geographies: Injune

 

wednesday newstrip

Fans fume at ‘absurdity’ as 27-year mascot cut on same day Arsenal secures $81m transfer · US prissygent DoNuts GroNuts T.®ump has ordered his negotiators to halt talks on coronavirus aid plan until after 'he's won' the election · refugee advocates have slammed the Federal Government for slashing Australia's humanitarian intake by 5,000 people a year in Tuesday night's Budget · biologists find spectacular bird that presents both male & female plumage, split down the middle · scarlet fever is making a comeback after being infected with a toxic virus, researchers say · members of a right-wing militia have been arrested for a credible plot to kidnap a Democratic governor & start a “civil war” in America.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a quart of Old
Grand Dad 114. I'd
actually asked for
a book on the Court
of Bourbon; but the
voice-response soft-
ware must have
interpreted my dulcet
tones as being whis-
keyed rather than quiz
kid, & modified my 
request to reflect that. 

geographies: Thargomindah

 

wednesday newstrip

Neuer Enzym-Cocktail zerlegt Kunststoffabfälle sechsmal schneller · a maxi-Mars, a mini-moon, & meteors light up the October night sky · parrot pet & patio poultry ownership rise in pandemic · SpaceX aborts launch of GPS Space Force satellite with 2 seconds to go · Minecraft’s Cliffs & Caves update to feature archaeology & axolotls in 2021 · 'saving souls, not lives': teen patients say they were retraumatised at faith-based mental health clinic · wind & solar supply more than 50 pct of Australia’s main grid for first time · DoNuts T.®ump discovers the meaning of hubris.

geographies: Monto

 

geographies: Charleville

 

wednesday newstrip

Giant spiders could help tailor pain blockers for people with irritable bowel syndrome · Qld scientists find paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible · Nvidia RTX 3080 20GB & RTX 3060 leak suggests an imminent attack on AMD’s Big Navi & midrange GPUs · DoNuts BloNuts T.®ump attacks China for 'unleashing coronavirus plague onto the world' · Boozehound fraudster caged for $120,000 dental clinic theft · Vietnamese police bust ring selling used condoms as new · the giant black hole we imaged for the first time now appears to be… glittering.

geographies: Morven

 

Today the post-
woman brought
me an elephant.
"What's this?" I asked.
"Wondered if you
were interested in a
pet," she replied. "It
was thrown out from
a house earlier on my
round. A big guy 
lives there, named
Hannibal. Apparently
he's downsizing after
a trip across the Alps, 
& there wasn't room 
in the room for both 
him & the elephant."

wednesday newstrip

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti specs leak: 4864 CUDA cores & 8GB of GDDR6 at 448 GB/s could max out Cyberpunk 2077 & Watch Dogs Legion at 1080p with ray-tracing · Afghanistan allows mothers' names on birth certificates in 'significant' milestone for women's rights · NASA considers Venus mission after discovery of potential evidence of life beyond Earth · before consumers could grab them, a Bot bought dozens of RTX 3080 units so they can be resold at higher prices · Qantas scenic flight to nowhere could be fastest selling flight in airline's history · during a speech, SoNuts PhoNuts T.®ump directly blamed the school curriculum for the violence that has resulted from some of the protests, saying that "the left-wing rioting & mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools" · could pineapples be a new weapon against COVID-19?

Recently, at Series Magritte

The Secret of the Clouds

It is daytime. The unlit moon
comes across as just another
cloud as it mixes in with them.
Except these clouds don't look
like those clouds — or those /
these, depending on what your
viewing point is. Nothing secretive
about the ones above my head:
meteorologists have long since been
able to define, decline them. These others?
Okay, it's obviously a shitty day, but the 
only secret I can posit they contain is 
which of asemic notebook, extrusion, or 
tangled spaghetti do they spring from.

geographies: Carstairs

 

wednesday newstrip

A SETI Survey of the Vela region using the Murchison Widefield array has come up empty: orders of magnitude expansion will now be undertaken in searching space · Keeping Up With the Kardishyones to end next year after 20th season · vegan leather made from mushrooms could mold the future of sustainable fashion · UK pharma firm AstraZeneca pauses coronavirus vaccine trial after unexpected illness in volunteer · DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump accuses US military leadership of seeking to start wars to profit defense contractors · according to Auckland, New Zealand Behemoth Brewery’s Facebook page, its Dump The Trump beer is "back & better than ever (unlike its namesake)" · across the world, trees are growing faster, dying younger, & will soon store less carbon.

