geographies: Andromache

In the land of artiodactyl mammals

wednesday newstrrip

Busker bashed with own ukulele in Adelaide's Rundle Mall during Fringe performance · the depressant T.®ump allegedly ruined a deal with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi because he said: "It’s not like you’ve got China on your border" · woman plays violin while undergoing brain surgery to ensure musical skills not affected · MIT scientists create system to defend against killer asteroids · Netflix "is an obvious beneficiary if consumers stay home due to coronavirus (COVID-19 virus) concerns, & this has been reflected in considerable stock price outperformance this week" · the largest unnamed world in the solar system now has a name: Gonggong.

geographies: Bing Bong

wednesday newstrip

The Diamond Princess cruise ship is, according to the promo material, "a treasure trove of exceptional delights waiting to be discovered" · scientists just watched a newfound asteroid zoom by Earth: then they saw its moon · the Antarctic has reached a temperature of more than 20 degrees for the first time · human rights groups call on Australian Pram Minister Scat SorrySon to confront DoNuts T.®ump over landmines · Galaxy S20 Ultra's 5,000mAh battery charges in 58min with the 45W charger · at least 6 celebrities are showing off new face tattoos which include a sneaker & bloody buzz saw · Boy Scouts of America file for bankruptcy amid sex abuse cases · astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search, say they'll start their quest with Earth.

geographies: Aramac

my new collection

turning to drones
Concrete Mist Press
$US14.95
available through Amazon

These compelling poems exhibit, through their concise and wide-ranging vocabulary, forms, and referents, an extraordinary skill at revealing directly and/or indirectly a strong and authentic engagement with the human world and its problems, and with how those problems reverberate in the consciousness and emotions of the poet/experiencer. There is a concern throughout, laced with considerable irony, with the conflict or contrast between current affairs and culture and a more coherent or more desirable value-based world which may have existed in the distant or more recent past, or at least in the hopes of our species: “Something about a conflation of / music & power, both of which can / be seen as a series of 'lines' on / photographic film. The literature / on the subject is immense, usually / in high quality peer-reviewed full- / text publications, & embellished / with consumer reviews & price com- / parisons...” A kind of double vision forms many of these poems, expressed tautologically at times, as if the same thing said twice were different each time: “I am writing the / introduction to a / book of dreams. This / is the first dream.” This leads to a truly engaging enigma or ambiguity in which a meaning means something else: “...tendency of parents to give / projects based around lexical statistics / means dictionaries will pop up before / you're even halfway into the entry / vestibule.” This, I believe, is the most important function of poetry, to remove that membrane of social constructs that form our perceptions of “reality”.

Young's skill with language and form is in itself a source of delight in this book. For example, his forms include sonnets, non-stanzaic structures, structures with widely variant stanza arrangements, a poem with the title at the end, a poem consisting only of questions, poems in the form of an ambiguous and elliptical internet exchange, the use of punctuation as visual elements, blocks of apparently disconnected words as a mantra, prose poems, and others. In short this book is a delight, full of humor, irony, dismay, mysterious and stimulating conjunctions of the things that form human life. — Dr. John M. Bennett

In his new collection, turning to drones, as in his numerous other books, Mark Young uses language, especially, English and French, as raw material and flexible elements for associative and collage compositions that are often challenging to decode—if decoding is desirable, necessary, or intended at all. Young, who has produced at least one collector's item, the vispo book, les échiquiers effrontés (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2018), provides his readers with no easy answers, sharing his perceptions of real or imagined events, spaces, beings, and experiences—fractured by disparate interests and historical narratives having social, political, and personal import. One can always count on this author's work to deliver imagery, innovative form, humor, and “language play,” while, at the same time, refusing to offer easy answers and determinant significance. Like all Postmodern creations, meaning remains in the mind of the reader, and Young's surrealist influences infuse his oeuvre with “interpretive power”—inquiries, complex juxtapositions, spliced elements, dream analysis, and other psychological effects. If you appreciate or are curious about, innovative literature, turning to drones will reward you with the above-mentioned pleasures and will highlight, as well, the author's penchant for creating short poems and stand-alone titles—one-line poetic fragments with their own aesthetic qualities. Mark Young is among the most notable contemporary text and vispo artists whose new offering will enrich your sensory and intellectual life.
— Clara B. Jones, Knowledge Worker, Silver Spring, MD, USA

