geographies: St. Arnaud

 

Surprise! An accordion track I like.

Mind you, it is Bach.

geographies: Cope Cope

 

wednesday newstrip

Wandi was asked to get double-eyelid surgery, but she refused to conform to China's beauty standards · the Tory leadership debate: desperate as a sales pitch, worse as entertainment · study finds people with extremely low BMIs, aren't more active, they are just less hungry · more than a thousand deaths have been attributed to a climate change-linked heatwave in Europe · at least one in five jobs on prestigious & often well-paid Australian federal government boards are held by political appointees, the majority of them with direct ties to the Coalition after it awarded dozens of plum positions to political allies during its nine years in power · about 25 million children worldwide have missed out on routine immunizations against common diseases like diptheria, largely because the coronavirus pandemic disrupted regular health services or triggered misinformation about vaccines, according to the U.N.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a bandicoot.

Don't ask.

Normal service will be resumed once Elvis has left the Meditation Garden, & that isn't likely to happen for some time yet. Though I am thinking on it.

wednesday newstrip

Rebranded Russian McDonald's is removing french fries off its menu, citing a poor potato harvest · a 4-billion-year-old piece of Earth's crust has been identified beneath Australia · Twitter's future uncertain as it faces messy breakup with Elongated MuskRat · Uber broke laws, duped police, & secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals · Bob Jungels takes Tour de France stage nine in 65km breakaway as Tadej Pogačar remains leader · NASA to launch two rockets to evaluate Alpha Centauri for life · the Kīngitanga has defended the public shaming by Māori King Tūheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII of his eldest son Whatumoana & his marriage to Rangimarie Tahana that featured a whānau walk out mid-ceremony & a bride-in-brawl at the reception.

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wednesday newstrip

Aotearoa New Zealand has declared that US far-right groups the Proud Boys & The Base are terrorist organisations · man loses USB with entire city's personal data after post-work drinks in Japan · horror on Oslo Pride day as gunman goes on deadly rampage killing two, injuring 21 · Google says attackers worked with ISPs to deploy Hermit spyware on Android & iOS · Tasmanian devil screaches & grunts as it runs away with woman's phone · Rodrigo Duterte hands power to son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines · not rapt: KanYe NoGo West orders Melbourne fan to change store logo, burger names · Ice Age wolf DNA reveals dogs trace ancestry to two separate wolf populations · Russia abandons Snake Island in strategic victory for Kyiv · US Supreme Court limits federal power to curb carbon emissions.

wednesday newstrip

YouTube has a hidden list of keyboard shortcuts · female scientists less likely to be given authorship credits, analysis finds · poliovirus identified in London sewage, says UK health agency · Afghanistan's Taliban rulers plead for aid after the country's deadliest earthquake in two decades · the Australian Supreme Court has found a war veteran lacked mental capacity to give house & fortune to hairdresser · US politicians pass first major gun restrictions in decades · US Supreme Court strikes down New York law, expanding gun rights · US Supreme Court ruling ends the constitutional right to abortion · less than half (49 per cent) of the 2.1 billion COVID vaccine donations promised to poorer countries by G7 countries have been delivered, according to new figures published today by Oxfam & the People’s Vaccine Alliance. Had the missing donated doses been shared in 2021, it could have been enough to save almost 600,000 lives in low & middle income countries, the equivalent of one every minute.

wednesday newstrip

‘Incel’ who killed 11 in Toronto van murders sentenced to life in prison · T.®ump slams Congressional hearings as ‘a smoke & mirrors show for the American people’ · a Google software engineer believes an AI has become sentient. If he’s right, how would we know? · Kim Kardashian allegedly damaged iconic Marilyn Monroe dress she wore on Met Gala red carpet · Aboriginal flag to fly permanently atop Sydney Harbour Bridge by end of year after years of resistance from state’s political leaders · US President Joe BidenMyTime takes a fall from his bike while on a morning ride with the first lady · Bitcoin value plunges below $US20,000 for first time since 2020 · someone made a tombstone to mark Internet Explorer’s end-of-support date.

wednesday newstrip

Color-changing mouse model allows researchers to non-invasively study deep tissues · thousands of Italian mafia operating in Australia, federal police say · Wout Van Aert edged out by Ganna as vengeful Belgian hunts Gaudu in Dauphiné TT · Capitol riot panel blames T.®ump for January 6 'attempted coup' · superworm makes a meal out of waste polystyrene · Apple iPads will support new external hardware thanks to iPadOS 16 DriverKit update · ‘ancient Mao DNA discovered in New Zealand might affect our understanding of climate change’s consequences’ — doubtful, since it’s the extinct bird —the moa — not the late leader of the CCP, that’s being discussed · ‘Politicians have done nothing’: tens of thousands rally against gun violence across US.

wednesday newstrip

Man ‘dressed as old lady in wheelchair’ smears Mona Lisa casing with cake before being arrested at The Louvre · the right-wing Australian Liberal-National Coalition scrapped recovery plans for 176 threatened species & habitats in one of its final acts before it lost government · unusual neutron star spinning every 76 seconds discovered in stellar graveyard · Ronnie Hawkins, rock’n’roll legend who mentored The Band, dies aged 87 · claims Jacinda Ardern stole speech from a movie are un-bee-lievable · the world's largest plant — 200 km² — has been found hiding in plain sight in Western Australia & is at least as old as Egypt's great pyramids · researchers have developed a coherent Raman spectroscopy platform, termed time-resolved coherent Raman scattering (TCRS) spectroscopy, which focuses on molecular vibrational dephasing.

wednesday newstrip

Someone just bought two super-rare Golden Funko Pops for $100k cash · recent changes to the gun laws in Texas have made it even easier to carry a handgun in public · author who wrote How To Murder Your Husband convicted of murdering her husband · Cu-Fe catalyst facilitates ambient-pressure conversion of CO2 into long-chain olefins · ex-Prissygent DoNuts T.®ump defends rights of gun owners during NRA conference days after Texas massacre · Moon volcanoes may hold future water supply for astronauts · lock up the onions, hide the sauce: thieves in Aotearoa / New Zealand target the basics as cost of living soars · baby formula shortage stings US as Australian company ships millions of cans to States.

wednesday newstrip

In a wild twist, physicists have revived an alternative theory of gravity · West Australia Liberals blame attitudes to women & religious fundamentalism for Australian federal election disaster · World Health Organisation calls for concern around growing monkeypox cases · Nationals MP lashes Victorian Liberals as ‘election-losing machine’ · giant asteroid almost two kilometers in diameter to fly past Earth · Legalise Cannabis Australia party sees record Queensland Senate votes in federal election · Rainbow Six Siege reveals Sens – the shooter’s first non-binary operator · outgoing Pram Minister Scat SorrySon has cried in church, after losing the Federal election race to Anthony Albanese.

