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Music to make the body feel wild. A saga that began four albums and five comic books ago with a fat stub of flesh burrowing beneath the grass to uncover hex givers, beepers, and severed sisters' heads, draws to its epic finale deep within The Maze: Once a war sanctuary, then a home, now a biomechanized sarcophagus, and the only way out is up. "The machine stirred, searching for a response. Chairs, table, out of proportion swollen in the dark. The ceiling pressing down. A discontinuous lump of flesh asks, "Who Are You!?" "Nothing. Complete nothings. An empty space surrounded by an empty space." He was coming closer to the truth. "That's right!" Though this story is crushing, the resulting shards dance, creak and spill into a psychic underground vast enough for cymbal, cello, tuba, storms, timpani, piano, guitar, foghorn, harmonica, double reeds, trumpet, Sylvester Stallone vocals, and synth that makes Pink Floyd blush. Audiophiles will test their high end gear with this album; laughing teenagers will crank it, flying top speed to the ocean. Zeek Sheck's sound is singular, unmistakable: sleep talking, skidding drums, 64th note woodwinds at full tilt, cult chorales, resplendent horns, and escape-velocity dance anthems. For such odd music to achieve a maturity is both rare and gorgeous; "Joinus" is spare yet lustrous, by turns mysterious and dangerously riotous. Listeners will scramble to hear the early records all over again.
Zeek Sheck
Shut in for years exploring the material capacities of complex handmade instruments, could an artist emerge to compose unlabored, wide-open, epic and instinctive music? Two such genius-naifs, Liz Allbee and Hans Grüsel, deliver back-to-back marvels on this split release. Impossible instruments blow the lines off your conceptual map. Wonder at how the sounds were crafted, lean in to listen then list further, plunging to the immeasurable depths they open inside you. Liz Allbee's "Strategies For Failure And Relief From Persistent Positive Symptoms" summons bells, conch, voice, extended trumpet, sine waves and electronics that include home-made fingertip mics and motor players tripping beneath dilated, unblinking lyrics.Hans Grüsel's "Zuckerkrieg (Part I)" steers electrons through a skein of patch cord in and around concreted pianos, horns, winds, violins and found objects, bending them into a composition that weighs a single stuttering heartbeat before it swells, bursts, and inundates the full range of human hearing. Limited to 250 copies, the album was brought to Xopher Davidson for premastering and Paul Gold for vinyl mastering. It comes packaged in a frame-able poster and a digital download is included.
Liz Allbee/Hans Grüsel
Strategies For Failure/Zuckerkrieg
Uncovering a secret burrow in the woods exhilarates, snapping the air to life; but to enter that subterranean nest requires reckless, mortal courage. Enticed inside, you rest upon execra that the wild would make of you. From here you peer out as the predator peers from its own mind, heaving as it stalks a drenched forest of impulse, chaos and prey. Worlds of interiority and transmogrification are native to the Bran(…)Pos, fifteen year veteran of handmade instruments and soft synths. Here he extends his mouth-units for synthesizer in a stereo-gyroscope, sounds a searing cello, and renders loamy timbres beneath a sylvan landscape thundered upon by tympani. All this betrays a fascination with epic 70's synthwork: Tangerine Dream, Gong, and Yes but also Asmus Tietchens, Xenakis, Subotnick and even Nik Raicevic. Put on your mylar pajamas, and head into the den. Waking dreams await.
Den of Ordure and Iridescence
Incantations rise on smoke from an impact crater. Out of the wreckage, three humanoids emerge under mask and spell bearing organ, trombone, sax, synth, guitar and drums. Countless wormholes blink and fizz in their wake. Moira Scar's monster-wave death-glam sound has arrived, timeless and just in time, to defy the soul-death machine. Prepare for a music that explodes from its core; but don't brace yourself, there's nothing to lose but the manacles of your mind.
Moira Scar
Scarred for Life
What is the voltage of static electricity that courses over your skin standing each of five million hairs straight on end? Can the answer be derived quantitatively from the waveforms cascading against malleus, anvil and stapes to trigger follicle surge? Or is math itself lost in the abstraction to qualitative, perceptual, and metaphysical sense? Such shortcuts to madness can't be taken casually. They're best explored through complexities of minimal materialism, an exquisite example of which appears now before you: vibrating strings, membranes, simple particles of sound sculpted by Antimatter, the solo project of Xopher Davidson. Obsolete analogue signal generators and processors (e.g. Comdyna GP-6) were used to form clouds of frequencies well below and above the audible range. Davidson spent ten years to build the test circuit used to make this recording. Welcome to a world of abyssal listening.
If the toys aren't broken, you're not really playing yet. Fat Worm's ninth release unstitches pop itself and expertly drapes it in drool. From common instruments: guitar, drum, vocal, and bass comes a crowd of unlabored sounds, surging on burnt Bambi legs, a melting forest of crisscross gone limp, crashing over and again into perfect place. It'd be dumb luck, except it never quits. Singing, which ruins so many a band, is for Fat Worm the insane face atop the hulking freak. It belongs there, blurting in sardonic falsetto that careens high then higher into dentist drill register. Drums get up in the way of ten flailing limbs, guitar buzzsaws timbres stirring up a magnetic dust that seems to steer itself. Grab on! A forty-five minute surge of Fat Worm is about to wash in and drown your eyes dead. CD in gatefold sleeve with lyrics sheet.
Fat Worm of Error
Ambivalence and the Beaker
Nerfbau are wrestling foam-choked streams and sunless oil-slicked oceans back into cataracts of blinding consciousness. Theorems are laid forth herein as "Error Swarms" and proofs conducted using custom sequencers, laryngopharynx, reprocessed wind instruments, guitars, sound-object graphical processors and Dow Chemical's styrenefoam modified with Cyanoacrylate. Upon Nerfbau's first public actions, crowd violence and clawing typically dispersed pustules onto backsides of hairdo's, lungs, and pleats. Recognizing a porthole window in the ass-to-mouth logic of late capitalism, they have urgently developed a calculus of postindustrial aftermath, an anti-prophylaxis to malleus hybrid technology, directed at generating an endless domino effect of Error Swarms.