geographies: Campaspe

wednesday newstrip

Australian bushfires a sign that asteroid 'will destroy Earth in 10 years' · scientists find evidence of 'ghost population' of ancient humans · South American turtle was as big as a car & built for battle · recording 8K video with a Galaxy S20 will take a toll on storage, but not as much as you think · a West Australian primary school has been branded “un-Australian” over its “offensive” decision to ban cupcakes & lolly bags for birthdays, with the backlash forcing it to put the decree on hold · Homophobic Affairs Minister Putrid Dustbin says a High Court ruling that Aboriginal Australians cannot be considered "aliens" under the constitution will be exploited & have "significant repercussions" · the T.®ump maladministration has offered oil companies a chunk of the American west & the Gulf of Mexico to extract fossil fuels that’s four times the size of California.

geographies: Mingela

Two recent sonnets from Series Magritte

Foolhardy

The dance floor is con-
fined by mountains of
ice. The ice is also on the
dance floor but is not
for dancing on, though
some have tried. Have
failed. So badly that
they need to call upon

another of their other
selves who also have
come crashing down. A
lesson learnt. Not even
the fanciest mustache can
improve one's balance.



L'esprit comique

Unable to see out, & sick
of being adorned with
flowers or vines or those
ugly plaques made from
clay that have the faces of
Roman gods embossed
upon them, the trellis has
decided to escape. Donned

disguise & cut it to shape.
Certainly ends up making
it a figure of fun; but it's
fine to breathe through, &
light enough to stride easily
over miles of countryside.

wednesday newstrip

Ocarina Of Time speedruns are now under ten minutes because reality is a lie made to be broken · Low-energy solar particles from beyond Earth found near the Sun: particles are smoking gun for solar wind interactions beyond Earth's orbit · Harvey Weinstein accuser testifies disgraced mogul asked for ‘golden shower’ before urinating on her in ‘gross’ 2013 encounter · DoNuts T.®ump did a zillion tweets today & each one is terrible · more than 90 per cent of drug-fueled attacks at Australian hospitals involve ice · hundreds of koalas brutally massacred during routine logging in Victoria, says Animals Australia · El Chapo's wife to appear on VH! reality show 'Cartel Crew.'

geographies: Gwambegwine

wednesday newstrip

A section of DoNuts T.®ump’s much-vaunted border wall between the United States & Mexico has blown over in high winds · your emoji selection will become more gender-inclusive this year & will also introduce new skintone options & the transgender flag · scientists create cyborg jellyfish with swimming superpowers · Asteroid MISS: an asteroid bigger than a bus just shot past Earth as far as the Moon · Apex Legends writer drops clues about Forge's 'death' ahead of Season 4 · the water under a vulnerable Antarctic glacier is warming. Its catastrophic collapse could trigger a dramatic increase in global sea level.

Issue 56 of Otoliths is now live

Issue fifty-six, the southern summer, 2020 issue of Otoliths, is now available online. It is dedicated to poet & editor Reuben Woolley who passed away in early December.