sans comment

wednesday newstrip

NoNuts GloNuts T.®ump orders crackdown on federal antiracism training, calling it 'anti-American' · are carrots orange because of a Dutch revolutionary? · China says Australia is infected with fear, conjecture, & paranoia · incoming object with Earth impact trajectory turns out to be old NASA spacecraft · Asus made its new ROG Strix cards 400W behemoths to give Nvidia Ampere room to breathe · plants do something weird when they grow near human corpses, scientists say · DoNuts SloNuts T.®ump insists he never had a 'series of mini-strokes,' despite no one suggesting he did.

usually

geographies: Strathdickie

wednesday newstrip

Researcher claims biotech conference in Boston may be linked to 20,000 COVID-19 cases in the US · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard drummer Eric Moore leaves the band · ferrets not susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection · Asteroid 2018 VP₁ may be heading for Earth, but there’s no need to worry · former Florida Attorney-General Pam Bondi rails against nepotism in politics in her speech to the RNC, as the chyron beneath her on TV reads: "Coming up: E.®ection T.®ump, Tympani T.®ump, Melanoma T.®ump" · Australia 'hurt the feelings' of China with calls for coronavirus investigation, senior diplomat says · hamster trial 'positive' for virus vaccine.

geographies: Condamine

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wednesday newstrip

Apparently Liam Hemsworth has ‘a low opinion’ of Miley Cyrus, so file that in the ‘fkn ouch’ folder · DoNuts SoNuts To&FroNuts T.®ump attacks Goodyear after red MAGA hats reportedly banned on their factory floors · Oculus VR headsets will soon require Facebook accounts · mystery gas has been detected shooting 'like bullets' from our galactic center · Service New South Wales tells farmers to put sheep on planes to get around border restrictions · Sweden's coronavirus response was lauded. It just recorded its highest death toll in 150 years · SloNuts GloNuts PhoNuts T.®ump embraces QAnon belief that the p(r)issygent "is secretly saving the world from a satanic cult of pedophiles & cannibals." Why this sudden embrace? 'Because they like me.'

charisma

Today the
postwoman brought
me my monthly
credit card state-
ments. "Where's
the old guy?" I
asked her. "Retired
suddenly," she replied.
"Bought himself a
cottage & a block
of land out in the
country. Is going
to raise alpacas
& write his auto-
biography, called, I
believe, Today the
postman brought
me…"

geographies: Tanbar

wednesday newstrip

Richiede una patch da 66 GB su Xbox One · ‘terror crocodiles’ as major as a metropolis bus snacked on dinosaurs with their banana-sized teeth · Greenland ice has shrunk beyond point of no return · Defence Department warns that 'highly active' spies pose 'extreme threat' to Australia's shipbuilding plan · “Joe Biden has just announced Aunt Jemima as his VP pick” claims Facebook post from Luray, Va. mayor · Sydney's Star Casino fined over 12-year-old girl found gambling on pokie machines · Epic is right to fight Apple, but drafting Fortnite fans into a corporate war is tacky.

Today the
postman brought
me L'oiseau de
feu. It had dust all
over it, made the
postman sneeze. He
bent his elbow to
cover his mouth in
the approved covid
manner. Stra-VINSKY!!

geographies: North Tivoli

wednesday newstrip

New algorithm based on machine learning precisely detects methylation sites · I’m really into that new dragon-dating sim, ring fit adventure · mass hijacking spree takes over subreddits to promote DoNuts Bro-Nuts To&Fro-Nuts T.®ump · United States government issues travel warning for New Zealand due to '23 active cases' of COVID-19 · apparently $AU500 a day is how much Bachelor In Paradise contestants get paid to act like tools on TV · Apple files legal opposition to a meal app’s pear logo · human DNA shows early humans got intimate with unidentified, ancient ancestor.

geographies: Chorregon

75 years ago today

Hiroshima

wednesday newstrip

The P.®issygent heads to his own golf club as Covid-19 surges & jobless benefits expire. It's the 283rd golfing trip of his term, according to CNN count · Elongated Muskrat challenges Johnny DeppCdiva to cage fight over Ambergris OverHeard affair rumor · U. K. Plum Molester Bore-us Brownstone warns Brits of Ghislaine Maxwell's shocking sex claims in unsealed documents · Smoking Toad, F-Zero Beavis, & other weird Nintendo gigaleak finds · DoNuts NoNuts LoNuts SoNuts T.®ump halts TV advertising as he struggles in polls against Joe BidenMyTime · most world maps show north at the top; but it doesn't have to be that way · the precedent says TikTok app will be banned in the US over security concerns.

