celestial muscles

The most superficial, most 
Yáng system, mimics 

Kim Kardashian's facial 
expression & stylish top-

knot, & comes from the
merger of ordinary bonnet

needles & Alexei Nemov's 
fit gymnast body as he steps

out for the Prince's Trust
Awards in a stunning LBD.

wednesday newstrip

Addition of stereotactic body radiation therapy to sorafenib in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma improves overall survival · 'where is Nancy?': intruder beat US speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with hammer in their home · a swarm of honeybees can have the same electrical charge as a storm cloud · at least 149 killed during crowd crush at Halloween festivities in Seoul · Medibank reveals customer data breach much wider than originally thought · nose surgeon faces drug charge after allegedly buying cocaine · Iranian security forces open fire at Mahsa Amini's grave, as police clash with mourners · James Webb Space Telescope captures a spooky view of the Pillars of Creation.

Issue sixty-seven of Otoliths is now live

Issue sixty-seven of Otoliths, the southern spring, 2022 issue, is now live.

A bit larger than normal, it contains the usual wide variety of work, this time from Judith Skillman, Elisa C. Martínez Salazar, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Paul Siegell, Michael Orr & Texas Fontanella, Peter Yovu, Anna Cates, Sanjeev Sethi, Kyle Hemmings, Riccardo Benzina, Steven Bruce, CL Bledsoe, Texas Fontanella, Alan Catlin, David Miller, Craig Cotter, Ali Zarbali, Sharon H. Frost, Dale Jensen, Eric Hoffman, Lynn Strongin, Karl Kempton, Paul Dickey, Jack Galmitz, Gao An, Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, Ioan Bunus & John M. Bennett, Bob Kotyk, Michael J. Leach, petro c. k., Maria Giesbrecht, Richard Kostelanetz, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Jimmy Crouse, Nathan Anderson, Daniel de Culla, John Geraets, Jennifer Weigel, Judith Roitman, Ivars Balkits, Rob Martelli, Tohm Bakelas, Elaine Woo, Michael Sikkema, Livio Farallo, Diana Magallón, Jim Meirose, Carol Stetser, Eric Lunde, Sheila E. Murphy, dan raphael, Richard Magahiz, Daniel Barbiero, Pawel Markiewicz, Lawrence R. Smith, Mike Callaghan, John Tustin, George Myers Jr., Mark Pirie, James Grabill, Caleb Puckett, Damon Hubbs, Tim Gaze, Marilyn R. Rosenberg & Ann R. Shapiro, Mark Danowsky, Piet Nieuwland, Christopher Barnes, Guy R. Beining, Harvey Huddleston, Sterling Warner, Pete Spence, Julia Vaughan, Lewis LaCook, Dave Read, Susan Gangel & Ken Hay, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jim Leftwich, Joanne Bechtel, Brooks Lampe, Olchar E. Lindsann, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Linda M. Walker, Maximilian Speicher, Lucia Sapienza, LUNE OFFLINE, Samarra Prahlad, Gavin Lucky, Tom Beckett, Jeff Harrison, Bill Wolak, James Yeary, Joshua Martin, Uvia Shcho, Antonio Devicienti, Mark Cunningham, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio & Carla Bertola, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Edward Kulemin, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, harry k stammer, Kenneth Rexroth, Jeff Bagato, Nathan Whiting, Catherine Eaton Skinner, Eileen R. Tabios, Mark Yale Harris, Heath Brougher, Natalie Christensen, Vernon Frazer, Bob Lucky, Daniel f Bradley, Heather M. Browne, Marcia Arrieta, Patrick Sweeney, John Levy, Glenn Ingersoll, Michael Ruby, Hrishikesh Srinivas, J.I. Kleinberg, Kit Kennedy, Caleb Fenez, Keith Nunes, Marilyn Stablein, Cecelia Chapman, M.J. Iuppa, Daniel Lehan, Elmedin Kadric, Hubert Kretschmer & Jürgen O. Olbrich, Penelope Weiss, Siân Vate, Elena Zalogina, Jill Jones, Alan Peat & Réka Nyitrai, Réka Nyitrai, hiromi suzuki, Thomas Camus, Barnaby Smith, J. D. Nelson, K. Roberts, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Peter Cherches, Cherie Hunter Day, Keith Higginbotham, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, Darrell Petska, David Jalajel, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., & Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett.