Error Swarms
"What obscure, overlooked master playing in some slashing, raw-yet-virtuosic manner is this?" asked Nels Cline. In this, her solo debut, guitarist Ava Mendoza starts from old melodies already tattooed on your brain, then applies sufficient heat to peel that paint leaving you re-pinked and wondering what's next. What's next are original compositions, heavy, gorgeous, oddly reverby, layers that build, blister and flake away to alight indelibly on your mind. Just as Mendoza reprises those traditional tunes, you discover she's walked you far into a lost countryside. How, or whether, to get back will be your own business. Gatefold package with artwork by Suzanne Shaffer, mastered by Jake Rodriguez, and liner notes from Nels Cline.
Ava Mendoza
Shadow Stories
Liz Allbee's second full length solo unwinds a cozily misanthropic sonic cloth with hidden barbs sure to draw blood. Each track treads further into unnerving terrain: sonar-pings dizzy the ears, unknown nursery rhymes warble from an abandoned tongue, and a blur of wings beating in phase consumes all perception until a flat drum summons resplendent horns. Allbee's balance of melody and madness is not to be missed. Fasten yourself to a thread, but dare to step inside "Theseus vs." Limited edition of 350, packaged in a handmade silk screened box.
Liz Allbee
Theseus vs.
Four minds writhe in poisonous hisses then align, feather, and float across a cathedral, water dripping audibly from its ceiling, transforming the space to wild banshee dionysian proportions counterpointed with sounds austere and mechanical. Kenta Nagai raises a Shamisan, Hichiriki and his throat together with the far voice and violoncello of Audrey Chen as Miya Masaoka conjures Koto with electronics and Hans Grüsel, rummaging in a suitcase of blippoo box and bugbrand weevil08, douses for… then detonates waveforms. If at first you perceived four directions, find yourself now surrounded in one.
Masaoka, Chen, Grüsel, Nagai
Chain-draped kalimba played with the soft speed of Texas banjo, fiddle and accordion master Ralph White, its acoustic distortions convoluted through a range of materials (rigged to transducers) in Horaflora's custom-built sound system, yield a crumbling wet firmament of timbres. The songs by which the sounds were discovered are transfixing, psychedelic, transporting; in fact, they invite site-specific listening: Binaural methods make track one best suited to headphones, track two must be heard outdoors, and track three includes unadulterated Weddell seals and is best heard underwater. Lose your map, this is music uncharted.
Ralph White and the Horaflora Sound System
Loachfillet dwells on the lakebed of a lifelong musical vision where analogue synth, beaten bass, tape loops and aging electronics pour forth sound too crushingly deep to escape. From a funneling eddy at the start of track one, down you go, descending his bubble column to a booming bass guitar wreck shimmering with algae. You plunge deeper still, down ten expansive tracks to the finale, titled Hell, with waves so heavy they'd buckle prettier heads; but, you're here to stay, lungs full at last.
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National Poetry Month
To celebrate National Poetry Month (April) we are again offering poetry related trivia for your entertainment and edification. Videos from the Wright Library Poets reading in January are available, as are a collection of online Poetry Resources.
Poetry Trivia
Who said "We wear the mask"?
Dayton's own Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
We Wear the Mask
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
And mouth with myriad subtleties,
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but oh great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile,
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
This poet was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio in 1927, where his father worked in a glass factory and his mother was a laundress. His working class roots informed his writing, and in 1972 he won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Who was he?
James Wright (1927-1980)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
by James Wright
In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.
All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other's bodies.
What is iambic pentameter? What does it have to do human physiology?
Iambic is the name given to the rhythm of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. An example is the word "today." String five iambic feet in a row to get iambic pentameter (equal to 10 syllables) – da-DUM da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM - or "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" from Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. It is said that iambic is the rhythm of the heartbeat, and that a line of iambic pentameter is the length of a human exhale.
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)
by William Shakespeare
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the deathbed whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Today's poem is one of the most beloved on the subject of Death. The poet is John Donne (1572-1631), who as a Catholic in Anglican England spent his life wrestling with God and religion. What is the poem?
Death, be not proud
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)
by John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou'art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy'or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
This American poet traveled to Mexico, Africa and Europe before settling in Harlem. His poetry is deeply influenced by Jazz. Who is he?
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
This Polish Poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996 and her work is now widely available in English. She died in February 2012. Who is she?
Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012)
by Wislawa Szymborska
I'll never find out now
What A. thought of me.
If B. ever forgave me in the end.
Why C. pretended everything was fine.
What part D. played in E.'s silence.
What F. had been expecting, if anything.
Why G. forgot when she knew perfectly well.
What H. had to hide.
What I. wanted to add.
If my being around
meant anything
to J. and K. and the rest of the alphabet.
What's the subject of ekphrastic poetry?
Ekphrastic poems explore a work of art, often a painting or sculpture or perhaps a photograph. They use words, rhythm, rhyme, narrative and other poetic devices to describe or enhance meaning of an artwork. Consider this poem by W. H. Auden (1907-1973):
Musee des Beaux Arts
by W. H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
Jubilate means to feel great joy, to rejoice, to exult. What is the subject of Christopher Smart's (1722-1771) poem Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, inspired by Psalm 100?
The poet's cat, Jeoffry. Read his joyful cat poem.
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry]
by Christopher Smart
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees.
For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean.
For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.
For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended.
For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.
For fifthly he washes himself.
For sixthly he rolls upon wash.
For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.
For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.
For tenthly he goes in quest of food.
For having considered God and himself he will consider his neighbor.
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.
For when his day's work is done his business more properly begins.
For he keeps the Lord's watch in the night against the adversary.
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.
For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
For he will not do destruction if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation.
For he purrs in thankfulness when God tells him he's a good Cat.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel
from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defense is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For he knows that God is his Saviour.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
For he is of the Lord's poor, and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually--Poor Jeoffry!
poor Jeoffry! the rat has bit thy throat.
