the part

wednesday newstrip

Khloe & Kim Kardashian are safe after using the same antioxidant that keeps goldfish gold & flamingos pink, The Biggest Loser trainer Michelle Bridges says ∙ Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit has refused to answer questions about whether he slipped through the net of security agencies who continued to believe he fell outside the top 400 terror threats despite 18 calls to the national security hotline in the days leading to the Lindt cafe siege ∙ New Zealand's biggest political sex scandal slid off a road & into a ditch on Saturday ∙ Toe Knee Ass-Bit believes that unless you unilaterally invade Iraq to take on the Islamic State terrorist group, you're going nowhere in your quest to be in the right head space, to lead a healthier life ∙ Australia is caught in the fallout of a TV expose after taking ownership of a company previously accused of shonky loan deals.

jamjaruary jaunts

@ won des laits

lacanthropic

deminted

hairgelhorn

invideos

brohemian

happenumbra

fandango

Just out

as an e-book from Lars Palm's Swirl Press

visible at /downloadable from, here.

re-cycled

In
the latest
round-up of revolutionary

news from around
the globe,
it

was
announced that
Washington may or

may not have
been amongst
those


taken
out by
a smart bomb

fired from a
drone as
they

crossed
the Delaware.
Authorities say DNA

evidence is required
for positive
ID.

wednesday newstrip

Prom Minister Toe Knee Ass-Bit has flagged further efforts aimed at securing Australia's borders amid growing concerns about an outbreak of Hepatitis A caused by frozen berries imported from China ∙ Ass-Bit also called on Australian farmers to put aside their pride, jealousy, & self-interest & instead exercise charity by carrying out the executions of the Bali Nine drug smugglers ∙ a young man found stabbed to death in western Sydney illustrates the risks involved with imported food, police believe ∙ the female judges of The X Factor warn of terrorism attacks if nine-year-old Milla Brown, who was born a girl, but loves Batman, & rocks a short haircut, asks the world to call him a boy.

the canyon

beaujolais

wednesday newstrip

The federal Liberal Party voted against a spill motion yesterday, 61 votes to 39, meaning Toe Knee Ass-Bit will remain as Prom Minister ∙ a teenage girl has been fatally shot by police outside of a Hungry Jacks ahead of a key meeting of Euro-zone finance ministers in Brussels ∙ Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television sets following the Tax Office revealing it has investigated hundreds of Australians with Swiss bank accounts ∙ at least 1,500 Russian troops, convoys of military hardware, & the entire frontbench of the Northern Territory Government entered Ukraine over the weekend ∙ Smiley face spotted by Hubble Space Telescope. It's the bee version of a mystery thriller.

Mirror images of Toe Knee Ass-Bit

This

& this.

This

& this.

This

& this.

notion / nation

wednesday newstrip

The Prom Minister, Toe Knee Ass-Bit, has dug his hole deeper by repeatedly refusing to deny claims his deputy Julie Bookshop has refused to promise she will not challenge him for the leadership ∙ the Raspberry Pi 2 packs more memory & a faster processor than its predecessor, the Northern Territory’s Chief Minister, Adam Giles, who was dumped in a 1 a.m. coup ∙ now selling at $23,000 for 500mls, Big Mac in a bottle was allowed to enter the basement courtroom through a side door, to avoid the horde of journalists attending its trial for “aggravated pimping” ∙ Pahiatua man Henry Coe explains how some of the many things that are troubling about the current Australian government's metadata retention proposals is how rooted in the past they are & how they have been living without teeth for 2 years after a dentist made dentures that didn't fit, & then refused to give a refund ∙ Iceland is rising because of climate change, with land freed by the melting of the ice caps rebounding from the earth at a rate of up to 3.5cm per year.