the surgeon friend of the family who
               operates out of & in the local gas station
                              is known to prefer a rusty telescope
                                             over a scalpel when performing critical
                         procedures such as heart by-passes

wednesday newstrip

Scientists manufacture 'living blood vessel' · UN torture prevention body suspends Australia trip citing 'clear breach' of OPCAT obligations · are you a tasty target? New study proves some people really are 'mosquito magnets' · Sydney’s $3b Silicon Valley tech hub gets the green light · Australian Consumer watchdog takes Fitbit to court over claims around customer rights · 834-carat sapphire found in Queensland gem fields after heavy rains across eastern Australia · Porous Sandstone pulls out of the race, Risky Kayak becomes Britain’s new prime minister.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a postcard
from André 
Breton who
writes that he

is alive &
well, & co-
habiting with
an abandoned
kaleidoscope
off the coast

of Costa Rica.

wednesday newstrip

Musician Rex Orange County reportedly charged with six counts of sexual assault, denies allegations · Medibank alerts customers to possible cyber attack · Pierce Brosnan reveals 'stupid' comment that cost him Batman role: 'Obviously, I didn't get the job' · close flyby of Lucy spacecraft this weekend has NASA on collision alert · passports in Optus hack don’t need replacing but partially useless · microbes can form 'superorganisms' that crawl across our teeth · Woolworths Group's MyDeal hit by breach exposing data of 2.2 million customers · Nvidia decides to ‘unlaunch’ the 12GB RTX 4080 because it’s confusing having two models with the same name but significantly different capabilities · Australian scientists have taught brain cells in a tray how to play the computer game Pong.

from the old firm of stammer & Young

Verismo

It is where the external
generative organs are
stored, combines exotic
plots with crops such as
peas or beans. Often
depicted as a communal
village which has water
added so it becomes water-
tight. Has no shareholder
rights; but witnesses are
called when the deathrate
rises above the national
average. Cracks with mat-
urity. Multiple meanings.

elliptical automata

The level of antibodies infants
get from thin plates of brass
drops over time. Greater efficacy
comes from sheets of 24 carat
gold inscribed in Etruscan.

*

The Twitter communities of both
Taylor Swift & One Direction fans
like goats. A generation completely
comfortable with remix culture
becomes a majority of the electorate.

*

I had a sudden hankering for
magnesium: & even though
no copyright infringement was
intended, all hell broke loose.

*

Prisonnier mordu par des chiens

We pro-
claim
innocence; but
so much gone on
that we are
part of
party to
partially
responsible for
we cannot
claim
we thought
it was an-
other that
did this
& set our
selves a-
part.

wednesday newstrip

Mass shooting at daycare center in Thailand leaves 37 dead, including at least 24 children · Sun explodes with 2,00,000 km long filament, blast debris could hit Earth · medicinal cannabis clinics' quality of care can be pot luck · human rights advocates in Ukraine, Russia, & Belarus win 2022 Nobel Peace Prize · ‘America First’ T.®ump is now doling out endorsements in foreign elections · Australia Post temporarily halts sea mail amid rise in prohibited items · researchers at IRB Barcelona & PCCB develop study model for Ewing sarcoma in Drosophila fly.

geographies: Dhurringile

wednesday newstrip

Adelphi Hotel guest died under wardrobe ‘she thought was bathroom’ · Bella Hadid gets dress spray-painted onto her mid-fashion show · ancient armored Cambrian 'worm' that looks like a toilet scrub brush ancestor to three major animal groups · Football Australia under pressure to issue lifetime bans for Sydney fans who made Nazi salute · massive ocean discovered by scientists near the earth’s core · Sacheen Littlefeather death: activist who rejected Oscar on Marlon Brando’s behalf dies, aged 75 · NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter spots foreign object debris on Mars · experts warn the UK is already at the start of a 'devastating' new Covid wave that could cripple the NHS this winter.

wednesday newstrip

Earth harbors 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants – & they weigh more than wild birds & mammals combined · bioelectronic face mask can detect COVID-19 in real time, scientists say · hacker posts footage of Grand Theft Auto VI in one of 'biggest leaks in video game history' · end of an era in Cambodia as last living Khmer Rouge leader loses genocide appeal · Tasmanian whale rescue turns to disposal operation as researchers hope for clues to stranding tragedy · University of Colorado research reveals that telehealth follow-up after gall bladder surgery is just as effective as in-person · Russian foreign minister accuses West of trying to 'stop the march of history' by providing military aid to Ukraine · vagina-flavored crisps are now on sale.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a glass
ceiling. Not for

me, I told her.
Perhaps meant
for the lady
next door.