For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better.
For the divine spirit comes about his body to sustain it in complete cat.
For his tongue is exceeding pure so that it has in purity what it wants in music.
For he is docile and can learn certain things.
For he can sit up with gravity, which is patience upon approbation.
For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment.
For he can jump over a stick, which is patience upon proof positive.
For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command.
For he can jump from an eminence into his master's bosom.
For he can catch the cork and toss it again.
For he is hated by the hypocrite and miser.
For the former is afraid of detection.
For the latter refuses the charge.
For he camels his back to bear the first notion of business.
For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly.
For he made a great figure in Egypt for his signal services.
For he killed the Icneumon rat, very pernicious by land.
For his ears are so acute that they sting again.
For from this proceeds the passing quickness of his attention.
For by stroking of him I have found out electricity.
For I perceived God's light about him both wax and fire.
For the electrical fire is the spiritual substance which God sends from heaven to sustain the
bodies both of man and beast.
For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements.
For, though he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer.
For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than any other quadruped.
For he can tread to all the measures upon the music.
For he can swim for life.
For he can creep.
This 13th century Persian poet was born in Afghanistan (or perhaps Tajikistan) and is known the world over for his mystical and spiritual poems. He's one of the most popular poets in America. Who is he?
Rumi (1207-1273)
What Was Told, That
by Jalal al-Din Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks
What was said to the rose that made it open was said
to me here in my chest.
What was told the cypress that made it strong
and straight, what was
whispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever made
sugarcane sweet, whatever
was said to the inhabitants of the town of Chigil in
Turkestan that makes them
so handsome, whatever lets the pomegranate flower blush
like a human face, that is
being said to me now. I blush. Whatever put eloquence in
language, that's happening here.
The great warehouse doors open; I fill with gratitude,
chewing a piece of sugarcane,
in love with the one to whom every that belongs!
This American poet was born in Jakarta in the 1950s. His father, who figures prominently in his poetry, spent time as Mao Tse-tsung's personal physician, was exiled from China, was imprisoned for 19 months in Indonesia, and became a Presbyterian Minister in Pennsylvania. Who is the poet?
Li-Young Lee (b.1957) Read his beautiful "Immigrant Blues."
Immigrant Blues
by Li-Young Lee
People have been trying to kill me since I was born,
a man tells his son, trying to explain
the wisdom of learning a second tongue.
It's the same old story from the previous century
about my father and me.
The same old story from yesterday morning
about me and my son.
It's called "Survival Strategies
and the Melancholy of Racial Assimilation."
It's called "Psychological Paradigms of Displaced Persons,"
called "The Child Who'd Rather Play than Study."
Practice until you feel
the language inside you, says the man.
But what does he know about inside and outside,
my father who was spared nothing
in spite of the languages he used?
And me, confused about the flesh and soul,
who asked once into a telephone,
Am I inside you?
You're always inside me, a woman answered,
at peace with the body's finitude,
at peace with the soul's disregard
of space and time.
Am I inside you? I asked once
lying between her legs, confused
about the body and the heart.
If you don't believe you're inside me, you're not,
she answered, at peace with the body's greed,
at peace with the heart's bewilderment.
It's an ancient story from yesterday evening
called "Patterns of Love in Peoples of Diaspora,"
called "Loss of the Homeplace
and the Defilement of the Beloved,"
called "I Want to Sing but I Don't Know Any Songs."
If Walt Whitman is the grandfather of American poetry, this poet is the grandmother. A contemporary of Whitman's, her poems expressed longing and loneliness in spare and inventive verse. Her poems weren't published until after her death. Who was she?
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260)
by Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
In 1855, this American poet rocked the world with his poetry collection. His poetry was expansive, optimistic and sexy—just like America. Children secretly read it looking for the dirty parts. Who was he?
Walt Whitman (1819-1892). His book is Leaves of Grass. Here's one of his overtly sexual poems.
A Woman Waits for Me
by Walt Whitman
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking,
Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of
the right man were lacking.
Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the
seminal milk,
All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves,
beauties, delights of the earth,
All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the
These are contain'd in sex as parts of itself and justifications
of itself.
Without shame the man I like knows and avows the
deliciousness of his sex,
Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.
Now I will dismiss myself from impassive women,
I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with those
women that are warm-blooded sufficient for me,
I see that they understand me and do not deny me,
I see that they are worthy of me, I will be the robust
husband of those women.
They are not one jot less than I am,
They are tann'd in the face by shining suns and blowing
Their flesh has the old divine suppleness and strength,
They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run,
strike, retreat, advance, resist, defend themselves,
They are ultimate in their own right--they are calm, clear,
well-possess'd of themselves.
I draw you close to me, you women,
I cannot let you go, I would do you good,
I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own
sake, but for others' sakes,
Envelop'd in you sleep greater heroes and bards,
They refuse to awake at the touch of any man but me.
It is I, you women, I make my way,
I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable, but I love you,
I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these
States, I press with slow rude muscle,
I brace myself effectually, I listen to no entreaties,
I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long
accumulated within me.
Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,
In you I wrap a thousand onward years,
On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and
The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic
girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn,
I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-
I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and
you interpenetrate now,
I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as
I count on the fruits of the gushing showers I give now,
I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death,
immortality, I plant so lovingly now.
Working with George Dillon, this American poet was Charles Baudelaire's (see yesterday's poem) first English translator. Their translation of Flowers of Evil was published in 1936. Who was the poet?
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her book of poems, The Harp Weaver. (Incidentally, Wright Library owns this 1936 edition. Here are two of St. Vincent Millay's short poems.
First Fig
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
Second Fig
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is known for his Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil) poems, some of which were condemned as obscene and banned from publication. Before writing Les Fleurs du Mal, Baudelaire was the French translator of this American poet and author, whom Baudelaire considered to be a "twin soul". Who was it?
