Australia Invasion Day

 

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Globe At Night citizen science program reveals rapid increase in light pollution around world · Hollywood actor Alec Baldlost to be charged over fatal shooting during Rust filming · DoNuts T.®ump misidentified photo of rape accuser E Jean Carroll as his ex-wife Marla Maples, deposition shows · giant cane toad found in Conway National Park in north Queensland weighs 2.7kg · as the war rages on & military spending booms, the US arms industry is a big winner in Ukraine · singer-songwriter David Crosby dies aged 81 · Google's parent company Alphabet to lay-off 12,000 workers worldwide · Jacinda Ardern announces resignation as New Zealand prime minister.

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Wyoming has just introduced legislation with the hopes of phasing out the sale of electric vehicles in the state by 2035 · female NYPD sergeant accused of yanking officer's ponytail at precinct · accused baby snatcher in Adelaide says he was too intoxicated to plead guilty to abduction · Cate Blanchett criticises ‘patriarchal pyramid’ of awards shows · New Zealand Ministry of Health reports 19,179 new community cases of COVID-19, 57 virus-related deaths · another 500mm of rain possible for Mackay region as deluge swamps Queensland's north · a serving London police officer has admitted carrying out 24 counts of rape in a nearly two decade-long campaign of abuse against women · Gina Lollobrigida, legend of Italian cinema, dead at 95.

Today the post-
woman brought
me several vials 
of frozen bull 
semen as well 
as the complete
sheet music
of John Philip

Sousa. It is 
a retirement
dream. To create
the first 
Minotaur
Marching Band. 

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A Kevin McCarthy critic, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, cast votes in the election for Speaker for DoNuts T.®ump – a symbolic but pointed sign of the broad divisions over the Republican Party's future · controversial 2023 Australia Day lamb advertisement takes a dig at all things ‘un-Australian’ · Prince Harry reveals he lost his virginity to an older woman in a field, not Professor Plum in the billiard room · teen who took coke in a Tesco toilet flipped car while taunting ex · Ring offers a first look at its home security drone · a Grammy-winning recording engineer who has worked in the Nashville music scene for 35 years, Mark Capps, was shot & killed by police in Nashville Thursday afternoon · six-year-old shoots teacher in Virginia classroom.

Today the post-
woman brought
me Zeno. I’m try-
ing to get him into

the house in stages,
covering half of
the remaining
distance each time

we move, but we 
don’t seem able to
get there. Some-
what paradoxical.

XXXX CENTONES now available

XXXX CENTONES is now available as a free download from sandy press.

 

I find the Cantos of Ezra Pound wide-ranging in subject & style, & note that they borrow heavily from the work of others, from Homer & Chinese sources through to contemporary historical records. Pound has the ability to blend & merge these — often quite extensive — quotes with his own rhetoric; which has a great deal of depth & beauty, & so becomes great feedstock for basing a series of centos on. The poems in this collection, written over the last six years, have the Cantos as their source — not just the words of Pound but those of those others who are embedded. Two bites of the cherry, as it were; & I hope my CENTONES reflect favorably on us all. — Mark Young

Recently, at Series Magritte

The Organs of the Night



This time the jockey isn't lost, 
just perplexed to find a set 
of wellworn curtains standing
upright on the sand. As is the 
horse, paused midstep in its 
littoral dressage routine. All 
up an unexpected tableau, made
more complex by the fact the

sun seems to be falling rather
than setting. Loss of gravity; &
everything is red-cast as the 
human condition deteriorates. 
Organ failure ensues. Night will 
not see the light of day again.

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Graduate student studying criminal justice allegedly murdered four University of Idaho students · after a lengthy legal battle T.®ump’s tax returns are released · ‘a true legend, a pioneer’: American TV icon Barbara Walters dies aged 93 · Romanian police arrested former kickboxer & influencer Andrew Tate & his brother, a day after Tate shot to international fame when Greta Thunberg derided him as ‘small dick energy’ · New South Wales man, 25, killed by bull at rodeo in Warwick, Queensland · Elongated Muskrat becomes first person ever to lose $US200b · should you be worried if your dog is getting high on cane toads?