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

The print parts of issue sixty-six are now available from the Otoliths storefront at Lulu. This week's Lulu promotion code — which runs until midnight on Friday — is ENTERTAIN15, a saving of 15%. Next week's code will be available from Monday on the Lulu Press Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/Luludotcom/.

Otoliths issue sixty- six, part one.
Page count: 354 pages
Price: $US23.45
direct link: https://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/otoliths-issue-sixty-six-part-one/paperback/product-pq245g.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Part one of Otoliths issue sixty-six contains vispo, short stories, translations, essays, & a variety of poetic forms & styles from Jen Schneider, Andrew Topel & John M. Bennett, Mark DuCharme, Sanjeev Sethi, Richard Kostelanetz, Tony Kitt, Jay Passer, Ken Poyner, Amy Barone, Owen Bullock, Eric Dillalogue, James Daniels, John Tustin, Steve Brisendine. Patricia Carragon, Richard Magahiz. John Bradley, Sunil Sharma, Randee Silv, Leslaw Nowara, J.J. Campbell, Jack Galmitz, Bill Freind, Shataw Naseri, Louis Campbell, Jim Leftwich, Timothy Pilgrim, John M. Bennett, Anna Cates, Clara B. Jones, Cecelia Chapman, Nathan Anderson, Tony Beyer, Nathan Whiting, Pete Spence, Vernon Frazer, Joseph Buehler, Charles Borkhuis, Michael J. Leach, John Levy. Olchar E. Lindsann, Peter Cherches, Janet Jiahui Wu, R L Swihart, Henry Cherry, Joshua Martin, Laurinda Lind, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal. M.J. Iuppa, Harrison Fisher, Jim Meirose, Andrew K. Peterson, Réka Nyitrai & Alan Peat, Jeff Harrison, Adam Day, Chris Daly, Lynn Strongin, H.A. Bari, Eli S. Evans, Bob Lucky, Eric Hoffman, Alex M. Frankel, Charles Freeland, Elmedin Kadric, Keith Nunes, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Patrick Sweeney, Rich Murphy, Keith Higginbotham, Thomas Fink, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Eileen R. Tabios, Marcelo Medone, David Jalajel, Nils HM Geylen, Steph Amir, J. D. Nelson, Mark DeCarteret, Lorraine Caputo, Peter Yovu, & Joseph Salvatore Aversano.

Otoliths issue sixty-six, part two.
Page count: 290 pages
Price: $US45.45
direct link: https://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/otoliths-issue-sixty-six-part-two/paperback/product-ekmqwg.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Part two of Otoliths issue sixty-six, the full color part, contains photographs, poetry, paintings, asemic visuals, collages, & visual poetry from Diana Magallón & Jeff Harrison, Jennifer Weigel, Bill Wolak, Diane Keys & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Jihn Khan, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Naomi Buck Palagi & Joshua Purnell, Texas Fontanella, Joe Balaz, Pamela Miller, Judith Skillman, Dave Read, Karl Kempton, John M. Bennett, Christian ALLE, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, gobscure. Daniel de Culla, Carol Stetser, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Dave Webb, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Guy R. Beining, Adriána Kóbor, Diana Magallón, Penelope Weiss, Ségolène Pihut, Elaine Woo, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Bradley Earle Hoge, fred flynn, KJ Hannah Greenberg, hiromi suzuki, bart plantenga, Thomas Camus, Jeff Bagato, Leopold Haas, Marilyn Stablein, Stephen Nelson, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Angelo ‘NGE’ Colella, Antonio Devicienti, & Carol Shillibeer.

wednesday newstrip

Live developments across UK after death of Queen Elizabeth II · a Tube passenger’s head was “crushed” earlier this year when they tried to urinate between two carriages of a moving Piccadilly Line train · the Sub Mini is a much smaller & cheaper way to add bass to your Sonos system · DoNuts T.®ump could become president of the United States again — even if he's in jail · Changesite-(Y) lunar mineral discovery ignites fierce China-US space race as powers inch towards moon mining · measles case reported in NSW, first case in state in 2½ years · TikTok influencer earning up to $1M a post · Moon wobble may have played a role in mangrove dieback, study suggests · Jean-Luc Godard est mort.

