Mark Maynard

On the upcoming “Saturday Six Pack with Mark Maynard”….

By Mark | January 28, 2015

So far, my tenure on AM 1700 has gone well… To my knowledge, there have been no charges of slander. There have been no complaints filed with the FCC. No one has attempted to fire-bomb the studio in protest. No one has suggested a boycott of our advertisers. Not a single guest has passed out […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Tagged 1700 AM, Ann Arbor News, beer, country music, Katrease Stafford, Krystal Elliott, local press, the sad state of journalism, The Saturday Six Pack, the shameful state of the American press, Ypsilanti Courier | 10 Comments

The Oakwood Seed

By Mark | January 27, 2015

Earlier this month, in a post about the first annual MarkMaynard.com Ypsilantian of the Year award, I mentioned several people who had been nominated for the distinction. One of those was a 9 year old girl named Juna, who publishes a small newspaper called the Oakwood Seed. She was nominated by Rob Hess, the man […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged activities for kids, cool kids and the cool shit that they do, cool local initiatives, independent press, Juna, kids today, Oakwood Street, The Oakwood Seed, zines | 11 Comments

Danny Fields… the man who signed the Stooges, discovered the Ramones, and changed the world

By Mark | January 26, 2015

Almost a year ago now, I received an email from a reader of this site by the name of Bob Nolan, who, knowing of my love for the Ramones and Stooges, suggested that I talk with a friend of his named Brendan Toller. Brendan, he told me, had been working on a film about Danny […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Detroit, History | Tagged 16 Magazine, A Day In The Life, acid, Andy Warhol, animation, archives, bible belt, Bob Nolan, Bob Rudnick, Boswell, Brendan Toller, Brian Epstein, Brooks Brothers, butts, CBGB, Christmas cards, crowdfunding, Danny Fields, Danny Says, Datebook, David Bowie, Dennis Frawley, documentary film, Dolly Parton, Edie Sedgwick, Elektra, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Fred Sonic Smith, Funhouse, Harvard, Harvard Law, Hedwig, I Need That Record, Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop, Jesus, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Judy Collins, Kickstarter, LBJ, Lenny Bruce, Linda Stein, Lou Reed, Mark's big ideas, Max's Kansas City, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, MC5, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, New York City, Nico, Paul McCartney, public relations, punk rock, Ramones, Rock and Roll, Rodney Bingenheimer, San Remo, Search and Destroy, Seymour Stein, slacks, Stooges, The Beatles, The Doors, the music business, The Stooges, Timothy Leary, Tommy Goodwin, Velvet Underground, WFMU, Yale, Yale University, Younger Jewish Set | 41 Comments

The Saturday Six Pack with Mark Maynard: episode two

By Mark | January 25, 2015

The second episode of the Saturday Six Pack on AM 1700 was, by all accounts, a success. I was kind of dreading it going in, as I didn’t have much planned for the 7:00 hour, but, as is usually the case when you open yourself up to serendipity, everything just kind of unfolded in a […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Special Projects, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged 1700 AM, beer, Brian Robb, Colin Moorhouse, corporate fascism, Dave Miller, fascism, Fat Tire, Flaming Groovies, Harry Bennett, Harry Bennett's Castle, Henry Ford, historic places, HP Jacobs, John Edwards, Matt Siegfried, Monkey Power Trio, Native Americans, Peter Smith, Red Rock, Red Rock Downtown Barbeque, Rob Rowe, The Saturday Six Pack, University of Michigan, Ypsi Underground | 26 Comments

“It would be like the nuclear arms race, but with cock-like structures.”

By Mark | January 25, 2015

I uttered this sentence last night, and I thought that it should be recorded for posterity… Every year or two since 2003, when Cabinet magazine named Ypsilanti’s historic water tower the winner of it’s World’s Most Phallic Building contest, a website somewhere decides to post a story about the our beloved “brick dick.” Most recently, […]

Posted in History, Ideas, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged 1889, 1890, Appeal to Reason, bad ideas, brick dick, Cabinet, cocks, Kansas, limestone, Mark's art ideas, Mark's big ideas, Matt Siegfried, Most Phallic Building contest, phallic structures, phallic things, privatization, public utilities, Roadtrippers, water, water towers, William R. Coats, Ypsilanti water tower | 5 Comments

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On the upcoming “Saturday Six Pack with Mark Maynard”….

The Oakwood Seed

Danny Fields… the man who signed the Stooges, discovered the Ramones, and changed the world

The Saturday Six Pack with Mark Maynard: episode two

“It would be like the nuclear arms race, but with cock-like structures.”

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