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Compare Baudelaire's "Spleen II" and Poe's "The Valley of Unrest."
by Charles Baudelaire
translated by Richard Howard
More than if I had lived a thousand years!
No chest of drawers crammed with documents,
love-letters, wedding-invitations, wills,
a lock of someone's hair rolled up in a deed,
hides so many secrets as my brain.
This branching catacombs, this pyramid
contains more corpses than the potter's field:
I am a graveyard that the moon abhors,
where long worms like regrets come out to feed
most ravenously on my dearest dead.
I am an old boudoir where a rack of gowns,
perfumed by withered roses, rots to dust;
where only faint pastels and pale Bouchers
inhale the scent of long-unstoppered flasks.
Nothing is slower than the limping days
when under the heavy weather of the years
Boredom, the fruit of glum indifference,
gains the dimension of eternity . . .
Hereafter, mortal clay, you are no more
than a rock encircled by a nameless dread,
an ancient sphinx omitted from the map,
forgotten by the world, and whose fierce moods
sing only to the rays of setting suns.
The Valley of Unrest
by Edgar Allan Poe
Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars,
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,
Nightly, from their azure towers,
To keep watch above the flowers,
In the midst of which all day
The red sun-light lazily lay.
Now each visitor shall confess
The sad valley's restlessness.
Nothing there is motionless —
Nothing save the airs that brood
Over the magic solitude.
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That palpitate like the chill seas
Around the misty Hebrides!
Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
Uneasily, from morn till even,
Over the violets there that lie
In myriad types of the human eye —
Over three lilies there that wave
And weep above a nameless grave!
They wave: — from out their fragrant tops
Eternal dews come down in drops.
They weep: — from off their delicate stems
Perennial tears descend in gems.
Another child prodigy was this late 19th century French poet who wrote "Le Bateau Ivre" ("The Drunken Boat") full of surreal dreamlike poetry that has influenced many poets, artists, and musicians through the years. Who was he?
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891). Almost all of his poetry was written before his 20th birthday. Here's an excerpt from his poem "The Drunken Boat."
The Drunken Boat
By Arthur Rimbaud
Translated By Wallace Fowlie
As I was going down impassive Rivers,
I no longer felt myself guided by haulers:
Yelping redskins had taken them as targets
And had nailed them naked to colored stakes.
I was indifferent to all crews,
The bearer of Flemish wheat or English cottons
When with my haulers this uproar stopped
The Rivers let me go where I wanted.
Into the furious lashing of the tides
More heedless than children's brains the other winter
I ran! And loosened Peninsulas
Have not undergone a more triumphant hubbub
The storm blessed my sea vigils
Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves
That are called eternal rollers of victims,
Ten nights, without missing the stupid eye of the lighthouses!
Sweeter than the flesh of hard apples is to children
The green water penetrated my hull of fir
And washed me of spots of blue wine
And vomit, scattering rudder and grappling-hook
And from then on I bathed in the Poem
Of the Sea, infused with stars and lactescent,
Devouring the azure verses; where, like a pale elated
Piece of flotsam, a pensive drowned figure sometimes sinks;
Where, suddenly dyeing the blueness, delirium
And slow rhythms under the streaking of daylight,
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than our lyres,
The bitter redness of love ferments!
I know the skies bursting with lightning, and the waterspouts
And the surf and the currents; I know the evening,
And dawn as exalted as a flock of doves
And at times I have seen what man thought he saw!
This Chilean poet published his Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada ("Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair") in 1924 when he was only twenty years old. Who was he?
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Here is an excerpt from his Song of Despair translated by W.S. Merwin.
The Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda
translated by W. S. Merwin
The memory of you emerges from the night around me.
The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.
Deserted like the wharves at dawn.
It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one!
Cold flower heads are raining over my heart.
Oh pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked.
In you the wars and the flights accumulated.
From you the wings of the song birds rose.
You swallowed everything, like distance.
Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!
It was the happy hour of assault and the kiss.
The hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse.
Pilot's dread, fury of a blind diver,
turbulent drunkenness of love, in you everything sank!
In the childhood of mist my soul, winged and wounded.
Lost discoverer, in you everything sank!
You girdled sorrow, you clung to desire,
sadness stunned you, in you everything sank!
I made the wall of shadow draw back,
beyond desire and act, I walked on.
Oh flesh, my own flesh, woman whom I loved and lost,
I summon you in the moist hour, I raise my song to you.
This poet was born in Tennessee, but grew up in Cincinnati where she organized the city's first Black Arts Festival in 1967. Who is she?
Nikki Giovanni (b.1943)
My First Memory (of Librarians)
by Nikki Giovanni
This is my first memory:
A big room with heavy wooden tables that sat on a creaky
wood floor
A line of green shades—bankers' lights—down the center
Heavy oak chairs that were too low or maybe I was simply
too short
For me to sit in and read
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In the foyer up four steps a semi-circle desk presided
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On the right newspapers draped over what looked like
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The welcoming smile of my librarian
The anticipation in my heart
All those books—another world—just waiting
At my fingertips.
Who was Barack Obama's second Inaugural poet? He drummed up a lot of publicity for poetry (his own and the art itself) back in January of this year. Bonus points if you remember Obama's first Inaugural poet.
Richard Blanco (b. 1968). He made headlines as the first Cuban-American and openly gay poet chosen to read at a presidential inauguration. Here's his poignant poem, Looking for the Gulf Motel. (FYI, Obama's first Inaugural poet was Elizabeth Alexander b.1962 http://www.elizabethalexander.net/home.html)
Looking for The Gulf Motel
Marco Island, Florida
There should be nothing here I don't remember . . .
The Gulf Motel with mermaid lampposts
and ship's wheel in the lobby should still be
rising out of the sand like a cake decoration.
My brother and I should still be pretending
we don't know our parents, embarrassing us
as they roll the luggage cart past the front desk
loaded with our scruffy suitcases, two-dozen
loaves of Cuban bread, brown bags bulging
with enough mangos to last the entire week,
our espresso pot, the pressure cooker—and
a pork roast reeking garlic through the lobby.
