geographies: Carstairs

boardwalk boogie-woogie

wednesday newstrip

What House? officials have been left baffled after a doctored presidon'tial seal, featuring a two-headed eagle clutching golf clubs in its talons instead of arrows, was projected on stage at an event at which US Sleazygent DoNuts T.®ump spoke · US pulls out of decades-long nuclear missile pact with Russia claiming they violated treaty · almost three-quarters of Americans believe current US precedent speaks without thinking. Half of Republicans think he 'carefully' considers his words before he speaks · the pressdissent is heading to the Trump National Golf Club at Beddybytime, New Jersey, according to the wHATE House · T.®ump to impose tariffs on consumer products in final wave of Chinese trade war.

wednesday newstrip

Presleazedent DoNuts T.®ump tweets disparaging comments about the people of Baltimore for allowing his son-in-law — said quickly it does sound like slumlord — JahRed Kushioner's troubled Baltimore housing projects, currently embroiled in legal action on claims of housing violations & mismanagement, to become 'disgusting, rat & rodent infested messes' · Alien lunar base: 'UFO city' spotted on Google Moon map – 'NASA missed editing this out' says UFO hunter · T.®ump immediately tweets that Armstrong striking Stars & Stripes on the Moon makes it US territory which means slumlord son-in-law — said quickly that does sound like Kushioner — is permitted to own housing projects there provided no aliens are allowed in · GoNuts NoGonads T.®ump says President should go in & fix up Baltimore — oops! That was said during a precedent presidency · 'City killer' asteroid just missed Earth after it 'snuck up' on us, experts say. "Such a pity it missed" tweets the accidental torus.

The new issue of Otoliths is live

Issue fifty-four of Otoliths, the southern winter 2019 issue is now live.

It features Karl Kempton's discourses 5 & 6, alongside text, visual, &, yes, aural work from Edward Kulemin, Tom Montag, Elaine Woo, DS Maolalaí, Lynn Strongin, Eric Hoffman, Irene Koronas, Doug Bolling, C.R.E. Wells, Owen Bullock, Daniel Y. Harris, Pete Spence, Sanjeev Sethi, Judith Roitman, Steve Dalachinsky, J. D. Nelson, Diane Keys, Rich Murphy, Norman Abjorensen, Kevin Tosca, Kyle Hemmings, John Greiner, Steve Kirby, Jim Leftwich, Pat Nolan, Scott Helmes, Thomas Fink, Heath Brougher, Michael Orr, Olchar Lindsann, Volodymyr Bilyk, Jim Meirose, Caleb Puckett, hiromi suzuki, Reuben Woolley, Mary Kasimor, Mark DeCarteret, Jonel Abellanosa, AG Davis, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, J. Crouse, Glenn Ingersoll, Daniel de Culla, Richard Kostelanetz, Michael J Leach, John Martone, Sophie Finlay & Matthew Hall, Sheila E. Murphy, John M. Bennett, Erik Fuhrer, Janna Grace, B. T. Joy, Drew B. David, Anne Gorrick, Márton Koppány, Ricky Garni, Thomas M. Cassidy, Rachel Cunniffe, David Baptiste Chirot, Linda M. Walker, Joel Chace, Joseph Buehler, Toby Fitch, Yoko Danno, Hugh Tribbey, Olivier Schopfer, Jeff Miller, Elmedin Kadric, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, M.J. Iuppa, Colin Stewart Jones, Brendan Slater, Natsuko Hirata, Joe Balaz, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Kellyn Elson, Robert Beveridge, Aidan Coleman, Javant Biarujia, Tony Beyer, Keith Higginbotham, Andrew Topel, Joseph Harrington, Clara B. Jones, Nick Nelson, Kristin Garth, Judith Skillman, Andrew Taylor, Jim George, Jeff Harrison, Jeff Bagato, Daniel f. Bradley, Texas Fontanella & Stuart Wheatley, Penelope Weiss, Dave Read, Keith Nunes, Anna Cates, Sacha Archer, Douglas Barbour, John Levy, Marilyn Stablein, M. C. Rush, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, gobscure, Tim Wright, Jen Schneider, William Repass, Ian Gibbins, Jill Jones, Marcia Arrieta, Gian Luigi Braggio, Holly Day, Mary Ellen Derwis, Tim Pilgrim, John McCluskey, Les Wicks, R. Keith, Michael Brandonisio, Tom Beckett, Bob Heman, Ella Skilbeck-Porter, John Pursch, Jesse Glass, Kristian Patruno, Martin Stannard, & Demosthenes Agrafiotis.

