Burley Journal

Burley Issue One includes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. I have two poems inside.

Burley Issue One

The Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies are due to collide, According to NASA.

An image of their impending galactic collision
(Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and
R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and
A. Mellinger)

A poem in us Folk magazine

I am in issue one of this magazine, buy a copy and it will deliver a pizza to you.

us Folk issue 1

This is a virtual fly-over of Vesta:

NASA/JPL

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! @ The Phoenix 730PM Wednesday 16 May 2012

THIS IS THE BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! MAY 2012 SPECIAL EDITION INVITATION

That means, prizes, yes, prizes, for poetry, special prizes for poetry

And The Batman

Because we want you onstage with your 2 minutes, your original material, and your no props

ALL SO YOU CAN WIN AT LEAST ONE OF OUR THREE, FOUR, MAYBE FIVE FIRST PRIZES

You are The Batman

Now in the interests of keeping this succinct this invitation will tell you about prizes

Yes, prizes, if you win we won’t send you to perform for some totalitarian regime, but that’s okay

Be The Batman

No, instead we give you special prizes, maybe things from SOMEONE’S BACKYARD, maybe things broken in IMPACT COMICS, maybe things no person wants to buy in MIND GAMES, maybe something free that they can’t sell at SMITHS ALTERNATIVE BOOKSHOP, and maybe a tasty bbq’ed thing from GORMAN HOUSE MARKETS, who knows?

BUT IT IS ALL ABOUT NOT COMPROMISING YOU

Just ask The Batman

So typically these invitations are verbose, extended, drawn out and non-sensible or nonsensical, but because this month is a very special month the invite is not any of those things, no

The Batman

Being not that, it, this invitation, is now going to tell you about the feature acts

This month we have two feature acts, YES TWO

Not The Batman.

We have the SONGTRON 8000

“SONGTRON 8000 appears as the Emperor SONGTRON 8000 in Remembrance of the SONGTRON 8000s, with his white and gold SONGTRON 8000s now based on Skaro and termed "Imperial SONGTRON 8000s", fighting against the grey "Renegade SONGTRON 8000" faction. By this time, SONGTRON 8000 has been physically transplanted into a customised SONGTRON 8000 casing. Both Skaro and the Imperial SONGTRON 8000 mothership are apparently destroyed when the Seventh Doctor tricks SONGTRON 8000 into using the Time Lord artefact known as the Hand of Omega. However, a SONGTRON 8000 on the bridge of SONGTRON 8000's ship reports that the Emperor's escape pod is being launched and a white light is seen speeding away from the ship moments before its destruction, leaving a clear route to bring SONGTRON 8000 back in the future.”

AND WE HAVE.

She is the Batman

But not to be outdone by bringing the age old enemy of the Doctor to BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

We also have ARCHIE (aka Robin Archbold)

“Robin Archbold has been variously described as electrifying, heartbreaking, wonderfully romantic, hilarious and inspirational, and is the only performer ever to have won the Woodford Poetry Slam and the Woodford Storytelling Award. Equally at home at outback poets’ breakfasts, late-night burlesque bars in the cities or the main stage at the Sydney Theatre Company, he can entertain and move your mum, or the boffins at the biggest poetry festivals in the country. He’s a multi-slam winner, multi-festival feature performer and workshop presenter extraordinaire. You never know where the ride will take you, and you won’t care.”

YES, that is correct, both ROBIN ARCHBOLD (aka ARCHIE) and the SONGTON 8000

We are The Batman

So join The Master of Conflict, JACINTA, The Score Adder, Andrew Galan and The Sacrificial Poet at the Phoenix for a 730pm signup for your original words with no props or music on stage for two whole minutes to win prizes, prizes, prizes

THIS IS SPECIAL

Listen to The Batman.

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! 7:30pm Wednesday 16 May 2012, inside the Phoenix Pub

The Delinquent Magazine issue 17 out now

W.M. Keck Observatory/NASA/JPL-G.Orton

Above is a "mosaic false-colour image of thermal heat emission from Saturn and its rings taken on February 4, 2004, with the Keck I telescope at 17.65 micron wavelengths. The black square at 4 o'clock represents missing data."

And in other news...“issue seventeen wears a bowler hat and lipstick.

issue seventeen of the delinquent is now out.