Today the post-
woman brought
me nothing. An
empty mailbox 

later filled by a
green & yellow 
tree snake which
watched silently 

as I detoured a-
round it taking the 
garbage out. That arc 
retraced returning

until eye contact 
broken. Which 
is when the 
snake spoke. Said: 

I'm an old man now, and
a lonesome man in Kansas. . .

wednesday newstrip

Kim Jong Un orders North Korea into lockdown after Pyongyang confirms first COVID-19 outbreak · final refrain for iPod as Apple stops production · United States records 1 million deaths from COVID-19 two years after start of the pandemic · running Twitter may be much harder than Elongated Muskrat thinks · Israeli police beat pallbearers at Al Jazeera journalist’s funeral · Finland, Sweden inch closer to seeking NATO membership · crypto-currency crash sees man lose $650k life savings · cancer surgery patients fare better with robot surgeons, study finds — with chances of re-admission reduced by 52%.

recently, at Series Magritte

Le parfum de l'abîme

L'abîme est un band de Montréal in-
fluencé par le jazz, le rock, & le
classique contemporain. This isn't
them. More likely the painted
shape is one of those bits of 
bricolage, the detritus one finds 
rolling around the bottom of an 
abyss. Magritte, more concerned
with shadow than with shape, 
appoints it the head of a child. No 
jazz there. Possibly death metal.
 

geographies: Pyramid Hill

 

wednesday newstrip

Kim Kardashian's Monroe moment at the Met Gala shows money, influence, & Instagram can get you what should be untouchable · Sri Lanka's President declares state of emergency as thousands protest & demand his resignation · woman lost $1m to Tinder swindler after bank approved hundreds of thousands in loans, two of them days apart · Palestinians vow to stay on West Bank land despite defeat in decades-old legal battle · after fighting & dying against Crucible Knight Ordovis, a player showcases how tragically close they came to defeating the two crucible knights ·Taliban issues decree mandating Afghan women wear head-to-toe burka in public · man who received a pig heart transplant dies with animal virus DNA.

The print parts of Otoliths issue sixty-five are now available.

The print parts of issue sixty-five are now available from the Otoliths storefront at Lulu. Lulu's weekly promotion code can be found on the Lulu Press Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/Luludotcom/.

Otoliths issue sixty five, part one.
Page count: 380 pages
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Part one contains poems, short stories, & various other bits & pieces by Linda King, Mark Pirie, Dario Zumkeller, Mark Cunningham, Sanjeev Sethi, James Cochran, Jim Leftwich, hiromi suzuki, Michael J. Leach, Elancharan Gunasekaran, Louise Landes Levi, Chuck Joy, Jimmy Crouse, Andrew Cyril Macdonald, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Timothy Pilgrim, Alan Catlin, Paul Ilechko, Jim Meirose, Adam Fieled, John Sweet, Sterling Warner, Jack Galmitz, Lynn Strongin, Richard J. Fleming, M.J. Iuppa, John M. Bennett, Harvey Huddleston, bofa xesjum, Ben Egerton, Nathan Whiting, Volodymyr Bilyk, Xe M. Sánchez, Ellen Wardman, Barbara Parchim, Bruce Robinson, Jeff Bagato, jim mccrary, Gale Acuff, harry k stammer, Jen Schneider, Heather Sager, Keith Polette, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Daniel f Bradley, Robert Beveridge, Tom Beckett, Mary Kasimor, Connor van Bussel, R. S. Stewart, Tony Beyer, John Levy, Kenneth Rexroth, Nathan Anderson, Jeff Harrison, Charles A. Perrone, Russ Bickerstaff, Paul Dickey, Keith Nunes, Bob Lucky, bart plantenga, Joshua Martin, Jillian Oliver, Réka Nyitrai, Marilyn Stablein, Jerome Berglund, Christopher Barnes, Peter Cherches, Kay Kestner, Cameron Morse, Eric Hoffman, Gavin Lucky, Kiriti Sengupta, Patrick Sweeney, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Jane Simpson, Kit Kennedy, Steven Tran, dan raphael, Andrew Taylor, Charlotte Jung, Michael Borth, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Rich Murphy, J. D. Nelson, Kit Willett, Angelo 'NCE' Colella, H. A Sappho, Martin Stannard, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., David Jalajel, Keith Higginbotham, Susan Gangel, & Bob Heman.


Otoliths issue sixty five, part two.
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Part two, the full color part, contains photographs, paintings, video stills, poetry, an essay, visual poetry, & collages from Karl Kempton, AG Davis, Ken Friedman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Marco Giovenale, Mario José Cervantes, Gregory Stephenson, Texas Fontanella, Sarah Bilodeau, John M. Bennett, Carla Bertola & John M. Bennett, fred flynn, John McCluskey, John Gallas, Laurent Grison, Jeff Bagato, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Howie Good, Alberto Vitacchio, richard lopez & Márton Koppány, Michael Basinski, Dave Read, Daniel de Culla, Joanne Bechtel, Bill Wolak, Elmedin Kadric, Clara B. Jones, Nicole Raziya Fong, Sabine Miller, Diana Magallón, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Hubert Kretschmer, Carol Stetser, Penelope Weiss, Marcia Arrieta, Márton Koppány, Cecelia Chapman, Michael Brandonisio, Judith Skillman, Katrinka Moore, & Guy R. Beining.

wednesday newstrip

New Zealand cannot afford to put back everything that will be damaged by rising sea levels, the Climate Change Commissioner says, as new data shows an earlier risk of inundation than expected · Police use tear gas during annual May Day rally in Paris a week after Macaron's election · Vladimir Putain has two secret sons by his gymnast 'lover' Alina Kabaeva, according to a new report · Netflix drops Meek& Markle’s animated series amid cutbacks – report · leave space missions to billionaires & robots, says U.K. astronomer royal · Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine -- to find they've been remotely disabled · Atlanta pedal pub vehicle rolls over causing 'mass casualty incident', 16 injured.

The new issue of Otoliths is now live.

Issue sixty-five of Otoliths, the southern autumn 2022 issue, is now up.