Today the
postman brought
me le temps
perdu. I couldn't
remember where
I'd left it, had been
searching for some
time. Turns out I'd
dropped it at the
COVID-testing clinic
on Swann's Way.

Issue fifty-eight of Otoliths is now live.

Issue fifty-eight, the southern winter 2020 issue of Otoliths is now live.

It contains the wide-ranging array of wide-ranging material that has come to be expected of the journal, but I'm especially pleased to be able to present a number of pages from what I believe will come to be considered one of the 21st Century's seminal works of literature & scholarship, Javant Biarujia's The Taneraic Dictionary.

Accompanying that are contributions from Guy R. Beining, Kim Trainor, Louise Landes Levi, Texas Fontanella, Brandstifter, J. D. Nelson, Jim Leftwich, John M. Bennett, Sanjeev Sethi, Simon Perchik, Debiprasad Mukherjee, Scott Helmes & Friends, Jon Skolnik, Cecelia Chapman, John Grey, Elaine Woo, Jim Meirose, James Croal Jackson, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Ace Boggess, Kristin Garth, Christian ALLE, Craig Cotter, Angela Caporaso, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Aimée Keeble, Daniel de Culla, Seth A. Howard, Jon Riccio, John Crouse, Albert Pellicer & Márton Koppány, Lynn Strongin, hiromi suzuki, Jack Galmitz, Carol Stetser, Richard Magahiz & John W. Sexton, Laurent Grison, Paul Ilechko, Joel Chace, Stuart Wheatley, Kyle Hemmings, Howie Good, Jessie Glass, Matthew Schmidt, Mary Kasimor, Olivier Schopfer, Jeff Bagato, Kit Kennedy, Richard Biddle, Adam al-Sirgany, Jeff Crouch, Zebulon Huset, Eric Mohrman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Susan Gangel, Jessy Randall, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Andrew Topel, John Bradley, Anindita Sarkar, Mike Callaghan, Adam Aitken, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, Olchar Lindsann, Mark Roberts, Ruggero Maggi, Milton P. Ehrlich, J.J. Campbell, Jeff Harrison, Joanna Walkden Harris & Pete Spence, Jill Jones, Scott MacLeod, Ryan Shane Lopez, Tom Beckett, Judith Skillman, David Rushmer, Diana Magallón, Clara B. Jones, bart plantenga, John Wesick, gobscure, Alex McKeown, Randee Silv, Elmedin Kadric, Sheila E. Murphy, Tony Beyer, Keith Higginbotham, J. Crouse, Dave Read, Ivan Klarić, Keith Nunes, Richard Kostelanetz, John Levy, Stephen Nelson, Kevin Stebner, Glenn Ingersoll, Connor Orrico, Valeria Sangiorgi, Eric Hoffman, Joe Balaz, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Stu Hatton, Vivek Prahlad, Nick Nelson, Dörthe Huth, Kristine Snodgrass, Hrishikesh Srinivas, nicky melville, Penelope Weiss, Mridula Kashyap, Marilyn Stablein, Dani Netherclift, Bob Heman, Julie Sampson, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Jonathan Minton, Irene Koronas, Theodore Worozbyt, M.J. Iuppa, Daniel Y. Harris, Katrinka Moore, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Michael Brandonisio, Cherie Hunter Day, Alan Chong Lau, K Roberts, Danni Storm, Katie Fanthorpe, & Alberto Vitacchio & Carla Bertola.

This issue is dedicated to the memory of Louie Crew Clay & Michael McClure, both contributors to earlier issues of Otoliths.

Click bait for locals

This targeted ad by Google confirms you're living somewhere outside civilization.

I grew up in New Zealand with the colloquialism "wop wops" for the back of beyond. That's apparently a variant of the Australian "woop woop," a name given to some imagined but ironically unimaginable outback town.