As always, there is a wide-ranging variety of work, across many forms, from Judith Skillman, Stephen Paul Miller, Hao Wang, Sanjeev Sethi, Texas Fontanella, John M. Bennett, Grace Coughlin, Kek-w, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Hugh Tribbey, Scott Helmes, John Crouse, Jim Leftwich, Kristian Radford, Michael Rothenberg, Kirk Marshall, Daniel de Culla, Doug Bolling, Brandstifter, Lynn Strongin, Jim George, J. D. Nelson, Mary Kasimor, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Clara B. Jones, Pete Spence, Stacey Allam, Márton Koppány, Andrew Topel, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Michael J Leach, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Jim McCrary, Karen Greenbaum-maya, Karl Kempton, Guy R. Beining, Pat Nolan, Olivier Schopfer, C. Mehrl Bennett, Isabel Gómez de Diego, Tom Montag, Elaine Woo, Mark DuCharme, Serse Luigetti, Jim Meirose, Eric Hoffman, Jeff Harrison, Joe Balaz, Volodymyr Bilyk, Valeria Sangiorgi, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Kristin Garth, Seth A. Howard, hiromi suzuki, Stephen C. Middleton, Elmedin Kadric, John C. Goodman, Tom Beckett, Alexander Jorgensen, Olchar Lindsann, Michael Ruby, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Jack Galmitz, Christian ALLE, Bill Friend, Jeff Bagato, Penelope Weiss, Kristian Patruno, Sheila E. Murphy, Marco Giovenale, M.J. Iuppa, Heath Brougher, Wes Lee, Craig Cotter, Timothy Pilgrim, John Levy, gobscure, Eileen R. Tabios, Dave Read, Mark Cunningham, Carol Stetser, Tony Beyer, Frances Lang, Christopher Barnes, Casey Bush, Joanna Walkden Harris, Keith Nunes, AG Davis, Stephen Nelson, David Kjellin, Randee Silv, Amy Barone, Jonel Abellanosa, Henry Crawford, J.I. Kleinberg, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Stuart Wheatley, CJ Peradilla, Alberto Vitacchio, Michael O'Brien, R L Swihart, Carla Bertola, Ken Bolton, John C. Mannone, Bob Heman, Philip Rowland, Marcia Arrieta, Alison J. Barton, Connie S. Tettenborn, Marilyn Stablein, Katrinka Moore, Phillipa Grylls, Carey Scott Wilkerson, Jasmine Gallagher, Cecelia Chapman, Scott MacLeod, Michael Brandonisio, Kathleen Rabbers, Edward Kulemin, & Steve Dalachinsky.

(There's actually a marquee piece in the blue box above, but my freeware screen capture software can't grab hold of it, just the background.)

Oh, the contrast

January 2020
The Australian Government is working with Chinese authorities to get Australians out of Wuhan, the Chinese city dubbed 'ground zero' in the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

October 2019
Families urge government to reconsider rescuing Australians in Syria. Home affairs officials have reiterated no Australians will be sent in to assist dozens of trapped women & children.

wednesday newstrip

Vampire white dwarf star feeding on neighbor spotted in Kepler data · coronavirus may have spread from snakes · DoNuts T.®ump has become the first US president to attend America's largest annual anti-abortion rally · did the FBI get Apple to kill iCloud backup encryption? · the T.®ump "I'm peachy" show opened with the defense opining that the prissygent is a victim & the Democrats are the villains · Civil War-era 'witch bottle' may have been found on US highway, archaeologists say · Byte, the sequel to Vine & potential competitor to TikTok, launches on mobile · gamers rush to play plague game amidst virus outbreak.

geographies: Albinia

Kung Hei Fat Choi

But let's hope the year isn't favorable for this fascist rat.

wednesday newstrip

Asteroid that could cause ‘violent’ sky explosions approaching Earth · new research reveals how Ginkgo biloba trees can grow for thousands of years · the Prada bolo tie is already this year’s viral celebrity accessory · T.®ump to veto bill intended to keep forever chemicals out of groundwater · oceans are warming at the same rate as if five Hiroshima bombs were dropped in every second · Melbourne air quality drops to 'hazardous' levels as bushfire smoke lingers over Victoria · why is Gwyneth Paltrow selling a candle that smells like her vagina?

geographies: Paul's Pocket

enlarging the canon

Old Rhumba
68 pages
gradient books
$US 5.00
http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/old-rhumba/paperback/product-24374331.html


"Once more meandering, this time whistling the Peanut Vendor song, unable to accede to the lyrics — peanuts do bop do bop. What was once a Cuban rhythm, the rumba, an h added in the pre- & post-war dancehalls of the then united States, turned into a jazz standard by the white swing bands — if you haven't got bananas don't be blue — brought back to much more like its original format by resettled Cuban musicians who found fame by cashing in on a craze for Latin-American music. Nothing of which has anything to do with this collection. Except for the name. Old Rhumba. 50 million monkeys can't be wrong (peanuts do bop do bop)."

Art Informel
68 pages
gradient books
$US 5.00
http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/art-informel/paperback/product-24375045.html


"(The tachistes) paint white on white, & they believe that this is an achievement," said René Magritte to Harry Torczyner. "I don't like that."

Torczyner responded by challenging Magritte to paint "a white rose, in a white room with a window looking on to a landscape covered with snow."