This issue, which marks the beginning of the seventeenth year of the journal's existence, contains a mix of — sometimes mixed — photographs, paintings, short stories, poetry, interviews, magazine columns, & manifestos from an international contributor list including Karl Kempton, Linda King, Mark Pirie, Dario Zumkeller, AG Davis, Mark Cunningham, Sanjeev Sethi, Ken Friedman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, James Cochran, Jim Leftwich, hiromi suzuki, Michael J. Leach, Elancharan Gunasekaran, Louise Landes Levi, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Chuck Joy, Marco Giovenale, Jimmy Crouse, Andrew Cyril Macdonald, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Mario José Cervantes, Timothy Pilgrim, Alan Catlin, Paul Ilechko, Jim Meirose, Adam Fieled, Gregory Stephenson, John Sweet, Sterling Warner, Jack Galmitz, Lynn Strongin, Texas Fontanella, Richard J. Fleming, Sarah Bilodeau, M.J. Iuppa, John M. Bennett, Carla Bertola & John M. Bennett, Harvey Huddleston, bofa xesjum, fred flynn, John McCluskey, Ben Egerton, John Gallas, Nathan Whiting, Laurent Grison, Volodymyr Bilyk, Xe M. Sánchez, Ellen Wardman, Barbara Parchim, Bruce Robinson, Jeff Bagato, jim mccrary, Gale Acuff, Grzegorz Wróblewski, harry k stammer, Howie Good, Jen Schneider, Alberto Vitacchio, richard lopez & Márton Koppány, Heather Sager, Keith Polette, Michael Basinski, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Daniel f Bradley, Dave Read, Robert Beveridge, Tom Beckett, Mary Kasimor, Connor van Bussel, R. S. Stewart, Tony Beyer, Daniel de Culla, John Levy, Joanne Bechtel, Kenneth Rexroth, Nathan Anderson, Jeff Harrison, Bill Wolak, Clara B. Jones, Nicole Raziya Fong, Charles A. Perrone, Russ Bickerstaff, Paul Dickey, Sabine Miller, Keith Nunes, Diana Magallón, Bob Lucky, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, bart plantenga, Joshua Martin, Jillian Oliver, Réka Nyitrai, Marilyn Stablein, Jerome Berglund, Christopher Barnes, Peter Cherches, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Hubert Kretschmer, Kay Kestner, Cameron Morse, Eric Hoffman, Gavin Lucky, Kiriti Sengupta, Patrick Sweeney, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Jane Simpson, Elmedin Kadric, Kit Kennedy, Steven Tran, dan raphael, Andrew Taylor, Charlotte Jung, Michael Borth, Carol Stetser, Penelope Weiss, Marcia Arrieta, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Márton Koppány, Rich Murphy, Cecelia Chapman, J. D. Nelson, Kit Willett, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, H. A. Sappho, Martin Stannard, Michael Brandonisio, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Katrinka Moore, David Jalajel, Keith Higginbotham, Susan Gangel, Judith Skillman, Bob Heman, & Guy R. Beining.

As always, enjoy.

wednesday newstrip

NASA doctor is 'holoported' to the International Space Station for the first time · BoreUs Long_Johns_on no longer ‘worthy’ to be prim minister, says former chief whip · Jacinda Ardern greeted by giant sad dancing kiwifruit during visit to Japan · new World Of Warcraft expansion lets you fly dragons · anthropologist believes ancient human species could still be alive in the forests of Flores Island · New Zealand shoppers order groceries from Australia as inflation soars · Harvard scientist wants to launch an investigation into alien technology at the bottom of Pacific · evidence of zoonotic spread: Superbug C. difficile can jump between pigs & humans.

Cartography

 

wednesday newstrip

Club Penguin fan remake allegedly shut down by Disney after five years · Elongated Muskrat sued by former Twitter shareholders for delay in disclosing his stake in company · Putain's propaganda playbook shows how an army of fake fact-checkers is sowing doubt & confusion · give a dog kale, instead of a bone: study · Swiss man, 20, was left in intensive care after suffering rare lung injury from masturbating · largest comet ever seen is heading towards Earth – will we survive it? · Brazilian man gets 2kg dumbbell stuck up his ass, with medics unable to remove it surgically · Time might not exist, according to physicists & philosophers — but that’s okay.

archi/vale

Later he would walk down to the lagoon / to look for the pelicans.

geographies: Heathcote

wednesday newstrip

A study of the visual system of fruit flies reveals factors regulating neuron development & uncovers similarities with human brain development · 'abandon the Cold War mindset': China's response to Australia's missile plans · 'For the children' written on rocket used in Ukraine train station strike, killing dozens · nationwide recall of Kinder Surprise Easter eggs due to salmonella contamination · Will Smith gets 10-year Oscars ban over Chris Rock slap · DoNuts T.®ump Jr texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows two days after the 2000 presidential election with strategies for overturning the result if T.®ump's father lost, CNN reports · an alien world is so extreme, it has literal clouds of vaporized rock.

necromancer

 

wednesday newstrip

An angry stalker used an Apple watch wrapped around his ex’s tire spokes to secretly track her · eating two servings of avocados a week linked to lower risk of cardiovascular disease · 'cannibal' coronal mass ejection will hit Earth at nearly 2 million mph · DOJ reportedly probing whether Google Maps policies are anticompetitive · researchers predict hundreds of mammal species still to be identified · millions of Australians face $1500 tax hike as ‘lamington’ crumbles · No Man’s Sky neo-Nazi banned after wreaking havoc on galactic hub · Tweetdeck users might have to start ponying up for their favorite Twitter client · research illuminates why immune disorders affect only one of two identical twins.

geographies: Bendigo

 

wednesday newstrip

Taylor Hawkins death: Foo Fighters drummer had 10 psychoactive substances in his body · genetically modified lettuce is the future of food in space, scientists say · BidenMyTime entering 'murky area' on challenge to overthrow Putain · people queue for up to 90 minutes for Costco memberships for projected first store in New Zealand · ‘Terrible plan’: call for Queensland to stop closing Covid testing clinics as case numbers escalate · major Great Western Highway upgrade could destroy historic Aboriginal places · Elongated Muskrat has hinted at the possibility of starting up his own social media company — or possibly buying Twitter.

Today the post-
woman brought
me the auto-
biography of 

a proofreader, 
entitled My 
Life in Correct- 
ional Services.

The River

 

wednesday newstrip

India blames accidental firing of missile into Pakistan on 'technical malfunction' · forget mammoths, study shows how to resurrect Christmas Island rats · Russia denies cosmonauts wearing yellow were supporting Ukraine · Soulja Boy defends Kanye West & threatens Pete Davidson “Nobody Talk To Ye Like That But Me” · US study shows SUVs, pickups hit pedestrians more often than cars do · CryptoRom Bitcoin swindlers continue to target vulnerable iPhone & Android users · Ingenuity Mars Helicopter faces toughest challenge yet as it helps look for traces of life on Mars · William & Kate cancel Caribbean event amid 'anti-colonialism' protests.

geographies: Dookie

 

wednesday newstrip

US man who received a pig heart transplant has died two months after the ground-breaking procedure · Kelly Clarkson to pay ex $158K a month in spousal support · Big Tobacco joins Russia exodus after backlash · wormholes help resolve black hole information paradox · Chinese nickel giant Tsingshan may lose billions · Gender Pay Gap Bot calls out brands tweeting about International Women's Day while paying women less than men · Japan schools ban ponytails because they could 'sexually excite' male students · Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day in largest mass execution in decades · Grimes ditching Elon Musk for Chelsea Manning has the internet questioning reality.

wednesday newstrip

Vlad ‘The Impaler’ Putain says Western sanctions on Moscow 'akin to declaration of war' · Paris Jackson calls out doctors prescribing ‘addictive medications like candy’ · in a wild turn of events, bull ant venom could treat long-term pain · a case of Axial Spondyloarthritis triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection · abandoned rocket hits Moon at 9,300kph · NSW Premier says thousands of homes deemed uninhabitable as state continues floods clean-up · US Military announces plans for satellite orbiting the Moon · AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5995WX: 64C/128T @ 4.5GHz is coming soon · sparkles, unity, & messages of equality as COVID-weary Sydney welcomes Mardi Gras.