Edna & Edward Estlin

What lips my lips have kissed, & where, & why, I have forgotten, & what arms have lain under my head till morning; but the rain is full of ghosts tonight, that tap & sigh upon the glass & listen for reply; & in my heart there stirs a quiet pain for un- remembered lads that not again will turn to me at mid- night with a cry. Thus in the winter stands a lonely tree, nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, yet know its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come & gone; I only know that summer sang in me a little while, that in me sings no more.

is no parenthesis & death i think paragraph for life's not a back in my arms laugh, leaning each other: then we are for which says eyelids' flutter is less than your ure of my brain cry—the best gest- all flowers. Don't lady i swear by than wisdom are a better fate approves, & kisses my blood world Spring is in the to be a fool while kiss you; wholly will never wholly syntax of things any attention to the first who pays since feeling is

wednesday newstrip

Waifu Uncovered mixes bullet-hell with boobies, & even comes with a "one finger" mode · rock band Linkin Park gets Twitter to take down yet another of DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump’s tweets · scientists accidentally bred a bizarre hybrid of two endangered fish · baby TikTok witches are apparently trying to hex the Moon · Kantye BeGone West broke down in tears during a rambling presidential campaign rally in South Carolina · AMD announces the Ryzen 4000G series Renoir APUs for pre-built OEM desktops; claims a slam dunk when compared with Intel 9th gen Coffee Lake · Geelong’s scientists tested Oxford University vaccine on ferrets · "I just wish her well," says DoNuts SloNuts NoNuts T.®ump of Ghislaine Maxwell, who was arrested earlier this month & charged with facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sexual exploitation & abuse of minor girls.

approaching the delicatessen

geographies: Koumala

wednesday newstrip

Squirrel in Colorado tests positive for the bubonic plague · US executes convicted murderer Daniel Lewis Lee, the first federal execution in almost two decades · Andean condor soared for 161 km without flapping its wings · Ghost of Tsushima review: "a worthy swan song for the PS4" · DoNuts SoNuts T®ump spent Tuesday afternoon rambling at length about a series of unrelated topics after convening an event in the Rose Garden meant to announce new actions on China · scientists suggest the moon is millions of years younger than we thought · dancing with elephants: regionalism is the new globalism for New Zealand · will we all get COVID-19 eventually?

Today the
postman brought
me a red face
mask with a
White House decal
over the mouth
area. Inside was a
label: hand-made
by Ivanka Trump
from one of Our
Beloved Leader's
ties. Delicately em-
broidered around the
bottom border: Pro-
duct of Bangladesh.

recently at Series Magritte

The Famine

We turn into clowns &
start by fighting over who
has the right to eat Ensor's
Skeletons fighting over a
smoked herring. Eventually
that's gone, torn into little
pieces; but the intake doesn't
stay the hunger so we turn

upon each other. Now I'm
the last one left, & what is
left of me, I realize, is all the
food remaining. Where should
I start? I take off what's left of
my clown clothes. Naked-
ness is the proper dress for
facing existential questions.

wednesday newstrip

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti & RTX 3070 specs detailed – Ampere GA104 GPUs for the $400-$500 gaming segment, 8 GB memory & up to 3072 cores · scientists discover extremely tiny dinosaur ancestor in Madagascar · Madonna, 61, goes TOPLESS while leaning on a crutch as she bares all in VERY racy mirror selfie nearly four months after knee injury · DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump Jr's girlfriend tested positive for COVID-19 · the most powerful gamma ray burst just corroborated general relativity once again · Russia's Progress MS-13 cargo spaceship that undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) got out of orbit & collapsed in the atmosphere, Russia's space agency Roscosmos said · Brazilian President Pairof Ballsinabarrow tested positive for COVID-19 as he rolled back mask-wearing measures.

pre-sliced

A. D.

wednesday newstrip

Monstrous black gap located devouring about 1 solar each & every working day · did you celebrate the 4th of July with video gaming’s finest fireworks? · " We gave the world the poetry of Walt Whitman. We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream — it was called: Las Vegas, in the Nevada desert" claims the p(r)issygent · US governors retract virus reopening plans · a 'viral' new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune · Erawondoo Hill in Western Australia is added to the National Heritage List to protect its zircon crystals, the oldest minerals on Earth · as US coronavirus cases soar, DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump says economy is 'roaring back.'

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Mark Young
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This masterful poetry extinguishes those artificial lines that distinguish a moment from a century. It is all here and available to us, Mark Young shows. “A late/afternoon/point of co-/incidence // this bench/in the/Botanical Gardens/shared/with Desnos/& Diogenes” reminds us nature crafts consciousness right back at us. “Black cockatoos . . .small white flowers.” This against the beautiful political purity of stating the truth in “damp trumpets.”

