniel f. Bradley, Jesse Glass, Jeff Harrison, Karl Kempton, Richard Kostelanetz, Eileen R. Tabios, Scott MacLeod & Texas Fontanella, Cecelia Chapman, john sweet, Lakey Comess, Michael Mc Aloran, Tony Beyer, Sudhanshu Chopra, Bruno Neiva, Jon Cone, Joseph V. Milford, Mark DuCharme, Raymond Farr, Keith Polette, Matthew Jenkins, David Baptiste Chirot, gobscure, Sabine Miller & Richard Gilbert, John Levy, Tom Montag, Natsuko Hirata, Linc Madison, Pat Geyer, Eduardo Padilla translated by Anne Gorrick, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Keith Nunes, Bob Heman, Simon Brown, Jack Galmitz, Pat Nolan, Marcia Arrieta, Jack Kelly, Johannes S H. Bjerg, M; Margo, Carla Bertola, F. J. Bergmann, Ruggero Maggi, Michael Gould, Robert Ford, Carolina Skibinski, Alberto Vitacchio, Tim Wright, Michael Brandonisio, essa may ranapiri, Thom Sullivan, Brendan Slater, Madeline McGovern, Ken Bolton, Paul T. Lambert, J. D. Nelson, Shloka Shankar, Gavin Yates, John Pursch, Matthew Hall, & Marilyn Stablein.

wednesday newstrip

T®ump to play hardball with pole-wielding, mobility scooter-riding avocado thieves who were reported to police · the northern nuclear test ground of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will be dismantled to transparently guarantee the continuance of the intense manhunt in Waffle House shooting · a solo South Auckland mum-of-three whose benefit was cut was told it was because she had been on two Tinder dates · GPs concerned by increase in people turning to Dr Google ·why meeting Ernie and Kermit ruined my childhood dreams.

finite automata

geographies: Normanton

a Power Point presentation

wednesday newstrip

Australian balls-up an hilariously fascinating farce as University of Queensland launches investigation after researchers promote Universal Medicine 'cult' · is the Destructoid community excited for God of War after James Comey compares DoNuts T®ump to a ‘mob boss’? · Syria's bold move after Beyoncé's Coachella performance failed to crush its power · San Diego's scientists span the globe to unearth new discoveries, solve deepest mysteries, such as why a suspected drunk driver crashed mum's car, then dived into an eel infested stream to avoid police · DoNuts T®ump's strike on free bowel cancer screening kit program wasn't just pure entertainment. It was a historic cultural moment.

geographies: Zetland

geographies: Millaroo

wednesday newstrip

Frozen pomegranate linked to NSW hepatitis A outbreak · Pokemon Go news: creation of 'god-like' AI could doom mankind to an eternity of robot dictatorship · new book claims Megalomania T®ump bought Russell Crowe's used jockstrap at his divorce auction · plumber comes to rescue after angry cattle charge & trample cyclists · DoNuts T®ump left 'bed-ridden' & suffering from mysterious illness for three years after boob job · scientists theorize food allergies linked to baby wipes helped dinosaurs go extinct before asteroid hit Earth.

Found

Living on the outskirts of Sydney, a man, going to see the strongest lightning, captured on the smartphone storm storm.

After a time, reviewing what he saw, he examined in the clouds of dark objects, one of which looked like a big CC, His second “brother” had a vague oval shape.

The witness said that in the process of watching the video I noticed, as lightning repeatedly struck in the land of dark devices with geometrically correct forms.

He also added that the strange flying machines have been well visible when bright flashes. The researchers say that a severe thunderstorm particularly attractive to UFOs, providing a kind of filling points for the aliens.

wednesday newstrip

Russia tests new intercontinental ballistic missile as tensions with West rise: DoNuts T®ump privately wants US out of Syria 'very soon' · does it matter to you where the grain in your bread comes from? Former Uber driver claims passengers are being scammed · hope for gonorrhoea immune drug therapy: China's defunct space lab hurtling toward Earth for re-entry · the facelifted 2019 Kia Optima confirmed as car who bit Beyoncé · 'Smallville' actress Allison Mack set to be arrested over ties to notorious sex cult: Pope Francis asks forgiveness for host of sins.