Stop the world. I want to get off.

 

A song for our times

wednesday newstrip

Former US prissygent DoNuts T.®ump labels Russian tactics in Ukraine as 'genius' · magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices · Iyanka bares her legs in a blue mini dress for date night with Jarred · NZ coroner asked to consider if police were 'confrontational & aggressive' to victims of Christchurch mosque attack · Australian grain prices set to rise as Russian invasion of Ukraine disrupts global supplies · astronomers identify real-life planet with two suns – like Tatooine from Star Wars · lack of association between pandemic chilblains & SARS-CoV-2 infection · Russian invasion of Ukraine drives up energy costs & Australians will feel the pain.

recently, at Series Magritte

Intimate Journal


& on the sixth day She
remade man in their own
image, after their own
likeness, but with minor

differences. The one to
carry a briefcase, & the
other a clean handker-
chief, so that he could

remove the small chips 
of stone that would in-
evitably catch in the eye 
when tears didn't come.

Blue Balled

 

Today the post-
woman brought
me a letter I
had written in
reply to a letter
I had earlier
written to my-
self. I was so
disappointed to
find nothing
new in it. 

wednesday newstrip

Authorities in New Zealand have been playing Barry Manilow’s greatest hits, along with the Macarena, in an attempt to dislodge anti-vaccine mandate protesters camped outside the parliament building · dog kennel hit by meteor could fetch up to $420,000 at auction · flourishing plants show warming Antarctica undergoing ‘major change’ · third person apparently cured of HIV using novel stem cell transplant · New Zealand passes law banning conversion therapy, fulfilling Jacinda Ardern's election promise · US police find young girl alive hidden under secret staircase room after having been missing for two years · fish talk more than you think—mostly about food & sex · Nicole Kidman's Vanity Fair cover leaves fans 'shocked': 'WTF is this?'

geographies: Kanagulk

 

wednesday newstrip

Biohybrid fish made from human cardiac cells swims like heart beats · French discoverer of AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus, Luc Montagnier, dies at 89 · household cost of living in Aotearoa rises 5.2% - Stats NZ · spillover of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant infection detected in white-tailed deer in New York · koala listed as endangered after Australian governments fail to halt its decline · solar storm wrecks 40 brand new SpaceX Starlink satellites · Russia's Vladimir Putin kept France's Emmanuel Macron at a distance for snubbing COVID demands · Sir Peter Jackson is the highest paid entertainer in the world, according to Forbes' Rich List · Papua New Guinea's hospitals are on the brink of collapse, with no money, limited supplies, & patients in dire need.

geographies: Watchem

 

wednesday newstrip

A vid of MGK making predatory comments about 17 y.o. Kendall Jenner has resurfaced & fkn yikes · Australian business man Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest launches legal action against Facebook over scam ads · 'The Enigma': billion-year-old black diamond 'from outer space' to go under the hammer · Pamela Anderson vows to 'never watch' new series Pam & Tommy: 'It's shocking that they are recreating it' · NASA details plan to retire ISS in 2030 & deliberately crash it into the Pacific Ocean · four senior aides to BoreUs SandStone have resigned from Downing Street within hours of each other amid growing pressure on the Prom Sinister · Mark Suckerburger loses estimated US$28.8 billion as Meta shares crash · New Zealand man lived on white bread to qualify for home loan, then had his pre-approval yanked anyway.

The print parts of Otoliths #64 are now available

The print parts of Otoliths issue sixty-four are now available from The Otoliths Storefront at Lulu. The Lulu Promo code up until Friday this week is 20FOR20 which gives a 20% discount.

Part one, the b&w part of issue sixty-four of Otoliths, contains poems, short stories, book reviews, concrete poems, extracts from a novel, translations, drawings, vispo, & things overlapping & in between, by R L Swihart, Heath Brougher, Jim Leftwich, Alyssa Gillespie, Sanjeev Sethi, Nathan Anderson, Mary Cresswell, Craig Cotter, Andrew Stys, Nathan Whiting, Clara B. Jones, George Moore, Joanna Walkden Harris & Pete Spence, Pete Spence (poems), Alan Catlin, Steve Carll, Richard Magahiz & John W. Sexton, Lynn Strongin, Van Whitman, Cameron Morse, David Jalajel. Tom Beckett, Jonel Abellanosa. Jon Wesick, Jack Galmitz, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Joel Chace, Ruth Lepson, Ric Carfagna, Michael J. Leach, Jeremy Scott, Aysegul Yildirim, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Francisco Gálvez, Eric Hoffman, Les Wicks, Bob Kotyk, Pete Spence (vispo), Joe Balaz, John M. Bennett, Jeff Harrison, Vernon Frazer, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Sutanuka Ghosh Roy, Réka Nyitrai, James Grabill, Mark Danowsky, Austin Alexis. Seth Howard, Anna Cates, DS Maolalai, Tony Beyer, Harvey Huddleston, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Christopher Barnes, Patrick Sweeney, Jon Cone. Charles Freeland, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, Susan Gangel, Daniel Barbiero, Betty Baxter, Penelope Weiss, Jeff Bagato, Bob Heman, Keith Nunes, Eileen R. Tabios, Joshua Martin, J. D. Nelson, Danni Storm, Jane Simpson, Sheila E. Murphy, Bob Lucky, Emmett Lewis, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., & Peter Yovu.

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Part two, the full color part of issue sixty-four of Otoliths, contains paintings, essays, photographs, vispo, asemics, visual pwoermds, and poems by Christian ALLE, Cecelia Chapman, Jim Leftwich, Edward Lee, Elaine Woo, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Jennifer Weigel, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Rhys Trimble, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Texas Fontanella, Diana Magallón, Robyn Groth, Dave Read, Carol Stetser, Randee Silv, József Bíró, Daniel de Culla, Amrita Tandon, Rosella Quintini, Joe Balaz, Joe Balaz & Mary Ellen Derwis, Diana Magallón & Jeff Crouch, John M. Bennett, Ioan Bunus & John M. Bennett, Mindaugas Žuromskas & John M. Bennett, Keith McKay, John Levy, Judith Skillman, hiromi suzuki, Andrew Topel, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Stephen Nelson, Karl Kempton, Elmedin Kadric, Ruggero Maggi, Dawn Nelson Wardrope, Jim George, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Jeff Bagato, Marilyn Stablein, Michael Brandonisio, Pearl Button, Kate Tough, Melissa Clendenin Johnson, Mario José Cervantes, Márton Koppány, Barnaby Smith, Kristian Patruno, & Maggie Carson.

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Part three of issue sixty-four of Otoliths is WHOL / OHLW / LWOH AND OTHER POEMS by Scott MacLeod which, as its title suggests, is, first, a reduction of Ginsberg's HOWL to its basics — the letters used as they appear & their frequency, followed by a ranking of the number of appearances — & then a rebuilding & expansion of the poem. Plus OTHER POEMS to round the chapbook out.