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

The print parts of issue sixty-seven are now available from the Otoliths storefront at Lulu. This week's Lulu promotion code — which runs until midnight on Friday — is COUNTDOWN15, 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-seven, part one.
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Part one of Otoliths issue sixty-seven contains vispo, short stories, translations, essays, & a variety of poetic forms & styles from Elisa C. Martínez Salazar, Paul Siegell, Anna Cates, Sanjeev Sethi, Riccardo Benzina, Steven Bruce, CL Bledsoe, Alan Catlin, David Miller, Craig Cotter, Sharon H. Frost, Ali Zarbali, Dale Jensen, Eric Hoffman, Lynn Strongin, Paul Dickey, Jack Galmitz, Gao An, Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, Bob Kotyk, Michael J. Leach, petro c. k., Maria Giesbrecht, Richard Kostelanetz, Jimmy Crouse, Nathan Anderson, John Geraets, Judith Roitman, Ivars Balkit, Rob Martelli, Tohm Bakelas, Michael Sikkema, Livio Farallo, Jim Meirose, Eric Lunde, Sheila E. Murphy, dan raphael, Richard Magahiz, Daniel Barbiero, Pawel Markiewicz, Lawrence R. Smith, John Tustin, George Myers Jr., Mark Pirie, James Grabill, Caleb Puckett, Damon Hubbs, Mark Danowsky, Piet Nieuwland, Christopher Barnes, Harvey Huddleston, Sterling Warner, Pete Spence, Lewis LaCook, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jim Leftwich, Olchar E. Lindsann, Linda M. Walker, Maximilian Speicher, LUNE OFFLINE, Gavin Lucky, Tom Beckett, Jeff Harrison, James Yeary, Joshua Martin, Mark Cunningham, Uvia Shcho, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Kenneth Rexroth, Jeff Bagato, Nathan Whiting, Heath Brougher, Vernon Frazer, Bob Lucky, Daniel f Bradley, Heather M. Browne, Patrick Sweeney, John Levy, Glenn Ingersoll, Michael Ruby, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Kit Kennedy, Caleb Fenez, M.J. Iuppa, Elmedin Kadric. Siân Vate, Jill Jones, Alan Peat & Réka Nyitrai, Réka Nyitrai, Thomas Camus, J. D. Nelson, Peter Cherches, Keith Higginbotham, Darrell Petska, David Jalajel, & Paul Pfleuger, Jr.

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Part two of Otoliths issue sixty-seven, the full color part, contains photographs, poetry, found items, paintings, asemic visuals, sculptures, collages, & visual poetry from Judith Skillman, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Peter Yovu, Kyle Hemmings, Texas Fontanella, Karl Kempton, John M. Bennett, Ioan Bunus & John M. Bennett, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Daniel de Culla, Jennifer Weigel, Elaine Woo, Diana Magallón, Carol Stetser, Mike Callaghan, George Myers Jr., Tim Gaze, Marilyn R. Rosenberg & Ann R. Shapiro, Guy R. Beining, Julia Vaughan, Dave Read, Susan Gangel & Ken Hay, Joanne Bechtel, Brooks Lampe, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Maximilian Speicher, Lucia Sapienza, Samarra Prahlad, Bill Wolak, Antonio Devicienti, Carla Bertola, Edward Kulemin, harry k stammer, Jeff Bagato, Catherine Eaton Skinner, Mark Yale Harris, Natalie Christensen, Marcia Arrieta, J.I. Kleinberg, Keith Nunes, Marilyn Stablein, Cecelia Chapman. Daniel Lehan, Hubert Kretschmer & Jürgen O. Olbrich, Penelope Weiss, Elena Zalogina, hiromi suzuki, Barnaby Smith, K. Roberts, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Cherie Hunter Day, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, & Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett.

Otoliths issue sixty-seven, part three.
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Part three of Otoliths issue sixty-seven is Eileen Tabios' "SIMMERING," a novella-in-prose poems, in which all of the prose poems were written in response to opening lines of other novels.

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Part four of Otoliths issue sixty-seven is "Breaches 2," the continuation of a conceit by Alberto Vitacchio & Carla Bertola which records their breaching various palaces of art — & some not so luxurious or well-known places —in order to insinuate their own work. This is the second part of a long project; & one that also documents their traveling life together over several decades. In full color.

