wednesday newstrip

An Indian government official has been suspended after he ordered the drainage of a two-million-liter dam so he could get his phone back, which he dropped while taking a selfie · researchers say the US city of Manhattan is sinking at a rate of two millimeters a year · in a study published in the journal Science last week, a team of international researchers reported that more than half of the world's large lakes & reservoirs had shrunk since the early 1990s due to climate change, unregulated water use, & dam construction · widely available vape products have been found to contain toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, mercury, nickel, chromium, antimony, aluminium, iron, & nickel, along with known carcinogens like formaldehyde & nicotine, according to new tests · ‘Shops will close’: soaring cost of potatoes batters British chippies.

wednesday newstrip

Woman, 95, Tasered by officer at New South Wales aged care home, when she approached on a walking frame with a steak knife in her hand, police say · millions prepare to flee homes in Mexico as Popocatépetl volcano spews more ash · India wrestlers risk Olympic dream for '#MeToo' protest, accusing the federation's president, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, of sexual harassment & abuse of female wrestlers · US President Joe BidenMyTime & Republican NoCavin McCarthy end meeting with no deal on US debt ceiling · New Zealand’s ratio of sheep to humans at lowest point in 170 years · the real cost of your chocolate habit: new research reveals the bittersweet truth of cocoa farming in Africa’s forests.

wednesday newstrip

Rudy Giuliani demanded oral sex from staffer during T.®ump calls: lawsuit · Farmington: Teen gunman kills three in New Mexico before police shoot him dead · Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom players are building tanks, planes to commit war crimes · former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has conceded that her desire to have a debate around the merit of marriage in modern society, instead of supporting same-sex marriage, was "wrong" · ninety-two rooms, full beds & no sprinklers: investigations begin into NZ hostel fire that killed six with eleven people still missing · renowned children's author Mem Fox says a message from her literary agent that one of her books had been banned in the US state of Florida made her "howl with laughter."

wednesday newstrip

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić promised on Friday, just hours after that country's second mass shooting, that the government will make urgent changes to the country’s firearm legislation · seven bodies found during search for two missing Oklahoma teens · vapes to be banned in Australia for recreational use, 'pharmaceutical' packaging to be required under crackdown · gunman kills eight, sends hundreds into panic in Texas mall shooting · Australian public broadcaster lambasted over anti-monarchy coronation coverage · seven days, seven shootings, five deaths in South Mississippi · garlic planting time is here.

wednesday newstrip

Texas man kills five neighbors, including an eight-year-old child, after they complained about him shooting an AR-15-style weapon in his front yard · fisherman is feared eaten in a fatal crocodile attack at a remote river in Far North Queensland · a huge fire in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol on Saturday has been put out after what was reported to be a Ukrainian drone strike on fuel tanks at a Russian navy depot · a Moscow court has fined a Russian baker who decorated her cakes with pro-Ukraine and peace slogans. Since Vladimir Putain sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022, authorities have banned all public criticism of the offensive · seven psychoactive drugs detected in Australian wastewater for the first time · the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces that run Roj detention camp, where wives, widows & children of slain or jailed Islamic State fighters have been held in squalid circumstances for more than three years, have regularly been removing boys from the camp once they reach 12 years of age, taking them to adult prisons, arguing they pose a security risk. But UN experts have warned boys removed from the camp “may be forcibly disappeared, & subject to sale, exploitation & … torture”.

The latest issue of Otoliths is now live

The penultimate issue of Otoliths, the southern autumn, 2023 issue is now live.

