Since turning 50, I’ve been making a concerted effort to get my shit in order. I’ve started working more deliberately on this nearly 175 year old house of ours. I’ve pretty much cut bread, beer and refined sugar from my diet. And I’ve been attempting to rid myself of the possessions that I no longer […]
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1995, archives, Atlanta, Daniel Johnston, Dead Dog’s Eyeball, family history, History, lucky clothing, Maynard-Lao Archive, Monkey Power Trio, t-shirts |
By Mark | February 22, 2018
One of the biggest applause lines at last night’s CNN town hall on American gun policy came from Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Attempting to make the case that an assault weapon ban wouldn’t be effective, the Senator said “you would literally have to ban every semi-automatic rifle.” He, of course, thought that members of the […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2004, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Australia, automatic weapons, background checks, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Federal Assault Weapons Ban, Florida, gun control, gun rights, gun violence, Marco Rubio, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, mass shootings, NRA, Obama, Pam Bondi, Parkland, polling, polls, Sandy Hook, school shooting, second amendment |
It's easy to gain momentum when you're going downhill — Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) August 7, 2017 [I was going to post something tonight about how Trump had lied earlier today when he referred to the New York Times as failing, but then I remembered that, not too long ago, I’d promised to stop focusing on […]
By Mark | January 28, 2014
In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, tiny sliver of it that worked its way through the gristle surrounding my heart 20-some years ago, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of the zine publishers that I know, and asking them how they found […]
Posted in Crimewave USA, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1992, 2001, 50 state projects, adventure, Alaska, Alaska Fishermen’s Union, Allen Ginsberg, Amsterdam, Andy Kaufman, anonymity, Arizona, autobiographical, before the internet, bicycles, cannery, chain restaurants, Chloe Eudaly, Communism, Cracker Barrel, Craphound, creative control, cruise ships, cycling, David Letterman, dishdogs, dishes, Dishwasher, Dishwasher Pete, Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, dishwashing, drinking on the job, eschewing responsibility, expatriate, Factsheet Five, Farm Pulp, fish processing, free stuff, gags, Grand Canyon, Greg Hischak, Guinea Pig Zero, Haight -Ashbury, Hawaii, Huck Finn, humor, impersonation, In the City of Bikes, individual responsibility, integrity, internet, introverts, Jack-in-the-Box, juvenile delinquent, Kentucky, Kinko's, Kraft, labor history, labor movement, Late Night with David Letterman, mac and cheese, mainstream media, Malcolm X, Mark Twain, media consolidation, Myrtle Beach, National Parks, people who we know from television, Pete Jordan, Phoenix, photocopying, pranks, radical politics, Reading Frenzy, responsibility, restaurants, restlessness, revolution, Richard Nixon, San Francisco, Scam, scams, self-publishing, shitty jobs, Silicon Valley, South Carolina, Sufjan Steven, television, Temp Slave, The Untold History of Zines, theft, This American Life, Uncle Tom, underground press, unions, urban planning, zines |