All because we can't afford to eat out, not even
on vacation, only two hours from our home
in Miami, but far enough away to be thrilled
by whiter sands on the west coast of Florida,
where I should still be for the first time watching
the sun set instead of rise over the ocean.
There should be nothing here I don't remember . . .
My mother should still be in the kitchenette
of The Gulf Motel, her daisy sandals from Kmart
squeaking across the linoleum, still gorgeous
in her teal swimsuit and amber earrings
stirring a pot of arroz-con-pollo, adding sprinkles
of onion powder and dollops of tomato sauce.
My father should still be in a terrycloth jacket
smoking, clinking a glass of amber whiskey
in the sunset at the Gulf Motel, watching us
dive into the pool, two boys he'll never see
grow into men who will be proud of him.
There should be nothing here I don't remember . . .
My brother and I should still be playing Parcheesi,
my father should still be alive, slow dancing
with my mother on the sliding-glass balcony
of The Gulf Motel. No music, only the waves
keeping time, a song only their minds hear
ten-thousand nights back to their life in Cuba.
My mother's face should still be resting against
his bare chest like the moon resting on the sea,
the stars should still be turning around them.
There should be nothing here I don't remember . . .
My brother should still be thirteen, sneaking
rum in the bathroom, sculpting naked women
from sand. I should still be eight years old
dazzled by seashells and how many seconds
I hold my breath underwater—but I'm not.
I am thirty-eight, driving up Collier Boulevard,
looking for The Gulf Motel, for everything
that should still be, but isn't. I want to blame
the condos, their shadows for ruining the beach
and my past, I want to chase the snowbirds away
with their tacky mansions and yachts, I want
to turn the golf courses back into mangroves,
I want to find The Gulf Motel exactly as it was
and pretend for a moment, nothing lost is lost.
By Richard Blanco
Looking for The Gulf Motel
University of Pittsburgh Press

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I've been ignoring my feed reader lately, so I'm spending the morning going through the many (many) posts that have been written since my last review. Lots of great stuff. Here are my favorites from the past week or two:
Forrester CEO George Colony crowd-sourced development of his social media panel at Davos next week. This is a great way to find out what people are interested in learning about right now – I've used this myself to generate panel questions. He got some interesting and thoughtful responses.
Two of Nick Carr's recent posts were thought-provoking. Most recently he brought readers' attention to William Deresiewicz's article "The End of Solitude" in the new edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. I love the line, "Loneliness is not the absence of company, it is grief over that absence." Carr doesn't say much about it himself, but reader comments are interesting.
Carr's previous post, "Sharing is Creepy," reflects on the psychological and social consequences of social networking (do you feel remorse when you don't put yourself out there? when you do? maybe both?) and points to a recent Wired article by Steven Levy called "The Burden of Twitter."
John Halamka, CIO at CareGroup and Harvard Medical School (and about a dozen other things), evaluates Gartners Top 10 Predictions for 2009. He agrees or partially agrees with most, but his reasoning adds nuance and relevant context from a man who published his personal genome on the internet, has been implanted with a chip containing his full medical records and is having a Cisco telepresence setup installed in his home.
If you're interested in social media, Chris Brogan is worth following on a regular basis. Two recent posts stand out. One I personally need to act on is his review of Leo Babuta's book "The Power of Less." Babuta advocates that you do one thing at a time, don't multi-task, focus on one thing and nail it. In my multi-tasking, easily distracted world, this is a book I need to buy.
In Are You Important to Me, Chris experiences the neighborhood-bar-like feel of an Applebees for the first time. "We like to feel known. We like to feel wanted. We like to feel like we belong to something. It's part of being human," he writes. He then goes on to apply that insight to social media and how it lets companies create more of a 1:1 relationship with customers. He equivocates in his conclusion, saying this can't scale but insisting companies need to use these tools to let customers know they're important.
Seth Godin's "The goals you never hear about" calls out the fact that too often, our unstated goals are negative – don't fail, don't screw up – rather than to actually do something. Being conscious of this makes it easier to change.
Jeremiah Owyang, a senior analyst at Forrester, publishes a weekly digest of the Social Networking Industry. Definitely worth subscribing to if you care about this space.
After reading these and other posts today, I realize a couple of things:
We are just at the beginning of the social media wave. The work companies are doing now is crude but incredibly important, the groundwork for the future.
There are far reaching implications – commerical, social, psychological – in all of this.
It's human nature to want to avoid risk, embarassment, failure. But if we let those trump our positive goals, we risk even more.
There is A LOT going on – a virtual firehose of trends, developments and ideas that it may or may not be important for you to pay attention to. It's essential to create space to filter, analyze/reflect and act (whatever your own form of action might be).


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Look like the 80s jerseys except with the numbers we've had from 2000-present.
The jersey sleeves look like they're going back to the old 80s look while the pants have a bit of a newer Boise St. look.
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I agree with sberry on this. Except for small amounts trapped in rust or scale on the surface the steel, unless it is porous, steel has no water in it. Steel is produced at upwards of 2500 degrees and no water lives there. The condition you observe is caused by moisture in the warm air of your torch condensing in the colder air and on the colder surface of the steel. The dew point in your flame and in the surrounding air are different. We see this often in our work where we pour molten metal into metal moulds. We always preheat to eliminate the possibility of moisture as the moulds are iron and they rust which can trap moisture on the surface. Failure to preheat can result in a steam driven explosion that can give the worker a faceful of molten metal. Not a fun day, been there done that and don't want to try it again.---Meltedmetal
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You know the more I'm wrong here the smarter I get. Thanks for setting me straight MM.
I'm not talking about moisture in the steel.... but on the surface in the pours.
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I think thats correct. Part of preheating is about driving off residual moisture.
Thanks for all the replies!
One thing not answered which I would still like to know is how you all handle large spools of wire that last for more than a couple weeks? Isnt rust a problem in the summer?