Enjoy the variety.

Cheers
Mark

geographies: Babinda

Which / one's the / word of doG?

wednesday newstrip

Elon Musk's Neuralink says it's created brain-reading 'threads,' surgical robot that inserts them · a six-year-old girl has died after she was struck in the head by a golf ball that her father hit · DoNuts T.®ump has defended recent tweets, saying they aren’t racist, he doesn’t "have a racist bone in my body," & "they don’t look like Indians to me" · mother of YouTube prankster Vitaly Zdorovetskiy 'streaks' at Cricket World Cup final · El Chapo to spend life behind bars & forfeit enough of his wealth to pay for a border wall with T.®ump-branded hotels & golf courses within its precincts, US court rules · DR Congo Ebola outbreak declared global health emergency · Theresa MayNot has used her last major speech as U.K. Prime Minister to warn that the "politics of winners & losers, of absolutes & of perpetual strife" has taken hold "& that threatens us all."

geographies: Toonpan

geographies: Rangemore

wednesday newstrip

DoNuts T.®ump hosts conservative provocateurs at the Wheat House for 'free speech' summit · Google in damage control after leaked recordings of ‘bedroom conversations’ · NASA abruptly reassigns top human exploration program officials in what seems like a fairly clear demotion as T.®ump Moon Mandate looms · Hubble spots "impossible" structure around a malnourished black hole · DoNuts T.®ump to host state dinner for Australian Prem Menaceter Scoot SorrySon in September · Apple reportedly canceled development of its augmented reality glasses · Homely Affairs Minister, Putrid Dustbin, against 'separate voice' as government backtracks on Indigenous constitutional change.

severe

wednesday newstrip

Man injured in suspected shark attack in Sydney's north · an embarrassing moment involving I yank her T.®ump's pet ring was caught on camera this weekend · no truce in DoNuts T.®ump's trade war despite 'great' meeting with Xi Limping · Japan catches first whale after hunting ban lifted · Australia may need to consider nuclear weapons to counter China's dominance, defense analyst says · two charged following tomahawk attack south of Sydney.

geographies: Shirbourne

raga

wednesday newstrip

Stryd's new wearable power meter wants you to run like the wind (in the wind) · Bitcoin surges to 17-month high, trading at more than $A18,000 · out of control motorhome flies through the air & crashes onto ferry, killing driver · serious Apple Watch upgrade in the works · student, 21, killed by three tiger sharks while snorkeling with iconic wild pigs in the Bahamas · cocaine found in Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's G20 plane entourage · Alabama woman Marshae Jones has been indicted by a grand jury over the death of her unborn baby after she was shot in the stomach when she was five months pregnant · massive energy burst, a long time ago, pinpointed in galaxy far, far away.

t g d

wednesday newstrip

Horns are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests · UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia unlawful, court of appeal declares · Home Affairs Minister, Putrid Dustbin, says refugee women held in offshore detention camps are using rape & abortion claims as ploy to get to Australia · US 'spy' drone shot down by Tehran, but Americans deny it was in Iranian airspace · teen’s jaw was shattered when his vape pen exploded in his mouth · Bore_us Gone_to_the_John likely to be next Prime Sinister of UK.

out from ma press

http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/residual-sonnets/paperback/product-24139433.html

An afterword from Residual sonnets

A great deal of my work is based on stochastic processes, starting with a prompt & using it as a search term in Google, taking a phrase from the search string that results & using that as a prompt, taking a phrase from that & continuing on. You end up with a page of phrases from which you sculpt a poem, & then move on, leaving behind a page of discarded material, rarely looked at or turned over again.