Where are the
submarines? I
shouted out. You
promised you'd
drain the swamp
so I'd be able
to see the submarines
that were lying
on the bottom.

Things come together from a distance above, revealing equally how far they are apart. Mark Young’s keen eye disturbs predictability. He knows from many angles refutation and commingling. Pachelbel’s Canon and mismatched feelings between a man and a woman.
—Sheila E. Murphy

geographies: Windorah

Recently, on Series Magritte

Green Night

The crossbones have melted
in the moonlight, now look
like sad dumbbells, as does

the crew of the ship beneath
the flagging standard. It's all
very jolly being rogered, but

more than a bit embarrassing
when you're in port, & some-
one has left the curtains open.

wednesday newstrip

Giant wombat-like marsupials roamed Australia 25 million years ago · Kanye West’s new Yeezy Foam Runners ridiculed · 2020 Audi RS6 Avant drag races Porsche 911 Turbo S, quattro gets annihilated · The Princess Bride gets gender-swapped lockdown remake with Taika Waititi · scientists just beginning to understand the many health problems caused by COVID-19 · Dr Disrespect banned from Twitch · new maps reveal the lost continent of Zealandia in amazing detail · police forces across Britain are cracking down on lockdown parties & illegal raves · physicists observe flare with the light of a trillion suns as black holes merge in distant galaxy.

Google succumbs to Dixie Chlicksbait

contrapuntal

wednesday newstrip

Extremely sensitive dark matter experiment detects something weird · The Bold and the Beautiful will use blow-up dolls to safely resume filming sex scenes · footprints reveal giant carnivorous dinosaurs the length of a bus wandered Australia · Mercedes-AMG's Formula 1 e-Turbo technology to be used in road cars · Quantum-inspired approach dramatically lowers light power needed for optical coherence tomography · “They’ve come up with the AIDS vaccine,” DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump said during a press conference on police reform, referring to scientists · giant 330kg squid washes ashore in South Africa.

geographies: Kuttabul

geographies: Mareeba

wednesday newstrip

DoNuts alSoNuts T.®ump Jr. was allocated $110,000 of US taxpayer money for Secret Service protection to visit Mongolia & spend eight days there to hunt a breed of rare & endangered sheep, new documents reveal · guy whose photo broke android phones just wanted to capture a beautiful sunset · exotic fifth state of matter made on the International Space Station · probiotic bacteria could save coral reefs · people who felt more threatened by COVID-19 & ranked high on scales of emotionality & conscientiousness were most likely to hoard toilet paper when the coronavirus shutdowns began in March · Walmart will no longer keep beauty products for people of color in locked cabinets after it & other United States retailers were accused of racial discrimination over the practice · Facebook cited 'nudity' as the reason it removed picture of Aboriginal men in chains from post refuting Australian Prim Minister's comment that there had never been slavery in Australia · DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump authorizes sanctions against ICC staff investigating possible US war crimes in Afghanistan.

geographies: Pallarenda

Today the
postman brought
me the shot
heard round the
world. I was a-
sleep at the time,
& missed it.

wednesday newstrip

Don’t panic: huge, headline-grabbing asteroid has no chance of hitting us anytime soon · the DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump campaign removed a 'make space great again' video ad after former NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg called it 'political propaganda' for using images of her family · Bungie buffs drop rates for these sought-after raid Exotics · the P®issygent sees no constraint on his authority to use what he calls the "unlimited power" of the military even against US citizens if he believes it necessary · Greeks enjoy the 'strawberry moon' with a special eclipse · Forrest Fenn confirms $1m treasure chest found in Rocky Mountains after decade-long hunt · Now for Mars says SoNuts.

geographies: Bowen

No prelo

Afagando a Face de Lorca. Uma Antologia
Francisco José Craveiro de Carvalho

Selecção e tradução de Francisco José Craveiro de Carvalho

Prefácio de Manuel Portela

Francisco José Craveiro de Carvalho antologia 22 poetas contemporâneos (da Ucrânia à China). É um exercício que nos dá a ver em português as diferentes vozes dos poetas antologiados mas igualmente a própria voz do poeta-tradutor: Craveiro de Carvalho tem-se dedicado nos últimos anos, a par da sua produção poética, a oferecer-nos versões de grande parte dos poetas agora reunidos sob o título Afagando a Face de Lorca (paráfrase de um verso do neozelandês Mark Young).