Featuring:

Christina Thatcher, Ian Mole, James B. Nicola, Andrew Galan, Graham Buchan, DilRahmon, Jack Miller, Caroline Vero, Charles Portolano, Peter Ebsworth, Daniel Adey, David Mac, Francesca Borrelli, Jeremy Quinn, Chris Jackson, Richard Byron Johnson, John Clarke, Anthony Arnott, M. A. Schaffner, Paul Birtill, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Ryan Sharp, Zdravka Evtimova, Ray Blake, Ruth Hobson, Judy Katz-Levine, Christopher Anthony Leibow, Ben Jellicoe, Dominique Golden, Steven Loton, Christopher Barnes, Mark Blayney, Frederick Pollack, Jacob Edwards, Tom Oristaglio, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Stephen Ramsey, Jason King, Marianne MacRae, Sean Ulman, Jim Davis, Nicholas Francis, Clive Donovan, Michael H. Brownstein, Patrizia Longhitano, Rob Stuart, B. D. Fischer, Tom Stenton, Ted Jean, Geoffrey Loe, Hannah Fairhead, Ian Sanquist, John McKeown, Chris Kelso, Gareth Writer-Davies, Idris Pavieu, Ryan J. Davidson, Dave Migman, Charles Pitter, Kyle Ferguson, Winston Plowes, John Short, Mark Plummer, and artwork by Eleanor Leonne Bennett.” 

The Delinquent issue 17

  

I am in that list. 


This magazine is available as an Amazon Kindle ebook, print & pdf versions are available from lulu. 

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! @ The Phoenix, 730PM Wednesday 18 April

The 18 April 2012
BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!
poster

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is a poetry slam.

GREETINGS HUMANS!

Welcome to the BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! invitation

And you know what that means

IT COULD BE McSLAM TIME

But probably won’t be

That means two minutes, a microphone, a stage, five judges, an audience, The Score Adder, and THE MASTER OF CONFLICT

All so you can perform, listen, ignore or drink to

original material

with no props

McSLAM IT DOWN

Or not

Whatever that means

Now, just so you all know, we at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! are not content to provide you with the opportunity to perform, listen, ignore or drink to

WORDS

No

this month we bring you two feature acts too

ONE:

direct from sunny across the border

He is your hometown, my hometown, their hometown

with a split mix-tape

So don’t slop when you eat ‘cause he will be blowing things apart

with some real real voodoo

One Man Bandito

not your fake voodoo

He is

BACON CAKES

!!!

And, because like above we said we have two feature acts

WE HAVE TWO

this is the number two feature act (but not in a pejorative sense):

EDDY BURGER

Eddy Burger is a writer of funny and experimental poetry, spoken word, stories and short plays. He is an anti realist, absurdist and champion of the imagination. His work has been published in journals and CD anthologies, including Unusual Work, Cordite, Meanjin, Going Down Swinging and Voiceprints, and he has had chapbooks published by the Melbourne Poets Union and Small Change Press. Eddy has been a regular feature on the spoken word stage for over 15 years and is a past winner of the Melbourne Fringe Festival Spoken Word Award.

So be at the Phoenix Pub with your original material, your no props, your McSlam happy meal, your two minutes, your audience of faces, your legs flapping, your kung fu in the bedroom moves, your liquorice all-sorts for poetry, for your MCs Andrew Galan and JACINTA, for your chance to drink and listen to EDDY BURGER and BACON CAKES! FOR THE CHANCE TO YELL A NUMBER THAT IS ten or NEGATIVE INFINITY be at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

Really, McSlam time

in the interchange

Words and pictures

MAYDAY magazine has published the poem
Wrong Side of the Road.

MAYDAY magazine

They have also published a series of artworks. one piece includes a tank; the art is not by me.

Meanwhile Geoff Manaugh, on his BLDBLOG, writes about intelligent geotextiles (which are not talking teacloths) that:

"The "perimeter detection ring" examined above, for instance, would instead be used to repel or otherwise blind "intruding" UAVs* and UGVs**; this could be used for everything from keeping a foreign power's drones out of your sovereign airspace to preventing the IRS*** from flying drones over your suburb for property tax purposes."

Tablecloths against taxes!

And that: "What appears to be a garden is a computational geotextile interacting with driverless ground vehicles miles away."

Blankets for road-works!

Being that “In mythological terms, this would be the geotextile as talisman, or terrestrial ring of protection.”

Tomato shade solution against illegal aliens!

Go read some poetry at MAYDAY magazine.

UGV and shell

*Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

**Unmanned Ground Vehicles

*** American for all things we hate about government