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mobile welding and low H rods
Some wire comes with a special moisture resistant or absorbent paper over wire & inside a sealed plastic bag. I save the paper (keep in a zip lock bag) when take off a roll of wire even if it didn't come with one, I place paper over wire (it's directional) then put in a big zip lock bag or put in original bag & seal with tape.
Another trick is to save the little moisture pacs or paper that come in parts or buy them & do the same. Keeps moisture off wire wile not in use.
I also keep in a room on shelf off floor.
Another tip is to keep shop at constant temp, doesn't need to be warm just keep from drastic temp changes. I hv in floor heat & keep it at 59-60 deg. year round even spring & fall, keeps temp from dropping on cool nights. Helps keep rust on metal and also equipment at mim.
Metal oxidizes and that's kinda what rust is after time. It's good to read up on & understand as it relates to metal.
If u do any blacksmith work it starts as soon as u pull a piece of metal out of forge. U can hv scale by the time u hit the anvil, it is by far not your friend especially if u ever try & forge weld.
Hope it helps.
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I was having a big problem w/ rust esp in the spring & summer when it was very hot/ humid. I couldnt take the wire back into the shop (below ground) b/c the large change in temp would cause condensation. I also couldnt leave it outside b/c at night condensation would be a problem. Even bringing into an ACed house wasnt good enough bc of condensation. I finally gave up and just lived w/ a small amt of rust. If I had critical welds Id use stick. Does anyone else run into this?
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I use a similar type container with some small desiccant packs stuffed in.==============
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There have been so many incredible tools added to NCBI over the last several years (Reactome, BioSystems, Pathway interaction database) that it can be overwhelming to try and keep up with the latest and greatest NCBI technology.
Less than a year ago, NCBI released FLink (frequency weighted links) which is a tool that enables users to traverse from a group of records in a source database to a ranked list of associated records in a destination database. I found FLink useful for cross-referencing my favorite gene (ETAR) against the BioSystems in which it appears. FLink's is extremely easy to navigate and in combination with NCBI BioSystems helps to simplify complex processes.
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The hi-frequency starts are non-exsistent. Establishing arc requires either a lot of patients as the arc stumbles continuously, or with a light scratch of the tungsten to the material. I personally own a Maxstar 150 with lift arc and I've been using a similar technique with the Dynasty to get it to start (I'm only comparing arc starting here and I get fed up with $17K+ machine performing the same as a sub $1K unit)
Miller has replaced the boards in all 5 units once already. The starts were crisp for about a week and slowly trailed off yet again. They were purchased in early 2008. The issue isn't only with AC but DC as well. Maybe I'm missing something here.
Currently we are welding a ton of Alumium assemblies which require between 320 and 360 Amps. We have a variety of tungsten being used thruought the dapartment, though I choose 1% Zirconiated. Good ground. NEW Speedway 320 torch, almost 20 CFH on the argon, and no contaminated tungsten. Additionally, I wait for the tungsten to properly cool before repositioning after exstinguishing the arc.
The Dynastys are great machines however this issue is quite time consuming
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DYNASTY 700 Arc Starting is a JOKE
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Wow that sounds bad, could be an opportunity for miller to do some r&d and find out what the problem is and fix the issue, i had the same problem with a lincoln precision tig 375 with welding lost of aluminum castings and the high freq would be be hit and miss
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There is even a miller rep. out there on youtube stating to touch the work before striking an arc. I do it as second nature with my 300DX machine.Miller Dynasty 300DX
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I have a pre-Blue Lightning 700 as well
#1 I wouldn't use zirc. on that machine. Use what is recommended. I use lanthanated. I use GOLD but blue should hold up even better. Just what my LWS carries. Ceriated (orange) is also rated well with some people, including Miller.
If you let the tungsten form a ball it will have the starting issues much more. It should be pointed. Zirconiated is known to form a nice ball for the old transformer machines. I have a pile of it still laying around from back in the day. (2%)
Get rid of it.....it's junk on that machine. Unless you have it set on sine and all that goes with it like 50% balance and 60 frequency I see no good choosing that
#2 You can simply touch the cup to the work before you light off and it normally helps a ton
#3 Why do you need to wait for your tungsten to cool? Sounds like a waste of argon to me
I also had my boards changed on my machine as well and no problems since. Altho it was an upgrade not a starting issue.
I hope you get this problem solved quickly....good luck.
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Use 2% lanthanated or ceriated ground to a 30deg. blunted point. Change your coolant,use low conductive coolant,and I think in the hidden menu you can make an adjustment for tungsten size.
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Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about it.
When my friend bought his pre "blue lightning" Dynasty 350 we referred to it as the most expensive scratch start Tig money can buy. (we were wrong, obviously the pre blue lightning Dyn 700 was)
We tried all the internal settings to no avail. Boards were swapped by the Miller techs and we then tried another 2 machines until the local welding dealer finally sourced a Blue Lightning machine and it was ok from then on.
It was a very frustrating exercise for us particularly since we've been used to excellent start characteristics from some of the European and Japanese inverter Tigs we also use.
The blue lightning Dyn 350 though is a truly fantastic machine.
Regards Andrew from Oz.We are tig welders, gravity doesn't worry us.
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Have you talked to anyone from Miller Service to see if there is a HF coupling coil Modifcation you can do like on the Maxstar 200s and Dynasty 200s. Its very simple and it really makes a difference in the starting. Just add one extra wrap on the ferrite core for a total of 4 1/2 turns and regap points to .016 as per Miller field FORM: F217 608E. This for all Maxstar 200s and Dynasty 200s with Serial Numbers Between LC374378 And LJ280221L
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I have approximately a 7 year old dynasty 300DX that does the samething and I use the low conductive coolant from Miller so I dont think coolant is the issue as one person mentioned.
I use the 2% Lanthanated ( The gold Band ) The type that came with the machine.
I've kinda gotten use to having to scratch the tungsten on my work piece before hitting the pedal.
I also agree that its a little time consuming having to do this when trying to get the job done.