Recently, at Series Magritte

The Pilgrim



Decide on what faces 
to take along. Set out 
on the road to Zion 

or Mecca or Ayodhya 
or Lumbini. Which one 
you choose will depend 

on the face you have 
chosen for the day. 
Wear a clean shirt & 

a new tie — they will
be accepted everywhere. 
The best excuse to offer

for the hat is the old sun-
in-the-eyes routine. That
seems to work most places.

Today the post-
woman brought 
me a vortex
on a special
try-before-you-
buy offer. I 
got sucked in.

geographies: Numurkah

 

wednesday newstrip

In Louisiana, the first US climate refugees find a new safe haven · New York detects more polio in wastewater · Australian parliament passes first climate change legislation in a decade · a single amino acid change in the transketolase-like 1 (TKTL1) protein may have given modern humans an advantage over more ancient contemporaries like Neanderthals · Qantas boss Alan Joyce nets $287k pay rise despite airline’s woes · nanomolding could speed discovery of new topological materials · boat capsizes after reportedly being hit by whale near Kaikōura, five passengers dead · Charles III is the new King of Australia.

Now out from Luna Bisonte Prods

The Advantages of Cable
Mark Young
ISBN: 9781938521867
96 pages
$US12.50
URL: https://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/the-advantages-of-cable/paperback/product-pq8rdn.html

Mark Young’s The Advantages of Cable focuses on unexpected losses of focus, sudden changes in focal length, and spontaneous cracks in the lens, cracks that fracture, negate or enhance our immediate experience. Our “habitat” is over-defined, and not hospitable, but these sudden tricks of light (or of mind) produce visions of flying ostriches, angry crows, and blood-drinking salamanders: moments when "everybody freezes” and starts speaking “the language of the gypsies,” all the "small things” that open us up to losing “all track” of the fatal limitations of our “habitat.”

Reading Mark’s poems is like getting stuck in the revolving door of Marshall Fields, Myer, Selfridge’s, or any large department store. We suddenly realize we’re stuck, recognize our situation very differently than we did ten seconds ago, and can hear each of Mark’s poems as the tink of a ball peen hammer on the glass, trying to free us. — Scott MacLeod

The Advantages of Cable is how “cable” in all of its manifestations enable the poet to write the world in the persona of world. Its poems are meta as well as metaphysical. That’s how a poem like “Some Other Thing” doesn’t just end in well-wrought imagery but also in significance: “the glaze on / a Japanese bowl, water / caught by sunlight, snow / on low mountains, or / a crow croaking its anger / from the next door / mango tree which has / not yet come into flower.” Mark Young is writing, albeit slyly, at the peak of not just his but the world’s poetic prowess and power. — Eileen R. Tabios

wednesday newstrip

87% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch's plastic comes from 5 countries · T.®ump may threaten to reveal state secrets to manipulate legal proceedings if he’s indicted: news report · fatal ambulance delays in Victoria state grow to 33 as report finds delays with majority of triple-0 calls · ‘unchecked for years’: Australian Cabinet Ministers crack down on cosmetic surgery ‘cowboys’ · Twitter is finally testing an edit button, but experts say there's a risk it can be used in 'deliberately misleading ways' · eyewitness sees the start of the Mill Fire in Weed · Timothee Chalamet cuts a stylish figure in a pair of leather slacks while enjoying drinks with friends in Venice · DoNuts T.®ump calls Joe BidenMyTime 'an enemy of the state' after president's condemnation of MAGA extremism.