wednesday newstrip

Wider effects of mass Great Barrier Reef bleaching emerge: Advance Dermocare dog food voluntarily recalled after megaoesophagus outbreak · demand for a separate north Queensland state has no support: childcare workers demand Government intervenes · if you thought being a midwife was just for women, 'Alien' mummified skeleton which is actually a human baby is proof you're wrong · March Of Our Lives: tens of thousands rally across the US to demand tighter gun laws: NRA says violent radicals are behind the march · long-sought Appalachian ginseng at root of Chinese response to T®ump's trade tariff: T®ump tweets threat to shut down every FedEx Kinkos store in the US · Flat-earther blasts off in homemade rocket in bid to reassure himself world is shaped 'like a Frisbee.'

wabi sabi

There's an interview

with me on my recent poetry conducted by Thomas Fink & Leila Rosner now up at Dichtung Yammer.

wednesday newstrip

Fact-checking T®ump's error-filled tweetstorm about the Mueller probe: next Assassin's Creed Game takes place in Greece, out in 2019 · something shocking just happened deep in space: Greens push for legal at-home abortions · Australians in the dark about when to put on sunscreen: everything you need to know about the week ahead for markets · Kurdish forces claim maths illiteracy has led to T®ump & Brexit · Facebook grilled on how it let Cambridge Analytica access data on millions of users: Russia's Putain on track for commanding win.

Today the
postman brought
me the ass-end
of Donuts T®ump.
"That wasn't what
I asked for," I told
him. "I wanted to
see the end of that
ass T®ump, not this
crappy T®umped-
up rump."

from Wednesday's High School Anti-Gun Protests

Source: Reuters      Photographer: Joshua Roberts

A line from Stephen Hawking

By day, I'm an online
media buyer, grew up
with a passion & talent
for playing baseball.

On Fridays I like to shoot
pool or collect oral histories
at cocktail parties. I looked
in the toy section & saw

a sampling of narratives
drawn from doing jet
set events. Physics is
nearing its end; but I

have a similar juicer at
home that makes peanut
butter. There are things still
to prove. Looking inwards

at ourselves may influence
a child's perception of self
identity, but where are
the environmental benefits?

R.I.P.

(published on On Barcelona, 8/11/2014)

wednesday newstrip

Cool features — T®ump administration to fund weapons training for individuals who pose risks to themselves & others — coming to new version of Android · Gold Coast snake catcher wrangles Neo-Nazis in dock after murder verdict handed down · Turkish heiress & friends killed in plane crash during return from Vladimir Putin's 'fake' election · massive python in suburban family backyard rocks melon industry · other countries can avoid Germany's listeria outbreak mistake — Tillerson is Toppled by the Tyrant. 'I couldn't move my body at all, couldn't even lift my eyelids' · Australia is struggling to handle its swelling population. Irish scammers leave, others 'go to ground' after alleged fraud exposed.

spoken

wednesday newstrip

Artificial snow could have devastating effects on climate · T®ump, Alec Baldone renew Twitter feud · Pamela Anderson has revealed what life in the Playboy Mansion was really like · China's condoms are 'too small,' says Zimbabwe's health minister · California couple charged after their three children lived for years in 'plywood box' in desert · Putin flaunted five powerful weapons. Are they a threat? · "Trade wars are good": the P®ettydense defends controversial tariffs.

still
moving

RSVP

comb / over Caesar / strokes himself again

During a meeting with state governors at the White House, Trump said he would have felt compelled to confront the shooter personally, had he been on the scene.

“I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” says the man who needed a golf cart to keep up with the other world leaders at the G7 summit.

wednesday newstrip

NRA chief slams anti-gun 'elites' after Florida school massacre; T®ump continues push to arm teachers · elderly New South Wales man attacked with lawnmower · DoNuts T®ump jokes about his bald spot · stop squeezing avocados say producers, there are better ways to test ripeness · he lied, he boasted, he bullied & demeaned, & the crowd couldn't have loved it more. The thousands of workaday Americans in a convention hall in Maryland, cheering DoNuts' every unhinged word. They still want to "lock her up." They still want to "build the wall" · a survivor of the Florida high school shooting says she has “never been so unimpressed by a person in my life” than when the Prissydance called her in the hospital.

dust of the locusts

goes without saying

wednesday newstrip

Wheat House aides advised the Precedent against golfing so soon after the shooting tragedy in Parkland, Florida · Fergie's NBA All-Star Game national anthem confuses, amuses, & reveals human beings on brink of achieving immortality by year 2050 · Jar Jar Kushioner & dozens of Wheat House staffers handle sensitive information without permanent security clearance · millions of dollars, favorable coverage: what we can tell you about the new Benjamin Notjustanyahoo graft case roiling Israel · during the 2016 election cycle, the NRA spent $1 million on direct contributions to candidates, paid out another $3.1 million on lobbying & another $54 million on outside activities, such as television ads & communication to voters & members · doctors not convinced on medical cannabis.

