Earlier this week, as you can read in the above Twitter post, the Democratic Socialists of America announced that they would not be following in the footsteps of progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and endorsing Joe Biden for President. Well, this didn’t exactly sit well with some members of the old left. And, […]
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Alan Haber and other founding members of SDS call on the young Socialists of today to put aside their political purity tests, consider the threat Donald Trump poses to our republic, and back Joe Biden’s campaign for president
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, Alan Haber, Bernie Sanders, comrades, Democratic Socialists of America, Donald Trump, fascism, Hitler, Joe Biden, League for Industrial Democracy, Max Weber, New Left, old left, Presidential politics, SDS, Socialism, Students for a Democratic Society, threats to Democracy 43 Comments
75 hours in Baltimore…. celebrating the Monkey Power Trio’s 23rd day as a band
The weekend of October 21st marked the 23rd meeting of my one-day-a-year pseudo-band, the Monkey Power Trio. For those of you who might not be familiar with our origin story, it all began back in 1995 with a promise between old friends one hot, summer afternoon in Brooklyn. On the spur of the moment, we’d […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized Also tagged 1972, acid reflux, Air B&B, American Visionary Arts Museum, Atomic Books, Baltimore, Billie Holiday, bursitis, Charm City, Charm City Holiday, Chesapeake Yeti, chicken-fucking, college athletics, college sports, crab cakes, crime, Crimewave, Crimewave USA, Dan Richardson, Danny Mills, Dave Miller, electrical wire, Federal Hill, Fells Point, Friendly’s, geographic midpoint, Geographic Midpoint Calculator, Glenn Danzig, Gooney Bird, granuloma, gymnastics, Hippy Hollow Road, John Waters, Johnny Eck, Larry Nassar, litany of ailments, Lyft, Mark's big ideas, Mark's health, MASS MoCA, Matt Krizowsky, Meow Wolf, Michigan State University, Mike Bell, Misfits, Monkey Power Trio, Nugent, OCD, painted screens, Paul Laffoley, penises, Pink Flamingos, podcasts, Potosi, prosthetics, racism, Reverend Albert Wagner, ride-sharing, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Sante Fe, Scott Huffines, sex abuse, slavery, Stanley Wright, Tarzan Escapes, Ted Gordon, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, The Wire, wax museums, Wisconsin, zines 14 Comments
Introducing the Dusty Diary
Some of you may remember Laura Bien. Up until about a year ago, she blogged as the YpsiDixit. Well, I’m happy to report that she’s come out of retirement. Laura has launched an engaging new site dedicated to the research of local Ypsilanti history, mainly though the exploration of surviving first-person narratives. The site is […]
Posted in History, Ypsilanti Also tagged 1830, 1874, 1918 flu, Allie McCullough, blogging, calomel, Carrie Hardy, Cholera Wars, City Archives, debility and suffering, diaries, Dusty Diary, eland tuberculosis sanitarium, facial and jaw deformities, hair and tooth loss, History, history of medicine, inadvertent discoveries en route to something else, Laura Bien, mass graves, mercury, mercury poisoning, neurotoxic, storytelling, Tom Dodd, Twitter, WWI, YpsiDixit 13 Comments