Dedicated to the memory of two significant contributors to the journal, Michael Rothenberg & Carla Bertola, this issue, as always, contains a variety of work in many fields from a variety of contributors — Pat Nolan, Tim Wright, John M. Bennett, Judith Skillman, Jen Schneider, Sanjeev Sethi, Andrew Stys, Jerome Berglund, Mehreen Ahmed, harry k stammer, John M. Bennett & Texas Fontanella, Strider Marcus Jones, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Nigel Ford, Glen Armstrong, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Jim Leftwich, Bill Wolak, Jack Galmitz, Tom Beckett, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Bruce Morton, Alan Catlin, Fin Sorrel, Karl Kempton, Dean Kelly, Pete Spence, Mario José Cervantes, Eric Hoffman, Howie Good, John Martone, Les Wicks, Louise Landes Levi, Nathan Anderson, Mary Cresswell, Michael J. Leach, Elaine Woo, Harvey Huddleston, petro c.k., Paul Perilli, Carol Stetser, Adam Fieled, dan raphael, CL Bledsoe, Clive Gresswell, David A. Bishop, Vernon Frazer, Robert Fleming, John McCluskey, M.J. Iuppa, Jennifer Weigel, Dave Read, Serse Luigetti, Mark Cunningham, Texas Fontanella, Ian Willey, Joshua Martin, Juan Pablo Mobili, David Greenslade & David Rees Davies, Kenneth Rexroth, Jeff Harrison, Adriána Kóbor, Daniel de Culla, John Tustin, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Yejun Chun, Olchar E. Lindsann, Stephen Nelson, Bing Cherches, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Eddie Heaton, N. H. Van Der Haar, Barbara Anna Gaiardoni & Andrea Vanacore, Henry Hughes, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio, Javant Biarujia, Phil Montenegro, Xe M. Sánchez, Hrishikesh Srinivas, bart plantenga, Andrew Taylor, K. S. Ernst & Sheila E. Murphy, Richard Magahiz, Sydnie Stern, David Wolf, Blossom Hibbert, Hua Ai, Paul J. Enea, Paul Dickey, Bob Lucky, Mars Brocke, John Kucera, John Levy, Damon Hubbs, Patrick Sweeney, Antonio Devicienti, Massimo Fantuzzi, Réka Nyitrai, Flamur Vehapi, David Jalajel, Harrison Fisher, Jeff Bagato, Volodymyr Bilyk, Keith Nunes, Goro Takano, Joanne Bechtel, Sheila E. Murphy, Nathan Whiting, Marilyn Stablein, Tony Beyer, Gavin Lucky, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Ken Bolton, A. W. Kindness, Nam Hoang Tran, Eileen R. Tabios, Diana Magallón, Penelope Weiss, Tazeen Fatma, Glenn Bach, Rick Henry, Eileen R. Tabios & harry k stammer, Keith Higginbotham, Kit Kennedy, Darrell Petska, Edward Kulemin, Michael Helsem, Shloka Shankar, Shloka Shankar & Deepa Patil, Dhaatri Vengunad, Ganesh R., Mark Danowsky, Bob Heman, Linda M. Walker, Vidhi Ashar, Sam Langer, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, Jill Jones, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., J. D. Nelson, Peter Yovu, & Marcia Arrieta.

As I keep saying, there's something there for everyone.

& The Land Of The Free Freaky

 

wednesday newstrip

US forces evacuate American diplomats from the bloody chaos of Khartoum’s urban war: performing seals to follow as soon as possible · UK emergency alert trial: phone users report flaws in first test along with an extraordinary amount of spam · "I was sexually abused by male passenger sitting next to me throughout ten-hour Air Europa flight — but cabin crew shouted & hurled abuse at ME & my husband" · a social media influencer has warned how she ended up with a flesh-eating parasite in her left eye after using contact lenses, wants others to do the same · a 54-year-old man was burned with boiling cooking oil before being stabbed to death by his wife after finding out he was not their son's biological father. After realizing what she had done, the mother jumped out of the third-floor apartment's window & later died in hospital of multiple injuries · a man who stabbed his cheating wife to death & then sent photos of her blood-soaked corpse to her lover after a meal at McDonald's has been seized by police · Kenya cult deaths: 73 bodies found in investigation into Christian 'starvation cult' who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death.

wednesday newstrip

Foreign Minister Penny Wong dismisses ex Prime Minister Paul Keating’s claim that the military has taken over Australian foreign policy · two New Yorkers accused of operating secret police station in Manhattan for Chinese government · Australians report record $3.1bn losses to scams, with real amount even higher · four dead after ‘sweet 16th’ birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama, ends in mass shooting · at least six people are dead & 30 more missing after separatist gunmen attacked Indonesian army troops deployed to rescue a New Zealand pilot taken hostage in Papua, according to reports · Disney’s Strange World was biggest box office bomb of 2022 with loss of nearly $US200 million · is your phone REALLY listening to you?

    eventually he was smuggled out of the country & out of the limelight    

wednesday newstrip

Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine · China simulates 'precision strikes' against Taiwan on second day of military drills · building collapses in southern French city of Marseille · the BBC is objecting to a new label describing it as "government funded media" on one of its main Twitter accounts · Police ‘disrupt New IRA plot’ ahead of BidenMyTime visit to Northern Ireland, report claims · Tiger Woods pulls out of Masters due to heel injury, ending streak at Augusta National · Meth-funded online casino scams 'coming for NZ targets' · Resident Evil 4 remake adds micro-transactions · fans erupt as Taylor Swift break-up cause revealed.