Magritte painted a rose in revolutionary red. "When there is a rose, & one is sensitive to it, one makes it as big as I did so that the rose appears to fill the room." He called the painting "The Tomb of the Wrestlers."

A comment by Jean-Paul Sartre on another painter's work sets the scene for the poems here. "Ses titres ne désignent pas l’objet : ils l’accompagnent." "His titles do not indicate the object: they accompany it."

geographies: Winton

wednesday newstrip

Asteroid alert: NASA tracks a colossal space rock on Earth approach 1 day after discovery · model banned on Instagram after raising $500k for bushfire appeal with nude selfies · Samsung just revealed a new rotating TV that's like a giant smartphone for your living room · scientists find astounding slime mold trapped in amber for 100 million years · DoNuts T.®ump tweets the US flag & follows up with a 'I don't want to have sex with my wife' tweet · aliens exist & they are living among us, says first British astronaut into space · World's worst measles epidemic kills 6,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo.

the abc of making up lost ground in the polls

(a) Assassinate an Iranian general.

(b) Tweet the American flag to show that everything is done in the name of patriotism. Ignore Samuel Johnson's pronouncement that "patriotism is the last resort of the scoundrel."

(Note: (a) & (b) can be swapped around.)

(c) Draw up a plan that details further acts of aggression to be carried out at regulated intervals so as to generate news headlines for all the weeks until polling day.

wednesday newstrip

Warning: five massive asteroids are just about to whiz by Earth · congregants have returned fire & fatally shot a gunman who killed two people in a church near Fort Worth, Texas · Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players are being killed by... a chair · Kansas cop, 23, resigns after admitting he was the one who wrote 'fucking pig' on his McDonald's coffee cup & then blamed the 'vulgar message' on his drive-thru server · NASA satellite images show the terrifying reality of climate change · California law banning sale of cosmetics tested on animals went into effect January 1st · DoNuts T.®ump spent 1 of every 5 days in 2019 at a golf club.

a history of won des laits

sur la plage x 3

geographies: Airville

wednesday newstrip

Woman says hair dye reaction caused her face to swell ‘like a balloon’ · "Space is the world's new war-fighting domain," said DoNuts T.®ump officially launching Space Force, the US's first new military service since 1947 · Australian Deputy Prune Monster MyCall McCornhick concedes Australia must do more to fight climate crisis – but links fires to 'self-combusting manure' · dinosaurs may have been poisoned before getting blasted with asteroid · half of all American adults could be obese in 10 years, study finds, &, once again, DoNuts T.®ump is leading the pack.

geographies: Llanarth

genetic material

                   I
          watch two
         black-tailed
               kites
              above
          the field on
        the other side
        of the lagoon
              spiral
         downwards
    in a complicated
        mating ritual
 
          & cr    eate 
            an       al
              mo   st
                  per 
                fe   ct     
              do    ub
                le  he   
                  lix.

(From 15 years ago, with only a little GM.)

wednesday newstrip

Fans hate Dynamaxing in Pokémon · asteroid hit: Russia developing weapon to blow up dangerous space rocks mid-way · DualShock 4 Back Button Attachment could give competitive gamers an edge · Zebrafish 'avatars' help distinguish radiosensitive from radioresistant tumors · ancient chewing gum reveals Stone Age woman's genome · most US opioid overdose deaths accidental, 4% are suicide · NASA issues warning for two asteroids that might collide with Earth this week · DoNuts T.®ump has lashed out at Democrats in a furious six-page letter to Nancy Pelosi, labeling his looming impeachment a declaration of war on democracy & an illegal coup attempt. Santa Claus decides not to bring him a present.

missing gold

whichever way the wind blows

geographies: Pentland

wednesday newstrip

NASA investigates mysterious activity on nearby asteroid that left top scientists baffled · Australia has been singled out as the worst-performing country on climate change policy according to a new international ranking · precision epigenome editing can repair genetic syndrome of intellectual disability · thousands of 'penis fish' appear on California beach · US Prissygent DoNuts T.®ump's mockery with 'fake orgasm' outrages FBI agent · Arctic may have crossed key threshold as permafrost melts in feared climate feedback · DoNuts T.®ump vows to tackle the scourge of low-flush toilets, claiming that water regulations force Americans to flush multiple times after using the bathroom.