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wednesday newstrip

US authorities search for missing monkeys after truck carrying 100 primates crashes in Pennsylvania · Bitcoin value tumbles almost 50 per cent since record November · exotic 'X' particles detected for the first time in quark-gluon plasma · China accused of foreign interference after Australian Pram Minister Scat SorrySon's WeChat account hijacked & renamed "We are the Chumpions" · Joe BidenMyTime calls reporter a 'stupid son of a bitch' after being questioned on inflation · new condom could increase protected sex & decrease sexually transmitted infections · Swiss banking bonking CEO claims $307,000 spent at strip clubs was business expense · a rocket owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX is so out-of-control it’s going to crash into the moon.

Issue sixty-four of Otoliths is now live.

Issue sixty-four, the southern summer issue of Otoliths, has just gone live.

In Frank Herbert's Dune, melange is an addictive drug that, among other things, turns a user's eyes blue. This issue of Otoliths can't promise that, but it is a mélange, an exciting mixture of many things by many people — Christian ALLE, R L Swihart, Cecelia Chapman, Heath Brougher, Jim Leftwich, Alyssa Gillespie, Edward Lee, Sanjeev Sethi, Nathan Anderson, Mary Cresswell, Elaine Woo, Craig Cotter, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Andrew Stys, Nathan Whiting, Clara B. Jones, George Moore, Joanna Walkden Harris, Pete Spence, Alan Catlin, Steve Carll, Richard Magahiz & John W. Sexton, Jennifer Weigel, Lynn Strongin, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Scott MacLeod, Rhys Trimble, Vin Whitman, Cameron Morse, Grzegorz Wróblewski, David Jalajel, Tom Beckett, Jonel Abellanosa, Texas Fontanella, Jon Wesick, Jack Galmitz, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Diana Magallón, Joel Chace, Ruth Lepson, Robyn Groth, Ric Carfagna, Michael J. Leach, Dave Read, Carol Stetser, Randee Silv, József Bíró, Jeremy Scott, Daniel de Culla, Aysegul Yildirim, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Francisco Gálvez, Eric Hoffman, Les Wicks, Amrita Tandon, Bob Kotyk, Rosella Quintini, Joe Balaz, Jeff Crouch, John M. Bennett, Ioan Bunus, Mindaugas Žuromskas, Jeff Harrison, Keith McKay, Vernon Frazer, Hrishikesh Srinivas, John Levy, Sutanuka Ghosh Roy, Réka Nyitrai, James Grabill, Mark Danowsky, Austin Alexis, Judith Skillman, Seth Howard, hiromi suzuki, Anna Cates, DS Maolalai, Andrew Topel, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Tony Beyer, Harvey Huddleston, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Stephen Nelson, Christopher Barnes, Karl Kempton, Patrick Sweeney, Elmedin Kadric, Jon Cone, Ruggero Maggi, Dawn Nelson Wardrope, Charles Freeland, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, Susan Gangel, Daniel Barbiero, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Betty Baxter, Jim George, Penelope Weiss, Jeff Bagato, Marilyn Stablein, Bob Heman, Keith Nunes, Eileen R. Tabios, Joshua Martin, J. D. Nelson, Danni Storm, Jane Simpson, Michael Brandonisio, Pearl Button, Melissa Clendenin Johnson, Sheila E. Murphy, Mario José Cervantes, Bob Lucky, Emmett Lewis, Márton Koppány, Barnaby Smith, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Kristian Patruno, Peter Yovu, Kate Tough, & Maggie Carson.

geographies: Lima South

 

Today the post-
woman brought
me a bath 

that had been 
thrown out with 
the baby water.

wednesday newstrip

Prince Andrew handles royal heartbreak with family shooting party · expect more worrisome variants after omicron, scientists say · Earth's insides are cooling faster than we thought, & it will mess things up · a huge project is underway to sequence the genome of every complex species on Earth · Microsoft’s historic takeover of Activision Blizzard for $US68.7 billion comes with a lot of games — & a spotty reputation · ‘Mega iceberg’ releases billions of tonnes of fresh water into ocean · molecular dynamics inform ideal tool shape for nanofabrication · devastating explosion in Ghana caused by truck & motorcycle crash sees 17 killed & 59 injured · Meat Loaf dead at 74 from Covid.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a large Bo 
tree. I have re-

planted it in
the overgrown
back garden be-
tween the lychee 

& the macadamia. 
Next week we 
are going for a 
holiday, & there 

will be no-one 
here to hear it 
if it falls. Will
Buddha-mind?

wednesday newstrip

Asteroid with more force than biggest nuclear bomb to come close to Earth in 2029 · Red Dead Online players are frustrated after months without a major update · dolphins have a fully functional clitoris, study finds · Brutish Pram Minister Porous Sandstone 'hosted 40-person garden party' in Downing Street at height of UK lockdown · model Yael Cohen Aris claims company ripped off her likeness to make sex doll without consent · Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gambling lawsuit dismissed because plaintiff never opened game · Microsoft Office now has a "wokeness" editor that will flag your writing if it contains insensitive phrases · new study of Mars meteorite found in 1984 debunks proof of ancient Martian life on the planet.

geographies: Serpentine

 

Cross Johnnie

 

wednesday newstrip

Rare joint statement from Russia, China, Britain, US, & France says 'nuclear war cannot be won' · as Afghanistan spirals into a vortex of poverty, parents are desperate enough to sell their own children · mysterious footprints suggest Neanderthals climbed a volcano right after it erupted · TikTok's highest-earning stars Charli & Dixie D'Amelio raked in $38 million in 2021 · snowstorm kills at least 21 tourists at Pakistani resort · at least seven dead after boulder crashes on tourist boats in Brazil · the latest handbag accessory? The rise of carbon dioxide monitors · 'the epitome of dignity & grace:' Barack Obama leads tributes for Sidney Poitier.

recently, at Series Magritte

La Fleche de Zenon



At this point in time
the rock is not falling
or hovering or travel-
ing in a straight line
between two points.

At this point in time
the waves are not
crashing on the shore,
the clouds are still, &
the moon has stopped

orbiting the Earth. At
any point in time, says
Zeno, an arrow is not
moving to where it is
going or where it is not.

No time elapses; so how
can it move? It is already
here, so how can it move
here? At this point in
time I am watching the

movement of a painting
that does not move &
yet it moves this viewer
even though, at this point
in time, the viewer is

motionless.

wednesday newstrip

Sydney pathology service incorrectly tells 400 positive COVID-19 cases they are negative · Genshin Impact releases 3 new redeem codes for free Primogems in V2.4 special program · inactivated SARS-CoV-2 induces acute respiratory distress syndrome in human ACE2-transgenic mice · they're back: asteroid three times the size of Statue of Liberty to skim past Earth · COLORFUL intros Warhalberd CN600 NVMe M.2 Gen 3 SSDs, 256GB for $39 · green single step manufacture of Mn nanoparticles for nanofertlizer use · Tesla recalls more than 475,000 cars because of rear-view camera, bonnet issues · Golden Girls star, 'national treasure' Betty White dies just short of her 100th birthday.

