By Mark | January 2, 2019
I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. I like the idea of being reflective, and giving serious thought as to how one might be able to do better in the year ahead, but, as a rule, I think they’re counterproductive, as they’re rarely kept, and just leave people feeling like shit. Perhaps more […]
Posted in Food, Health, Mark's Life | Also tagged aging, alcohol, back pain, beer, beets, BMI, calories, cancer, cold turkey, colonoscopy, dietary reset, diets, elimination diet, fat, fat shaming, flour, GERD, gluten, Health, kale, losing weight, New Year's resolution, OCD, processed foods, smoothies, sugar, sweets, vegan, weight issues, wheat, Whole 30, wine |
By Mark | January 1, 2019
I spent a good deal of time between Christmas and New Year’s Day working on our house’s front entryway. I’m not sure how the idea came to me, but, at some point before leaving work for the holiday, it occurred to me that, having now lived here for about 20 years, I should probably start […]
Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged Clementine, foyer, graffiti, house cleaning, Linette, love, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, tails |
By Mark | October 8, 2017
Before Amy Fusselman made a name for herself in the world of publishing as the author of books like Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted and Afraid to Die (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), The Pharmacist’s Mate (McSweeney’s, 2013), and 8 (McSweeney’s, 2013), she produced the delightfully […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 8, Ace of Spades, Amy Fusselman, anonymity, Bernard Pivot, Big Black, Brooklyn Public Library, Bunnyrabbit, Butthole Surfers, Charles Foster Kane, Columbus, Connecticut, creative writing, cribs, D. Boon, Daniel Clowes, David Robbins, Detroit, Dishwasher Pete, Doug Biggert, Eightball, fear of rejection, Ford, Frightwig, hearing aid, Idiophone, Inside The Actors Studio, James Lipton, JC Penny, Kitty Kelley, Marlon Bundo, McSweeney's, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Cera, Mike Pence, Mike Watt, Minneapolis, minutemen, Monkey Power Trio, Motörhead, New York City, Nicholas Spice, Nyatiti, Ohio, Ohio Edit, Ohio State, Pat the Bunny, Pete Larson, publishing, Pussy Galore, Redd Cross, rejection, resiliency, Rilke, Rosebud, sandpaper, Savage Park, Scrawl, self-publishing, slit gong, Sonic Youth, Stache’s, stuffed animals, The Untold History of Zines, Tower Records, underground press, William Powell, Yaddo, zine friends, zines |
By Mark | January 31, 2016
I’ve made a couple of comments over the past few days about last week’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack having been bad. In truth, it wasn’t all that bad. I’m re-listening to it now, while folding clothes… which, by the way, is the best way to enjoy the Saturday Six Pack… and there’s actually […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andrew Epstein, Ann Landers, ASMR, bad interviews, Beezy's, chewing, Curt Guyette, Elbow Room, Flint, investigative reporting, Jean Henry, Kate de Fuccio, lead, Matt Jones, Matt Krizowsky, Meatloaf, Mexican food, Mezcal, Monkey Power Trio, Patti Smith, Pete Townshend, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, public health, Ski Troop Attack, swap meet, swastika, the sad state of journalism, water, whispering |
In December, I posted something about a brilliant piece of satire directed at the company Best Made and its line of high-end, artisanal axes. The artist behind the work, who called himself Peter Smith-Buchanan, I thought, lived in New York. As it turns out, however, the artist lived just down the road… Today’s interview is […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture | Also tagged artisanal goods, authenticity, axes, bearded entrepreneurial hipster outdoorsman, BEHO, Best Made Co., brand identity, class, coined phrases, cultural tourism, culture jamming, design porn, family recipes, gender, identity, illegal art, interviews, manly, parody, Peter Buchanan-Smith, Peter Smith-Buchanan, pioneer fetish, plungers, porn, Re Made, Rebekah Modrak, Risto Moisio, River in the Catskills, Shinola, shopdropping, Stamps School of Art and Design, taming the wilderness, Thomas Cole, toilet plungers, turkey croquettes, University of Michigan, ZaneRay Group |