geographies: Cloncurry

wednesday newstrip

Earth was hit by a mysterious ‘mini-moon’ fireball asteroid in 2016, scientists reveal · Apostrophe Protection Society closes its doors, announcing that 'the ignorance & laziness present in modern times have won!' · anti-vaxxers are still spreading false claims as people die of measles · DoNuts T.®ump's administration loses bid to bring back federal executions in US · beached sperm whale found with 100kg of rubbish — including plastic waste — inside its stomach · a third of Britons view the US as a 'menace to the world.'

geographies: Kyburra

The complete The Comedians now available for download

The Comedians is now available as a downloadable PDF from Stale Objects de Press.

wednesday newstrip

Asteroid warning: NASA tracks a 2000ft monster rock on Earth approach day after Christmas · teen found stuffed in a barrel was 'given meth to wake her up' before gruesome death · DoNuts T.®ump tweets bizarre doctored image of his head on Sylvester Stallone's body. Only rational explanation put forward so far is that threatened impeachment has him feeling a bit Rocky · a surprisingly big black hole might have swallowed a star from the inside out · husband & children of dead Sydney woman in freezer have been found in China · Luigi is the Mushroom Kingdom's most prolific serial killer.

causal & casual

geographies: Charlie's Hill

La lección de música

Demasiado tarde para un taxi, entonces el
maestro llama en una campana para
llevar a su alumno a su casa
en el campo

Han hecho esto antes, es
bien ensayado y vestido
para. El alumno solo necesita
asumir un poco más alto

registrarse para convertirse en un oído, en
parte de una especie de significante, pero
también permitiéndole escuchar qué
camino a seguir y dar instrucciones para

donde están los mejores asientos. los
La campana mantiene el tiempo. El oído
viene una parte de eso. El hundimiento
sun promueve el puntaje, permitiendo

Un color diferente para ser escuchado.
Ahora lo invisible se representa
visible. Esta lección está completa
¿Qué aprenderá la próxima semana?

wednesday newstrip

Asteroid warning: Earth WILL be hit by rock size of dinosaur-ending strike — expert claim · Israeli Prime Minister Backgammon Nestingyahoo faces indictments for corruption, claims allegations "politically motivated" · a group of immigration hardliners, including some who worked at an organization that has been described as a hate group by an advocacy watchdog that monitors extremism, have gained powerful posts in the federal agency in charge of administering benefits for immigrants, asylum-seekers & refugees · CNN reports that T.®ump has now fabricated five quotes from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an attempt to defend himself against the impeachment inquiry · 140th out of 146: Australian teens do close to the least physical activity in the world.

Starting the day

I confront the
plasma screen
once more &

hope again that
small words
turn into monsters.

geographies: Herberton

wednesday newstrip

NASA asteroid alert: a colossal rock the size of Sears Tower is rapidly approaching Earth · concern as plague cases diagnosed in China · Xbox expands game streaming service & announces new games at X019 · US teenager shoots fellow students dead on his birthday at a Southern California high school · are bigger water bombers the answer to Australia's bushfire woes? · T.®ump hikes price tag for US forces in Korea almost 500% as Seoul questions alliance · NSW bushfires: man charged after allegedly lighting fire at Ebor to protect cannabis crop.

from pelican dreaming 9.8.2004

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.

godzilla takes to the air

Now out from Otoliths: tocsin by harry k stammer

Color me old-fashioned but I like print. It's why I do print editions of Otoliths, it's why — until I ran out of time, oomph, & money — I did a range of books under the Otoliths imprint.

Print demands a different set of inputs. Online, you have templates to work from & within, & provided you have a reasonable knowledge of code, you can stretch those templates. There's no real inside or outside: with Otoliths I have artificially created something akin to a book — cover, contents, a next page interior.

With print, the interiors are easy to prepare. Word & Adobe attend to most of it for you. But a book is a physical object, & to do the content justice, to treat it with the respect it deserves, requires someone to shape the clay to make it entire, to present it in a final form that the cover augments & makes attractive. As an editor I have always been conscious of the need to present work as its creator intended it to be; &, where possible, to enhance the surroundings that work appears in.

I think the, so far, nearly 200 offerings found on The Otoliths Storefront support my intentions. That outcome can, in a major way, be put down to the efficacy of the nearly 200 covers that harry k stammer has prepared over the last almost decade & a half, from a variety of source matter. To put it simply, with regards to the print output of Otoliths, harry has made much of it possible.

