Category Archives: Pop Culture

Prophesying the coming of Trump, “the high priest of fraud,” in 1958

By Mark | January 12, 2019

Over the past few days, a reader of this site – a fellow calling himself iRobert – has shared the same link in the comments section several times. It’s a link to an episode of a television program from 1958 starring Robert Culp called Trackdown. Saying that the episode in question, titled “The End of […]

Also posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged 1958, border wall, CBS, Columbo, con man, con men, Death Lends a Hand, Fred Trump, Hoby Gilman, iRobert, Lawrence Dobkin, Old Man Trump, racism, Robert Culp, Talpa, Texas, Texas Ranger, Trackdown, Woody Guthrie | 11 Comments

Hitchcock includes a subtle shout-out to Ypsilanti in North By Northwest

By Mark | September 9, 2018

It’s rare that Ypsilanti shows up in popular culture. For a while, we were seeing images of Ypsi pop up in films, like Drew Barrymore’s Whip It, and Robert DeNiro’s Stone, but it’s not too often that you buy a record, or see a movie, and actually hear the word “Ypsilanti” being spoken. So, I […]

Also posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged Cary Grant, Drew Barrymore, Elvis Costello, Eva Marie Saint, films, Here in Ypsilanti they don’t wear any panties, Michigan film incentives, North By Northwest, panties, Profane and Sugarcane, Robert DeNiro, Sugarcane, Whip It, Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti Underwear, Ypsipanti | 4 Comments

Looking for the Mark III

By Mark | August 19, 2018

I rarely share them here, but I’m known to go off on wild goose chases every now and then, trying my best to track down useless historical facts and obscure items that, for whatever reason, I’ve become obsessed by. A few years back, as you may recall, I decided that I needed to know what […]

Also posted in Art and Culture, History, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Tagged 1973, 1976, adult films, Alan Frybach, Andrea Marie Truden, Andrea True, Art 1 and 2, computer game, disco, Don Knotts, dongs, Edith Massey, film history, Germany, Henry Ford Museum, Hot Channels, Illinois, International Hot Channels Symposium on Virtual Reality and Popular Culture, Johnny Mnemonic, Mark III, Mark's obsessions, More More More, North Washington Street, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, porn, pubic hair, R.G. Benjamin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Serial Mom, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Museum of American History, technology, The Hearts of Age, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, virtual reality, Virtuosity, VR, Welt am Draht, Woodstock, World on a Wire | 13 Comments

The tweet that should have won the internet today

By Mark | August 6, 2018

The interviews have begun for the next President of the United States. #TheApprentice pic.twitter.com/KNPoFYqwpd — Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) August 6, 2018 I think Twitter must be fucking with me the way they fuck with other great patriots like Alex Jones and Diamonds and Silk, tweaking their algorithm to keep my message from the people. By […]

Also posted in Mark's Life, Observations, Politics | Tagged 2020, Alex Jones, censorship, Diamonds and Silk, Donald Trump, Russia, Russiagate, Steven Seagal, Vladimir Putin | 16 Comments

He may be worth $250 million, but Senate candidate Mitt Romney is just like the rest of us… He’d rather eat a hot dog than a steak

By Mark | May 5, 2018

I know, given all of the other shit happening in the world right now, it probably doesn’t warrant a mention, but I just love the fact that, in an attempt to connect with the average Utah voter, Mitt Romney, one of the richest men in America, and the former head of the evil vulture capital […]