By Mark | February 14, 2017
This year, for my birthday, Linette ordered a “weighted blanket” for me. Well, it came today, and I’m laying under it right now, struggling to fill my lungs. I can see the appeal. It’s comforting. It’s like the lead apron you have to wear at the dentist’s office when you’re having X-rays taken. I’ve yet […]
Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged hug machine, Linette, Mark's birthday, mental health, OCD blogger, serotonin, sleep, Temple Grandin, weighted blanket |
By Mark | January 24, 2017
So, yeah, today’s the day Arlo found out that his grandparents were responsible for cutting off the “safety part” of his father’s penis, something I’m sure they’ll hear about come Sunday, during our weekly call… If you’re reading this, mom and dad, you’ve got five days to come up with a good explanation. For what […]
By Mark | October 26, 2016
While I’m helping Arlo get his pterodactyl costume ready for tomorrow night’s YpsiGlow event, I wanted to share this video with you. It’s an excerpt from Micahel Moore’s new film Trumpland. As it’s been making it’s way around the internet for the past day or two, I suspect that most of you have probably already […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Predictions | Also tagged 2016, Brexit, costumes, Detroit Economic Club, dispossessed, Donald Trump, Ford Motor Company, free trade, fuck you, Halloween, Hillary Clinton, Hillbilly Elegy, Mexico, Michael Moore, middle class, middle class anger, molotov, Obamacare, outsourcing, Percocet, Presidential politics, revenge, Trumpland, voting, YpsiGLOW |
By Mark | October 24, 2016
There’s nothing like coming home late from the airport, exhausted from a day of travel after a grueling out-of-state recording session with friends, and finding a three foot tall stuffed rat dressed like a rabbit laying on the ground in front of your house. I don’t know if I would have been so freaked out, […]
By Mark | October 5, 2016
Seventeen years ago this week, after seven years of living with one another in sin, I married my friend and collaborator Linette Lao. Sadly, as it took place in an age before smartphones, little evidence of this wondrous and magical event exists today. We are fortunate, however, in that we do have this one image, […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Photographs, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anniversary, Box Bar, Clementine, Crimewave USA, Cross Street Station, Doug Coombe, Honey Boo Boo, Leisa Thompson, Linette, Linette Lao, Mama June, Matt Krizowsky, Mill Race, Northville, Plymouth, pumping gas |
