By Mark | February 17, 2013 I received a cryptic message a few days ago from an anonymous source, telling me that I had to immediately retain an attorney and protect my intellectual property from the evil Korean CEO of Samsung. I wrote it off as the ranting of a delusional reader, as it’s not uncommon for me to receive paranoid [...]
Also posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Tagged advertising, being ripped the fuck off, CHI&Partners, Fox Sports, Melissa Dettloff, Monkey Power Trio, Nathan DeYonker, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy, selling out, severed unicorn head superstore, unicorns, WCBN | When I heard yesterday that Sherman Hemsley had died at the age of 74, I was reminded of an afternoon several years ago in Ann Arbor spent staring over a beer at a man I believed to the iconic character actor. He was sitting a few seats away, drinking by himself. I think I was [...]
Also posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Tagged another famous person has died, dinner theater, drugs, famous people, Flying Teapots, George Jefferson, Isabel Sanford, KKK, Love Letters, LSD, Old Town, psychedelic rock, Sherman Hemsley, sitcom stars, sitcoms, Soft Machine, Soul Train | A few nights ago, four out of five members of the band, The Monkey Power Trio, were interviewed by a fellow named Diego Aguilar on Stanford University’s student radio station, KZSU. The interview is, by all accounts, unremarkable. I have heard, however, that some young people on the Stanford campus have turned it into a [...]
I don’t generally share reviews of my one-day-a-year band, the Monkey Power Trio, on this site. I’d like to say that its because I’m modest. It has more to do, however, with the fact that the reviews are, almost without exception, embarrassingly negative. But, every so often, for reasons that I can’t quite understand, someone, [...]
By Mark | January 4, 2012 Last night, as we set out to relocate this site at its new home in the upper atmosphere, I told you that you could take 48 hours off. I had been told, by our technical team, that the migration would likely take that long, and, during that time, the site would be completely dead. As [...]
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