By Mark | September 19, 2021
Late last night, under cover of darkness, members of a white supremacist group called the Patriot Front appear to have painted over the large “Black Lives Matter” mural in Ypsilanti’s Riverside Park. This, apparently, is something that this particular organization — a group which splintered away from the neo-Nazi organization Vanguard America after 2017’s “Unite […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged angry white men, black lives matter, domestic terrorism, driving while black, George Floyd, Heather Heyer, murals, Nazi, Patriot Front, public art, racial injustice, racism, racist, Riverside Park, Southern Poverty Law Center, street art, Thomas Rousseau, Unite the Right, Vanguard America, white ethnostate, white power |
By Mark | February 26, 2021
I’ve been trying my best not to obsess about the news lately, which is why I’ve been spending less time here. (Blogging and obsessing about the news have always gone hand in hand with me.) On the plus side, this reallocation of bandwidth has given me more time to spend time with my family, take […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Tagged Blade Runner, emotions, holocaust, humanity, pawn shop, replicant, Rod Steiger, Roy Batty, Rutger Hauer, Sol Nazerman, Spanish Harlem, stigmata, The Pawnbroker |
By Mark | February 22, 2021
A friend of ours was diagnosed with Covid not too long ago. About three or four days before her diagnosis, she and Linette had taken a long walk together. They’d been wearing their masks the whole time, and had stayed a good distance apart from one anther, but we were still concerned. Linette not only […]
By Mark | January 20, 2021
I wouldn’t allow myself to believe that we’d actually get here. I thought for sure that something terrible would happen. My OCD makes it really easy for me to imagine worst case scenarios, and I had dozens of them racing through my mind. Thankfully, none of them came to pass, and we had a peaceful […]