By Mark | February 14, 2011
I wasn’t intending to have a Valentine’s Day post, but I just stumbled across the following on the NPR website and thought that you might enjoy it. …From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the […]
Also posted in History, Other | Tagged animal sacrifice, domestic violence, drinking, Emperor Claudius II, fertility, key party, Lupercalia, martyrdom, Noel Lenski, pagan, Pope Gelasius I, rituals, Roman history, Romans, swingers, Valentine's Day, whipping women with the hides of slain animals |
By Mark | January 29, 2011
I don’t have time to write a comprehensive post at the moment on the, either real or imagined, epidemic of female sexual dysfunction, but, at a friend’s suggestion, I just watched the trailer for the documentary film Orgasm Inc., and I wanted to pass it along in hopes that it might lead to an interesting […]
By Mark | December 30, 2010
My character, it was decided, would be known as The Zookeeper, and I’d perform a sensuous dance with a giraffe. It wasn’t determined how we’d come to possess, care for and train a giraffe, but those are obstacles that I’m sure we can overcome. It was also decided that I would be fully clothed, except […]
By Mark | December 2, 2010
I’m told that there may be photo of me on the AnnArbor.com site tomorrow, milking a Krampus teat into a beer mug. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. It could have. I don’t know. Due to my cold, I’d eaten a number of honey lemon cough drops with echinacea, and, to be honest, the whole […]
Also posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Media, Shadow Art Fair, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Tagged AnnArbor.com, costume ideas, costumes, cough drops, echinacea, embarrassing photos, Krampus, Krampus Ball, Melissa Dettloff, Michigan Design Militia, painfully-erect monster nipples, photos of Mark, suckling, teats, Tom Perkins |