Manxious

wednesday newstrip

Man is struck by lightning while in the shower & 125000 people are left without power as North Korean cheerleaders steal the show at the Winter Olympics · Israeli minister says Christie Brinkley's daughter Sailor Brinkley Cook going nude for Sports Illustrated sent clear message to Iran · Flat-Earther who saw SpaceX launch brands it an elaborate hoax · Mount Canobolas bushfire was charged with one count of engaging in an act of terrorism & was remanded in custody · Kourtney Kardashian screams with fear as her house is infested with tarantulas.

scene from above

Flowers of the Abyss

Hélas! tout est abîme
wrote Baudelaire—all is
abyss, a completely
automated world of self-
assembling machine-flowers
made possible by an
emergent form of video
expression. Each change
brings out new curves in
the shoreline; in the same
ambient space there is a
region where the perception
of the image is still affected
by the dead blue screen. A
message appears to say
there is a problem with
the file. All windows
bare the infinite to me.

Pulcinella goes dancing

wednesday newstrip

Earth's magnetic poles could be about to flip sparking chaos & mass blackouts after an emotional-support peacock was prevented from boarding a United Airlines flight at Newark Liberty International Airport · Robert Wagner named 'person of interest' in the 1981 death of Natalie Wood as Australia spy agency takes possession of secret files left at second-hand shop · 19-year-old bitcoin millionaire says dwarf galaxies threaten standard model of cosmology · human skeletons arranged in spooky circular shape found in ancient Mexican pit make smart speakers tough to recommend · if you don't make a fortune in the next ten years, it's your own fault.

a diagram

The latest issue of Otoliths is now live

Rounding out the twelth year of its existence, issue forty-eight, the southern summer, 2018, issue of Otoliths has just gone live.

Once again, it's a cornucopia of diverse goodies, with work from Sheila E. Murphy, Douglas Barbour, Texas Fontanella, John M. Bennett, Diane Keys, Baron Geraldo, Mark Cunningham, Alyssa Trivett, Bill DiMichele, Jim Meirose, Guy R. Beining, Kyle Hemmings, Seth Howard, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Cecelia Chapman, Jim Leftwich, Steve Dalachinsky, Magdalena Ball, Sanjeev Sethi, Lynn Strongin, AG Davis, David Lander, Lawrence Upton, Raymond Farr, Trivarna Hariharan, Clara B. Jones, Pete Spence, Jill Chan, Drew B. David, Jon Cone, Philip Byron Oakes, Karri Kokko, David Rushmer, Andrew Brenza, Marcello Diotallevi, Kathryn Hummel, Federico Federici, Mark Pirie, Diana Magallón, Laurent Grison, Jack Galmitz, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Sacha Archer, Justin Sheen, Felino A. Soriano, David Baptiste Chirot, Alice Savona, Thriveni C. Mysore, Howie Good, Thomas M. Cassidy, Brandon Roy, Brandstifter, Rich Murphy, hiromi suzuki, gobscure, Joel Chace, Volodymyr Bilyk, Olivier Schopfer, Brendan Slater, Joe Balaz, John Levy, Tom Beckett, Lakey Comess, Clay Thistleton, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Poornima Laxmeshwar, Penelope Weiss, Carey Scott Wilkerson, Thomas Fink, Maya D. Mason, M.J. Iuppa, Ivan Klein, mary c fogg, Tony Beyer, Jeff Bagato, Charles Wilkinson, J. Paul Dutterer, Jessie Janeshek, Jeff Harrison, Louise Landes Levi, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Mary Kasimor, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Michael O'Brien, Linda M. Walker, Keith Nunes, Jesse Glass, Andrew Topel, Cheryl Penn, Richard Kostelanetz, Edward Kulemin, Karl Kempton, Ryan Scott, Emma Burgess, Katrinka Moore, Timothy Pilgrim, Marilyn Stablein, Seth Copeland, Vassilis Zambaras, Bob Heman, Brooks Lampe, Anwer Ghani, Chris Brown, J. D. Nelson, Jacqueline M. Pérez, Michael Brandonisio, Paul T. Lambert, & David Kjellin.

Enjoy.