wednesday newstrip

Videos of the Finnish PM partying sparked global outrage. Meanwhile, in Australia, beer-drinking PM Anthony Albanese is cheered on · DoNuts T.®ump kept 25 top secret documents, including on national security, at his Mar-a-Lago mansion for almost a year after leaving the White House, affidavit alleges · Moderna sues Pfizer & BioNTech for patent infringement over COVID vaccine · Amazon's Roomba robot vacuum merger bid sparks privacy fears · NASA released audio of what a black hole 200 million light years away sounds like to clear up the misconception that there isn't any sound in space · an orally administered nonpathogenic attenuated vaccine virus can be used to control SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Today the post-
woman brought
me the Swiss Cheese
calendar for 2023. 
I've sent it back
because it was
full of holes.

wednesday newstrip

De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger · human remains were in Auckland storage unit sold at auction. How could it happen? · 'Poxy McPoxface', 'TRUMP-22' submitted to WHO's public search for 'non-stigmatising' new name for monkeypox · scientists achieved self-sustaining nuclear fusion… but now they can't replicate it · Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan & not the earliest deuterostome · don’t blame women for low libido. Sexual sparks fly when partners do their share of chores – including calling the plumber · New South Wales police strip-searched more than 100 children as young as 13 in two-year period · Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin defends partying in viral video, says she's taken drug test to alleviate concerns.

wednesday newstrip

FBI seized 'top secret' documents from DoNuts T.®ump's Mar-a-Lago property, unsealed search warrant reveals · North Korea's next generation is upending the regime's propaganda strategy with waterpark tours & quarantine vlogs · Tech giant Google has been fined 60 million Australian dollars – for collecting Android location data without user consent in 2017 & 2018 · Disney now has more subscribers than Netflix, & it's putting up prices to celebrate · McDonald’s to reopen some restaurants in Ukraine for first time since war began · Madonna admits her son David, 16, wears her clothes better than she does · World Health Organization says stop attacking monkeys: it won't stop monkeypox.

geographies: Daylesford

 

recently at Series Magritte

The State of Grace


What people see is the title,
not the subject. & the subject
contradicts the title. “I was
inspired,” said Magritte. “The 
subject to be painted: a bicycle 
on a cigar.” Or to put it even
more bluntly, a bicycle riding
roughshod over another object —
no state of grace in that. Ex-
cept . . .The objects float, & 
perhaps a belief hovers that 
the laws of gravity are defied 
when things are in a state of 
grace. Which brings in Simone 
Weill, who wrote: “All the 
natural movements of the soul 
are controlled by laws analogous 
to those of physical gravity. 
Grace is the only exception.” 
‘Analogous to’ is the escape 
clause that allows St. Thomas 
Aquinas to come on board &
point out that grace builds
upon, not contradicts, nature.
Then, once all parties are on
stage, lined up like ten pins 
in a state of grace, Magritte 
reappears, wearing his bowl-
er hat, & with a solid verbal 
cast, scatters the skittles
with his addendum: “A bike
sometimes runs over a cigar
down in the street.” No
gravity, no grace inherent.

wednesday newstrip

Sorry, that James Webb Space Telescope 'image' is just a close-up of a slice of chorizo · Elongated Muskrat accuses Twitter of deliberately miscounting spam users in countersuit · Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 8, including senior militant, plus another 16 in subsequent fighting · Russia calls for 'restraint' as fighting between Armenia & Azerbaijan breaks out again · Chinese & Taiwanese warships shadow each other as war games due to wind down · Monkeypox declared a public health emergency · Kim Kardashian & Pete Davidson ‘split’ after nine months together · Meta starts testing its latest AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3.

geographies: Wombelano

 

wednesday newstrip

Tiny turtle pooed ‘pure plastic’ for six days after rescue from Sydney beach · Russia, Ukraine accuse each other of POW prison bombing which reportedly killed 53 · Australian Prime Minister proposes draft national referendum question on Indigenous Voice to Parliament · Elongated Muskrat countersues Twitter over $44bn deal amid fresh legal action by shareholder · higher insulin dose is positively linked with cancer incidence, study finds · SpaceX Crew-1 Trunk debris found across New South Wales might not be the last of the phenomenon · people who eat more ultra-processed foods may have higher risk of dementia · habitual mask-wearing is likely helping Japan, Singapore & South Korea bring daily Omicron deaths down, epidemiologists say.

Otoliths issue sixty-six is now live

Issue sixty-six of Otoliths, the southern winter, 2022 issue, is live.