Searchin', as Leiber & Stoller used to say

 

wednesday newstrip

Mum stomps on elderly woman’s head, king hits man in brutal attack · floral tributes grow at scene after six children killed in Tasmania jumping castle tragedy identified · Tencent buys Back 4 Blood & Left 4 Dead studio Turtle Rock · necklaces conspiracy theorists wear to 'protect' themselves from 5G are actually radioactive, nuclear experts warn · Ant-man's new ride? Scientists discover 1,306-legged insect · five Ice-Age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years · Police investigate $1 million silver bullion theft from truck · biologists describe structure & function of heme transport & assembly machine · Travis Barker & Kourtney Kardashian’s latest TMI Instagram display · northbound traffic is heavy on the Sydney Harbor Bridge after a van lost a load of salmon · women & children among dozens reported killed by government troops in Myanmar Christmas Eve massacre.

Today the post-
woman brought

me a surface to 
air missile with 

black currant & 
sweet red capsicum 

on the nose &
underlying subtle 

smoky hints of 
oak & gooseberry.

geographies: Baddaginnie

 

wednesday newstrip

Scientists manage to keep droplets of water in liquid form at -47.2°F · Jesy Nelson is getting roasted like a Christmas turkey for this PR nightmare of a Xmas Show · cellular properties of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein RBD in virus-infected African green monkey kidney epithelial cells · Agent of Chaos North West is probs in big trouble after going on TikTok live in Kim K’s room · Kentucky candle factory bosses threatened to fire those who fled tornado, say workers · SK hynix becomes the first to achieve 24GB DDR5 DRAM chip density, has begun shipping samples to customers · … the Australian way —a country run by mates, & mates of mates, where the foundational doctrine of the current Federal government is "we look after our mates." Particularly when they’re Rupert Murdoch’s mates · a flock of chickens joined Santa Claus & a woman from bed during an outrageous court hearing for Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews. Mr. Andrews had been summoned to appear before the criminal court on a charge of concealing treason & fraud. The court later confirmed the proceeding against Mr. Andrews had been struck out, but could not provide an explanation as to why.

wednesday newstrip

New robust tool for faster, economical, easier coral reef monitoring · Pete Davidson & Machine Gun Kelly drive fans wild as they strip down to Calvin Klein underwear during Instagram takeover · Scuf’s Reflex for PS5 is a pricier, customizable take on the DualSense · UK prioritised animals over people during Kabul airlift, says whistleblower · teen arrested in western India for beheading pregnant sister as mother allegedly held victim's legs · China’s Yutu II spots ‘mystery hut’ on far side of the moon · New Zealand's Smokefree legislation to ban people born after 2010 from ever buying tobacco · Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin apologizes for clubbing despite COVID warning, after gossip magazine publishes photos of her on the dancefloor.

Today the post-
woman brought
me the Noble
Piece prize plus

a bagful of
endorsement
requests from
the many

penis enlargement
companies I've
dealt with
over the years.

geographies: Branxholme

 

wednesday newstrip

US military plans for greater presence in Australia as it confronts China's power · emissions rise 2% in Australia amid increased pollution from electricity & transport · a republic is born: Prince Charles, Rihanna watch as Barbados ditches the Queen · legendary New Zealand giant eagle was a killer that ate like a vulture · North Korea is banning leather trench coats to stop citizens from being able to copy Kim Jong Un's style · 3.7-million-year-old fossil footprints were made by mystery species of hominin, not a bear · KFC fans lose it over next-level menu item · champagne shortage hits Australia · Niantic unlocks the frame rate in Pokemon Go on iOS.

Track & Field

 

Today the post-
woman brought
me an Andy 
Warhol silk-
screen print of an
Iams Veterinary 
Formula Intestinal 
Low-Residue Dog 
Food can, done 
before The Factory,
before fame. De-
tractors call it 
his Pup Art phase.

geographies: Netherby

 

wednesday newstrip

Caltech researchers read a jellyfish’s mind · DoNuts T.®ump is awarded a ninth dan black belt at Mar-a-lago · astronomers announce the discovery of the fastest-rotating white dwarf star on record, with a spin rate of once every 25 seconds · PlayStation faces gender discrimination lawsuit from former staffer · Ridley Scott is blaming millennials & their cellphones for his latest movie bombing · Mammoth tusk recovered from an unlikely place: the bottom of the ocean · seroprevalence study reveals high exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in Bangui population · on Steam, Farming Simulator 22 has more active players than Battlefield 2042.

Today the post-
woman brought
me one of those
so-called smart 

bombs. Don't
know why they
call them that. I 
asked this one a

couple of simple 
questions & it 
couldn't answer 
either of them.

wednesday newstrip

Two accused killers of Malcolm X, Muhammad Aziz & Khalil Islam, to be cleared of 1965 assassination · eco band Formidable Vegetable calls for 'buy nothing' Christmas · Meghan Markle could be barred from becoming US president by 211-year-old amendment to the Constitution that was designed to stop Napoleon's nephew from seeking power · GameStop meme stock villain buys copy of the Constitution for $US43 million · experts call for US to bolster defence against asteroid threat · Fox News claims Rittenhouse case showed 'ideological baggage' of other news outlets · some Pacific countries will take years to vaccinate 50% of adult population, modelling shows · the future of digital assistants is queer.

geographies: Swan Hill

 

Today the post-
woman brought
me a creative urge. 

I've sent it out in-
to the kitchen to 
get dinner ready. 

wednesday newstrip

Ferocious 'penis worms' were the hermit crabs of the ancient seas · new epigenetic editing technique may advance the treatment of many diseases · Pram Monster Scat SorrySon says he won't 'force' Australians into driving electric vehicles · Big Bird blasted by conservatives, anti-vaxers over one COVID jab tweet · original Apple computer built by Jobs & Wozniak sells for $400k · Travis Got Busted Copping A Feel Of Kourt’s Norks At Kris’ Karaoke Bday & It’s So Fkn Awkward · Australia named the ‘colossal fossil’ of Cop26 for ‘appalling performance’ · Britney Spears is free, but 1.3 million Americans still live under strict conservatorships · band apologizes for singer after she pees on fan's face during concert.

The print parts of Otoliths issue sixty-three are now available

The print parts of Otoliths issue sixty-three are now available from The Otoliths Storefront at Lulu. Details are below. Unfortunately, Lulu seem to have discontinued their promotional discount program which is a great pity, especially now that the major parts of Otoliths are becoming so large & thus more costly.