What I have done to arrive at these "residual sonnets" is to go back to those leftover pages, collate them, & use the material there to create new poems, in 14-line form. I had obviously intended to do this on a small scale before, because I found several separate pages with the same phrases included on them. But even with those duplications removed, the bricolage totals over 200 pages, spread across 30+ directories.

This collection contains the initial results from that sculpting.

geographies: Midge Point

wednesday newstrip

Notre Dame officials say tycoons who promised millions after the fire haven't paid a cent · Facebook furore over ad ban on second-hand breast pumps angers mums · milk recalled over contamination fears · DoNuts T.®ump blames Iran for Gulf of Oman oil tanker attacks: Japanese ship owner contradicts US account of how tanker was attacked · an uninspired Men in Black: International wastes the chemistry of its two leads · WHO decides not to declare Ebola emergency · several killed in al-Shabab attacks in Mogadishu.

The Name of the Rose

is Jacques Prévert.

geographies: Moranbah

Now out from Luna Bisonte Prods

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/taxonomic-drift/24831303

wednesday newstrip

NASA to open International Space Station for tourism, business opportunities · mysterious blob caught on weather radar claimed to be a massive ladybug swarm heading for the ISS · DoNuts T.®ump decides not to go to the Moon because he "doesn't like the variety of cheese it's made from" · Alec Baldwin 'so done' with portraying T.®ump on 'SNL' · Apple bids farewell to iTunes after 18 years · US precedent claims he had 'automatic chemistry' with the British monarch · DC Universe’s Swamp Thing has been canceled after one episode · DoNuts T.®ump announced that the moon is part of Mars, launches new range of caps with MONA SAGA — Make Our NASA Great Again — embroidered on them · British stewardess & girlfriend bashed on bus because they refused to kiss for gang of homophobic yobbos.

wednesday newstrip

Dressed to kill: how Killing Eve TV assassin Villanelle became a style icon · 12 dead, including suspect, in Virginia Beach shooting · hellish new planet discovery shocks experts after being discovered in an area of space where no planets are supposed to be able to survive due to the intense radiation · iOS App trackers are collecting your personal data · DoNuts T.®ump has made a startling admission in which he appeared to confirm for the first time that Russia "helped (him) to get elected" · autism symptoms replicated in mice after faecal transplants · Schrödinger's cat could be saved, say scientists.

A plague of processionary caterpillars

or: how far has evolution taken us?

wednesday newstrip

Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who provided secret military & diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, was sent to jail again on Thursday after refusing to testify before a grand jury · “What I’ve done is I’ve declassified everything,” DoNuts T.®ump told AAP reporters announcing he wants Australia’s role in sparking the FBI probe into links between Russia and his election campaign examined by US Attorney-General William BarStool · Swiss drugmaker Novartis has received US approval for its spinal muscular atrophy gene therapy Zolgensma – pricing the one-time treatment at a record $2.125m. · DoNuts T.®ump sends troops to Middle East 'in defence against Iran' as tensions escalate, mumbles something about looking for weapons of mass destruction · US non-anon-recedent T.®ump has defied congress to approve the sale of about $US8 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, saying "now that the Night King's gone, who else will help them?" · the taxpayer tab for T.®rump’s golf outings tops $100 million.

a_trophy

geographies: Calen

wednesday newstrip

Moving tectonic map of the Game of Thrones landscape lights up skies in Northern Territory, prompting calls to triple 0 · Nightgel Farrago has milkshake thrown over him outside Brexit Party campaign rally · DoNuts T.®ump has threatened to 'end' Iran in ominous tweet · the left-right identity fault line cracks through the quinoa curtain · all Austrian far-right ministers resign in corruption scandal after their party leader was caught on tape offering contracts to a Russian oligarch's daughter · reasons you might consider circumcision: James Charles hits back at claims he 'tricked straight men into thinking they are gay' · Immigration New Zealand said the number of visits to the New Zealand Now site surged tenfold on Sunday as Aussies woke to the news of a Coalition victory.

The Australian Federal Election

has just been run, & won by the even-more-conservative-than-before Liberal & National parties led by Scat Moron'son with an enlarged majority. (That's something like an enlarged prostate, I believe.)

A indication of where said ScamMo fits on the political spectrum can be surmised by the fact that the first two two international leaders to congratulate him were Trump & Netanyahu.