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You have hand tools on your night table.Dynasty 200 DX
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Durring world history you are studiing Greece and your immediate thougt is I wonder if I need to grese the berrings on the boat.
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You can look at a bolt a quickly tell if its domestic or metric thread...AND... if the pitch is course or standard. OK, and yes in those rare instances mention you may have to get a thread guage out because its either very fine or a machined thread. (been a mechanic for over 30 years, everything from doing VW Air Cooled motors to Turbocharger Conversions on Ferrari's)
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Current staff doesn't get it. They glutenated me today. A black plate signifies gluten free but they brought it out on a white plate. I questioned it but they said it was gluten free - NOT. Give back the white plate every time and make them redo the order
Very disappointed. Non of the staff understood what gluten free was. The menu options were very limited and the food turned out to be anything but gluten free. I have Celiac disease and became very sick for several days after eating here. Never again.
I love eating here! Never gotten sick! I would like a little more options, but I'm honestly just happy to eat some Asian food!!! Num num!
I have tried this location several times and the servers rarely get the order right. Last time I ordered a GF dish and it tasted different than usual. I got really sick afterwards. (Gluten wise not food poisoning wise.) Other Pei Wei restaurants I have not had problems with, just this one.
950 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, PA 19064
Staff was neither knowledgable or helpful
2709 North Elston Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647
Before having to go GF I used to get takeout from PF Changs or Pei Wei (owned by same company and similar menu) weekly. I honestly couldn't tell a difference in taste when I had to start ordering the GF spicy chicken from either menu. One of my favorite meals. Never had a problem getting sick either.
12927 N. Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL 33618
Not very many options and kitchen is so small they can't guarantee no cross contamination
7135 Kingery Highway South, Darien, IL 60561
The food was good. It is true there weren't that many options but I've come to expect that and frankly it is easier. I do not agree that it was reasonably priced though; a little expensive. The reason for only three stars is because they made me wait while they made everyone else's food, even people who came in after me, because they didn't want to have to stop to clean the pan. How about getting a dedicated gluten free pan? !!!
12020 FM 1960 West, Houston, TX 77065
I ordered a carry out. There were at least 9 entrees to choose from. I ordered the Gluten Free Pei Wei Spicy Chicken with white rice. I added my own homemade soy sauce and hot chili sauce at home. It wasa good meal.
2709 North Elston Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647
This has become my favorite GF place to eat. Love it. Their gf menu is small, but everything is so good.
1107 Walnut Street, Cary, NC 27511
Great authentic Asian cuisine Wonderful gluten free spicy chicken
71 North 500 West Suite A, West Bountiful, UT 84010
Had GF sweet and sour chicken here and it was great! Only complaint was that we ordered take out and my mom order regular sweet and sour chicken. They did not label mine GF. We could only tell because she got fried rice and I got brown.
12235 Seal Beach Blvd, Seal Beach, CA 90740
Giving 4 stars because of the limited choices. BUT hey are redeemed for even having a GF menu, GF soy sauce, AND the GF sweet and sour was really good. Better than no choices for Chinese type food!
Terminal 1 - Lindbergh, Concourse C, 4300 Glumack Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55450
fantastic gf spicy chicken! and gf soy sauce too#. Great service!
4133 South Cooper Street #307, Arlington, TX 76015
One of our family's favorites. Limited options with gluten free, but very tasty options. We do take out a lot.
267 E. Bell Road Suite 1, Phoenix, AZ 85022
The gluten free options are limited, but GREAT! It's not pricey and its tastes perfect ☺
3970 Buchtel Blvd. Suite 107, Denver, CO 80210
Amazing fresh food and extremely celiac friendly!!! Delicious!
10830 W Charleston Blvd Suite 110, Las Vegas, NV 89135
Take out is great here. I am gluten-intolerant and so I have had good luck with the food here. I always get the GF spicy chicken/shrimp with rice on the side. And the GF chicken spring rolls are great also.
2695 Park Avenue, Tustin, CA 92782
I ordered off the gluten free menu & let them know my son & I have celiac & yet we still got sick. Will not be eating here ever again
200 University Boulevard Suite 100, Round Rock, TX 78665
The gluten free menu is small, but we actually thought that the sweet and sour chicken was phenomenal!! We talked to the manager and she explained how separate the gluten free food is and how she watches over them to make sure no cross contamination happens. She was very kind and understanding. We will DEFINITELY be back soon! REMEMBER: NO MATTER WHAT THEY TELL YOU THE LETTUCE WRAPS ARE NOT GLUTEN FREE!!!!!!!!!!!
2695 Park Avenue, Tustin, CA 92782
Excellent fast service. Food is delicious and reminiscent of P.F. Changes (the owner of Pei Wei) at a fraction of cost. Always go when In a town with a Pei Wei.
2441 North Maize Road Suite 1501, Wichita, KS 67205
The food was pretty tasty. I ordered the spicy chicken and shrimp and it was nice to have something breaded again. The first time I ate here it was great, but the second time I got sick.
12927 N. Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL 33618
Only 4 things on gf menu. And 3 was salad.
1825 Guadalupe Suite F-112, Tempe, AZ 85283
Being a celiac i would say this isnt the safest place to eat for those who have such a disease. However, it is very delicious with no after effects of pain for me when i went and ordered gf spicy chicken with rice. The gf sweet and sour chicken is also great but after a while it becomes too sweet with such HUGE portions Fairly good place to eat, simple and delicious.
999 E. Basse Road Suite 199, San Antonio, TX 78209
The salad rolls are always safe for us but we have had issues with the gf sweet and sour chicken
4849 Town Center Parkway, Jacksonville, FL 32246
I have never gotten sick from eating there. and I am super - sensative.
1206 Walton Blvd, Rochester, MI 48307
The cashier who greeted us was not helpful. We requested a gf menu and were directed to a computer screen to order for ourselves. There was a piece of paper taped to the side of the screen with a couple of gf options listed. However, we can't have dairy either and no one was interested in talking to us about how the food was prepared and if it was ok for us. We left without ordering anything.