Part One
438 pages, b & w
Price: $US 22.45
Direct Link: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/mark-young/otoliths-issue-sixty-three-part-one/paperback/product-gkjq47.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Part One of Otoliths sixty-three contains fiction & non-fiction, vispo, reviews, translations, essays, short stories, & poetry from Sanjeev Sethi, Andrew K. Peterson, Thomas Fink, Scott MacLeod, Eric Hoffman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Jazmine Blu, Mark DeCarteret, Rp Verlaine, Jack Galmitz, Timothy Pilgrim, Gloria Frym, Juan Pablo Mobili, John Bradley, Volodymyr Bilyk, Ernesto Priego, Heath Brougher, Doug Bolling, David Miller, Dale Jensen, Jim Leftwich, Joanna Walkden Harris & Pete Spence, David Lohrey, Joseph V. Milford, Vernon Frazer, Kenneth Rexroth, Lynn Strongin, John M. Bennett & C. Mehrl Bennett, John M. Bennett, Christopher Barnes, Jim Meirose, John Martone, Réka Nyitrai, Richard Kostelanetz, Piet Nieuwland, Paul Dickey, Rachel Chitofu, Jimmy Crouse, Clay Thistleton, Clara B. Jones, Penelope Weiss, Joel Chace, dan raphael, Tony Beyer, Austin Miles, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Paul Shumaker, Joshua Martin, Elmedin Kadric, Rich Murphy, Jeff Harrison, Scott Metz, Hugh Tribbey, Mark Pirie, Scott Helmes, Sheila E. Murphy, Clive Gresswell, Jeff Bagato, Jen Schneider, John Levy, Bob Lucky, Eric Mohrman, Owen Bullock, Raha. M, Jeff Adams, Ian Ferguson, Stephen Mead, Matthew Anderson, Peter Yovu, Bob Heman, Linda M. Walker, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Michael Brandonisio, Harry Reid, J. D. Nelson, Jess Burnquist, Mark DuCharme, Carol Shillibeer, & sian vate.


Part Two
372 pages, full color
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Part Two of Otoliths sixty-three, the full color part, contains paintings, collages, drawings, mailart, photographs, text poetry, asemics, vispo, & renovation tips from Rémi Forte, Kenneth M Cale, Michael Orr, Texas Fontanella, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Keith Walker, Jim Leftwich, Ira Joel Haber, Christian ALLE, hiromi suzuki, Susan diRende, Bill Wolak, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Marco Giovenale, Rus Khomutoff, Michael Gould, Andrew Topel, Judith Skillman, Pete Spence, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, John M. Bennett, Cecelia Chapman, Carol Stetser, Dave Read, Elaine Woo, Angela Caporaso, Jon Kemsley, Robinson & John M. Bennett, Adam Roussopoulos & John M. Bennett, gobscure, Joe Balaz, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Jeff Bagato, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Adriána Kóbor, nick nelson, bofa xesjum, Ian Gibbins, Rosella Quintini, Joanne Bechtel, Marilyn Stablein, Julia Vaughan, József Bíró, Kell Nelson, Isabel Gómez de Diego, Daniel de Culla, Kit Kennedy, Kerfe Roig, Andrea Astolfi, Marcia Arrieta, Guy R. Beining, & Cherie Hunter Day.


Part Three
48 pages, b & w
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Part Three of Otoliths issue sixty-three is the complete novella, Masters of Time and Distance, by Harvey Huddleston, about a group of friends on a somewhat life-changing trip to the Ozarks.


Part Four
48 pages, full color
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Part Four of Otoliths issue sixty-three is Carla Bertola's metamorphoses of undelivered letters. It's a visual treat, a whimsical journey about what happens when letters do not reach their destination and are forced to undergo a perilous return to sender.


Part Five
90 pages, full color
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Part five of Otoliths issue sixty three is sandskrit of the oceano dunes, a lengthy sequence of Karl Kempton's exquisite photographs of the Oceano Dunes, that demonstrates how the region's "(s)andskrit wind written cursive dialects vary."

Maybe / I didn't / write like her

but my mother's support was a strong influence in my early writing days. & my first poems were probably composed on the same typewriter that she used to write the submission version of this sonnet twenty years earlier.

 

wednesday newstrip

Australia considering more than 100 fossil fuel projects that could produce the equivalent of 5% of current global industrial emissions · a small telescope past Saturn could solve some mysteries of the universe better than giant telescopes near Earth · Doug, an ugly 'self-sown' New Zealand potato the size of a small dog, could be world's biggest · NASA to deflect asteroid in test of 'planetary defense' · Elden Ring gameplay trailer shows enormous map, multiplayer, stealth, crafting, & a talkative Pot Boy · no toilet for returning Elongated Muskrat's SpaceX crew, stuck using nappies · ‘no excuse’, say irate shoppers as Tesla car runs out of battery, blocks car park in London mall for 3 hours · only two per cent of Great Barrier Reef has escaped bleaching due to global warming.

(about-to-be) really smashed avocado

(photo from ABC Australia)
 

Today the post-
woman brought
me a walking
stick. Now all I
need are a back
fence, a fruit-
filled apple tree
just inside it but
not too far out
of reach for the
young kids of 
the neighbor-
hood. Those who
can remember 
the past are also
condemned to re-
peat it. I never did
like Santayana.

wednesday newstrip

Pair walk away with 45 rare wines, one worth $500k, in brazen Spanish theft · scientists astounded as 'new hidden world' discovered inside Earth's core · fully vaccinated people can pass on the Delta variant at home, including to other vaccinated people, a study finds — but unvaccinated people are still at most risk · man in 'Joker' costume stabs 17 people on Tokyo train, starts fire · French President Emmanuel Ō accuses Australian Pram Minister Scat SorrySon of lying about sudden termination of 90 billion dollar submarine contract · from a 'class divide' to 'intergenerational theft', Australia's real estate frenzy leaves many behind.

The new issue of Otoliths is now online

Issue sixty-three, the southern spring issue of Otoliths, is now live.

 

As always, there's a wide range of material from a wide range of contributors — Harvey Huddleston, Rémi Forte, Kenneth M Cale, Sanjeev Sethi, Andrew K. Peterson, Michael Orr, Thomas Fink, Texas Fontanella, Scott MacLeod, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Eric Hoffman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Keith Walker, Jazmine Blu, Jim Leftwich, Mark DeCarteret, Ira Joel Haber, Rp Verlaine, Christian ALLE, hiromi suzuki, Jack Galmitz, Timothy Pilgrim, Gloria Frym, Juan Pablo Mobili, Susan diRende, John Bradley, Volodymyr Bilyk, Bill Wolak, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Marco Giovenale, Ernesto Priego, Rus Khomutoff, Michael Gould, Heath Brougher, Doug Bolling, David Miller, Dale Jensen, Andrew Topel, Judith Skillman, Pete Spence, Joanna Walkden Harris, David Lohrey, John M. Bennett, Joseph V. Milford, Vernon Frazer, Kenneth Rexroth, Lynn Strongin, C. Mehrl Bennett, Christopher Barnes, Jim Meirose, John Martone, Cecelia Chapman, Carol Stetser, Dave Reid, Réka Nyitrai, Richard Kostelanetz, Piet Nieuwland, Paul Dickey, Rachel Chitofu, Jimmy Crouse, Clay Thistleton, Elaine Woo, Clara B. Jones, Angela Caporaso, Penelope Weiss, Joel Chace, dan raphael, Tony Beyer, Jon Kemsley, Austin Miles, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Paul Shumaker, Robinson, Adam Roussopoulos, gobscure, Joe Balaz, Joshua Martin, Elmedin Kadric, Rich Murphy, Jeff Harrison, Scott Metz, Karl Kempton, Hugh Tribbey, Mark Pirie, Scott Helmes, Sheila E. Murphy, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Clive Gresswell, Jeff Bagato, Jen Schneider, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, John Levy, Adriána Kóbor, nick nelson, bofa xesjum, Bob Lucky, Eric Mohrman, Owen Bullock, Raha.M, Jeff Adams, Ian Gibbins, Mike Ferguson, Rosella Quintini, Stephen Mead, Joanne Bechtel, Matthew Anderson, Marilyn Stablein, Peter Yovu, Julia Vaughan, Bob Heman, József Bíró, Linda M. Walker, Kell Nelson, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Isabel Gómez de Diego, Daniel de Culla, Michael Brandonisio, Kit Kennedy, Kerfe Roig, Andrea Astolfi, Harry Reid, J. D. Nelson, Marcia Arrieta, Jess Burnquist, Guy R. Beining, Mark DuCharme, Cherie Hunter Day, Carol Shillibeer, Carla Bertola, & sian vate.