But harry is much more than a designer. He's a musician, songwriter, painter, & a poet, both text & vispo. tocsin, this current book, is the final part of a series that deals with the plight of the homeless in Los Angeles & the third that Otoliths has published. tents was one of the first books I published, back in 2007; grounds came out in 2014, the last book I published. It was always the intent, however, to temporarily open the door down the track & close the series off when the final book was ready.

So, without further ado, & with the grateful thanks of, if not a nation, at least this publisher for all the help harry has generously given me over the years, I can announce that:

Now out from Otoliths

tocsin
by harry k stammer
48 pages, b&w, with visuals
$9.95
Otoliths
direct link: http://www.lulu.com/shop/harry-k-stammer/tocsin/paperback/product-24304851.html

harry k stammer’s new book tocsin is the final book in a series that includes tents & grounds, both published by Otoliths. It continues to dig deeper into the realm of a homeless person’s mind as he/she lives in downtown Los Angeles. As Philip Primeau said of tents, "stammer mixes a sort of poetic cubism with wordplay, startling typography, and a wide array of other adventurous techniques with creative intensity rarely witnessed."

This book again uses experimental/visual poetry to explore the issues of homelessness.

A Homage to Gertrude

wednesday newstrip

'Closest flyby in history.' Scientists panic after NASA fails to pick up asteroid threat · popular Fortnite YouTuber Faze Jarvis permanently banned for using aimbot · US rapper TI under fire after saying he takes his teenage daughter to a gynaecologist every year to check her hymen is still intact · wounded US veteran 'feeling whole' after breakthrough penis, scrotum transplant · NASA satellites reveal the world’s thickest glacier is melting 80 years ahead of schedule · Kim Kardashian reveals Kanye West paid her $1.45 million not to model a rival fashion brand.

geographies: Arkendeith

Shot in the T.®ump

Many multi-authored concepts fall apart almost from the start. This one, by way of minimal questioning, managed to avoid that fate for around 230 years. Then it was revealed as a Ponzi scheme.

It was known as The Declaration of Independence.

wednesday newstrip

A myth propagated by anti-vaxxers suggests that getting measles is better for your immunity than the vaccine against the infection, but new research shows that getting measles is even more dangerous than first thought · small asteroid paid a heavy price for almost striking Earth · Rage Against The Machine are reuniting to headline Coachella 2020 · living skin can now be 3-D-printed with blood vessels included · 'last necklace made by Neanderthals' discovered by archaeologists in Spain · 'could blow up in their face': Chinese officials said to have doubts over reaching long-term trade deal with T.®ump.

geographies: Bloomsbury

The latest issue of Otoliths is live.

Issue fifty-five of Otoliths, the southern spring issue, has just gone live.

This issue is dedicated to three greatly valued contributors — Keith Kumasen Abbott, Steve Dalachinsky, & Bill DiMichele — who all passed away during the past three months.