Winter is coming. Or may be already here.

New Zealand beckons.

geographies: Bowen

A line from Doris Day

The sea level rose in the
10-cent store one day. My
baby was just starting to
walk. Those first shoes

have since been bronzed
in a manner described by
critics as the last great
art movement of the 20^th

century. Elsewhere a free a
cappella music concert met
many of the expectations of
its sophisticated European

audience. Adults & children
spend too much time looking
at vegetal prototypes. The
oral tradition is in full flower.

r.i.p.

wednesday newstrip

Congratulations to Uber, the worst performing IPO in US Stock Market history · young woman dies from rabies after playing with stray puppy in Philippines · deep-sea fish living in near darkness have evolved incredible vision including the ability to see in color · Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gave an hour-long presentation about his plans for humanity’s future living on the Moon & in space colonies · octopus farming is "unethical & a threat to the food chain" say researchers · Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido says he's opening "direct communications" with the US military with possible coordination in mind.

capex

The Lady Vanishes III

wednesday newstrip

A van driver accused of hitting & killing a three-year-old boy has blamed the child's mum for the tragedy · body discovered in freezer identified as missing mum · Gigi Hadid puts on a stylish display in androgynous suit · DoNuts T.®ump attacks Facebook, Instagram after mother reveals distressing new details about Kmart toddler assault claim · mother of two, 34, dies from neck injuries after being hit by a wooden horse at Cornish May Day parade · foot found by fisherman belongs to missing mother of five · Keira Knightley stuns in androgynous trouser suit.

The Lady Vanishes II

The Lady Vanishes

Today the
postman brought
me a candelabra
& a grand piano.
Yet another error
in AI transcription.
I'd asked for a
library of ethics, got
Liberace's effects.

Issue 53 of Otoliths is now live

Forget Coachella! Issue 53, the southern autumn, 2019, issue of Otoliths, has more variety & much more talent. Plays, poems, paintings, reviews, stories, collaborations galore.

This issue contains work from Lynn Strongin, Jeff Bagato, Pete Spence, Kyle Hemmings, Seth Howard, Andrew Topel, Jim Leftwich, Steve Potter, Sanjeev Sethi, David Baptiste Chirot, Alison Ross, Mike Callaghan, John M. Bennett, Stephen Bett, Jim Meirose, Joel Chace, John Bradley, Dah, Ian Ganassi, Laura Bell, Emilio Morandi, Steve Dalachinsky, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, R. Keith, Cecelia Chapman, Keith Polette, Daniel de Culla, M. Liberto Gorgoni, Olivier Schopfer, Mary Cresswell, Jack Galmitz, Anton Yakovlev, B. J. Muirhead, Nina Živančević, Gregory Kimbrell, Cameron Lowe, Pat Nolan, Richard Kostelanetz, Daniel f. Bradley, Sheila E. Murphy, Adam Fieled, Bill Wolak, Márton Koppány, M.J. Iuppa, Gregory Stephenson, Elaine Woo, Karl Kempton, J. D. Nelson, Carol Stetser, Neil Leadbeater, Texas Fontanella, Tony Mancus & CL Bledsoe, gobscure, David Lohrey, Douglas Barbour, Keith Higginbotham, Guy R. Beining, Sarah Sarai, hiromi suzuki, Thomas Fink, Maya D. Mason, Carla Bertola, Tom Beckett, Randee Silv & Mumtazz, Mark DuCharme, Michael O'Brien, Elmedin Kadric, Keith Nunes, Bob Heman, John Kalliope, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Charles Borkhuis, Tony Beyer, Kenneth Rexroth, Maralena Howard, Stu Hatton, Michael Brandonisio, Brian Glaser, Penelope Weiss, Stephen Nelson, Tom Daley, Bernie Earley, Anna Cates, Jeff Harrison, John Levy, Vernon Frazer, Miro Sandev, Sabine Miller, Christopher Barnes, Nick Nelson, Jimmy Rivoltella, Katrinka Moore, Joe Balaz, Marilyn Stablein, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., John Pursch, Joseph Buehler, Colleen Woods, Michael Philip Castro, Michael Prihoda, Henry Crawford, Wes Lee, & Gay Beste Reineck.

