By Mark | February 14, 2018
Shortly after moving to Atlanta in 1993, Linette and I started publishing our zine, Crimewave USA. We didn’t have many friends, and it gave us a reason to leave the apartment and actually do things. We’d wonder around, having little adventures, and meeting new people, and then we’d scurry home to scribble everything down before […]
Posted in Crimewave USA, Uncategorized | Also tagged Crimewave USA, encouragement, Linette, Mark's birthday, Mark's self-image, Pittsburgh, Steph Green, the meaning of life, writing, zines |
By Mark | December 10, 2017
I’ve only spoken with former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich once. It was late ’93 or early ’94. I was living in a suburb of Atlanta, and working at Kinko’s. I’d worked an early shift that day, and, driving back home to my apartment, I decided to stop at a little park along […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alabama, Callista Bisek, cheating, Contract with America, deep state, Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, FBI, Georgia, hiking, impeachment, Jeanine Pirro, Jerusalem, Kinko's, Louie Gohmert, Mark's chances to change history, Middle East, Newt Gingrich, open marriage, Robert Mueller, Roy Moore, Russia, Russiagate, Sean Hannity, sex scandals, Sheldon Adelson, Vatican |
They’re gone now, but, before they left, I had an opportunity to talk with Casey and Ryan Dawson about their decision to pack up, leave Ypsilanti, and recreate themselves on the west coast. What follows is their official exit interview. MARK: How soon after I had you both on the Saturday Six Pack as guests […]
Posted in Special Projects, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged adventure, Alabama, Athens, beagles, Casey Dawson, Electric Shark, exit interviews, exploration, Georgia, Jim Cherewick, Jim Cherewick's birth, Jim Cherewick's older brother, Livonia, Modern Lady Fitness, mustache, nude bike riding, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Ryan Dawson, The Riots, United Space League, Van Houten, Yellow Rail Family, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews |
[The above public art piece showed up in Atlanta this past December, shortly after Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”] For the most part, I try not to suggest that anyone – even those whom I truly despise – are, “like Hitler.” As tempting as it might […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged authoritarianism, Donald Trump, fascism, fear, Free Speech, genocide, Hitler, illegal immigration, Lee Atwater, Louis C.K., Make America Great Again, Mississippi, Neshoba County Fair, Philadelphia, racism, reality television, Ronald Reagan, scapegoats, southern strategy, Ted McClelland, threats to Democracy, uncertainty |
There was a lot to like about this last episode of the Saturday Six Pack, which began with an original composition by Modern Lady Fitness that included more obscure, inside references than Glass Onion. [They not only sang about Brigid’s fancy lady parts, which, for some reason, are often a topic of conversation on the […]
Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Barbarella, black lives matter, body cameras, Brigid Mooney, cheese sticks, Chris Stranad, Community Policing, Controversi-ALE, Daltrey’s Fringe, Derrick Jackson, ENPACT, excessive force, fancy vaginas, Fangs and Twang, Hangin' Frank, Jerry Clayton, Marietta Georgia, Mike Nix, Modern Lady Fitness, Newt Gingrich, Ozone House, police tactics, running, Six Pack Portrait Project, Three's Company, Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department, Ypsilanti Running Company |