3350 South Soncy Suite 194, Amarillo, TX 79124
I ordered from their gluten free menu but they didn't make my meal gluten free and I got sick. I called to check and they verified that they didn't bother to make my meal gluten free despite my having specified it in ordering. I got an apology and an offer for a free meal from the girl who answered the phone after I ate my takeout, but how can I trust them when I've done everything I can to order right? My husband & kids love their food, but I'm reluctant to give them another chance.
200 University Boulevard Suite 100, Round Rock, TX 78665
Their food is good but they screw up your order 3/4 times and I have gotten sick from them multiple times.
10373 South State Street, Sandy, UT 84070
this is literally p.f. Chang's little brother. they are owned and operated by the same company. I love their Vietnamese rolls. they are delicious and they have a gf menu and mark your all of your food with gf stickers. little pricey but worh it!
24250 Valencia Blvd, Santa Clarita, CA 91355
Only 4 options on their gluten free menu. 2 are spicy.
1680 Union Avenue Suite 109, Memphis, TN 38104
Perhaps they're better now, but I stopped eating here after I was served regular sweet and sour chicken. I was nearly certain it was not GF because of the way the breading looked. I asked twice if it was correct and was assured it was. Halfway through, a food runner came out and told me they "may" have given me the wrong order. Never again. Disappointing because I've never had an issue at PF Changs.
5035 Wellington Road, Gainesville, VA 20155
Dedicated gluten free menu.
2777 Pacific Coast Highway, Torrance, CA 90505
Ask for the GF menu. Menu is limited, but has about six decent options. Everything is cooked separately in designated pans with designated oil for GF only! They have GF soy sauce, as previous review mentioned. Nice to have this as a speedier option when needed.
22000 Dulles Retail Plaza Suite 190, Dulles, VA 20166
not a good selection if you are a celiac not sure how well they understood the risks of cross contamination and my meal had to be remade as it was wrongly prepared with wontons initially.
3350 South Soncy Suite 194, Amarillo, TX 79124
Food is amazing! I just wish some how the Dan Dan noodles could be gluten free too!! I've only been glutened here once, and to my surprise after contacting the customer service national line, it hasn't happened again!!
2050 Polaris Parkway, Columbus, OH 43240
I enjoy the gluten free sweet and sour shrimp. It is tasty!
10373 South State Street, Sandy, UT 84070
Not safe for Celiacs. Wanted to try it. Staff did not even know what gluten free meant. Was terribly ill for days after eating here.
12561 Castlemoor Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Half a dozen or so gf options. You need to request the gf menu. Not to sure that they are familiar with gf protocol, or that they care about it. Haven't gotten sick there, it's kid friendly, so we keep going, but I wonder. ...
5285 E. Broadway Boulevard Suite 151, Tucson, AZ 85711
This is one of my go-to places. Always prompt, knowledgeable service and yummy food.
7500 North Mesa Street Suite 101, El Paso, TX 79912
GF items available. I had the GF Sweet & Sour chicken & the Vietnamese rolls & my husband got sesame chicken. Everything was delicious. Would definitely eat here again if I was in town.
2695 Park Avenue, Tustin, CA 92782
Excellent customer service. I let them know that I was ordering gluten free to go. Made sure I knew my gluten free options. Love to go to Pei Wei's. Will be back soon. Wish it was closer. It's an hour away. Also made sure that I had gluten free soy sauce. He took that extra step.
McCarran International Airport, 5757 Wayne Newton Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV
I 've had Pei Wei at the Minneapolis airport and love it. I was very excited to see it was here. Unfortunately, they were closed at 8p. they were the only restaurant closed on the concourse. Very dissappointed. I did get a good GF meal at ChopHouse, but very pricey.
8015 Turkey Lake Road Suite 400, Orlando, FL 32819
Menu was very limited only about 5 items to choose from. I ordered the Pei spicy chicken with white rice and it was amazing, veggies were fresh and it was a good size portion of food. I would definitely eat there again.
10373 South State Street, Sandy, UT 84070
food was Ok, possible cross contamination with gluten when asked said it wasn't done. if going to spend on Chinese go to pfchangs it is more expensive but a lot better
355 E Altamonte Dr, Altamonte Springs, FL 32701
This chain is very GF friendly but I have had issues at Altamonte location. Be firm when u order.
13616 North Kendall Drive, Miami, FL 33186
So I'm giving them two stars because my celiac daughter absolutely loves the sweet-and-sour chicken. We eat at Pei Wei a lot. The reason for two stars is because every single time I go in to any of their locations they seem to be absolutely clueless about gluten-free. They actually have two other locations that I do not see on this app relatively close by. So at all of their locations they never seem to have any idea of what to do. At the location in Coral Gables near Miracle Mile I had to explain step-by-step to the cook at that time what he was supposed to do and not supposed to do. I really never trust that they are doing what they're supposed to do which makes me very worried. Gluten-free is not a choice for my daughter. It's her health! I hope the company gets their act together.
1619 N Dysart Rd Suite 101, Avondale, AZ 85323
Be careful if you have a gluten allergy. Ordered gluten free and that is not what I got!
2709 North Elston Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647
Great food! They have a pretty small GF menu, but everything is delicious. I have never had a cross-contamination issue.
10373 South State Street, Sandy, UT 84070
They absolutely have a GF menu, you can even order online and specify GF.
1914 NE Fifth Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33431
I always eat the pad thai, and I've never been sick.
217 South Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa, FL 33609
A few options. Spicy gf chx is delicious.
11430 Olive Blvd, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
they do a great job.
3050 Dowlen Road Suite N, Beaumont, TX 77706
Eating a gluten free diet, going on 7 years now, I have definitely tasted quite a few gluten free menus. This being said, I definitely have to give Pei Wei's gluten free menu a two thumbs up. Their food is absolutely delicious, and comes in very good portions for a great price. They also cook all your choices separate, so there is no chance of contamination. Will definitely return.
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