Mark Maynard

Reminiscing about cleaning the glory holes and peep shows of the old Michigan Avenue porn shop

By Mark | October 8, 2018

Back when I used to have the radio show, I would occasionally get messages from a listener in Colorado. For the purposes of this post, we’ll call him Jeff… Well, Jeff, in one of our conversations, let it be known that he’d not only spent a good part of the ‘70s in Ypsilanti, but that […]

Posted in History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 16mm, 1972, 8mm, adult films, Alibi Bar, amyl nitrate, Art 1 and 2, Bill Clinton, Bimbo’s, blue collar, chronic masturbation, Cleveland, College Pharmacy, commissions, customer service, deep throat, Doc Johnson, Eruption, escort services, factories, General Tom Thumb, glory holes, Green Room, Hungry Charlie’s, independent retail, John Holmes, Kroger, Larry’s Tropical Fish, Martha Washington Theater, masturbation, Michigan Avenue, Michigan Avenue Bookstore, mopping, oral history, peep shows, porn, prostitution, quarters, Reuben Sturman, Ron Braverman, semen, sex toys, Spaghetti Bender, Swedish Erotica, The Deuce, The Saturday Six Pack, The Velvet Touch | 27 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 […]

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Pop Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1973, 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

John Doe: On the origins of X, what the history books get wrong about the LA punk scene, and the fucked up state of our world

By Mark | August 31, 2014

I had the opportunity a few days ago to speak briefly with John Doe of the legendary Los Angeles punk band X. Doe, along with his bandmates Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, DJ Bonebrake, after making their way thorugh Chicago in early September, will be playing two dates in Michingan… September 6 at The Magic Bag […]

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1977, acting, Amiee Mann, Andy Warhol, Antioch, astroturf, Baltimore, Beat poets, Bertha's, Billy Zoom, Black Randy and the MetroSquad, Brendan Mullen, CBGB, Chuck Berry, conspiracy theories, DJ Bonebrake, Eddie Cochran, Exene Cervenka, Harry Dean Stanton, ISIS, Joe Henry, John Doe, John Waters, Los Angeles, Loudon Wainwright, mass media, Max's Kansas City, nihilism, Patrick Swayze, Patti Smith, Penelope Spheeris, Pleased to Meet Me, punk, punk rock, Roadhouse, sensationalism, Slash, songwriting, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Talking Heads, Tennessee Williams, The Alley Cats, The Bags, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Go-Go’s, The Masque, The Plugz, The Weirdos, underground press, Velvet Underground, Venice Beach, violence, We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, X, X: The Unheard Music, Ypsi Song Fest, Ypsilanti District Library | 17 Comments

For all of you who don’t want to debate whether or not the word “Ypsitucky” qualifies as ‘hate speech’, here’s Paul Lynde’s 1976 Halloween Special

By Mark | May 13, 2009

Posted in Other | Also tagged Halloween, Paul Lynde, Ypsitucky | 4 Comments

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Reminiscing about cleaning the glory holes and peep shows of the old Michigan Avenue porn shop

Looking for the Mark III

John Doe: On the origins of X, what the history books get wrong about the LA punk scene, and the fucked up state of our world

For all of you who don’t want to debate whether or not the word “Ypsitucky” qualifies as ‘hate speech’, here’s Paul Lynde’s 1976 Halloween Special

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