By Mark | October 19, 2014
As a rule, I try not to talk about local businesses unless I have something good to say about them, which is why, over the 12 years or so that I’ve been posting here, I’ve never mentioned the “agri-entertainment complex” that is Wiard’s. Call me old fashioned, but I like my cider mills without paintball, […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged agri-entertainment, apple cannons, Arlo, Batavia, book ideas, cider mills, Clementine, dollar store Disney, donuts, Everett Wiard, furries, George Wiard, haunted houses, hayrides, human dalmatians, Lyman Wiard, mineral water, New York, Night Terrors, orchards, paintball, panic attacks, scare-tainment, soda, Thomas Wiard, Wiard, Wiard Plow Company, Wiard's, Willow Run, Willow Run Bomber Plant, Ypsilanti Bottling Works, Ypsilanti's Mineral Water Sanitariums |
By Mark | October 13, 2014
It’s somewhat disjointed, but I shot a few snippets of video on Friday as I was putting the Illuminated Underground Micro-Gallery into the ground at the Water Street Sculpture Park, and I wanted to share it with those of you who weren’t able to make it out and see it in person this past weekend. […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged apple seeds, beard hair, Dale Grover, hydrogen cyanide, Maker Works, micro-gallery, Rob Todd, subterranean gallery, Water Street Commons, Water Street Sculpture Park |
By Mark | November 13, 2012
For those of you who are interested, I’m still accepting artwork inspired by Justin Zatkoff. Here’s a piece given to me a few minutes ago by my wife. She apparently had the good fortune today of finding a baby pear that had a bruise right about where one of its eyes would be… if pears […]
By Mark | January 8, 2012
A few days ago, I posted something here about a group in San Francisco that has made it their mission to convert non-fruit-bearing trees on public land into ones that bear edible fruit. They call themselves guerilla grafters. I think it’s a great idea, but, some, it would seem, don’t share my enthusiasm for giving […]
Posted in Environment, Food, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bacon, Beezy's, Charley Bowers, Doug Skinner, fleshy growths, food security, free food, fruit trees, grafting, grafting bacon onto skin tags, grapes, guerilla grafting, healthy food access, Lisa Bashert, moles, mulberries, Neighborhood Fruit, Now You Tell One, public land, raspberries, rats, silent films, skin tags, surrealism, Sustainable Ypsi, trees, vermin, walnuts, Ypsilanti Fertile Ground |