wednesday newstrip

New Zealand city council ends contract with wizard after two decades of service · China denies media reports it tested nuclear-capable hypersonic missile, claims it was a space bot · first dinosaur era crab discovered – fully preserved in 100-million-year-old amber · ‘We need him to deliver’: BidenMyTime faces wrath of disappointed supporters · Buckingham Palace under fire for not revealing Queen's hospital visit sooner · NZ's canned wine exports set for multimillion-dollar growth as Wairarapa winemakers expand into the US · humanitarian catastrophe looms for Afghanistan if major powers deny Taliban rule, Pakistan warns · Greece recovers Picasso, Mondrian paintings stolen from gallery in 2012.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a pair of
elevator shoes 
that took me
straight to the 
top floor. Pity 
about the 
music that 
came with them.

Recently, at Series Magritte

Le Sabbat

He refused to work
on the Sabbath, which
is why the lights are
all turned off — the moon
gives me enough light
to find my way around —

& the painting is left
upside down — I won't
work but that doesn't 
stop my mind from
turning over, so putting 
things in unusual places 
often helps as a sort of 
associative trigger when
the next day comes around — 

& for any person passing
by, an upturned apple is
still an apple — I stole
that idea from Gertrude
Stein who I later paid back
by painting rose after rose 
after rose — but no one

has decreed that magic
can't be done on this day — 
I deliberately put that half-
full glass of wine there so
that when it hangs upside-
down with no spillage, what
else can it be but magical?

It's a long time

 

since I was #1 at anything.

wednesday newstrip

Australian companies are selling munitions & military technology to war-torn African countries under a Defence Department plan that critics have branded "grotesque" & unethical · Spelunky world record holder busted as a cheater · Netflix trans employees & allies plan walkout in protest at Dave Chappelle special · South African champion swimmer alleges former Australian coach sexually assaulted him as a teenager · researchers discover large rift in Arctic’s last bastion of thick sea ice — polar bears could vanish by the end of the century · Prince William blasts space race billionaires finding 'new place to live' before repairing Earth · William Shatner slams Prince William for anti-space remarks · the Queen condemns ‘really irritating’ world leaders for snubbing Glasgow climate talks.

New selected poems of Mark Young is now out

Songs to Come for the Salamander; Selected Poems 2013-2021: selected & introduced by Thomas Fink has just been co-published by Sandy Press & Meritage Press.

 

Mark Young
Songs to Come for the Salamander; Selected Poems 2013-2021:
selected & introduced by Thomas Fink
Sandy Press & Meritage Press, 2021
396 pages
$27.75 USD
ISBN: 978-1-7368160-4-2
Available through Amazon

Chosen by Thomas Fink from the 29 books of text poetry by Mark Young published since 2013, Songs to Come for the Salamander is a companion piece to the 2008 Pelican Dreaming, also selected & edited by Thomas Fink, & the 600-page 2013 The Codicils, which Young describes as nine books in one. It again highlights the variety, sly humor, & concern for social & political issues that the author is internationally known for. Many of his regular tropes — "A line from . . .," "Today the Postwo/man," & geographies are included, but they are only a small part of this delightful sampling from the 2500 or so poems from Young that have appeared in the nine years this selection covers.

"Some readers might assume that particular, highly pessimistic generalizations in Young’s poems are actually Mark Young presenting his sense of doom. The little ditty "democracy" registers the claim that "no-one// knows the/ words to" the "song" (the concept of democracy) even though "every-/ one sings" it, and "since violence is learned" tells us that "tolerance is no/ longer available, is replaced by trauma." Although nothing in the poems—not even such affirmations of aesthetic transport as "Constant Craving," which speaks of music "that acts as/ axis to steady everything around"—makes one identify the poet as a bright-eyed optimist, various moments in the work display too much respect for the complexity of cause and effect, limitations of human perception, the transience of trends, and sudden appearances of the unexpected to place sustained credence in large generalizations and foregone conclusions."
— from the Introduction by Thomas Fink.

Recent books by Mark Young from Sandy Press.

The Sasquatch Walks Among Us
Sorties

Today the post-
woman brought
me an original 
oil painting 
of Washington 
Irving Crossing 
The Delaware. 
                        "What
are you on about?" 
she snapped when 
I questioned
its provenance.

wednesday newstrip

PCIe 5.0 high-power connector for next-gen graphics cards to deliver up to 600w to GPUs · Foo Fighters frontman & former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl opens up about life & loss in new memoir · roundworms melt down their organs to squirt milk from their vulvas for their young · Tyson Fury confirms dominance of heavyweight division with trilogy fight for the ages · Australian Pram Minister Scat SorrySon's quarantine barbecue 'curry night' sparks outrage · Far Cry 6 developer interview: ‘Revolution is violent, but not humorless’ · ‘Authoritarian-style’ law would allow Australia to use secret evidence to deport migrants.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a bacon & 
egg burger with 
aioli dressing. It 
wasn't what I 
wanted — I'd
actually asked
for the Gettysburg
Address — but
I didn't complain.
Hunger causes us
to compromise 
sometimes.

wednesday newstrip

Taliban bans shaving beards in Afghanistan's Helmand province, barbers report shift back to conservative cuts · COVID-19 pandemic has triggered greatest declines in life expectancy since World War II · gigantic comet approaching from outer Solar System may be the largest ever seen · Elon Muskrat ridicules President BidenMyTime after SpaceX completes its first all-civil mission · Drifblim carries people away, never to be seen again · UK extends truck driver visa program to ease pressure at the pump as fuel crisis persists · Martin Shkreli became the 'world's most hated man' as new documentary aims to understand how · orchid hunting is growing in popularity but there are fears the flowers are being 'loved to death.'

geographies: Nhill

 

Today the post-
woman brought
me a postcard
from André 
Breton who
writes that he
has changed
his family name
to Rieu, & is
making a motza
taking the mickey
out of the
musical world.