Manuel Portela, no seu poema-prefácio: «(…) uma tradução / é uma escrita em segundo / grau. é preciso tomar / nas mãos o peso do texto / na fonte, sentir nos ouvidos / e na boca a sua delicada / superfície verbal, reconhecer-lhe / o tom – irónico, melancólico, / sarcástico, indignado, resignado, / inquieto, feliz. é preciso ainda, / nessa transferência, tocar-lhe / a textura assimétrica de arestas / angulosas, ressonâncias / evocativas, cadências / paratácticas, imagens / dolorosas, elipses / ambíguas, frases / quebradas. é preciso vê-las / deambular, atrair-se e / repelir-se, constelar-se e / cristalizar-se. é preciso / afagar as formas, coá-las / no filtro das línguas (…).»

Os poetas antologiados: Adam Zagajewski (1945, Lviv, Ucrânia), Amalia Bautista (1962, Madrid, Espanha), Aram Saroyan (1943, Nova Iorque, EUA), Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (1947, Lahore, Paquistão), Billy Collins (1941, Nova Iorque, EUA), Charles Simic (1938, Belgrado, Jugoslávia), David Lehman (1948, Nova Iorque, EUA), Eunice de Souza (1940, Pune, Índia. Faleceu em 2017), Howie Good (1951, Nova Iorque, EUA), J. R. Solonche (1946, Nova Iorque, EUA), Jane Hirshfield (1953, Nova Iorque. EUA), Jennifer Clement (1960, Greenwich, Connecticut, EUA), José Luis García Martín (1950, Aldeanueva del Camino, Cáceres, Espanha), Luis Alberto de Cuenca (1950, Madrid, Espanha), Mark Young (1941, Hokitika, Nova Zelândia), Michael Dylan Welch (1962, Watford, Inglaterra), Nathalie Handal (1969, Haiti), Neil Curry (1937, Newcastle on Tyne, Inglaterra), Owen Bullock (1967, Cornualha, Inglaterra), Pat Boran (1963, Portlaoise, Irlanda), Roger Wolfe (1962, Westerham, Kent, Inglaterra), Steve Klepetar (1949, Xangai, China).

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wednesday newstrip

The p(r)issygent completely cuts ties with the World Health Organization after pulling funding · Now for Mars, he vows · "deeply troubled" traditional owners in the western Pilbara have had their worst fears confirmed after Rio Tinto detonated explosives near culturally significant sites dating back more than 46,000 years · Now for Mars, vows T.®ump · backwards compatibility will cover all PS2, PS3, & PS4 games according to Turkish retailer · Coronavirus updates: worldwide infections nears 6 million · DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump backpedals on 'shooting' threat to rioters, which broke Twitter rules · SpaceX’s Starship prototype explodes in fourth failed test · Now for Mars vows the precedent, clutching a bible.

The elephant in the room

geographies: Tangorin

wednesday newstrip

Russian 'space-junk' lights up night sky re-entering Earth's atmosphere · DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump will win the 2020 US election & follow through with a "golden age" of economic prosperity according to a Bible expert · climate change could mean more of Antarctica turning green with algae · alligator rumored to have been Hitler's pet has died in a Moscow zoo · influx of potatoes from Europe could 'decimate' New Zealand's industry · the T.®ump Organization has pocketed nearly $1 million in taxpayer cash from government room rentals at the company properties according to a new report · that slow moving fireball across the skies of Australia was actually a UFO going to an underground base somewhere in the Australian desert, a conspiracy theorist has claimed.

geographies: Belyando

Today the
postman brought
me Thelonius
Monk, served as
intended — straight,
no chaser. "Mel-
odious Thunk,"
says Nellie.

Le Paysage du Soleil

wednesday newstrip

Typhoon Vongfong slams into Philippines, threatening food crops & forcing tens of thousands to evacuate · scientists have discovered huge sabre-tooth anchovies from prehistoric times · “The vice-president is wearing a mask, while the president doesn’t; some staffers wear them, some don’t. Everybody acts as they please. As time passes, the wHate House begins to look more & more like the Balkans” · astronomers finally detect the harmonic heartbeat of wayward delta Scuti stars · Coronavirus pandemic ends Broadway run of Frozen after 825 performances · DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump is staking out his own universe of ‘alternative facts’.

geographies: Llanarth

geographies: Maxwelton

wednesday newstrip

Precedent labels DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump's coronavirus response a "chaotic disaster" · the Xbox Series X showcase was disappointing & Microsoft knows it · scientists find the first animal that doesn't need oxygen to survive · Elongated Muskrat threatens to "EXtermInaTe California" over COVID-19 restrictions · ‘mostly useless’ male honeybees lay eggs, produce females · astronomers just stitched together an unprecedented portrait of Jupiter in infrared — & realized its Great Red Spot is full of holes · a Red Dead Redemption II Mod lets you ride a giant cougar.