Issue thirty-six of Otoliths is out

In this, the southern summer, 2015, issue of Otoliths

you’ll find exciting new work by:

Volodymyr Bilyk, George McKim, Lakey Comess, Stephen Bett, Greg McLaren, Philip Byron Oakes, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Robert Lietz, Stephen C. Middleton, Nick Ravo, Chase Gagnon, Owen Bullock, Caleb Puckett, Kyle Hemmings, Despo Magoni, Craig Cotter, J. Crouse, Michael Martrich, Bryan Young, Halvard Johnson, dan raphael, Jeff Dahlgren, Jeff Dahlgren & John Lowther, John Lowther, Pete Spence, Howie Good, A. J. Huffman, John M. Bennett, Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Vittore Baroni, Thomas M. Cassidy & John M. Bennett, Thomas M. Cassidy & Cheryl Penn & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, j4, Felino A. Soriano, Andrew Topel, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Andrew Topel, Jack Galmitz & Fotis Begetis, Joel Chace, Mark Melnicove, Sally Evans, James Sanders, Joe Balaz, John Martone, Raymond Farr, Carol Shillibeer, Carol Stetser, Natsuko Hirata, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Stuart Barnes, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Ric Carfagna, Nurul Wahidah, Anne Elvey, Jeff Harrison, Robert Sheppard, Stephen Nelson, Cyriaco Lopes & Terri Witek, Daniel John Pilkington, Eryk Wenziak, SS Prasad, sean burn, Jonel Abellanosa, Michael O’Brien, Mark Pirie, Márton Koppány, Willie Smith, Kit Kennedy, Toby Finch, Naomi Buck Palagi, Marcello Diotallevi, Stu Hatton, Brendan Tang, John Pursch, Charles Freeland, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Luc Fierens, Angad Arora, PT Davidson, Steven Alvarez, George J. Farrah, bruno neiva, Bob Heman, Richard Kostelanetz, Bogdan Puslenghea, hiromi suzuki, Tony Beyer, nick-e melville, Marilyn Stablein, Ria Masae, Susan Gangel, Michael Brandonisio, Katrinka Moore, Gian Luigi Braggio, Texas Fontanella, Aditya Bahl, Tom Snarsky, & Trijita Mukherjee.

the dream

A note

from Meritage Press.


HOTUS POTUS

ISBN No.: 978-0-9826493-8-1
Release Date: January 2014
Price: $US14
Currently Available for $US9.80 from Lulu.com. Also available direct from the publisher (MeritagePress@aol.com) and soon from Amazon.com

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The 20th century cliché was that POTUS was the most powerful man in the world. It's since been realized that that’s a lot of hocus pocus, but, before that revelation, Mark Young committed his life to carrying around a heavy two-reel tape recorder in order to document for posterity the utterances of the forty-four Presidents of the United States. Now he has sifted through the more than 200 years of those recordings in order to bring to the reader the cream of the cream, HOTUS POTUS, presidential insights from an assembled cast that includes slave owners & supporters of emancipation; governors, generals, & those who never saw war but still won one for the gipper; rough riders & builders of smooth highways. Liars & truthtellers. So far there are no women. Let’s hope that changes soon.

wednesday newstrip

A hundred & thirty-five asylum seeker children are taking part in a gruelling 72-hour survival course in a snowy Russian forest to train for their upcoming role as space tourists ∙ Toe Knee Ass-Bit has awarded Australia's highest honour to the Queen's husband, Prince Philip, as recognition of his voting for the Marxist party in the Greek elections ∙ British singer Sarah Brightman remains in detention on Nauru after sprouting blooms that smell like rotting fish. European leaders say it reveals a deep-seated racial & chauvinist prejudice on the part of the largest glacier in East Antarctica ∙ Venus Williams is threatening new sanctions on Russia after pro-Russian rebels launched a deadly rocket attack on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol ∙ U.S. President Barack Obama continued to play tennis.

the waterfall

accord

wednesday newstrip

This year's list of Oscar nominations has raised eyebrows in Hollywood & beyond, not least because, for just the second time since the turn of the Century, every nominee in the Academy's four acting categories was once taken prisoner by Japanese forces ∙ security guards have clashed with an antitrust class action lawsuit involving 64,000 former employees at the Manus Island Detention Center ∙ a Gold Coast nightclub kingpin facing drug-related charges has opened up on how his tight friendship with an iceberg that had turned a full 180 degrees to reveal its underside is pushing the Earth into a danger zone for humanity ∙ automotive advertising using asylum seekers on hunger strikes moved on a broad front to sweep up Switzerland ∙ Pope Francis has electrified Roman Catholics in the United States with the open, accepting tone he has brought to suspected radical science fiction.