April 2021

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...

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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...

Today the post- woman brought me an audio re- cording of the love that dare not speak its name.

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...

geographies: Julago

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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...

geographies: Payard's Lagoon

Today the post- woman brought me a birthday card from the Marquis de Sade. Not for me, I told her, two houses up the road. I ran to retrieve...

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 ...

Today the post- woman brought me a pterodactyl. I'd actually asked ...

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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...

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