Today the
postman brought
me six billets-doux,
five bills of lading,
four biltong sandwiches,
three billowing blouses,
two bilious bandicoots,
& one bilboquet, bowler-
hatted & signed by
René Magritte.

geographies: Groper Creek

wednesday newstrip

The Indigenous first words supposedly spoken on Captain James Cook's landing contested by Aboriginal leaders · giant 'face mask' asteroid flew past Earth last Wednesday night · Chinese media boss calls Australia the ‘gum stuck to China’s shoe’ as coronavirus fallout escalates · Madagascar's prehistoric 'crazy beast' sheds light on mammalian evolution · 'Final Fantasy 7 Remake' Red XIII becomes playable via save editor · blood of allegedly recovered COVID-19 patients for sale on dark web as 'passive vaccine' · seafloor currents sweep microplastics into deep-sea hotspots of ocean life: record microplastic density found on Mediterranean seabed.

The Prince of Objects (from Series Magritte)

Static or dynamic — the ontology
of most games depends upon

a division between the objects
in play. If one is lucky, the dynamic

can occasionally be seen through
gaps in the static, not that we always

recognize what we see. The dance
is different in every decade. So, too,

the music. Once there was tea for
two. All died when u went away.

geographies: Wunjunga

Today the
postman brought
me a jar of marm-
alade. I looked
at him quizzically.
"Oranges & lemons,"
he said. "It's my day
for delivering nursery
rhymes. You owe
me five farthings."

The latest issue of Otoliths is live.

Issue fifty-seven of Otoliths, the southern autumn, 2020 issue, is now available online. It is dedicated to poet, publisher, & piano teacher Peter Ganick who passed away in April.

It's also the fourteenth birthday of Otoliths, but with the world the way it is, I don't really feel like celebrating.

Once again it's a wide-ranging issue, with work from Mason McClay, Michael Ruby, Brandstifter, Texas Fontanella, Sanjeev Sethi, bofa xesjum, Dylan Williams, Andrew Topel, Jim Meirose, bart plantenga, Willie Smith, J. D. Nelson, David Matthews, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Tom Montag, Ed Higgins, Olivier Schopfer, Clara B. Jones, Christian ALLE, Lynn Strongin, David Harrison Horton & Hidesaburo Saito, Daniel de Culla, J. Crouse, John M. Bennett, Diane Keys, Jim Leftwich, Matthew Stolte, Pete Spence, Mike Callaghan, Jack Galmitz, Guy R. Beining, Rich Murphy, Robert van Vliet, Cecelia Chapman, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, Adam Fieled, John Levy, Alexander Jorgensen, Stacey Allam, Xe M. Sánchez, Joann Renee Boswell, Anna Cates, Rose Knapp, Isabel Gómez de Diego, dan raphael, Elaine Woo, DAH, Thomas Fink, Michael Grotsky, Januário Esteves, Seth A. Howard, Linda King, R. Keith, hiromi suzuki, Joanna Walkden Harris, Scott Helmes, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Randee Silv & Miriam Bloom, Joel Ephraims, Richard Kostelanetz, Carol Stetser, Kristin Garth, Sean Negus & Amelia Dale, Barry Allen & Nika, Stuart Wheatley, Kenneth Rexroth, Lila Dunlap, John Sweet, Kim Trainor, H. Mark Webster, Eric Hoffman, Tony Beyer, Jeff Bagato, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Keith Higginbotham, Bill Wolak, M.J. Iuppa, Barnaby Smith, Karl Kempton, Jonathan Minton, John McCluskey, Simon Perchik, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Tim Gaze, Charles J. March III, Anna Hedenrud, Kelly Sauvage Angel, Elmedin Kadric, Kell Nelson, John C. Goodman, gobscure, Keith Nunes, Bob Heman, Jen Schneider, Tom Beckett, Michael O'Brien, Robert Beveridge, Judith Skillman, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Dave Read, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, C. Mehrl Bennett, Piet Nieuwland, Penelope Weiss, Nathan Anderson, billy cancel, Taofeek Ayeyemi, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Alberto Vitacchio & Carla Bertola, Ric Carfagna, Gareth Morgan, Valery Oisteanu, Kristian Patruno, Francesco Aprile, Kyle Hemmings, Katrinka Moore, Marilyn Stablein, RC deWinter, Mark Danowsky, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Michael Brandonisio, Eileen R. Tabios, Chris Brown, Marcia Arrieta, Joshua Wilkerson, Bruno Neiva, Edward Kulemin, Paul Rossiter, J.D. Rage, Tim Wright, & Marilyn R. Rosenberg.