It has a cover by Mary Ellen Derwis, & contains a wide variety of prose, poetry, & visuals, that often overlap, from Lynn Strongin, Guy R. Beining, Alisa Velaj, Kristian Patruno, David Lohrey, Mary Kasimor, Miro Sandev, Ayşegül Tözeren, Sanjeev Sethi, Jürgen O. Olbric, Flora Michèle Marin, Xe M. Sánchez, Jim Leftwich, Stuart Wheatley & Texas Fontanella, Erik Fuhrer, Mario José Cervantes, Seth Howard, harry k. stammer, József Bíró, Jim Meirose, Keith Walker, Simón Ibarra, Pete Spence, Diana Magallón, J. D. Nelson, Kristin Garth, Steve Dalachinsky, John M. Bennett, Diane Keys, andrew topel, Yoko Danno & James C. Hopkins, Peter J. King & Jude Cowan Montague, Lael Gold, Daniel de Culla, dan raphael, David Baptiste Chirot, Fabrice B. Poussin, Karl Kempton, Joe Balaz, Howie Good, Piet Nieuwland, Cleo Henry, Craig Cotter, Jesse Glass, Kenneth Rexroth, Cecelia Chapman, David Greaves, Vera Constantineau, C. Mehrl Bennett, Ben Egerton, Hao Wang, David Hawkins, Kit Kennedy, Sean Bolton, Martin Edmond, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, Karen Downs-Barton, Tom Beckett, hiromi suzuki, Keith Higginbotham, Bruno Neiva, Elmedin Kadric, Vernon Frazer, Jeff Bagato, Joseph Buehler, Olivier Schopfer, AG Davis, Kyle Hemmings, d'Ores&Deja, Dave Read, Clara B. Jones, Simon Perchik, David J Kelly, Thomas Fink, Maya D. Mason, Paul Ilechko, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Charles Wilkinson, Maria Brito, Pam Brown, Richard Lopez, Keith Nunes, Giuseppe Calandriello, John Vieira, Sheila E. Murphy, Michael Gould, M.J. Iuppa, Tim Wright, bofa xesjum, Penelope Weiss, Anna Menozzi translated by John Martone, Mark Staniforth, David Greenslade, Bob Heman, Michael O'Brien, Tony Beyer, Laurie Duggan, Steve Gilmartin, Jeff Harrison, Jen Schneider, John Phillips, Carol Stetser, Eric Hoffman, Joshua Smith, Michael Brandonisio, Laura Winter, Richard Kostelanetz, Ptr Kozlowski, Marilyn Stablein, Taofeek Ayeyemi, Anna Cates, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Cameron Lowe, Joyce Parkes, Ashlee-Ann Sneller, John Levy, Cherie Hunter Day, Katrinka Moore, & nick-e melville.

wednesday newstrip

A 46-foot asteroid will skim Earth at 30,100 mph, coming nearly as close as the Moon · Vatican's smart rosary app hacked 15 minutes after launch · Southwest Airlines pilots watched live video feed of plane toilet, says flight attendant · DoNuts T.®ump has suggested he may order the release of the video of the assassination of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi so the world will know he did not die a hero · the Prissygent returned to the Wheat House to watch the raid after playing golf at his private Virginia club where he'd spent the day "crying, whimpering, & screaming" · sexual abuse victim of Frank Houston blasts Australian Pram Minister Scat SorrySon for supporting Hillsong founder Brian Houston, the son of Frank, on stage, plus the news Houston had been invited to accompany the Prim Bannister to the What House? last September.

geographies: Deeragun

Ornithology

I used to think "flipping the bird" was the term for a sub-genre of bebop, that had to do with the reworking of tunes based on the chord progressions of Charlie Parker songs that were also reworkings of chord progressions from popular songs of his day.

That was before I came across the spoiled-brattishness of DoNuts T.®ump responding to being gently fact checked by the two female astronauts who've just completed a walk in space. . .

wednesday newstrip

The Prissygent's bid to claim presidential immunity to avoid releasing tax returns rejected by US Federal Judge although in 2013 T.®ump wanted to release them to show how smart he was for paying so little · top Texas Republican says Trump is ‘killing us’ ahead of 2020 elections in secretly recorded audio · suspicion grows that his Syria troop withdrawal was an election strategy & an impeachment distraction · France says Isis resurgence 'inevitable' after decision to allow Turkish offensive · Wheat House condemns video of fake DoNuts T®ump shooting media · threat from extreme rightwing terrorism in Australia has increased, ASIO says · close encounter: HUGE asteroid sped past Earth at 22,000mph.

geographies: Calen (2)

wednesday newstrip

Pyramid-size asteroid to hurtle past Earth (again) · Kendall Jenner has wished her best friend Bella Hadid a happy 23rd birthday by sharing a video of the pair kissing · dodgy insolvency practices in small business ombudsman inquiry's cross hairs · two business associates of Ruby Jeweliani arrested on campaign-finance charges · T.®ump flies into the Cuckoo’s Nest — confuses Turkey with turkey & wants to have it over for Thanksgiving dinner · Why should we help the Kurds? asks U.S. Prissypants T.®ump. After all, they never helped in the War of Independence or the Creek War or the War of Texas Independence or the Mexican-American War or . . .

A part

The Vulture's Park

A powerpoint presentation of
images related to the royal
Christmas visit to Penshurst
takes great liberty with the
meanings usually associated
with emojis. My communications
degree has lost all relevance, so
have parked it away in a small
box from where it talks to me
all night of the pain it feels
when a leaf falls. Outside,
Mother has turned the Palace
grounds into a croquet green
& now I'm waiting for some-
one to hit a ball though that
final hoop & knock down the
bonsai which takes the place
of the central peg. Maybe then
I'll be able to get some sleep.