geographies: Moe

 

wednesday newstrip

Windmill manufacturer closes doors in Mount Gambier, South Australia as business dwindles · Jurassic World is wrong. Terrifying T-rex had lizard lips, new study shows · DoNuts T-®ump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud in an indictment from a Manhattan grand jury, according to two sources familiar with the case · roof collapses during Morbid Angel heavy metal concert in Illinois, as tornadoes tear through US states · Taliban close women-run radio station in Afghanistan for playing music during Ramadan · school closures spread as Japan struggles with depopulation · Beenjammin' Notjustanyahoo has been a political magician for years. Has Israel's leader finally run out of tricks?

Today the post-
woman brought
me a book on

plagiarism. No-
thing I hadn't
read before, 

word for word, 
in a number 
of other books.

wednesday newstrip

"Poor DoNuts is being attacked again, he’s our hero, & the Democrats are just trying to put him down – that’ll help him with fundraising.” U.S. contributor to Sky News Australia · DoNuts T.®ump's arrest would show ‘how totally corrupt the deep state is’: Noguile Farago on Sky News · Freshwater Strategy Director Leo Shanahan says on Sky News that if T.®ump is arrested it “makes him a martyr of the cause” after a key witness in T.®ump's Indictment case was discredited by his former advisor · T.®ump wants to be handcuffed for court appearance in Stormy Daniels case, sources say · The White House is hoping all of the recent “T.®ump headline nonsense" will “drown out” the Hunter Biden story, says Sky News contributor Kristin Tate · “these full, horrible, left, democrat investigations of your all-time favourite president, me, is just a continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt in the history of our country:” former US president DoNuts T.®ump has blasted the ongoing investigations facing him, posting a scathing video rant to social media platform Truth Social · 'God, guns, & T.®ump': thousands turn out for Texas rally · we were told we’d be riding in self-driving cars by now. What happened to the promised revolution?

recently, on Series Magritte

Of Limbs & Luxury

Today the post- woman brought me an already ex- pensive castle in the Pyrenees. If I had added the optional extra of that giant bird found in some Magritte paintings it would have cost me an arm & a leg on top of a basic price I can't really afford. & since Ma- gritte is dead, I don't trust the vendor's guarantee that the artist will paint any missing limbs back on me, just like he did to the model in Attemp- ting the Impossible.

wednesday newstrip

Arrest warrant issued for Vladimir Putain for war crimes · Sydney woman's horror injury after being attacked by kangaroo while trying to rescue joey · DoNuts T.®ump says he expects to be arrested & calls for supporters to protest · ‘the smell is next level’: millions of dead fish spanning kilometers of Darling-Baaka river begin to rot · Pakistani police storm home of Imran Khan & arrest 61 amid tear gas · Shazam: Fury of the Gods opens with bleak box office · Benjamin Notjustanyahoo: refusal to follow orders & incitement won’t be tolerated as Israeli reservists failed to show up for training on Sunday to protect the government’s judicial overhaul plan.

Today the post-
woman brought
me an audio re-

cording of the 
love that dare not 
speak its name.

wednesday newstrip

Cyclone Freddy strikes Mozambique for the second time, killing at least 100 people, during a journey that started when it was spotted near Indonesia & named by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology on February 6 · Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the United States for a special meeting regarding Australia's pending deal to buy nuclear submarines from the US & UK · one of Silicon Valley’s top banks fails & assets are seized, marking the largest failure of a U.S. financial institution since the height of the financial crisis almost 15 years ago · Indonesia’s Merapi volcano spews hot clouds in new eruption · Priyanka Chopra Jonas said she was left in tears after she was told she was too big to fit in a “sample size” during a fitting this week · a British anti-transgender activist is planning a visit to Aotearoa, sparking concerns amongst Rainbow communities who say she has a "track record of hateful speech & the incitement of violence".

wednesday newstrip

Australian Prime Minister among thousands who walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge during WorldPride march · Israelis rally again to protest government’s judicial overhaul · ‘he’s gone full T.®ump’: Tories turn on Bore-us Johnson over Partygate · humming vibrator in Pacifica apartment tower sent 25 residents ‘insane’ · Antarctic sea ice reaches lowest levels ever recorded · Vanuatu residents 'exhausted' after two cyclones in three days · ‘I am your warrior’: fiery DoNuts T.®ump promises to end wars, pay baby bonus · man’s eyeball tattoo looks like an ‘eyegina,’ according to Twitter.