As always, enjoy.

geographies: Horseshoe Lagoon

geographies: Barratta

wednesday newstrip

New hope for DoNuts T.®ump after scientists restore 'some' brain activity in slaughtered pigs · there's one thing great white sharks are really afraid of — that Huawei's new 50x SuperZoom camera on its P30 Pro smartphone can read their pin number when they're drawing out cash · T.®ump has told Fox News' Spawned Insannity that wind energy was unreliable because the wind "only blows sometimes" · a Florida teenager believed to be armed & "infatuated" with the Columbine massacre has been found dead by authorities in Colorado · a new YouTube tool aimed at preventing misinformation incorrectly linked a video of the burning spire of Notre Dame to the September 11 terror attacks in New York by using boxes purporting to provide context to the footage but which, instead, described the 2001 attacks · a Googler "who was in Charleston 1295 on Thursday, April 4" has been diagnosed with measles so be careful opening your Gmail if you haven't been vaccinated.

wednesday newstrip

Kim Kardashian & Kanye West do Vogue’s 73 Questions · Israel's Bearshit spacecraft crashes on Moon · Amazon's human helpers are quietly listening in on some Alexa recordings · Black hole revealed in stunning world-first image · fossils of previously unknown human species discovered in cave in the Philippines · Meghan enjoys the time-honored ritual of women wearing their man's clothes · woman jailed for bludgeoning man to death with Virgin Mary statue, tin of mangoes.

geographies: Carstairs

wednesday newstrip

Melee player quits match over opponent's jigglypuff stalling · tragic shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle caught on CCTV, vigil descends into chaos · tourists flee as falling slabs of Icelandic glacier create huge waves · JioSaavn, Gaana slash annual subscription prices by 70% to take on Spotify, YouTube Music · Catholic priests burn 'sacrilegious' Harry Potter books & Twilight novels in Poland · nudity, anger & a resignation, but no Brexit Plan B from British MPs · News Corp launches offensive against Labor's climate policy amid glowing budget 2019 previews.

Midnight at The Oasis

spell eology

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Dare one diss the little mermaid?

wednesday newstrip

The British man who tried to flee Australia on a jetski while armed with a crossbow left a note on his abandoned four-wheel drive before his dash for freedom, telling people he was “not coming back” · police reveal reason for Melbourne’s CBD Flagstaff station chaos. A man carrying a didgeridoo was thought to be carrying a firearm & police swarmed the station · in Fallout 76's brutal new survival mode, you're either level 100 or dead meat · NASA cancels all-female spacewalk because its suits aren’t the right size for women · 102-year-old New York mobster compares himself to Jesus · T.®ump's Mexico border plan could mean no more avocados for US.

"I am dying, I am dying; he did it.”

out from otata

Currently available as a PDF file here. Soon to be available as a print on demand book.

birdS are made from the Sky

wednesday newstrip

Passengers are airlifted from cruise ship stranded off Norway provoking DoNuts T.®ump to claim the Islamic State caliphate has now been defeated · hundreds of thousands of hens are expected to be destroyed following an outbreak of an “exotic” strain of salmonella provoking DoNuts T.®ump to claim the Islamic State caliphate has now been defeated · Facebook left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years provoking DoNuts T.®ump to claim that that won't happen again now the Islamic State caliphate has now been defeated · Persona 5: The Royal is coming to ps4 with a female protagonist, provoking DoNuts T.®ump to claim the Islamic State caliphate has now been defeated · Japanese scientists say they’ve figured out where Ryugu asteroid is from provoking DoNuts T.®ump to claim the Islamic State caliphate has now been defeated.

I love loosely

Throwbacks

Was looking through the early pages of gamma ways, & came across this post, from 12 & a half years ago.

"It's amazing how much print copy an e-zine generates.

"I'm putting together the print versions of issue two of Otoliths. Issue one turned into 96 pages for the b&w part one, 60 pages for the color part two. Issue two has run out at 136 pages for the b&w, 84 pages for the color."

Little did I know what the future would hold.

Issue 51, part one. 336 pages. Part two. 202 pages.
Issue 52, part one. 286 pages. Part two. 260 pages.