Series Magritte #407

geographies: Womblebank

wednesday newstrip

Asteroid terror: Fears of human extinction as three monster rocks head towards Earth · death toll from vaping-linked illness now at 19 in US · Wheat House ordered to turn over documents to support DoNuts T.®ump impeachment probe · Taylor Swift was filmed having a tearful encounter with a banana · U. K. Plum Molester Poorass Rhinestone faces new constitutional crisis as Brexit talks grind to a halt · Australian Federal Ministrone for Homophobic Affairs, Putrid Dustbin, accused of 'dictator' rhetoric over call for mandatory sentences for climate protesters.

Rodeo Drive

wednesday newstrip

Reactor turns carbon dioxide to pure liquid fuel · China's rover finds mysterious 'shiny gel' on dark side of the moon · two diet drinks a day are enough to raise the risk of early death · death march of a segmented & trilobate bilaterian elucidates early animal evolution · the lifelong cost of the 'selfie smile': optional dental veneers on the rise · a startup wants to launch a space hotel named after an ex-Nazi · T. Rex had an air conditioner in its head, study suggests.

geographies: Cheviot

wednesday newstrip

Asteroid Bennu could hit Earth at 25 Million kph with the power of more than 76,000 Hiroshima nuclear bombs, creating a ball of fire as big as 20 kilometers wide & with major tsunamis to follow · a hive of activity was discovered in the roof of a north Brisbane home at the weekend when a beekeeper found 50 kilograms of honey packed in above the ceiling · bees are dropping dead in Brazil & sending a message to humans that a Burj Khalifa sized space rock is set to skim Earth this month · scientists have warned "city-killing" asteroid just zipped by Earth. Why didn’t we see it coming? · Elon Musk has a 1-in-7,000 chance of hitting Earth this Fall · Minecraft's latest Java update adds bees, hives, & honey.

sometimes we fly

wednesday newstrip

Paleontologists find 231 million years old 'scrat,' a saber-toothed triassic squirrel · Fortnite nerfed the mech · giant pumice raft from underwater volcanic eruption makes its way to Great Barrier Reef · Miley Cyrus says she’s "a twerking, pot-smoking, foul-mouthed hillbilly but … not a liar" · CDC flags one death & nearly 200 cases of lung illnesses in U.S, possibly tied to vaping · Monopoly maker Hasbro buys Peppa Pig in $5.9 billion deal · the Amazon is on fire.

wednesday newstrip

U.S. Sleazygent T.®ump's new cap reads "Make American Measles Again" as CDC warns U.S. risks losing measles elimination status by October. Scientist’s terrifying warning of apocalypse — 'Would boil oceans!' · asteroid the size of Empire State Building set to fly past Earth. Scientist’s terrifying warning of apocalypse — 'Would pickle pork!' · Blizzard sues Chinese game company over its Warcraft 'ripoff.' Scientist’s terrifying warning of apocalypse — 'Would Make America Great Again!' · CamScanner booted from Play Store after discovery of malicious code. Scientist’s terrifying warning of apocalypse — 'Would melt meringues!' · Apple says it's sorry for using contractors to listen in on Siri conversations & will cease doing it. U. K. Plum Molester Poorass Rhinestone's terrifying warning of subsequent apocalypse — 'Would breach the Constitution!'

wednesday newstrip

Control is an excellent supernatural thriller with hints of Metroid · what would dropping a nuclear bomb on a hurricane do? · hiding in Egypt? Internet goes bananas over PHOTO of 'Steve Jobs' alive & well · NASA warns massive asteroid 2000 QW7 to skim Earth · Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth have reportedly reached a custody arrangement for their pets · acid oceans are shrinking plankton, fueling faster climate change · how often should I get my teeth cleaned?

The Quandary of Painting

You have blank walls. I have
four baby turtles with painted
backs that arrived at Dulles
International Airport earlier
this month. So, let's start with
room use. As in: "What do you want
to use the space for?" &: "What
do you want it to say about you?"

(from Series Magritte)

geographies: Haast Pass