By Mark | February 11, 2018
I’ve now been with Linette for exactly half my life. Today marks not only the 50th anniversary of my birth, but the 25th anniversary of our first date. Saying that I shouldn’t just be sitting around the house on my 25th birthday, Linette drove out to Ann Arbor, picked me up, and took me for […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 25, AARP, Abbott and Costello, Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, birthdays, bowling, bowling ball, bowling league, Citizen Kane, Clementine, depression, Dinner at Eight, Dorothy Avery, it sucks getting old, John Farres, Ken Boyd, knitting, Mark's birthday, monsters, OCD, Orson Welles, Piss Alley Rollers, Super Sweet Social Bowling League, Tracy Wells, Webber's, Wixom, Zsa Zsa Gabor |
By Mark | November 26, 2017
As I type this, I’m laying on the couch in our living room, silently watching the family cat slowly disembowel a naugahyde chair on the other side of the room, as I try to assess just how broken I am. As I was able to walk on my own from the bottom of the staircase […]
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By Mark | November 23, 2017
A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andover, Charles Maynard, Clementine, Dan Richardson, It's a Wonderful Life, Kentucky, Linette Lao, Mark's ancestors, Mark's mind, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, mosquito, New Jersey, Newton, Pat Maynard, sacrifice, Sarah Palin, tea party, thankful, Thanksgiving, things I'm thankful for, Tom DeLay, Turkey, Ypsilanti |
By Mark | October 15, 2017
Now that a week has passed, I’m looking through all of the photos that were either emailed to me as part of our #DocumentYpsi2017 project, or posted to social media along with the hashtag. While I’ve yet to receive the contributions from Ozone House or Ypsi High, both of whom had multiple people taking photos, […]
Posted in History, Photographs, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Akosua Dow, Dan Blakeney, Document Ypsi, documentation, DocumentYpsi2017, Dom's Bakery, Donald Trump, donuts, gay friendly, Linette Lao, native prairie, Ozone House, rabbit, Riverside Arts Center, time capsule, Water Street, Ypsi High, Ypsi history, YpsiGLOW, Ypsilanti water tower |
By Mark | October 1, 2017
On Saturday, October 2, 1999, Linette and I were married. Here, to mark the occasion, is a little something I wrote a while back, slightly updated to reflect that yet another year has passed. Eighteen years ago today, after seven years of living with one another in sin, I married my friend and collaborator Linette […]