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Vladimir Putain says Ukraine invasion aims to unite ‘historical Russia’ · Press Start’s GOTY 2022 #8 is Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope · scientists find how glass frogs turn transparent, with hint at better understanding of human blood clotting · 'Race scientists' took human skulls from villages in Palau. Now, Indigenous Pacific Islanders want their ancestors back · meteor soaring through the Alaska sky was captured by… a doorcam · food dye in Twizzlers, Doritos, & more foods may trigger bowel diseases, study finds · Qatar expresses "extreme concern" over Taliban bar on female staff · Kardashians throw insane Christmas party.

from the archives

Today the post-
woman brought
me John Cage's
X, writings '79-
'82. I went to 
sign my name. 

"Already done," 
she said. "Seen
one X, seen them
all." I watched
until she turned 
the corner. Took

her four minutes
& thirty-three
seconds to get 
there. I stood
silent. She 
kept whistling.

wednesday newstrip

Toxic spinach causes hallucinations & delirium in Australia · January 6 committee recommends charges against DoNuts T.®ump over Capitol riot · Coles introduces buying limit on frozen chips as floods hit potato supply · Elongated Muskrat's Twitter poll ends with users voting he step down as head of the company · 'historic' agreement reached at UN conference to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 · giant aquarium bursts in Germany, killing 1,500 tropical fish & spilling 1 million liters of water · Vladimir Putain in Belarus for talks amid fears of new assault on Ukraine · diving birds are more prone to extinction, according to new study.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a box of Girl
Guide tracking 

cookies. Truly a 
cornucopia. To-
morrow she'll be 
back to offer me

another bag that
contains much the 
same as those I've
just consumed.

wednesday newstrip

Jacinda Ardern has issued a "long overdue" Crown apology to a Māori tribe for warmongering & almost two centuries of breaches to New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi · CCTV vision released after hit-run victim threatened with tomahawk · a 72-year-old woman in Germany has been arrested after she allegedly twice switched off a hospital roommate’s ventilator because she was annoyed by the sound it made · could a tax offset save Australia’s live music industry? · a growing trend for black market breast milk may be putting babies at risk, prompting Australian researchers to call for the establishment of regulated ‘milk banks’ · what to do when Queensland is at risk of becoming a sunny place for shady people.

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Microphytobenthos in the Dutch Wadden Sea feed on 'left-overs' from the bottom · Elongated Muskrat has suggested he is going to “war” with Apple after he accused the tech giant of making big moves against Twitter · strongest Arctic cyclone on record led to surprising loss of sea ice · Lets Keto Gummies Australia (SCAM Australia) UK, CA, NZ, Chemist Warehouse Gummies Must Read Before Buying · San Francisco's ruling Board of Supervisors has voted to let the city's police use robots that can kill · numerous letter bombs detected in Spain, including to PM's office as country steps up security · Warzone 2.0’s Revive Pistol lets you torture players for endless XP.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a pièce de 

résistance. Just
the one—I'm
on a diet.

geographies: Numurkah

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Why is a giant sculpture of Elongated Muskrat on a goat being paraded in Texas? · police arrested a woman, her husband & brother-in-law for allegedly dumping a 67-year-old man’s body after the latter died in the middle of having sex with the woman at her house · Doctor removes 23 contact lenses from eye of patient who 'forgot to take them out' · Iran's leader praises the Basij — paramilitary volunteers — for sacrifice in fighting anti-government protestors · Walmart supervisor bought gun on day of mass shooting, left behind a 'death note' · world’s oldest meal helps decode how the earliest animal ancestors evolved · US avian flu outbreak worst on record with 50 million dead birds.

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Weevil may save Great Britain up to £16.8m a year in management of invasive aquatic fern · New Zealand bus driver sacked after causing almost $100k worth of damage by driving double-decker bus into garage built for single-decker buses · White Ribbon Day plan for 50-jetski parade around Sydney Harbor labeled ‘tone-deaf stunt’ · ‘high risk’: Elongated Muskrat’s reinstating DoNuts T.®ump will not save Twitter · urgent Australia wide poppy seed recall over fears of 'severe poisoning' · at least five people killed, 18 injured in 'hate attack' shooting at US gay nightclub · Florida man makes announcement.