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By J.J. Tindall
Metal Machine Music
Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re trying to be so quiet? – Bob Dylan, “Visions of Johanna”
The heat pipes do more than just cough:
they hiss and spew, slur and sing.
Sometimes comes garbled dialogue
in a voice like Captain Beefheart
or his hero Howlin’ Wolf;
that could be a projection of mind
or perhaps the pipes are actually
channeling radio waves.
Posted on December 31, 2017
By The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service
Piller’s Fine Foods, a Waterloo, Canada establishment, is recalling approximately 1,076 pounds of ready-to-eat salami and speck products that may be adulterated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Saturday.
The ready-to-eat speck prosciutto and salami items were produced on Sept. 22 and Oct. 12, 2017, respectively. The following products are subject to recall:
Posted on December 19, 2017
By J.J. Tindall
Winter Mice
The winter mice are reappearing,
As if they’ve been there all along, invisible,
Walking through walls,
Fatalistically determined like lemmings
Or salmon
To attain heaven.
Posted on December 18, 2017
By The Chicago History Museum
“On November 26, 2017, the Secret Lives of Objects exhibition closed after a three-and-a-half-year run, requiring museum staff to return the exhibition’s artifacts to storage. One of the largest was a Model P motor buggy sold by Sears, Roebuck & Company around 1910.”
Posted on December 15, 2017
By Shelley A. Davis
For anyone who cares about protecting public lands, the Trump administration’s recent announcement that it is reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah by some two million acres is disappointing, depressing and disastrous. This is the largest rollback of federal land protection in the nation’s history.
Just a year ago, on Dec. 28, 2016, President Barack Obama had established the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, reserving approximately 1.35 million acres of federal lands for the care and management of objects of historic and scientific interest identified therein.
Utah may feel like it is far away, but we have our own public lands in Cook County. They’re called the Forest Preserves and we have nearly 70,000 acres of these precious, protected lands.
Posted on December 13, 2017
By Scott Gordon/WisContext
One impact of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico may continue to plague hospitals in the mainland United States for quite some time. The island United States commonwealth hosts a significant concentration of manufacturing facilities that make medical supplies and pharmaceuticals, lured to the Caribbean island over the years by tax breaks.
The American healthcare system as a whole particularly depends on IV bags made in Puerto Rico by a Deerfield company called Baxter International. Without this important product, procedures from restoring fluids to administering painkillers suddenly become more complicated, creating a logistical strain that can spiderweb across an entire hospital’s operations.
Posted on December 11, 2017
By J.J. Tindall
New Fucking Frying Pan
Nobody tells me
Who I am.
Problematic in relationships
(Been a few years
Since the end of my last
Long-term commitment).
I want a fried egg?
I go to a diner
And order one or
I fry it myself.
Posted on December 4, 2017
