The latest issue of Otoliths has gone live
To ease the transition from Walpurgisnacht to May Day, issue sixty-one of Otoliths, the southern autumn 2021 issue, has just gone live. As a...
April 2021
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Essential poll: fewer than 50% of over-50s Australians willing to get Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines · climate change has now invisibly shif...
Toulouse-Lautrec & the Belle Epoque at the Polk Museum of Art
"Divan Japonais" (1893) Color lithograph discovered in 2007 after 105 years in storage! I was thrilled when I learned the Polk Mus...
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Australian Federal Government’s 'confusing' new education campaign uses tacos & milkshakes to explain consent · Amazon cancels L...
Recently, from Luna Bisonte Prods
Mark Young The Toast Luna Bisonte Prods ISBN: 9781938521751 $US12.00 100 pages Can be bought from Lulu here Maybe it’s because “A railroad...
Visiting Sarasota's Celery Fields
A hill! In Florida! I should have known there’d be more to my outing with Deb to Celery Fields than a walk up a hill. After all, she usually...
Thought Provoking Reads, Part 2 -- "Homeland Elegies" by Ayad Akhtar
I've been warily circling Ayad Akhtar's "Homeland Elegies" since it came out last year. On one hand, I've seen all of ...
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Graphene-like boron is stabilized by hydrogen, paving the way for practical applications · Putrid Dustbin becomes SittingonDefence Minister ...
Thought Provoking Reads, Part 1: "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro
It's been a long year, hasn't it? I have to admit that I haven't pushed myself to do much heavy lifting during the pandemic -- a...
now out from Sandy Press
List price = $US14.95 Available through Amazon. & a blurb: Mark Young’s Sorties A sortie is a military manouevre, ‘an attack made by t...
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OpTic Chicago bounce back with win over Seattle Surge in 2021 Call of Duty League Stage 2 group play · scientists finally know how an ancien...