unders*and?

wednesday newstrip

'Bicycles are the new toilet paper': bike sales boom as coronavirus lockdown residents crave exercise · interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov formed in a very cold environment · a malaria drug widely touted by the prissygent DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump for treating COVID-19 showed no benefit but more deaths in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals · AMD introduces new Ryzen 3 chips for gamers on a budget · the Australian government is to spend $94m to begin building up a stockpile of crude oil – but will initially store the fuel in the United States · under GarGOyLE's entertainment section: 'art thief uses sledgehammer to steal priceless van Gogh painting' · count stars in the Southern Cross during Dark Sky Week & help measure light pollution around the world.

geographies: Koumala

wednesday newstrip

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aces asteroid-sampling dress rehearsal · Kmart pulls Disney Frozen II kids diary after mum finds x-rated list of sex toys & positions inside · US prissygent DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump accused of going into campaign mode after showing, at a task force briefing, selectively edited videos containing praise by one of his most trenchant critics · U. K. Plum Molester Bore-us Brownstone missed five early emergency meetings about the coronavirus outbreak, a senior minister has admitted · Massive Animal Crossing: New Horizons datamine reveals exciting potential features · interest in underground bunkers in New Zealand surges as America's wealthy elite eager to escape COVID-ravaged US.

Today the
postman brought
me the carapace
of Kara Thrace. I
turned turtle.

DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump’s re-election campaign

moves up another gear.

An orca

watches the hot-air balloon of the Montgolfier brothers

pass above the waters of Antarctica.

wednesday newstrip

UK health officials have slammed arsonists who targeted 5G towers in response to conspiracy theories the technology is spreading coronavirus · journo who investigated Joe Exotic & his zoo slams Hollywood for "fetishizing" him · global pact takes shape as nations scramble to contain coronavirus oil price crash · peak medical groups have criticised the Australian celebrity chef Pete Evans for suggesting that a $15,000 "subtle energy platform" could be used to treat coronavirus, saying such claims are baseless, ill-informed & dangerous · prissygent DoNuts SoNuts T.®ump’s new campaign ad attacking Joe PoliBident as soft on China & coronavirus is drawing attention for its ugly xenophobia · a gigantic asteroid the size of a mountain will speed past Earth later this month.

Today the
postman brought
me a pterodactyl.
I'd actually asked
for some pommes
de terre au gratin;
but these days
you take what
you can get, &
are grateful for it.

wednesday newstrip

The DoNuts T.®ump administration fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs · quasars can trigger tsunamis that tear across galaxies & snuff out star formation · Uranus has started leaking gas, NASA scientists confirm · false eyelashes market rapidly increasing in size globally · Australian Pram Minister Scat SorrySon has committed the Australian nation to God during times of "great need and suffering" · Antarctica has just had its first recorded heatwave · after discovering a doomsday asteroid was approaching Earth, world leaders created the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to distract the world population & force everyone to spend time with their families during Earth's final days.

geographies: Pentland

geographies: Augathella

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wednesday newstrip

DoNuts T.®ump approval rating rises as he responds to the coronavirus outbreak · squids’ gene-editing superpowers may unlock human cures · a large asteroid ignored social distancing norms over the weekend · can I have sex while self-isolating from COVID-19? · Facebook revenue slips as usage leaps during pandemic · a Married At First Sight contestant has revealed that thieves broke into her house & stole her sex toys · despite the prissygent's rhetoric that the US would not rely on foreign nations for help, T.®ump privately appeals to Asia & Europe for medical help to fight coronavirus · Vanessa Romito drops bomb about Stacey Hampton which could break Michael Goonan's heart right back.