¡Ay, caramba!

aftermath

It was the
"English
City." Now?

Riivers' Song

wednesday newstrip

 Mucad Ibrahim     Abdullahi Dirie    Sayyad Milne     Khaled Alhaj Mustafa     Hamza Mustafa     Ansi Karippakulam Alibava     Atta Elayyan     Haroon Mahmood     Mohammad Imran Khan     Linda Armstrong     Haji-Daoud Nabi     Lilik Abdul Hamid     Ashraf Ali     Vora Ramiz     Farhaj Ahsan     Mojammel Hoq     Syed Jahandad Ali     Hussain Al-Umari     Osama Adnan Abu Kwik     Kamel Darwish     Amjad Hamid     Abdelfattah Qasem     Ali Elmadani     Husna Ahmed     Naeem Rashid     Tariq Omar     Mathullah Safi     Sohail Shahid     Musa Vali Sulemin Patel     Ramiz Arifbhai Vora     Arifbhai Mohamedali Vora     Ozair Kadir     Ashraf Masi     Talha Naeem     Syed Areeb Ahmed     Maheboob Allarakha Khokhar     Hussein Moustafa     Mounir Sollman     Zeehan Raza     Ghulan Hussain     Karam Bibi     Abdukadir Elmi     Mohammed Omar Faruk     Muhammed Abdusi Sammad     Musa Nur Awale     Ahmar Gamaluddin Abdel Ghani    Ashraf al-Morsi     Zhakira Bhuiyan 

American Goth hicks

LutelY

wednesday newstrip

No-Precedent DoNuts T.®ump asks Congress for US$8.6 billion so he can build a wall around the Wheat House to keep out two Islamic State brides who have had their British citizenships revoked · UK Prim Minister Tears MayNot asks Parliament for US$8.6 billion so she can build a firewall around 10 DoNuts Street after Google reported a zero-day exploit in Windows 7 · astronauts on the space station liked SpaceX's 'Earthy' toy so much that they kidnapped it & are asking Elongated Muskrat for US$8.6 billion before they give it back · DoNuts T.®ump gives J.Lo an asteroid-sized rock to put on her finger, invites her to move into the Wheat House whenever Megalomania's away, & offers her US$8.6 billion for each act of congress.

R. N.

wednesday newstrip

DoNuts T.®ump returns from Little Rocket Man concert in Hanoi emptyhanded, with neither the recipe for kimchi nor Elton John's autograph · new studies support existence of massive 9th planet, possibly five times the size of the Earth & closer than we thought · DoNuts T.®ump returns emptyhanded from Major Tom concert at the Kennedy Space Center, with neither the recipe for specially processed yuxiang pork nor David Bowie's autograph · video emerges of gigantic tarantula dragging a baby opossum away to devour it later. Khloé Kardashian unleashes: 'That's the reason my family broke up!' · The Vivo iQOO flagship smartphone is released with sd855, 12gb ram & 44w fast charge. DoNuts T.®ump returns home emptyheaded as well as emptyhanded.

geographies: Sarina

wednesday newstrip

NASA's Earth Science Division has put together a new photo essay that shows our planet in a collection of stunning images, taken from satellites peering down on us from Earth's atmosphere · world's largest bee found in Indonesian rainforest in 'holy grail' discovery · Facebook attacked over app that reveals period dates of its users · Catholic nun scolds bishops on abuse: "This storm will not pass" · a 16-year-old boy has been charged with strangling his wealthy property developer father to death with a dog leash · SheaMoisture pampers guests at its #SheaOnTheBeach Ultimate Beach Day Party · Israel flying to moon in a craft barely the size of a washing machine & called Bearshit · the world just got closer to a controversial mosquito 'wipe out' experiment · Biz groups warn longer maternity leave might push employers to prefer men.

light breaks

Now out from Moria Books

The latest collection of my Magritte poems.

Available as a free downloadable pdf here.