It contains the usual diverse assemblage of varieties of prose, poetry & visuals, from Jen Schneider, Andrew Topel & John M. Bennett, Mark DuCharme, Diana Magallón & Jeff Harrison, Sanjeev Sethi, Richard Kostelanetz, Tony Kitt, Jay Passer, Ken Poyner, Jennifer Weigel, Amy Barone, Owen Bullock, Bill Wolak, Eric Dillalogue, James Daniels, John M. Bennett & Diane Keys, John M. Bennett & Jihn Khan, Grzegorz Wróblewski, John Tustin, Steve Brisendine, Naomi Buck Palagi & Joshua Purnell, Texas Fontanella, Patricia Carragon, Richard Magahiz, John Bradley, Joe Balaz, Pamela Miller, Sunil Sharma, Randee Silv, Judith Skillman, Leslaw Nowara, J.J. Campbell, Jack Galmitz, Bill Freind, Dave Read, Shataw Naseri, Louis Campbell, Jim Leftwich, Karl Kempton, Timothy Pilgrim, John M. Bennett, Christian ALLE, Anna Cates, Clara B. Jones, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Cecelia Chapman, Nathan Anderson, Tony Beyer, gobscure, Daniel de Culla, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Nathan Whiting, Pete Spence, Carol Stetser, Vernon Frazer, Dave Webb, Joseph Buehler, Charles Borkhuis, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Michael J. Leach, John Levy, Olchar E. Lindsann, Peter Cherches, Guy R. Beining, Janet Jiahui Wu, R L Swihart, Henry Cherry, Adriána Kóbor, Joshua Martin, Laurinda Lind, Diana Magallón, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, M.J. Iuppa, Penelope Weiss, Harrison Fisher, Jim Meirose, Ségolène Pihut, Andrew K. Peterson, Réka Nyitrai & Alan Peat, Jeff Harrison, Adam Day, Chris Daly, Lynn Strongin, H.A. Bari, Eli S. Evans, Bob Lucky, Eric Hoffman, Alex M. Frankel, Charles Freeland, Elmedin Kadric, Elaine Woo, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Keith Nunes, Bradley Earle Hoge, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Patrick Sweeney, fred flynn, KJ Hannah Greenberg, hiromi suzuki, bart plantenga, Rich Murphy, Thomas Camus, Keith Higginbotham, Jeff Bagato, Thomas Fink, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Leopold Haas, Eileen R. Tabios, Marilyn Stablein, Marcelo Medone, David Jalajel, Nils HM Geylen, Steph Amir, Stephen Nelson, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Angelo ‘NGE’ Colella, J. D. Nelson, Mark DeCarteret, Lorraine Caputo, Peter Yovu, Antonio Devicienti, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, & Carol Shillibeer.

Now out from Sandy Press

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Mark Young
Sandy Press
88 pages
ISBN: 978-1736816059
Price: $US19.95
Direct link: Amazon

Michael Gottlieb writes in his introduction that, following on from his Songs to Come for the Salamander, and Sorties, Mark Young continues to share the poems he writes every day, nearly every day. And we are the better for it. These are poems about what he sees. What he wants to see. What – he knows – we, the readers, need to see. And now we do see. And John Geraets adds that the world seems intent on losing its sense of magic, but Mark Young is less than convinced. His irrepressibility as a poet means that he somehow manages to enter the door that others are in the process of leaving, and vice versa. He is master over poetic language as a reflexive tool, in which the world’s coming and going are free to spin round each other, tellingly, enthrallingly. Your order is now equipped for shipping continues to show that his poetry is as significant in the present day as any we have before us.

Today the post-
woman brought
me The Shorter
Oxford English
Dictionary. Such
generosity! I was
lost for words.

wednesday newstrip

Myanmar junta puts four democracy activists to death in first executions in decades · Canberra woman jailed for ramming corrective services vehicle to break partner out of prison · mining sector faces major skills shortage as environmental concerns deter Gen Z workers · new US Ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, welcomed in an indigenous smoking ceremony · a 76 year old naturist with a rifle shot a flasher dead at nudist beach in France after he masturbated in front of women · scientists find the secret to birth of earliest black holes in the Cosmos · the head of Frankfurt Airport says the travel chaos is partially because so many people travel with black suitcases.

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.

326 pages
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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