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 […]
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75 hours in Baltimore…. celebrating the Monkey Power Trio’s 23rd day as a band
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized Also tagged 1919, 1972, 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
How I abused my blender and saved my life
A few weeks ago, as you may remember, I suggested that a particularly horrific dream that I’d had involving Ted Cruz may have come to me because, just a few hours before going to sleep, I’d broken a “self-imposed, month-long ban on sugar, wheat, dairy, alcohol, caffeine, processed foods, fried foods, and everything else that […]
Posted in Health, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged alcohol, antacid, beets, blenders, caffeine, chest pains, click bait, coughing, dairy, diet, elimination diet, fried foods, Huron River Drive, Mark's health, Ollie, post viral cough, processed foods, smoothies, stomach, sugar, vegetables, wheat, Whole 30 20 Comments
My day in the Ann Arbor drunk tank… with chest pains
I spent all day yesterday, and much of today, at the University of Michigan hospital. I’d gone in at about 10:00 AM on Saturday with chest pains, and, after putting me through the standard battery of tests, the folks in charge told me that I’d need to stay the night and talk with someone from […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged binge drinking, cardiac protocol, cardiology, chest pain, daiquiris, drinking, EKG, frats, heart, jello shots, Kennedy assassination, Kozy Shack, Mark's health, privilege, public intoxication, risk behavior, Sammy, Shmacked, Sigma Alpha Mu, sororities, University of Michigan 38 Comments