Available for purchase as a print book here.

still
moving

wednesday newstrip

The state department says DoNuts T.®ump's nominee for US ambassador to the United Nations, Heather Nauert, a former Fucked News anchor, has withdrawn, giving as her excuse her fear that a colossal asteroid hurtling through space at nearly 20,000mph might interesect with the Earth & expose as ridiculous her earlier comment that "the D-day landings are evidence of the longstanding relationship between Washington & Berlin" · former US cardinal defrocked for sex crimes against minors & adults, in many of which he defrocked his victims · “I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster” said DoNuts T.®ump, declaring a national emergency because Tristan Thompson has been caught cheating on Khloe Kardashian again & Demi Lovato is back in Rehab · spare-courier to the Precedent, Perk Mince, told the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany that he brings "greetings from POTUS Mark XLV.” At this, there was a complete silence from the crowd. I. Yankher Rump, who was in the audience, was not amused.

defensive wounds

distant lens

geographies: Hughenden

wednesday newstrip

DoNuts T.®ump undergoes anal health check. His Chief physician said "his shit's as strong as ever" in a memorandum released by the Wheat House · London Zoo say female tiger was mauled to death by the male on their first encounter · crocodile emerges from floodwaters to terrify mum & kids in Queensland backyard · Thai king condemns elder sisters's tilt at prime minister as unconstitutional · United States in direct contact with Venezuelan military, urging defections from Nicolas Maduro · Vice director laughed when told of I. Yankher Rump's abrupt exit during film screening.

repercussions

bespoke

wednesday newstrip

DoNuts T.®ump has been seen arriving at Grand Central under the impression that that is the venue for his Night of The Station address.

recycling

Today the
postman brought
me a conundrum.
I don't know
what to
make of it.

a shore, a drift

Otoliths issue fifty-two is now live

It's actually been out for a couple of days because of a conflict between the weather & technology, but let's make it official.

Issue fifty-two of Otoliths, the southern summer 2019 issue, is now live.

As always, there's lots of outstanding work, in a variety of genres, from Anne Gorrick, Doren Robbins, Bob Marcacci, Mary Kasimor, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, M. J. Iuppa, Jim Meirose, Vasiliki Katsarou, Jim Leftwich, Steve Dalachinsky, Lynn Strongin, Sanjeev Sethi, Mark Cunningham, Piet Nieuwland, Seth Howard, Crank Sturgeon, Pete Spence, Kristian Radford, Andrew Rihn, Elaine Woo, Michael Gottlieb, Sheila E. Murphy, Richard J. Fleming, Jeremy Freedman, John McCluskey, a.j. carruthers, John Martone, Lakey Comess, Olivier Schopfer, Joseph Buehler, Amelia Dale, Heath Brougher, John Crouse, Lindsey Anderson, J. Crouse, Robyn Art, Monica Carroll, Tom Montag, Scott MacLeod, john sweet, David Lohrey, Adam Levon Brown, Jack Galmitz, Texas Fontanella, John M. Bennett, Reuben Woolley, hiromi suzuki, Márton Koppány, Diane Keys, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Daniel de Culla, iDrew, Tom Beckett, Clara B. Jones, Nick Nelson, John Levy, Bob Heman, Renata Solimini, Keith Higginbotham, Kon Markοgiannis, Marcello Diotallevi, Karl Kempton, Kathleen Reichelt & Randee Silv, Drew B. David, Dream Meli, Alec Hershman, Andrew Topel, Craig Cotter, gobscure, Winston Plowes, Emilio Morandi, Tony Beyer, Luc Fierens, Penelope Weiss, Jeff Harrison, Stephen Nelson, Jonel Abellanosa, Carla Bertola, Jac Nelson, Rich Murphy, Alberto Vitacchio, Keith Nunes, Erik Fuhrer, Nicolette Wong & David Heg, Monique Lyle, Kristian Patruno, Michael O'Brien, Marcia Arrieta, Natsuko Hirata, Nicola Griffin, Jessie Janeshek, Trev Eales & Robert Sheppard, Jesse Glass, Larkin Higgins, Richard Kostelanetz, Michael Brandonisio, Shloka Shankar, Tim Wright, Edward Kulemin, Kit Kennedy, Marilyn Stablein, John Pursch, J. D. Nelson, Katrinka Moore, & Jane Joritz-Nakagawa.

Enjoy.