By Magnum Independent Pictures
Episode 2.
I guess you’ve had enough to this world, chief.
Posted on June 28, 2018
Chicagoetry: The Mind Is A Leopard
By J.J. Tindall
The Mind is a Leopard
The mind is a leopard
in repose, elongated on a branch
of an acacia tree, lithe tail dangling
in the humid breeze, swatting
at giant mosquitoes and bloated bottle flies.
She scans the horizon for enemy and prey,
listening, inhaling, sensing energies
that men often portray as minor gods.
Posted on June 25, 2018
Gravity Of Precedent Fuels Challenge To Foxconn’s Lake Michigan Bid
By Scott Gordon/WisContext
Wisconsin’s decision to let Foxconn draw water from Lake Michigan may set a precedent for water use that resonates across the Great Lakes region and beyond.
But an emerging challenge to it is really a battle over how to interpret the Great Lakes Compact, the 10-years-young eight-state agreement that governs access to one of the world’s most voluminous supplies of freshwater.
Posted on June 20, 2018
The Acoustic Cool Breeze Pot Head Test
By J.J. Tindall
The pot shops in Los Angeles have the kind of punny names that make the monikers of barbershops – and pornos – such a delight: Hollyweed. Best Buds. Rolling Stoned. Green Mile. Wake & Bake. Exhalence. The Pottery. Hollywood High Grade. Mile High Club. The Green Team. Litt. Cannajuana Releaf. The Reefinery. Cannacierge. Stone Age Farmacy.
After googling which one of these glorious establishments was most geographically desirable to the day’s activities, we tasked the mission to secure legal pot to our pal Cool Breeze, so named as an homage to Tom Wolfe, who had just kicked the Electric Kool-Aid Bucket. We came up with MMD, quite possibly the lamest name among all of LA’s dispensaries (MMD standing for Medical Marijuana Dispensary, though to be sure Cool Breeze was buying recreational marijuana, legal in California since January 1.) Now it’s true that MMD was recently named one of the area’s best pot shops by High Times magazine, but for our purposes the key data point was that it was 305 feet from Amoeba Music, where the rest of us would cool our heels scouring the record racks while Cool Breeze did the deed.
I should probably explain what I mean by “we” at this juncture. We are “The Men of a Certain Age Crew” Crew, ages 56/7, met in high school in Illinois when 16/7, now gathered in LA for a weekend reunion. Not used to buying pot legally. Not having ever bought pot legally.
Posted on June 19, 2018
Elonorail
‘Genuine, Bona Fide, Teslafied’
Well, sir, there’s nothing on Earth
Like a genuine, bona fide
Teslafied, airport Elonorail
What’d I say?
Elonorail
What’s it called?
Elonorail
That’s right! Elonorail
Elonorail
Elonorail
Elonorail
Posted on June 18, 2018
RECALL! Winter Sausage Poultry And Meat
By The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service
WASHINGTON – Winter Sausage Manufacturing Co., an Eastpointe, Michigan establishment, is recalling approximately 28,346 pounds of poultry, pork and beef products due to misbranding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The poultry products were slaughtered under religious exemption, which is not declared on the product label.
Posted on June 15, 2018
Report: 44% Of Cannabis Consumers In Legal Recreational States Identify As Medical Users Seeking Pain Relief, Anti-Anxiety & Sleep Aids
By High Yield Insights
Editor’s Note: Esteemed Beachwood college football correspondent and consumer and market research analyst Mike Luce is embarking on a new business venture, High Yield Insights. Mike is really smart, y’all. And he writes college football like a dream. Now he’s the King of Pot Intel. Hit him up for all your market research needs.
Chicago – Even in states where recreational use has been legalized, nearly half (44 percent) of cannabis consumers self-identify as using cannabis for medical purposes, including for pain relief (69 percent) and sleep assistance (65 percent), and to manage anxiety (54 percent), according to a new report from consumer behavior experts High Yield Insights.
In a first-of-its kind survey of medical cannabis user behaviors and product preferences, High Yield Insights’ report found medical users are twice as likely to check CBD levels when they purchase cannabis, with 47 percent verifying CBD concentrations versus 25 percent of recreational users.
The Medical Cannabis User report also found that medical users express demand for convenient or discrete cannabis product forms, such as edibles, topicals, oils and tinctures. Notably, medical users are twice as likely as recreational consumers to use topicals (22 percent vs 11 percent) and over three times as likely to use tinctures (17 percent vs 5 percent).
Posted on June 14, 2018
Before Dairy Ruled, Wheat Reigned In Wisconsin
By Julie Grace/WisContext
While Wisconsin is known as “America’s Dairyland,” this nickname would not have accurately depicted the state during its first 50 years. In fact, the early history of Wisconsin agriculture is dominated by other crops – most notably, wheat – that preceded the contemporary dairy industry.
In order to better understand the story of Wisconsin’s agriculture, it’s also important to look at the history of the state itself. Author Jerry Apps, a onetime University of Wisconsin-Extension agricultural agent and UW-Madison professor emeritus, discussed the roots of agriculture in the state in an Oct. 23, 2015 presentation at the Wisconsin Book Festival. Apps’ presentation, recorded for Wisconsin Public Television’s University Place, was based on his 2015 book, Wisconsin Agriculture: A History, which explored Wisconsin’s agricultural history as influenced through factors like climate, geography and settlement patterns.
Posted on June 6, 2018
Chicagoetry: Bison At The Atom Smasher
By J.J. Tindall
Bison at the Atom Smasher
I am the soft target here,
I don’t quite measure up
To the atom smasher.
Mind you: to me, a particle accelerator
Is an atom smasher and
I’m not even sure
Why I’m here at all.
I know I’m not alone in this.
Posted on June 1, 2018